It’s vaguely related to LD, but I’d like to share that since going full-time indie last month, Im on the verge of finishing my first game as a fulltime indie – Thelemite.

Thelemite is a fast paced 2D brawler made using FlashPunk. It’s about Melex Archer, a video game programmer, who out of boredom had undergone mdeical experimentation that transformed him into mutant ninja!

Overall it was quite an experience, especially having to undergo a blitz crash-course in pixel art.

Here is a trailer of what to expect:

I’m really finishing, and as I’m done with that, I plane to extend McPixel as my next project.

Ok, I have noticed that many people don’t actually know the full meaning of word escape which might be affecting voting in the Theme category. I don’t blame anyone and no one should, since most of the folk here aren’t native English speakers (me too, but I’m an English teacher ).

So, Here is a definition from The Free Dictionary with some pictures for better reading

escape [ɪˈskeɪp]
verb

1. to get away or break free from (confinements, captors, etc.)
   the lion escaped from the zoo
   
2. to manage to avoid (imminent danger, punishment, evil, etc.)
   to escape death
   
3. (intr; usually foll by from) (of gases, liquids, etc.) to issue gradually, as from a crack or fissure; seep; leak
   water was escaping from the dam
   
4. (tr) to elude; be forgotten by
   the actual figure escapes me
   
5. (tr) to be articulated inadvertently or involuntarily
   a roar escaped his lips
   
6. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Horticulture) (intr) (of cultivated plants) to grow wild
   

Here you go

So, I had some hard time preventing my LD20 (the previous one ) game from spreading around the internet like mad, so i thought about sitelocking it this time. So I did, and during the short period when it was on Kongregate, someone already put it on his site. I wouldn’t mind, but since I decided to take it down from Kong and continue development, I didn’t want it to spread over the internet beforehand.

And to my astonishment, the simple sitelock worked and the game didn’t launch So I immediately got this idea in my hand: if I can rule out playing that game, I can pull off a prank So, I changed the sitelock to play the special ending right away if the sitelock test fails

Uhm…. I guess you would need to see the special ending to get the joke So I’m gonna shamelessly plug my entry into this post

tl;dr – Someone stole my game – it was sitelocked – changed sitelock to a pranky one – win – ps, play my game

So, I am really satisfied with what I achieved this LD, and I must say that good planning is to blame for that

I got all excited and uploaded the game to Kongregate, but then I thought “Wait! If I made 6 levels in one day, how many could I make in a week?”
So I took it down from Kong, and I plan to make many more levels now!

Here are the six original levels

Play it if you dare!

Yay! I uploaded my game to Kongregate today hoping to get some more publicity.

Try it out!

*wants

Please take a look at the about page, and feel free to use the site as your Ludum Dare game host if you are fine with the conditions and Pirateware Licence.

Visit www.ghbrvlowabrvfladberogvlwrvfwlo.com!

PS. there’s an upload size limit that grows, let me know if you need more space!

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Yes yes yes! I have a game that is actually finished and finishable I am trying to relate it to not being drunk the entire weekend, but it’s probably just a coincidence.

So where’s my checklist…
1. Prepare a framework for rapid level creation – check! – Entire first day I designated to creating a framework so that I could create levels like mad on Sunday. I managed to do it, and level creation was done 90% using GraphicsGale. All the gags are animated frame-by-frame, and items are loaded from a color-keyed map.

Example of gag animation

Example of item map:

2. Create levels like mad – yup! – I was making levels the entire Sunday, I wanted to have 16, then 8, but I end up with 6. Good enough! Anyways my plan was to have a ready game on the first day, so that i will just do as many levels as possible.

3. Have witty puzzles – dud! – Well… my brain wasn’t really prepared for that, and I can truly say that I blessed McPixel with a secret mission to facepalm the player to death.

4. Cool website – weee! – HTML 3.0 + CSS is just awesome!

Try it! and let me know what do you think!

Not much to say, next level complete! Try it out!

Good nutrition for good morning!

Oh, I was utilising G+ as my progress report thingie while the site was out, so I need to make up for this now.

I managed to create a simple point’n'click adventure system with multiple outcomes and such, and wanted to have one level ready before sleep yesturday, but…..

Ok, no butts, I made it

Try it here!

McPixel is will be a point’n'click adventure where you have a reeeeaaally short amount of time to solve a simple riddle.

I’m currently coding in some basic stuff and helpers to be able to just create levels like mad later.

Hey, I’m usually starting from scratch but this time I wanted to have a basecode and share it
It’s a pretty simple framework built ontop of FlashPunk that does the following:

- Loads Tile Studio binary tilemap format
- Displays the thing
- Does collisions with the map

It’s well commented and extensible and I will reconsider using this if nobody else find this useful.
there’s also a sample tilemap and Tile Studio project but it’s not to be used.

Here it is

Please comment on this post if you find this useful.

I just thought it’s something most of you would like to know!

Graphics Gale 2.0 beta is out, you can get it from their site, obviously for free

It has few new features, but you should explore yourself!

Get it!

Yay! 60 I’m in videos!!!

Submissions for I’m in videos are now closed, I will now put them together, and send it to McFunkypants. They are full of awesomeness and big thanks to everyone who added their videos!!!

Cheers!

EDIT:

The videos together are 10 minutes long, also I’m sorry to say that I failed to include 2 of them due to reencoding errors (probably because lack of sound) these are: cornedor’s and Tylerthedesigner’s, please don’t hate me guys

Click to upload your I’m in video now!!!

Deadline expires with this day, don’t wait! It will take seconds!

If you have trouble using the uploader, leave a link to your video in a comment in the original post!

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This might sounds like a joke, but I’m being absolutely serious.

*wants

ghbrvlowabrvfladberogvlwrvfwlo games is bunch of quality-free games that you made (or not yet)!

In a nutshell, this is how it works:

• People upload games
• When the meter reaches 700MB, all games get bundled on a CD
• ISO image, game selector, and a booklet (for various CD-box sizes) is made
• The games will not install! I will make a thingie that unzips to temp and runs.
• Everyone can assemble the CD at home and go merchandise it! (As in, on the street)
• Also, I will prepare an instructional video on how to trick people into buying it

This might sound poor, but I must say that I successfully managed to sell such stuff on the street, and it can profit (unless it rains).
All we need is a CD full of games! After it’s full, I’ll tweak the meter to a DVD size (4.7 GB).

Well, I bet all of you have some teeny tiny games that will fit there perfectly, or will make ones!

Also, you can consider ghbrvlowabrvfladberogvlwrvfwlo games a host for your LD21 games, if you are OK with what can happen to it.

Visit www.ghbrvlowabrvfladberogvlwrvfwlo.com!

PS. there’s an upload size limit that grows, let me know if you need more space!

I’m joining for sure, and my game will be about kittens, because we all know it’s already the winner theme!

Here’s my armada:

***Submissions are now closed!***

McFunkypants and I are making a compilation of videos of people saying I’m in for the upcoming ludum dare! Record yourself and spread the fun!  The deadline has been extended due to popular demand. The deadline for submissions is now TUESDAY at midnight.

Try to keep it to around five seconds using this script:
“I’m [nickname] on Ludum Dare and I’M IN! I make games using _____”
(and feel free to add anything else for fun: creativity is welcome – nay, encouraged!)

Record your video here: I’m in upload thingie!
(No webcam? Upload an .avi somewhere and post the link in the comments)