Hello all…

Slackiest weekend ever… But at least its over and a more productive week can begin (Who would have thought I would ever complain that I didnt work enough during the weekend ? )

In this latest update I have added a work in progress 4th level (who am i kidding… all the levels are work in progress… the whole GAME is work in progress ;D )

I’ve remodelled the Yellow Gemstone in Blender, making it a more coin-ish appearance… And while I was in blender, I decided to have some fun with a Cube and the Extrusion Tool combined with a bit of scaling and rotating (yes, I am a total newbie at 3d modelling… So if you’re an expert and reading this… and suffering from an abundance of generosity, then dont hesitate to throw your leet skillz in my general direction ) I havent added an actual Texturemap to the Firetrap model, as I have still yet to learn how to apply those kinds of things and I couldnt be arsed to learn it since I figured the actual coding at present time was more important

Most of the levels also recieved tweaks here and there… I played through the maps alot, and also looked over the shoulders of various playtesters to try and figure out exactly where the maps are not making sense, and where you end up not knowing where to go.

I’ve also played around with the PlayerPrefs system in Unity3d, which is basically a way of storing information on the user’s computer. Thereby allowing the game to remember specific things. In this case, the Highscore (Its not an Internet Highscore, it is simply YOUR personal highscore on YOUR computer… )

Its not perfect, but its a start. You’ll find the highscore meter at the start menu in the game, its not finished or polished, but it remembers the best score you did on that computer

Oh, and finally, before I wrap up this blogpost, as you can probably see, I’ve also played around a little bit with the text formatting on the blogpost, let me know what you think… be it good, bad or in between. Any feedback is appreciated

Thanks,

Eli (TastyGraph)

ps. I am aware of the horrible english in the subject of my blogpost… it seemed like a funny idea at the time

I haven’t seen much of this yet, counting on that Splash Damage hasn’t even revealed much to the general public. It looks interesting and I’m wanting to see more. I’m also liking the idea of 8-player co-op. Now show me more gameplay please and don’t be a tease.

- Chrono

Mainly it is a platformer where you have to move objects, destroy floors, manipulate chemicals, use automated guns and trigger beams that open doors. The interesting thing is, time travel platforms allow you to go back a certain amount of time. By doing this, you can create infinite instances of yourself that follow your former paths. To successfully master the levels you have to coordinate your actions with all your former selfes. Interacting with them might cause a temporal causality, but the game allows such transgressions and only give a score panelty for such acts.

This free browsergame is all about negative space. The level consists of black and white areas, and the game let’s you switch between both of them while rotating the level 180°. Navigate through the levels using gravity and both sides of the level! Shift is now available in version 3.

Contrary to public belief, I have made prototypes these 2 months, but I just didn’t have enough time to finish them. Anyway, this months EGP theme caught my attention. Art game. Nice. So I started working on my prototype. Interacting with a computer via microphone has always amazed me, so I tried to integrate that in my game.  This is what I came up in 7 days.

Color. art inside…
7-day game by Alin Baciu

Download
color.rar (6.6 mb)

Instructions:

THE WORLD NEEDS COLOR

Controls:

This game is to be played using a microphone. Without one, you will not be able to play.

noise in microphone – move
left, right – turn
up, down – change color
space – paint

Please make sure your microphone is on “loud”

Troubleshooting

If you have problems getting the game to run I’d suggest installing the newest DirectX 9.0c drivers, XNA 3.1 and making sure you have .net framework 3.5 installed.

Credits

Game design, code & gfx made by Alin Baciu (bc_alin{[@]}yahoo{[dot]}co{[dot]}uk)

Music: DoKashiteru – Yourgh .

The game uses Irrklang and XNA 3.1.

Inspiration source: Experimental Gameplay Project.

The game itself is under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.

Please post your feedback

Peace

It not just called Galaxy because you travel to different solar systems and thier planets, but because the whole level design consists of free flying objects that you can jump onto, each of them having its own gravitation. Jump and Run has never before taken advantage of 3D space in this dimension. There are also additional puzzles that use changing gravity conditions.

In this adventure you play three different characters, each of them stuck in a different time period of the location. Objects can be swapped between them through thier time machines and some puzzles must be solved by changing the future or letting objects age through time.

Prey is a standard FPS, but introduced several new gameplay mechanics that changed the perception of space. It was the first game that came up with the idea of portals, although it utilized them in a static way. There are “wallwalks”, surfaces you can walk onto even when hanging from the ceiling. Some puzzles take place in areas where you have to set the gravity to move your body through space.  And a “spirit mode” allows you to leave your living body and see and use things that were invisible to you before.

This platform game works in two drifferent perspectives. You can switch between a flat 2D and a volumetric 3D view of the level while each of them works with it’s own logic. In 2D there is no depht, so all visible objects work like they would exist on the same Z level. Whereas in 3D space the spatial displacement allows you to get around obsticles and see parts of the level which are otherwise hidden by the flat sideview. Enemys have no depht at all and therefore just pose a thread in 2D or are just visible in 3D.

This new Okamiden trailer looks amazing. Now, everyone who has a DS must buy this to give even more of a reason for Capcom to make Okami 2…please?

- Chrono

This Jump & Run lets you rotate the level within 90° stepps while the gravity remains constant. You navigate through the levels by running and jumping while rotating the level beneathe you. Speed is essential to bridge gaps, but too much momentum will kill you on impact. There are also puzzles that require you to move other objects using gravity and level rotation.

You are able to create two portals, which directly connect different places in space. That means if you step into the blue one, you come out of the orange one. This gameplay provides a totally new feeling of space. You make use of the gravity and your portals to either move you or objects through the level. The puzzles mainly work with switches that can be triggered by heavy objects, and flying energy balls that bounce off surfaces and switch on machines they hit. You play a person with no memories, that is guided by a mechanic voice through a sequence of testparcours.  The free addon prequel “Portal: Prelude” offers more challenging levels!

A platformer, that gives you total control over time. Puzzles are solved by coordinating your movement and interactions in different stages of time while scrubbing the game forward or backward. Additional gameplay mechanics are a ring that slows down time around it or a shadow that imitates your recorded movements after rewinding. Some objects and characters are not bound to time whereas others’ time is controlled by your movement. Very interesting!

According to recent speculations, the well tried and well experienced skill tree is pretty much out of Blizzard Activision’s famous (or infamous) dungeon crawler. This comes from a twitter message posted by the game’s lead designer Jay Wilson himself, who states that the skill system revision is in full force. Trees begone! I think it might be a winner.

An action role playing game without a skill tree? That’s almost like eggs without bacon!

The wonderful thing about a traditional skill tree, is that it’s so simple to understand and get into. The intuitive way of presenting the possible character progression is eye candy to most players who don’t want to dig themselves into some complex manual.

Diablo pretty much set the standard for most role playing games with it’s skill tree system. It was further developed in World of Warcraft, which all must agree on has been quite a success, and adapted by most action RPG developers and many traditional RPG developers. Even the hardcore role playing game developer Bioware used this very traditional system in their latest RPG Dragon Age: Origins.

However, Dragon Age: Origins does draw a lot of inspiration from games like Diablo and World of Warcraft, although most harcore Bioware RPG fans probably will refuse to acknowledge this fact. There is a lot of World of Warcraft in Dragon Age: Origins gameplay.

Anyway, where is Blizzard going with this? Are they trying out a more way of dealing with skills, like the system in The Elder Scrolls games? Or have they invented some new incredible skill sytem that is even more intuitive and easy to understand? Final Fantasy XII had its chessboard stystem. Is that a possible source of inspiration?

At any rate, it ought to be something interesting, since the developers obviously had allready worked out a traditional skill tree system in Diablo 3. Maybe they actually found some kind of meat that actually goes better with eggs than bacon does!

The next revealed character is…Tali! I’m happy she will take part in the game since she’s one of the characters I used most of the time throughout all my playthroughs/characters. It’s nice to see we will be visiting her home planet and learning even more of her background. However, this just makes it even harder to choose what two people I’ll be using in my playthrough. >_<

The adept class has finally be revealed, at least gameplay wise, to see some of the changes and new stuff BioWare has added. The class looks a lot more interesting to say the least, compared to Mass Effect 1. I didn’t really enjoy playing as the class when I tried it out, but eh, it just doesn’t appeal to me to not be able to shoot at all. I’ll try this class out again, maybe.

- Chrono

Hi All, just wanted to let you know that the lack of updates in the past few days has mainly been because what I have been doing, hasnt really warranted a blogpost or a completely new game-update.

I’ve basically been working with my code and watching alot of tutorials on making proper code, better reusable programmy…stuff…  And the result has been that I have managed to re-write a lot of my code, making a better menu system (not perfect, but somewhat better than the old one)…

Minor tweaks such as being able to go back to the main menu when dead, rather than bouncing straight back to map 1. The purpose of this, is of course to allow you to access the main menu and change options, if need be.

This will be expanded even further as later on I will make it so that you can access the menu from ingame with the ESC key, allowing you to tweak options or quit/restart your game.

Did a bit of extra writing for the TODO-List…

and the last thing, that I would say is what qualifies the next update as being: a big update… Is that I am working on the 4th level now.

This level be more in the spirit of how my vision of the game is. It will be a horizontal level, a bit longer than the other levels, and it wont have the same feeling of ‘Oh Snap!’ everytime you miss a ledge, since you wont be falling down past 5 ledges and starting at the bottom…

And speaking of starting at the bottom… In the near future, a Waypoint/Flag system will be implemented (Once I have figured out a proper code for it) So what this means is that everytime you reach reach a Waypoint, your Respawn Position will be stored there and instead of starting back at the beginning of the map, you will now start at the waypoint where you had reached.

Hope this post shed a bit of light as to where TastyGraph has been the past few days and why there really havent been much in terms of updating

And as always, please dont hesitate to post comments here and let me know what you think.

I dag har vi indsnævret vores idé en anelse. Vi har forsøgt at lave en kobling mellem læring og spil/leg, og er kommet op med en idé til et spil, der kunne foregå ude i rummet som et slags matematik/naturfags-spil; dermed har vi valgt fokusere på faget matematik (med en kant af naturfag). Børnene skal gennem en rejse i rummet opdage (“Udforskning”) nye “matematik-planeter”, som åbner øjnene op for en verden af sjov med matematik.

Pt. er idéen med spillet, at skoleeleverne (enten på egen hånd eller i samarbejde med hinanden – “Samarbejde og fællesskab”) gennem en række sjove matematiske og naturfagsmæssige udfordringer (“Udfordring og præstation”), opnår achievements, de kan bruge i det rumskib, de rejser rundt i rummet med. Spillet skal være med til at motivere børnene til at synes matematik er sjovt, og gerne opnå den effekt, at børnene får lyst til at tage “skolearbejdet” med hjem og spille derhjemme, og dermed dygtiggøre sig. Herved kan børnene også få en følelse af “ejerskab” omkring spillet ved at bruge det i deres fritid og sætte deres eget personlige præg på spillet. (“At skabe noget”)

Idéen til spillet er opstået med udgangspunkt i nogle af de punkter, der bliver diskuteret på http://bit.ly/7wMkV0

Sundays’ quests/dailies:

• Mødes over IM/Skype og snakke brugerscenarier
• Diskutere hvordan vi får inddraget læreren i spillet og børnenes oplevelser
• Diskutere hvordan og hvor der indsamles relevant data.
• Evt.

So far we knew about Juri, T. Hawk and DeeJay. Here they are in action, along with these 3 new guys: Cody, Guy and Adon. It’s not certain if this is the final new characters roster as Capcom was teasing 8 new characters when first announcing Super Street Fighter 4. But enough about that, time to watch Cody beat people with handcuffs on.

URL : http://www.flashgame-girl.com/Puzzle-board/Word-Search-Gameplay-34.html

Game description :

Search all words given on the right side of your screen.

Game controls :

Use Mouse to interact.

Welcome to Pixelated Reviews, This is a new Review site and here we are dedicated to bring you the best Video game and Movie Reviews, Let’s Plays and Gameplays. We are still geitng everything set up until december. Hope to see you soon,

- Pixelated Reviews

Have been making some flowcharts for the game.

Menu

Player 1 tackles Player 2

Player picks up Game Ball

Player Scores

Player Jumps

Player collides with Obstacle

Enemy attacks Player

Seriously, this might be my most anticipated game currently. It just looks so damn good. Maybe I’ll love the entire cast or most of them, because so far, I’m liking each and every character. 12/17/09 is the release for the Japanese Version and damn, it’s going to be a pain to avoid spoilers until March. It’s also going to be a pain to actually have so many games to play next year that I might be missing out on many things all because of this. Oh well. It will definitely be worth it. Hell, I’m listening to the OST, over and over and over and over again and I’m in love with it.
Here’s an example:

Yes I know, I’m hyping this game more than any other game I’ve ever hyped since…DMC4. >_> But shit, give me a break! Now I want to finish FF8 before FF13 releases here. Let’s just see if I can pull THAT off.

EDIT: The song was taken off youtube. Sadly, I cannot find another video of the song at all. :[

- Chrono