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12 Apr

Game Jam

Last weekend Wild Pockets put on a 24 hour game jam competition.  For those of you who have never heard of a game jam it’s a competition where teams make a game in a short period of time.  In this case it was roughly 20 teams each making their own game using the wild pockets engine in 24 hours.

This was my first game jam.  They’re very exciting, tiring, fun, and are very good learning experiences.  My team happened to win.  We ended up making two games.

Here are the games:

Lava Ball

Cement Tower

Here is some of the press we received:

Kotaku

Crispy Gamer

All in all it was a great experience and I’m really glad to have the opportunity to participate in events like this.

26 Mar

GDC 2009

The Game Developers Conference is going on this week.  A very awesome ex-coworker of mine lent me their pass so I had the chance to check out a couple sessions and walk the expo floor today.  I won’t mention the girls working the N-Gage booth at all because it would be inappropriate of me.  The two sessions I went to were quite good (as opposed to previous years’ sessions) and the IGF booth was cool to check out (as always). Continue Reading »

23 Jan

Unity

Just picked up a new macbook and downloaded Unity3d.  Check out my first creation here.  If you’ve never installed the plugin you’ll be required to do so.  Try clicking on the chest once you’re up and running.

I’m really digging Unity, especially the power to link game objects directly to a script via drag-n-drop.  Let’s hope I get some codes for the full version soon - this trial runs out in 27 days…

16 Dec

Boom Chain

Behold, my first true Flash game.  I’ve learned a lot, the colors don’t match, and many things could be improved.  But I just had to finish something for once (Hazel, you’re still on my to do list, I swear). Continue Reading »

16 Sep

Castle Crashers Tunes

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The music from the recently released Xbox live arcade game Castle Crashers has been released for download (I just bought a 360 last night so I could play this game, among many other games).

Play it, love it, get annoyed by all the shrubbery obstructing your view.  It’s well worth the money.

Get the tunes Here.

21 Jun

I burst for Silverburst

Besides spending miniscule amounts of time on my side projects every week I’ve been listening to Silverburst.  It just so happens they kick bootay.  Listen to their music here.

03 Jun

First flash “game”

Flash is kinda fun. It’s very powerful and you can get something up and running in a matter of minutes - even if it doesn’t look very good, hah.

Behold my first flash “game”:
 

25 May

Flash, good times

There is now another distraction to keep me from working on The Hazel Chronicles.  I am making a small attempt to learn flash and actionscript 3.0.

So far it’s coming along slowly because it’s so much easier to play GTA or rock band while I’m at home, but there has been some progress.  It’s not really a game, although you can have a butt-load of fun playing it (not really). 

Behold my first flash program:

16 May

Muto

Check out this crazy cool wall animation.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Since I’ve decided posting every other day was taking up too much time I might just start posting videos every now and then.

28 Apr

Crimson Star



Crimson Star is a WIP sidescroller game being developed by DarkSirrusGames.

The developer claims it’s about 8% completed.  So doing the math here, let’s see, carry the 1, yes, it will be close to finished in time for the 2024 Olympics.

We will be watching you, Crimson Star.  You’re almost lookin’ good.

Check out the development blog here.

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