I really wanted to get a blog out sooner, but I’ve been keeping very busy all week.  While my writing on Suite101 has been nonexistent for the past two weeks, my writing on GamerSyndrome has soared to new heights.  No longer publishing just the two required articles per week, I’ve been submitting upwards of four articles a day, reporting on the latest news in the games industry as well as throwing in a few original pieces.  It’s been fun, but more than anything it’s been tiring, time-consuming, and it’s given me a real feel for the whole writing career thing.  Surely when I finally land a paying job it will be more stressful, but by submitting so much content within a week, I’m getting at least a small taste of what it’s like to write on a professional scale.

Due to my excessive writing, I haven’t had much time to play video games (or do anything else, for that matter).  My copy of SvR 2010 has just sat near my Wii collecting dust.  It’s rather saddening, especially since I really enjoy Story Designer mode.  I haven’t had time to finalize my original WWE story.  Oh, well.  Maybe next week.

The few spare moments I have had I’ve spent playing numerous indie games.  I’d played independently developed games before, but I’m just now getting into indie games on a large scale.  I first played Time Fcuk about a week ago (or possibly two weeks ago).  I really liked it.  Its blend of puzzle and platform mechanics is great, and the twisted story behind it is eerie in a satisfying kind of way.  The graphics are great too.  Very simple, but very effective; and even though the designer stated that it’s not an artistic game, it’s hard not to argue against that statement given the game’s unique look.  Time Fcuk was reason enough for me to set up a Newgrounds account.  That’s how much I loved it.  Plus, I’m trying to collect the game’s achievement medals.  The fact that the game supports user-created content makes it even greater.  I may never create my own levels, but I’ll likely return to the game multiple times later on to try some original stages.

Another game I played and completed is RunMan: Race Around the World.  But much like Aether (which I’m still in the process of completing), I’ll talk about that game in my next post.  I just downloaded Cave Story.  Due to the fact that I had to work a Deftones concert last night (which wasn’t anything special considering I don’t care at all for the Deftones), I wasn’t able to play the game all that much.  Nope, I was pretty much only able to configure the controls and play part of the first stage.  I plan on playing the hell out of that game during Thanksgiving break.

That’s about it for now.  This post was much longer than I had planned.  I could probably write more, but I have to work another concert at Avalon tonight, and I’d like to watch the rest of last night’s SamckDown before going to work later.  I’m also working the night club apparently, so I should make some decent money tonight.  Here’s hoping.

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Bueno, estoy cansado, ya no es Martes y todo este asunto merece una explicación. No hay más Martes Memorable, se acabó. Mr. X y yo acordamos cambiar la sección y, gracias a una idea de Gordi, ahora analizaré juegos flash de internet. Y como podría hacer una tesis sobre el tema, tengo munición para rato. Preparaos porque empezamos con dos bombas:

Toss the turtle

Primer juego del día y uno de los más adictivos a los que he jugado. Toss the Turtle es uno de esos juegos de lanzar una cosa con cierto ángulo y cierta potencia a ver cuanto llegas, una clase de juegos que se ha repetido a lo largo de los tiempos, desde el clásico “Puedo tirar esta piedra más lejos que tú” hasta otros que requieren mayor destreza, como “A ver quién mea más lejos”.

¿Qué es lo que hace a este juego diferente? Un montón de obstáculos chorras, posiblidad de comprar objetos mejores, “logros”, armas para poder prolongar el tiro como si se tratase de tiro al plato y, por último pero no por ello menos importante, que lanzas una tortuga. Lo que me habré podido reir viendo las caras de sufrimiento que pone squirtle el pobre bicho cuando rebota entre enemigos y trampas mortales, para luego salir ileso.

Al principio el juego empieza suavecito, tu cañón inicial es malo, no consigues casi dinero y te encuentras un pequeño porcentaje del gran abanico de obstáculos. Los autores del juego avisan de que puede ser adictivo y recomiendan descansar. Yo no lo ví y me pasé hora y media hasta conseguir prácticamente todo. Así que recordad chicos, si os creéis guays por llegar a los 20000 pies, yo he llegado 100 veces más que vosotros xDD (la imagen de arriba es un screenshot de mi “equipamiento”). Y si os encontráis con un feliz plátano andante, no os confiéis porque… SHORYUKEN!!!

Crazy Mammoths

Acabamos la sección con carreras de mamuts. Hasta los jugadores más experimentados se frustrarán jugando al multijugador de Crazy Mammoths. Sólo tienes que pulsar un botón y hacer saltar a tu mamut congelado como un poseso mientras la pendiente del escenario cambia. Adelanta a los demás mamuts, menea la cola, aprovéchate de los errores de tus enemigos y… ¡gana la carrera!

Crazy Mammoths es especialmente recomendable para 4 jugadores. Si alguna vez tenéis oportunidad, jugad con vuestros amigos, es una locura, acabaréis pulsando el botón frenéticamente y quejándoos de lo poco que os quiere el juego. Yo sostengo que hasta se podrían hacer torneos a escala mundial de este juego. ¡Daría cien vueltas a los deportes televisados actuales! Y, ¿quién sabe? igual hasta podríamos elegir a un nuevo lider mundial con un torneo así xD

Hasta aquí la sección. La verdad es que me he enrollado cosa mala, pero todo sea por las chorradas de internet. Por cierto, el “Volumen” va por el Martes, no por la sección, asi lo ha querido Mr. X. Volveré la semana que viene con más juegos flash y alguna que otra paranoia.

Hasta otra.

It’s 2009, and just as many households have adopted Computers as they did TVs many years ago. This truly is a Communications Revolution.

Let’s go back to the Year 2000. Cell Phones and eMail were gaining users at a slow, but steady rate. People could now communicate quickly and efficiently, from just about anywhere they had service. This was Private, One-on-One Interaction with people you already knew in Real Life.

Next we move to Web 2.0. What started with Links (eBaumsWorld, Delicious, Digg), moved into Media (Newgrounds, Flickr, YouTube), and then Social Profiles/Networks (Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Ning). Everything is now done in a Web Browser. Desktop Software is Dead.

Yet, we have a lot of people on our Friend’s Lists that we do not know personally. Our Real-Time Streams are full of Spam, Bots, and other annoyances. All we really wanted to do was communicate with our Friends and Family–even if the Government is recording everything we do online. But something was missing. Those we really wanted to “join the party” were unable. Either they had out-dated technology, slow connections, no time, or just didn’t have a computer. And even if our Real-Life Friends and Family had the Time and Resources to participate with us online, and comment our funny cat videos, filling-out a Social Networking Profile or keeping their Blog Updated was just too much of a hassle for them.

Enter Twitter.

Evan WIlliams, the man who created Blogger, one of the first online, mass-adopted Free Blogging Services, sold that Web App to Google. He dabbled in Podcasts with Odeo, and looked for something else to que his interests. He knew the conundrum outlined above, about the hassle it is to get people signed-up online, and participating. So he decided to make it easy. Real easy, in fact. He developed a system where ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is enter 140 Characters of Text and then hit Enter. So simple that a TwitterFeed Bot can do it for you. And a TweetLater Bot can even schedule it ahead of time. Humans can even do it as a Text Message from their Cell Phones.

Now everyone is Happy. Wireless Providers make money off the Texts. CNN promotes it’s News Network, in Real-Time. Companies communicate with Customers. And we still get to see Links of Funny Cat Videos.

So, all it took to get our Family and Friends (and SuperStar Celebrities) Online was to Make it as Simple as possible. Of course, other Online Services have the “Updates” feature. But as I said earlier, Twitter’s Bare-Bones FeatureSet is more inviting to those who don’t care to develop robust Profiles, upload tons of Pics, and worry about writing lengthy BlogPosts or Editing Video. And that is the same reason that you have no idea who is behind those Twitter Profiles. It’s so easy to join, without giving up any real information.

I think Ning is the Future. They have the Best User Interface of any Social Networking Site. Their Networks are focused on a Shared-Interest. And they have every feature you could ever want or need from an Online Service. Best of all, it’s Free. But their main strength is the fact that they allow users to fully express themselves, and share as much or as little as they choose.

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Ok, we all know the famous story of Hansel and Gretal right? Well think again! Imagine a world full of giant spiders, cigarette smoking evil step mothers, and killer bunnies! erm not the last one … This is an amazing interpretation of Hansel and Gretel really brings to life the grimness of the Grimm Brothers classic fairy tale. Just click here and get playing! This has my SEAL OF APPROVAL; Trust me- you’ll love it!

Gretel and Hansel Gameplay Picture

Nick

P.S- You wouldn’t believe how many times I wrote Gretel and Hansel during this review!

Flash Tutorials 1

Flash Introduction

The Basic

The Tutorial Collab ‘06

The Tutorial Collab ‘08

Action Scripts

Animated Preloader

More at
www.newgrounds.com/collection/flashtutorials.html

That game I made a while ago with Nunsense is now released and sponsored by dedegames.com.

Fred’s Head is a game about a guy called Fred who got pushed into some radioactive waste which in result made his head grow to obnoxious proportions. You play as Fred and it’s your job to rid the town of all bullies by smashing them into nothingness with your gigantic head whilst avoiding hazards and killing normal kids running and playing in the street.

Fight past 10 waves of enemies, don’t let the name “wave” fool you – you don’t just hang around and wait for them to stop coming you have to run to the end of the map for them to stop. As you get further into the game the chance of a large bully coming increase and the amount of hazards and normal kids increase and once you get past wave 5 you are put onto a map of half the size making it even more of a challenge.

Lovely and cute cartoon graphics, beautiful and misplaced music, gruesome and amusing game play with a touch of disturbing but fitting sound effects makes this game something I might actually want to give time to play.

You can go play over at:
Newgrounds
Kongregate
or
Dede games

Will Arbuckle over at Edible Castle, (creators of Edible Castle) have created their first game! It’s an awesomely voice-acted Back To The Future 3 spoof (really? kinda.),and it’s called Back to the Cubeture . It’s goofy and great and you should play it now. You don’t even have to read!

Will Arbuckle over at Edible Castle, (creators of Edible Castle) have created their first game! It’s an awesomely voice-acted Back To The Future 3 spoof (really? kinda.),and it’s called Back to the Cubeture . It’s goofy and great and you should play it now. You don’t even have to read!

I through together some gameplay footage of our game for the Newgrounds Power of Three event. I would say It’s in It’s mid-to-late alpha stages right now so you will see a couple of glitches here and there.

Art – Destructin
Programming – Me
Music – Manakidleade

The People on Newgrounds are fascinating.

Okay, so I may be over exhagerating, but this Newgrounds cartoon is incredible. Go watch it, now. Here’s the link guys. Take care!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/512343

Oh, and here’s a picture by Tommy-Gun from Newgrounds:

Poizé, hoje é a minha vez de indicar um Flash Game que eu não sei aonde que achei, não me lembro… O jogo é basicamente assim, o mundo tem duas “camadas” que são alternadas quando se aperta “A”, com “S” o personagem levanta blocos, com espaço ele pula e se movimenta com as setas. O objetivo do jogo é juntar todas as chaves e entrar pelo portal para próxima fase… Super simples.

O link está na primeira imagem ou aqui

Hacía mucho que no me daba una vuelta por Newgrounds, cuna del desarrollo flash de la que he mamado desde que tengo uso de razón, y no he tardado más que un par de clicks de ratón para toparme con una pequeña maravilla de esas que molan para ver en momentos de asueto y carne de cañón para posteos facilones de esos que tanto gustan a los bloggers flojeras. Pero es que el título lo dice todo, ¡irresistible!

Y si os quedáis con hambre, no dudéis en echar un vistazo a las entregas del  8 Bit Pwny Club, un selecto grupo de héroes pixelados que nos proponen contenidos tan sugerentes como el Top 5 de ítems más insanos o el de los mejores váteres en un videojuego. ¡Yummy!

PRES HERE TO PLAY THIS GAME

This game is brilliant. It really does push the distance genre about (excuse the pun) 120 KM. The art is all hand drawn and the code is just flawless; it must have taken years to make! If you haven’t played it before then click here and trust me- you’ll love it.

Toss The Turtle Snipet

Whooo…Finally, I have time to sit back and take a little bit of a breather. I’ve been working hard ever since coming back from AnimeVegas to get things prepared for our own convention. After burning a lot of the late night oil, I’ve finally got done the draft of the program and laid it out for printing. This morning I also finished the ASG Convention Badges which are ready to go to printing.

I would give you a preview of my work, but you’ll have to wait until October 10th. 0_~

With that done, I can sit back and just chill for the rest of the day since it’s only Wednesday and I don’t need to have any fliers done until Friday. Most likely you can bet that I’ll be printing them out that morning. Heh.

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Well…since I still have this section to fill up and making things interesting, I bet your wondering what keeps me sane while doing all this work? (Or not but I’m going to tell you anyways.) Music is the big thing that keeps my brain from liquefying into jelly while I’m stressing over work. Since I easily loose track of time and hate constantly pushing the play button on my FoxyTunes, I simply pop into my NewGrounds Audio Favorites and let just leave the tracks on loop. A single track can loop for about 20 or 30 minutes or so before I get sick of it and move on to the next one.

To listen to some of my favorite tracks yourself, just click the link below and scroll down to the section that says Favorite Audio Submissions and listen away! On a busy day, I end going through all my favorites in one sitting. In fact, I have ~EnV~ Heaven Rd. 2 (Ng mix) on right now. >w<

Favorite NG Submissions

Enjoy!

Yay, Egoraptor has finally released Girlchan in Paradise 2 and since I can’t (or don’t know how to) embed it directly from Newgrounds for everyone to see I have decided to embed it from Youtube. It is awesome as always, Egoraptor is awesome, Newgrounds is awesome, I’m awesome and after watching this you’ll be awesome too.

Even if this title sounds probably a mouthful to you, give a try to this incredibly addictive flash game online. Try to beat my (incredible?) record of more than 200,426 feet and find the deep meaning behind the game. Then, write it with your record on the blog.

Well, If you like castle crashers and have comnpleted the game you will have heard of the Necromancer a popular fluying evil character whom everyone has begged for for an awful long time…Well now the DLC is CONFIRMED!!!

To have

A Golden  MAce from Newgrounds.com

A Chainsaw (Oh yeah!)

A Dragon Animal orb…That looks awesome

The Necromancer

And The Wizard Minion…

All this cool stuff will be released…Soon according to Kelly a Behemoth Employee…

When, we do not know…

Price, we also do not know

Funability…Off the scale….

Pictures:

http://castlewiki.castlecrashers.com/images/3/3a/Chainsaw.jpg = Chainsaw

http://castlewiki.castlecrashers.com/images/7/7e/Necromancer.jpg = Necromancer

http://castlewiki.castlecrashers.com/images/d/da/Wizardknight.jpg = Wizard Minion

http://castlewiki.castlecrashers.com/images/2/22/Goldmace.jpg = NG Golden Mace

[img]http://castlewiki.castlecrashers.com/images/f/ff/Newpet.jpg[/img] = Dragon Animal Orb

I will keep you psted.

~Xtr4M1nty~

Fred’s Head

I finished programming a new game I’ve been working on with another guy from Newgrounds called “Fred’s Head”. I started work on it not that long ago – about 3 weeks but I only worked on it maybe several days. We put this game up on Flash Game License looking for a sponsor, you can go see it there if you want but you’ll probably have to sign up there as a Developer.

Fred’s Head on flashgamelicense.com

Fruity: Reprogrammed

In other news a couple of days ago I started reprogramming Fruity: my first ever flash game (or game if you don’t count the crappy RPG maker ones). Progress is going well, I pretty much just need to add the fruit and draw up some levels.

The game will only have 2 weapons this time (even though I can now program automatic weapons properly) the handgun and the rocket launcher, they were my favourite weapons in Fruity and the M4-Carbine just didn’t really fit in a world like that.
I may or may not add more enemies, I remember drawing up some for Fruity back when I was still working on it but I’m not sure if I want to or can be bothered adding them – I’m very lazy at animating. I remember drawing up some vegetables to be enemies and some green blob… yeah.
While I was programming the Bees (the enemies) I thought I would try and create and new way with dealing with them and I did, a much more efficient but very similar to my old way that will decrease lag. I’ll be using this new techquie in another game I’ve been working on with a couple of other guys for Newground’s Power of Three event, where I’m the programmer, one guy is the Artist/Animator and the other is the Musician.

If anyone wants to pitch some ideas for things that could be in Fruity feel free to do so either by commenting here or sending me an email.

Both games have now been added to the ‘Games’ page but neither have a link leading to anything.