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Environmental Station Alpha keeps going

Hempuli — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:27:18 +0000

Yaay, more enemies.

Also, this year’s No More Sweden is slowly approaching – the event will be 20th of July. If you live near Malmö, Sweden, I suggest that you visit the even website!

Uh. Weird.

Hempuli — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:47:50 +0000

So then. I just finished level 14 of Beyond the Black Hole, that endless project of mine. The engine is, as I’ve stated previously, very very awful, but the game has some really neat things going on so I really want to finish it. I think I’ll try to finish 20 or so levels and then call the game finished. I’ll definitely want to re-revisit the concept later, though, because it allows for a lot of creative freedom.

It took me 17 months to finish this one level. Cool? Nope.

Oh, and also, I’ve been adding parallax scrolling to Environmental Station Alpha. Like so:

Cloud Realm!

Hempuli — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:44:31 +0000

Too busy to write anything new, so copying from other places:
I made the game Cloud Realm! In the game you control a boy with a glider-type apparatus and fight against a huge robo-serpent thing. There’s only one enemy due to running out of time, but in my opinion the atmosphere & controlling of the glider work pretty neatly and thus I’m pretty happy with the game. There’s also some sort of a “backstory” or “interactive intro cutscene”, although in hindsight I have no idea what I was thinking there. I’d definitely love to make a larger game out of this, but I’m also quite sure that this kind of gameplay would be best fit to be made in flash. Maybe this is the True Motivator for me to learn Actionscript?

~CONTROLS~
A & D – move around
W, SPACE & Left mouse – jump when not flying
ESC – skip the first part of the game (in case you want to get to the action quickly)

Left mouse – shoot while flying
Right mouse or E – leave a bomb while hanging from a surface
Space – cling to a surface and jump off it, more about this in the in-game instructions

In the game you’re controlling a glider-ish vehicle, so horizontal momentum matters a lot – you glide when your horizontal momentum is high, but start losing altitude when you slow down. However, diving a bit and then accelerating makes you gain height. This may need some trying but you have infinite retries!!

All this is also explained in the in-game instruction screen. Shouldn’t be too weird.
screenshots:

PLAY THE GAME HERE

Here’s also a timelapse for the game:

Woo!

Hempuli — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:38:21 +0000

Approximately 3 hours 30 minutes left, and I’m quite far into my project. I think I’ll make it! After finishing this, however, I have to return to work on school stuff. The joy!

Ludum Dare #23

Hempuli — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:09:04 +0000

Well then, this week is Ludum Dare week! It’s time for the 10th anniversary of this funny game competition. Unfortunately for me the theme, Tiny World, isn’t very inspiring, and I’ve wasted a day already, but I think I’m getting somewhere nonetheless.

Like so:

This article may be a very interesting read

Hempuli — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:27:37 +0000

Turns out someone else has also noted a certain pattern in the way Clickteam products work.

Also:

Environmental Station Alpha on Indiegames blog

Hempuli — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:31:12 +0000

Well, John Polson had an interview with me and put it up on the ~everyone’s favourite~ Indiegames blog. Thanks, John!

Find it through this link!

Third/Fifth boss almost done

Hempuli — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:11:50 +0000

There we go!

Yeah, some pictures.

Hempuli — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:29:25 +0000

Sorry for the lack of posts; it’s been very very busy lately.

I’m not dead!

Hempuli — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:13:53 +0000