Anyway, Ludum Dare #17 was last week as I mentioned, and I’m really happy with how my entry came out. It’s called Paradise Fort, and it is some sort of weird mix of Minecraft and Tower Defense. Ludum Dares always manage to motivate me mysteriously, so I was able to get almost everything I wanted in. I’m going to expand on the game now that the compo is over, to create a more finished game (much like what happened with Excavatorrr).

Here’s a timelapse of the creation process. The Ludum Dare rules encourage recording the course of the creation, so I thought it’d be a cool thing to look at later on.

The rest of this entry shall be reserved for screenshots, so here’s the download link:
Ludum Dare version
The new version I update with new stuff!

Screeeenshoooots:

You can build your own island fortress!

These are some of the new enemies I plan to add.

And here’s an utterly rad tower made by Six at the Ludum Dare community:

Use shift to jump and arrows to move. The game has waypoints to ease your path, but yeah, this is meant to be rather unfair. It can be beaten in a way, though!

Download it from the KotmK website.

Anyway, this time it’s about bigggger stuff. I’ve been working on a certain game for about half a year now, and I decided that once I’d hit certain milestone I’d reveal it. I did that to prevent myself from blabbing about the game before knowing for certain if I’m even capable of finishing it. Now it looks like I can.

So, this game is Beyond the Black Hole, a puzzle game that is sequel to FIG in more than one, but not every aspect. Practically the game gives you control over the green fella, thus allowing puzzles about doing also other stuff than just clicking. This also means a bit more complicated controls, but hey, I’ll put a tutorial in ‘n all. The reason I removed the lemmings-like movement was because in FIG it was used too much as an arbitrary time limit, resulting in hurrying in many levels. When that was combined with the fact that some of the hotspots were a bit tiny, a couple levels ended up rather hellish. I’ve also updated the graphical look a bit, and I’m becoming really fond of that “MSpaint-ish” look. The game will feature 35 (or possibly 36) levels placed on 7 planets like last time.

The milestone I set to myself was finishing level 10. So then, today, I did finish this level, and that’s why this post is here. Derp. Anyway, I got the ever-so-amazing Johan Hargne to compose the soundtrack, because I knew from experience that he’s rather good at making that kind of light-yet-interesting music that a game like this needs.

Some screenshots:

OHH! And that gif thing below! It’s still going, but I wont work on it until I become demotivated to work on BtBH!

Anyway, I posted some animated gifs of this new silliness to the TIgsource forums. Like the great blogger I am, I didn’t even think of posting them here earlier. But anyway, that might make those two of you that look at this post excited, so let’s do it!

Horribly bad quality and slow? Do check.
I’ll probably drop this eventually when I become tired of it, but for now it has come up nicely and it has been fun to work on it. I’ll make a post with more info when it’s clearer if this shall be something.

Jump, Copy, Paste features a mechanic that at least I haven’t seen earlier, and it circles around copying and pasting parts of the game levels. The game was supposed to have a story of some sort, but due to an immensely infuriating and nonsense glitch I decided to get done with the game quickly. The story would’ve been quite cheesy anyway, so maybe it’s for the best that I didn’t include it. Noby Did again some wonderful music for the game. That guy is a genius.

* CONTROLS *

A + D = move about
W = jump
Left mouse button = choose the area to copy, release to perform. After copying, you can select a new area with another left click.
Right mouse button = paste the copied area.
R = restart
Esc = Quit

Some screenshots:

DOWNLOAD EET NAOW

HURRRKKK. Over 500 entries were created in the end. Woah, that’s really sick. Congrats!

Here’re my games listed:
MYSTEERILUOLA: Scanline Dungeon
Download link

“MysteeriLuola is a Dungeon Master -like RPG adventure game where you enter the SCANLINE DUNGEON to fight various beasts, such as NINJA PIRATEs. The game is packed with action and tricky puzzles! The very definition of Family Gaming!”

MYSTEERILUOLA II: Return of the Cunning Door
Download link

“Mysteeriluola II reveals new facts about the past of our mysterious dungeon hacker. In this brand new Hempuli adventure, you explore the vast Donut Mausoleum in order to find your way further to the Scanline Dungeon! Perfect!”

MYSTEERILUOLA III: Solitude of Circumstantial Preferance
Download link

“The New Part In The MysteeriLuola Series Brings A Totally New Interface And New, Interesting Puzzles! Solve The Puzzles Of The Sewers In Order To Beat The Evil Wizard Urist McWizard!”

COMBAT WORMS
Download link

“Combat Worms is a 1-player vs. CPU worm game. You try to collect more points than the CPU while avoiding collision with quite much everything. Even though the CPU AI is silly, it’s quite funny.”

Sometimes just making games is fun, no matter what the results are.

So this person called Terry Cavanagh has released his long-awaited platformer, VVVVVV. It’s shareware, but really worth the money, I enjoyed it thoroughly. This post is a bit late on the subject, but I felt I needed something to write about, if nothing but a short post. The game features fast-paced platforming, With A Twist, which is very amusing by it’s nature. It’s also very hard for a newcomer, which is obviously a good thing – prepare to die a couple hundred times.

GO GO GET IT NOW BOINK