Kloonigames

I got interviewed. Again. Read it over at the Gamasutra.com: Road To IGF: Crayon Physics Deluxe.

They interviewed me because a little over month ago I submitted Crayon Physics Deluxe to the IGF. I mainly did it to get even with Jetro; my goal is to beat Cinnamon Beats with 10 points (no more, no less). They asked me what was my motivation behind creating the game. I had to lie, because I was afraid they might disqualify my game if I told them that I only did it to get back at Jetro.

In the other news there’s another mod for Bloody Zombies. It’s called Bloody Halo and (surprise surprise) it’s set in the Halo universe. You play as Master Chief and slash through enemies with your power sword. It’s not as “professional” mod as Bloody Goombas, but still it’s fun and very playable. It was done by juju02 over at the fun-motion’s forums.

Download Bloody Halo from here: Bloody_halo.rar (0.5 MB).

Well, it’s only been four days since I released Bloody Zombies and ShortStuf7 aka Tom Carroll (from fun-motion forums) has already managed to create a total conversion mod of the game. And it’s a pretty sweet Mario themed mod with modified levels.

Play as Mario in an epic quest to save the princess!
Kill Goombas with your turtle shell to collect coins and go through the pipes!

You can download the Bloody Goombas mod from here: Bloody_Goomba.rar (0.5 MB). It’s a stand alone mod, so it’s pretty easy to get working.

The first custom levels to Crayon Physics were also Mario themed. I’m not sure why is this, but apparently everybody thinks my games would be much better if they featured Mario. *Hint* *Hint* *Wink* *Wink* to possible Nintendo managers reading this. Oh and please don’t sue me or Tom.

I’m kicking off the new season with a low resolution game done for the Gamma 256 event. The deadline is today, but really this game should have been released yesterday, when it was Halloween and Peter Jackson’s birthday. All I can say in my defence is: Party’s over!

Bloody Zombies

Download

Bloody.zip (0,5 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions

Bloody Zombies, the goriest game ever made in the glorious 128 x 96 resolution! Fight zombies with your lawn mower! Solve levels with your opponents blood!

Goal is to rescue Barbara from the clutches of the nasty zombies. Collect all the keys in the level to open the door to the next one.

It’s recommended to play the game with a Xbox 360 controller. But it’s also playable with keyboard and mouse.

Xbox 360 gamepad controls
[d-pad] controls the character.
[right thumb] controls the lawn mower.

[right trigger] gives gas to the lawn mower.

Mouse-keyboard controls
[WASD] moves the character.
[Mouse] moves the lawn mower.
[Left mouse button] controls the gas.

Esc will quit the game.

Settings.xml can be tweaked to run the game in fullscreen. The game runs in 128 x 96 resolution, but for obvious reasons the game area is zoomed. The zoom factor can be adjusted in the settings.xml. It’s under the title PixelSize. PixelSize 1 runs the game in it’s native resolution.

The secret project that I’ve been working on for a little while is called Crayon Physics Deluxe.

The name kinda spoils the surprise, but I’ll explain it anyway. Crayon Physics Deluxe is a “sequel” to Crayon Physics (a prototype of a 2D physics game), but I’m not sure sequel is the right word here. It’s more like Crayon Physics Deluxe is the real game where as Crayon Physics was just a prototype. Real game at least in the sense that I’ve spend way more than 7 days on this one.

There are already a bunch of cool new features. Probably the biggest one being that now you can finally draw any shape you want. And they will behave physically as you would expect them to behave. There’s also a easy to use level editor in the game. Actually all the levels in the game have been done purely in that level editor.

The game is still very much in development. I don’t dare to give you any kind of official release date, but you can trust me that I’ll release as soon as it is done. Which could be a little while.

Here are couple of more screenshots from the game, so you don’t have to visit the game’s “official” site.

In a couple of days I’ll try to post some video from the game so you can see it in action. I’m really excited about the game and I can’t wait to let you guys play it. I think you’re going to enjoy it very much.

There’s been a bunch of cool stuff I meant to write about, so I figured I’d slap them all together and post them here.

The Kokoromi posse is organizing the second Gamma -event. This time it’s called Gamma 256 and it’s about creating games with the minimum amount of pixels (max resolution is 256×256). The submission deadline is November 1st. The games are exhibited (and played) November 28th at a party in Montreal (with free booze for developers). It also happens to be the Montreal International Game Summit’s closing party. I think it’s a great way to promote experimental games and I’m planning on submitting a game myself. Unfortunately my pixel art sucks so I guess I’m trying to squeeze the game into as small amount of pixels as possible. There’s an official Gamma 256 thread over at TIGSource’s forums.

Speaking of TIGSource, the B-Game competition is now open for voting (at least for 10 days still). The B-Game competition was inspired by Jazzuo’s Sexy Hiking game and was meant to celebrate the unpolished gems of indie games. There are total of 29 entries, which is quite an amazing amount. Much more than I expected. This proves that the internet is a wonderful place, there are even people out there who enjoy bad games.

Over at Gameproducer.net Juuso finally opened the Game Producer forums. I registered and noticed that there seems to be a bunch of familiar faces there.