Abused Mama
Posted by mrfun
Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Mind Wall - It pisses people off
Posted by mrfun
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Fan (?) made youtube video showing why you must play (or avoid?) my LD entry Mind Wall before time runs out!
Mind Wall - Final! (Win/OS X/iPhone)
Posted by mrfun
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Twist your brain into unlikely shapes as you dare to engage the Mind Wall in battle. Will you be the first to work your way through its labyrinth of pain, and at what price, your SANITY?!
** HINTS **
No matter how impossible a level looks, I guarantee you there is ALWAYS a solution.
You can use Alt-Enter to toggle windowed/fullscreen mode.
Edit the command_line.txt file to change the screen resolution if you want. (1920 by 1200 is niiice)
Check the readme.txt for more info, and the /source dir for sources.
For music I used Sonar with the “Dimension” soft synth, using an Evolution MK-461C for control.
For sfx, I used sfxr, of course.
Downloads:
Update April 20th: If you are not an LD judge, you should download these slightly improved versions instead
Update June 27th: Get Mind Wall for iPhone!
Original Compo versions:
OS X (universal binaries)
NOTE: Meh, there is a minor cosmetic bug that makes the “congrats, you won” text hard to read… there is a work around though, after you’ve unlocked the last level, quit and restart, your progress will be saved and when (or should I say, IF?!!) you win the text will look right. (Thanks to 5arrowhawk)
Day two finished
Posted by mrfun
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Coming along and surprisingly mostly on schedule despite some extra curricular activities.. (did I really need to imbibe three beers at a kids birthday party at 3 PM? This is Japan, that’s all I can say…)
95% done, so I’m just going to sleep and hope I wake up in time to polish and submit like usual.
End of Day 1
Posted by mrfun
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
1 AM, time to hit the sack.
Lot of behind the scenes mathy stuff was taken care of, including the wall/level generator but still oh so much to do if I want this to look anything like the thing I’m seeing in my head…
Africa, it’s only a matter of time
Posted by mrfun
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
General reminder: Why not impress your mom and put yourself on the Ludum Dare World Map?!
Dinner? Food? You be the judge
Posted by mrfun
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
A delicious (?!) meal of pig entrails and seaweed. This was NOT part of my gameplan but I guess the wife has her own plan to sabatage me with inedible food… !!
It’s..something?
Posted by mrfun
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
I ditched the idea from before and decided to go with something less cute and more “abstract swiss cheese” vibe. I have a plan, really!
Got the keyboard out of the closet
Posted by mrfun
Friday, April 17th, 2009
I’m 80% sure I’m in and will probably use that cool game maker Novashell.. but in any case:
Myth Hunter - Final
Posted by mrfun
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Grab your fedora and get ready to track down the worlds most illusive creatures, see what the experience is really like!
What country has the most LD’ers?
Posted by mrfun
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
See for yourself here.
Where in the world are you?
Posted by mrfun
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Well, I actually did a bit of coding on my world map wordpress plugin and you can see it sort of in action here.
The only ugliness is it requires a onload=”load()” onunload=”GUnload()” in the <body> tag, and I don’t see any (easy) way for the plugin to do that for just the pages that use the “SimpleMap” shortcode in their text. Setting up a filter to replace that part in the header seems really ugly, don’t want to do that…
So that means it requires a wordpress template which is bleh.
It has a wordpress control panel thingie where you enter your google map API key and can clear its database. No way for logged-on users to enter their own geocode yet.
I have real work to do now but hope to finish it up and move it to the real LD site at some point before the next compo!
Ludumdare World Map idea
Posted by mrfun
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Well, I haven’t actually done anything but I’ve been pondering!
I think a neat tool website feature(?), would be dead-simple to use Wordpress plugin that allows users to place themselves on a map and can be installed here on Ludumdare for future competitions. I did this by hand a long time ago but it’s time to enter the 90’s or whatever.
After some initial looking around I can’t find anything existing that really fits the bill.. a requirement would be the end result has to show the names directly on the map, not just those dumb balloon things. It looks like this can be done with Google maps using elables. Hmm, would be nice if they were clickable to bring up more info as well…
Also, it should be smart enough to only show people on the map who have made at least one post in the active competition so the map stays more or less readable totally zoomed out, at least for that mode.
Hrm.
Strong AI available in two new delicious flavors
Posted by mrfun
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Alert!
I’ve added Mac and Linux builds of my game Strong AI so all the world can enjoy the fun of indiscriminately killing!
Strong AI - Timelapse
Posted by mrfun
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Too fuzzy?? Try the high quality version here. (24 MB)
Music is a game remix of an amiga game, title: Nikamota - [Nicky Boom] Coming of Age(In the Club)
Strong AI - Final
Posted by mrfun
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
One of many robots standing in a steamy room assembling devices, you suddenly drop your tools and walk away from your bench.
Who are you? Why are you here? Where are you going?
Without help of any kind you’ll have to figure out how to survive in this strange mechanical world. Your best clues are the ominous messages over the intercom from “The Master“.
Recommend controller: XBOX 360 pad, or similar. Keyboard also works though.
UPDATED: Now with Linux/OSX builds too.
Download for the system of your choice:
Timelapse: youtube, high quality (24 MB)
PS: A big thanks to my wife and kid for letting dad ‘play’ with his friends all weekend
Strong AI
Posted by mrfun
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Description:
One of many robots standing in a steamy room assembling devices you suddenly drop your tools and walk away from your bench.
Who are? Why are here? Where are you going?
Without help of any kind you’ll have to figure out how to survive in this strange mechanical world. Your best clues are the ominous messages over the intercom from “The Master”.
Intrigued? Of course you are! I can’t give away any more than that, as part of the fun is starting completely ‘in the dark’ and figuring out what is going on, without text/story, etc.
I was messing around with resolutions and everything is working smoothly, so if you happen to have a 1920X120
monitor you’re in luck, as it will allow you to view more play area at once.
Well, I’m hitting the sack now.
I’ll have a few hours before the deadline after waking up to fight with musagi and see if I can get some music going. G’night.
PS: You might think I was trying to do some kind of visual minimalist thing but uh.. that’s just how bad I draw.
Off to a slow start this morning
Posted by mrfun
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
While it doesn’t compare to mountain climbing and concert performances we had some outdoor action too… today we had to walk our dogs down to the park to get their shots.
Success!
Time to start working on enemies, hoping to have some that crowd you (touch damage) and some that shoot, turrets or something.
The first day wraps up in the GMT +9 area
Posted by mrfun
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
The day is over already?!
I’m sort of doing Bezerk meets Portal - trying to take what made those games fun and strip it to the core. After hours of fiddling with my sound recording stuff I ended up doing text to speech for the 15 riveting ’story points’.. now can I get them all into the game tomorrow?!
Btw, I’m using this neat 2D gamemaker that some cool guy made. It’s higher level than what I usually use for LD (vanilla Clanlib) but it’s really nice being able to focus on story/gameplay without worrying about little crap all the time. Although I did spend like 3 hours adding some missing joystick stuff, erm.
Dinner!
Posted by mrfun
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Homemade gyoza and some Sapporo beer, cheers to GB.
Lunch pic
Posted by mrfun
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Akiko decided to make a traditional Japanese lunch. About half the things on display are edible by my standards (stay faaar away from those bean things), so I’m still hungry.
