| New Article - Level Editors with Microsoft Excel |
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News posted 27th January, 2012 by The Chris Street
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Sketchy has written a fantastic, and very detailed article on the possibilities of using good old Microsoft Excel... as a level editor. It's really informative and well worth a read. Included is a source file to assist you.
Comments from Sketchy:
"Making a game tile-based is a great way to cut down on the amount of graphics you need to produce, and also speeds up level creation. However, it's almost always necessary to make a custom map editor - fine if you're working on a big project, but very tedious if you just want to make a few quick maps to test an engine.
One solution I've found, is to use Microsoft Excel as a map editor. By using Excel's "conditional formatting", it's possible to make quite a functional map editor - and it's even possible to replace a lot of your MMF2 map loading code with just a few formulae in Excel."
Click here to read the article and comment on it |
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| New Game - MegaCity |
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News posted 23rd January, 2012 by The Chris Street
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Cole Jefferies has been busy as of late working on his game MegaCity, a puzzle game which requires "thinking, logic and luck" according to the blurb. Already released on iPhone and iPad, there's also a more basic online flash version, and the Xbox360 edition hopefully will be coming out soon too (yes, the runtime is seemingly very close to release now). Take a looksie!
Comments from the Author:
"Place requested buildings in the queue to earn points, but watch out: Nobody wants to live next to a landfill site or industrial estate! Everybody wants a nice park or shcool nearby, but the city's budget is limited. This is where you come in. Megacity is a game of planning and thinking ahead to squeeze the most points of out your citizens by clever town planning. And if it all goes wrong, it's their fault for electing you mayor, right? "
Click here to download the game and read its comments |
| New Game - Stray Whisker |
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News posted 17th January, 2012 by The Chris Street
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 This entrant by TDC's resident admin Assault Andy was created for the Ludum Dare #22 competition. Called Stray Whisker, it was eventually ranked 5th out of 717 submissions, which is an extremely impressive feat, and just goes to show that the simplest concepts are often the best.Comments from the Author: A kitty is stranded alone with no way home... Please let me know what you think, I'd love to hear all your feedback. Click here to view and comment on this game |
| News - GamesGadget Gaming Device |
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News posted 11th January, 2012 by The Chris Street
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I thought this was worth mentioning, having received a press release from the company involved, which is admittedly a bit out of date, but here we go:
A device called the GamesGadget is due for release soon, and its main purpose is to allow portable, on-the-go gaming. It can run games in various formats. What does this mean for us, as a freeware gaming community? Well, it's not inconceivable to believe that the device could run EXE files, meaning that programs created with The Games Factory and MMF2 could potentially be compatible with it.
The GamesGadget will also have an iTunes-style store, allowing developers to submit their games for free, and to charge whatever they want for them to be made available to download. Assumptions are to be made that Blaze, the company behind the GamesGadget (and also behind the portable Mega Drive released in the UK a couple of years ago) would take a small portion of the profit.
Still, this is exciting news for game developers, but is it likely to seriously compete in a high-stakes environment populated by iTunes and Android? It probably is a bit doubtful, but I personally would love to see some of my old games on the system again... just imagine playing Eternal Daughter, Duel Toys 2, etc, while on the bog :)
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| Project Update: A Life of an Unusual Toaster |
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News posted 10th January, 2012 by Jon Lambert
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 If you haven't been lurking in the projects section lately, please allow me to draw your attention to Poobical's latest. After the original Mr. Toast project didn't go over too well with his professors, he redesigned it as A Life of an Unusual Toaster, the red-and-black gritty tale of a toaster on a mission. You can check out the dramatic transformation on his project page.
Comments from Poobical: The game is about a living toaster that has to save this world from evil smiling goons, he does this by spitting out toast.
The game is going to be a short little game because I'm actually making it for a part of my coursework 'ere at university. I'm hoping to port it to flash, when I get around to buying the flash exporter.
Anyway yeah it's going to have around 20 shortish levels and a handful of bosses to defeat. It shall be out and playable by the end of March. (That's when my deadline is.)
Everything you see except the sprites are hand-drawn. Yup.
Click here to check out A Life of an Unusual Toaster. |
| New Engine - 3D Lighting Engine |
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News posted 6th January, 2012 by The Chris Street
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 A very smart 3D lighting engine has been coded by Sketchy. It's called - somewhat unsurprisingly perhaps - 3D Lighting Engine. Already recieving a lot of positive comments, it's a download that you should take a look at. However, you do need the hardware accelerated runtime of MMF! Comments from the Author: This is based on my earlier GTA example, but with a lot of changes.
It makes heavy use of Werbad's 3D shader (included), so requires HWA to function. Click here to view and comment on this engine |
| Happy New Year - Random Tidbits |
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News posted 3rd January, 2012 by The Chris Street
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| Firstly, I'd like to wish all at TDC a Happy New Year. Over the last few days we have had a considerable number of submissions, but due to the holiday period, I at least have not had the opportunity until now to look at them properly. You will find two golden news posts below this one! That makes three in one whole day!
Right, so 2011 didn't end too promisingly, with the departures of OMC and Rikus, and the initial concern about the future of TDC hanging in the balance (I admittedly, and probably prematurely, created a "Save TDC" Facebook page). TDC at the current time looks to be in a stale environment, but I do ask you all to hang in there - the site will almost certainly be shaken up fairly soon. TDC is not set to close for the foreseeable future. But I do conceed that change is necessary, if not in website design, then in the administration of the site. I do urge you all to please be as patient as possible :)
In other news, Clickteam recently hinted on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/clickteam) that the MMF2 XNA runtime release is very imminent. How soon? Who knows? :)
It is Clickteams Andos birthday today. Unless you are reading this on any other date than January 3rd. Happy birthday Andos!
Jason Darby has relaunched his website Castle Software. Jason, as we know, has released several iOS games, and written many books on game design, all of which can be found here.
The Newgrounds Christmas Competition has had numerous entries created with Clickteam products. Check them out HERE and see what scores were given to them.
That's enough news for the moment. Happy New Year! |
| New Game - Woodland Alcohol Explosion |
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News posted 3rd January, 2012 by The Chris Street
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 Also submitted is a little game by Viva/Volt. Called Woodland Alcohol Explosion, the game is designed around a random platform generator that Viva/Volt created. Certainly looks very promising, and I'd love to see a full game developed out of it. Comments from the Author: The idea of the game is to get as far into the woods as possible, wielding your trusty axe. The more beer you "drink" the worse the controls are and the harder it is to see what you're doing - however your attacks gain power when drunk. Click here to view and comment on this game |
| New Game - Minor Details |
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News posted 3rd January, 2012 by The Chris Street
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 This is one of four individual games submitted by Dialga-Brite. Called Minor Details, it's a somewhat curious retro adventure based on the movie of the same name. If the game sounds interesting, why not give feedback to Dialga?. Comments from the Author: This is an arcade maze game based on the movie "Minor Details". It's rather obscure so I'll explain it. It is about 4 teenage girls who have to solve a mystery of students being made sick in the school. This game however doesn't have the ability to play as all four, just Paige, the one who's my favorite. You can also play as the principal's daughter Emily and also Paige from the show "Brothers and sisters". No idea why I put that last one in, just because she's a girl of the same age with the same name I guess. It also has crossover levels with Coraline and My Little Pony. If you're a brony, you'll probably be pleased to hear that there's G4s and you can fight Nightmare Moon in this game! Click here to view and comment on this game |
| New Game: Pitiri 1977 |
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News posted 28th December, 2011 by Jon Lambert
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 Christmas may be over, but there are still gifts to be found! Not a fan/observer of Christmas? Lucky you, because that means that all sorts of cool fun stuff is happening for no apparent reason, which just means your world is full of arbitray-gift magic! Today's (read: December 23rd's) gift is Pitiri 1977, hot off of Iamjot's presses. This platforming adventure is now available at Gamersgate after over 2 years of work, and it shows. Let's see what Iamjot can tell us about his creation.
Comments from Iamjot: Your player character's name is Eli, whose brother has been kidnapped on his birthday. He wasn't taken by men, but by a strange being, a monster from unknown origin. The adventure starts as you pick up the scent and try to track down the monster and retrieve your little brother. To your advantage, Eli isn't a normal kid, but has several supernatural powers at his disposal. Abilities he will need, in order to survive the dangerous realms you will make him venture into – strange places, a twisted 70s science fiction world, that lies beyond the known …
You can click here to buy it from Gamersgate, but Iamjot has an important message for you before you do that! Read that message here. |
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