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So, Treasure Adventure Game by Robit Studios is a lot of fun and I recommend it wholeheartedly. The engine is a bit weird & clumsy at times and the quality of the pixel work varies from amazing to really poor (I think there were several pixel artists at work here?), but overall the experience is really solid and fun. Also the game takes place in an environment I’ve myself sought to use eventually; the wind wakerish endless ocean.

I’ve been hugely busy with exams lately, but I’m glad to inform you (?) that I’m indeed working on games. After next tuesday I’ll have more than enough time to finish some game-related stuffery. Let’s have an inventario:

Masjin: The game is approaching a state I’d be willing to call ‘somewhat finished’. It has been fun to work on the game, but I think I’ll want to move on soonish. My intention at the start was to work it to the stage where I can show it off on some lanparties or jams, and I think I achieved that! :)

Beyond the Black Hole: Haven’t forgot this, no! The engine is starting to get quite rusty and I strongly dislike the way I made the game work. However, since I’ve already made it this far I certainly want to finish it at some point.

Once in Space (Flash): I haven’t posted about this, but I thought of redoing my first game on the hempuli.com website, this time without stupid bugs and bad design, and fully in flash! I don’t want to spend ages on this project, though, so expect to see something done pretty fast.

Officer Alfred (Flash): In works; I have nice plans for this but it’ll have to wait for until I have OiS out. I want to redo the whole game with a better story and level design. This wont be a very big game in the end, but enough that I can deliver the story I want and present the puzzles I’ve got in my mind.

Paradise Fort (Flash): Has been a bit frozen due to me not being in contact with sereneworx; also I’m concentrating on other stuff currently.

Also there are a couple smaller things I’ve been pondering; maybe I’ll write more elaborately about them later. After playing a lot of Steamlands by Nitrome (It’s a fantastic game, go play it!), I’ve been starting to look more to the way they develop games. Their ideas seem to be quite similar to mine, except better implemented in every possible way. Maybe I should try a similar, stricter schedule they use for developing games – it probably wouldn’t work, though.

Also I made a .gif. It’s not for anything, just felt like making it. It’s quite big so wait patiently.

This may be for something. Maybe.

Also I played with custom palettes:

I just finished an art piece I’ve been working on for a long time. It’s really late, so maybe I’ll let DeviantArt speak for me:
“This is my work for the Arts Diploma course offered in our school. I made it mostly because it gave me a good reason to do a really big art piece, I’ve never done anything of this size. Also I quite think it’s my best piece this far. We had 6 themes to choose from, mine was “Mathematical art” and the inspirer was none other than M. C. Escher.

Making this took about 20 hours, maybe a bit less. We had one school course of time to finish this and the accompanying portfolio. Making the portfolio was quite a chore because it required us to explain what’s so special about our work, what is it’s “message”. I never think about stuff like that so creating some meaning wasn’t very fun.

Most of the work was made with paste colours, and the hexagonal structure was improved with some wood pencils. I also had to edit the pic a bit after scanning, because even though I used a high-quality scanning service, some of the brighter colours had turned to white. Quite annoying, hmph.”

So there. Click the image to see it in DA.

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Animated by me; everything else ripped.

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