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I choose to play Mathland, Black Yeti, and Box... I have to say that I failed most of them. Let talk about Mathland, its wrong. (√ -1 is “i”, not NaN... which I can only guess to mean 'not a number', and that is soooooo wrong.. If your going to have a game called Mathland and put in equations like that at least say the right thing or let me answer the question. “i” is not a real number, but that does mean that it's not a number. It's called an imagery or complex NUMBER.... so I tried another equation in the game, I decided to try 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+...... but it crushed my computer so I stopped playing it.)Mathland is a 8-bit dungeon style game. I think that the game was set in Isolated view so that it was 2 dimensional. Then if it were me I'd set the walls with thin cubes and boundary scripts so that no one walked thru the walls. For the equations use 3D text that is scripted to reply … or have the player actually solve the problem. I'd then construct the player from cubes and script a movement function for it. I noted that all the math in the game as far as I got was all concepts, which is cool if you can answer not so much if its just going be a stand here and I'll tell you what I think you should be told.

Black Yeti is also a 2D game of the 8-bit variety. I'd do the the same set up for Black yeti that I'd have done with Mathland. Walls with boundaries and scripts to limit the move in space to the lighter colored areas. Having not gotten very far in the game I'm not sure what else I'd have done to make it.

Box, is a game for people with more patients then I have. Box is also a 2D game, but it reminds me of oddly enough of tic tac toe. If tic tac toe was invented by a mental patient on crack and who'se imaginary friends where playing mind games while clipping their toe nails... any rate the game is about moving these little objects in to boxes, but (at least to what I could figure out before I said smeg it) you could only move if two objects were moveable. To be honest I haven't a clue how or even why to do this game.

Musical Boxes

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Musical Boxes is a game that started with two verbs, Sing and Grab. The original idea for the game was that the player was the idea of a song, and that they'd sing at boxes to get the next set of notes. Things rarely stay to their original shape. The game due to several issues changed to the verbs Sing and Hit, which in my opinion works for this project.

The things I felt went wrong.

The note boxes art. Try as I might I was unable to get the cube faces to be what I wanted. Three of the faces on every cube where the wrong way round. This would not really been an issue if it weren't for the fact that when it spawned it was the messed up sides instead of the side that the art was right on. So instead of the game being able to generate the musical boxes to make different levels we had to set one level for the whole of the game.

Time was short, and the game lost something because of it. Thems the breaks though. Some of it was unavoidable and some of it was because I really don't know how to program so was unable to help with the scripting part of the game.

The Ball just could not be stopped, so it moves left to right and the boxes move in different directions. It works for the game. Oddly though the ball goes through the terrain if it goes on long enough.

No actual win state. More time is the thing I can see has to fix that.

The things I felt went right about the game.

The note boxes sing . We got the do, re, mi.... from a website called FreeSound.org and the boxes have 3D sound on them so there is this funny Doppler effect has they sing as they fall or gone by.

The art for the background and the terrain. A giant rainbow gradient with a black and white striped terrain. The bright colors of the whole game is a lot of fun. I feel that if it didn't have that the game would not have the same quirky fun appeal.

The title screen showing and have the boxes with the sound playable. The only draw back to it is that the boxes don't stop singing.

The Ball changes color if the proper boxes are hit in the right order. It fun to watch people hit the boxes and see the ball changed.

Overall I feel that the game is a success and hope to make more in the future.

Ptt5

“Off Road Velociraptor Safari” by Blurst, for me is a difficult game, that I did not enjoy. I find the whole driving game genre boring, so it might be that this game is fun, but you wouldn't know it by me. I like the concept of the player getting the Velociraptors, but I think it would have been more fun on foot and setting up traps. The movement of the car, (which I believe was piloted by a Velociraptor, but a not sure of) was to unyielding to a player of my low skill level. I did manage to run over some glowing balls and wreck the car some in trees and off the mountainous hills. The Velociraptors eluded me well, not that that was hard to do... I run into more trees then I should have in the five minutes that the game takes to be over in then I did getting anything important done. The entire gaming I was wondering 'why am I playing this?'

Next I played 'Minotaur China Shop'. Compared to “Off Road Velociraptor Safari”, I found more entertaining, but just as bad on the controls, which I believe was the point of the game. In 'Minotaur China Shop', the player controls a minotuar, who is very clumsy and seems to have so rage issues. The minotuar has to get the china (plates, bowls, cups... the plates I know for sure the rest I think might have been game décor) and bring it back to the customer, hopefully without bumping, smashing or in general destroying the shop and its content.

Splume was the last game I played, and it was the one I had the most fun with. It had the simplest concept and was easy to pick up. Compared to the over two, Splume is an easy game that you control with one button and a little aim. It has a happy shiny look and feel to a 2D game.

#ptt5 #Velociraptor

Blog 5

The 'Ball' is representative of the player, who in this case is the beginning of a song. The ball moves side to side. The ball grows as the 'song' (game) processes, progress is made by the notes being gotten. The color of the ball ( starting at black and ending at white) indicates what note the ball can manage to break, so once a color has been achieved all colors previous can still be gotten.

The blocks are colored and hold notes that are gotten by the ball singing at them. The colors of the block show what color the ball need to break them. The last block being a large white one that is title song. All types of notes must be gotten for the Song block to break.

The notes; Do (Black block, red Do), Re ( Red block, Orange Re), Mi (Orange block, Yellow Mi), Fa (Yellow block, Green Fa), Sol (Green Block, Blue Sol), La (Blue block, Purple La), Sei (Purple block, White Sei).

#blog 5 #blocks #ball #notes

'pTT 5' or 'Why One Button Bob is clever.'

One Button Bob is a simple video game that just about anybody could play. Its all in the name of the game, you have to push one button for Bob to get though the game.

Bob runs, jumps, throws, dodges, walks, and pauses by a simple push of the button. Depending on the level that Bob finds himself on the player helps him in his needed action by the click(s) of a button.

Say for example Bob is on a level were there are moving stones that are part of the path. Bob has to get to the exit on the other side of the screen and its a walking stage. If he misses the stones or walks to fast over them he dies, so here is the player haves to time the buttons clicks. This is important because a player will get bored if there is nothing more then simply button pushing, a small amount of thought has to be there for the player.

#ptt button bob

Postmortem for Job 13

Text based games are harder than one would image, simply because in order for them to work well (in my opinion ) they need to be well described for the mental eye. I wanted my game to be silly and just something to say you'd played once. Sadly the game isn't really what I was hoping for. If I'd had a better grip on what the story should have been then I think it would have made it better.

Things that went wrong.

Time, I was running long on my work. I kept feeling like I needed more and already had a lot to deal with. There are something s that didn’t make it into the game because of this.

Phrasing. The program didn’t always understand what I was telling it, most of the time it was poor word choices on my part., but sometimes it was the program not reading the structure right.

Telling the story. I feel that I failed in this part of the exercise. My interactive game doesn’t have a solid story.

The things I feel I did right.

1)I actually think that some of my descriptions of my scenes and characters are quite funny. Since my goal was that the game be silly then I think I did well on this part.

2) Getting the game to work. My 'coding' took quite a lot of time, but in the end it worked. That is a good feeling. So I'm proud that my code makes sense.

3)The simplicity of my game. It is a get this and put it here sorta game, and works in a quick way.

4) Figuring out how to get the body parts to become the bodies and the bodies into NPCs.I have quite a few NPC's and getting them in a being there took some figuring out.

So in a nutshell my game is a quick and kinda funny game that has several endings.

Ptt Baron

The Baron as a game,is a good playable story ( subject matter not so great, but it happens and people have to face it and learn to say something when it does.) I liked that there where reasonable answers to the interactions with the NPC's and that at first you have no idea whats happened.

The dream of the burning man and the finding and attacking of the dragon threw me off. At first I thought it was just a interesting fantasy tale that would just take a player through a quick quest. I mean after all, how many quests start out with the need to destroy the dragon or rescuing a fair maiden. So the fact that it was a dream ( the fighting of the dragon and really the fight with the Baron) gave it a fantasy quality. Here is a story of this Father who adores his daughter and she has been taken from her loving family by a wicked Baron, who is told them not to follow. Yep fantasy epic there, or so you would think.

The symbolic messages that litter this story are interesting. After the dieing in a burst of dragon fire, the Father(player) wakes up and tries not to wake his wife because she'll talk him out of what he is about to do. The walking down though the village and being angry that no one has helped his daughter because none of them felt responsible, but all know what had happened. This seems like he feels that everyone knows but don't care enough to stop him from harming his little girl.

The she wolf not attacking but merely growling as the Father always facing her never showing her his back walks past her till he is out of sight. Thinking about this one, I feel like its the mother who is unsure of what is going on, and trying to figure out if herself and child are really in danger but not really knowing what is happening.

The conversion with the gargoyle. Here a creature that is not alive, but is at the same time but only at the expense of another living being. The sucking of all happiness and goodness from that person during the night at their bed.

The ruins of the castle, speaks of how the Father must feel about what he has done to his home life. The torn and wet pages he finds of the girl's diary tell me that he understands that she hates what has become of their relationship and wishes that he'd stop.

I could keep going on, but I think the point is made. The Baron is a good and tragic story of a man who knows what he is doing is harmful to his loved ones but can't stop unless he leaves. The game is well defined in its world. There is a set pass, but it seemed to me at the end of the game that his world was his mind and his house.

Ptt Glass... not having anything really nice to say.

Glass is ok. Being a parrot is very limiting. You squawk and and can't move. I couldn't seem to get an ending that win the game. The conversion was good, but (personally) didn't allow for much in way of player actually getting anywhere. The Prince came off as nervous and willing to believe anything just to be done with the task of locating a wife. Theodore is a sorta a brat. Lucinda a masochist. The old Lady a schemer. And Cinderella stupid. None of the ends where very happy for the Prince who be his very nature is not caring whom he marries in the end. The saving grace of the whole game is the dialogue.

Blog 3

Information model is really simple. You talk to one of your employers, Igor. I plan on leading the player with options for the conversion by having the replies appear on his t shirt. Its a little bit of a cheat but I think it will overall help the player. The conversion is necessary because it the employers instructions about the job.

Interfacing with the NPC is simple, when you find Igor in the Study simply start by saying hello. When you start the conversion you realize that Igor is talking but it has nothing to do with what you've asked. That not to say that your not getting your questions answered, the t shirt is answering the question with in it set.

Player experience I'm hoping will be smooth and amused. I if I have time plan on breaking the fourth wall. All in the name of entertainment.

Story for this game is a boiled down, find and assemble game.You find that out as you talk to Igor.

#blog

Job 13 game obejcts

Job 13

Heads ( all heads are containers)

Female; pretty and redheaded (ha)

Male; Middle aged and bald

Monster(s); feral werewolf and leathery mummy head

Smart Monster; a blindfolded Medusa head, and a fanged pale head with a deep widows peak

Brains

Female; Dominatrix

Male; Herr Doctor

Monster(s); feral werewolf, and a dehydrated brain

Smart Monsters; many creased but oddly colored brains

Arms

Female; beautiful arms

Male; well toned lightly haired arms

Monster(s); extremely furry arms with talons, and leathery bandaged arms

Smart Monsters; faintly scaled beautiful arms, and pale muscular arms

Torso (all torsos are containers)

Female; well portioned female torso, with pierced nipples

Male; toned, with average dangly bits

Monster(s); furry muscles with dangly bits, and leather bandaged

Smart Monsters; lightly scaled female, and pale well defined muscles with dangly bits

Legs

Female; long and shapely

Male: strong looking legs

Monster(s); strong looking extreme furry, and leathery bandaged

Smart Monsters: faintly scaled shapely, and pale toned

All body parts are put into a body then got rid of, so that only the body remains.

Needle and thread pull the body parts into the body.

A scalpel, is a key, it opens head and torso.

Soul sucker gun, a weapon, removes the souls of the living

Souls, are a key, animates bodies. Look like giant glowing jawbreakers. ( do not microwave)

Letter of Employment is a key to the front porch

The Car is a containers it holds the LoE.

#blog #game objects

Yay! I got it to work! PTT 2

I played 'Manna' by Sam Kabo Ashwell. To be honest I found it hard to deal with it. The plot didn't seem to bounce around in fact it seem pretty linear, so maybe I did it wrong. Turning the computer took some guess work. The author is a bit odd in there in their choice of story. Being on a space ship ( at least that is the impression I got) with terminals that ran Windows XP doesn't seem very likely and people not caring if crew gets killed due to big laser beams hitting the ships even less so. Then there was the whole waiting for the pink lever thing was annoying, just let a player do what is need immediately if that is what is being told to them.

For the Multilinear Plots game I played 'Losing Your Grip' by Stephen Granade. It was ok has far has stories go. I liked all the work that the author did and the feelies are great. It reminds me of a “Fight Club” minus the fighting (all the weird plot story psycho stuff of it that is). Drug testing is a scary subject so the fits Terry was having were a little more frightening to me. I liked that you could name the dog (I named him Hubert, cause I thought it was funny). Kicking the head seemed to be the only thing I could really do with it. The kissing thing was odd but funny, and I defeat and did not kill the Father.

Multiple Endings game I choose was Emily Short's 'Galatea'. The statue was sorta grumpy to put it nicely. I had a bit of trouble getting her to turn. She turned so slowly, but talked well. I noticed that the only way to get a subject to be though was to talk to her till she said that she'd told me that she she'd already told me all she know on the subject. She didn't care for the ocean to much but like the garden that the artist put her in. Sleeping was something that ultimately was used to pass the time for her, and that she was really nothing without her artist. I got the ending with Aphrodite telling the sad statue that were compensations for her lost love. The forced love story got on my nerves but whatever, I only played it once. I do have to say that Miss Short's conversions are well thought out for this gaming platform.

Sam Barlow's 'Aisle' which was the game I choose to play for the one-move games is funny. I liked the quickness of the game and played it five times. Each time I did something different and got a different ending, which made it more entertaining. The story was simple but not so simple that it was boring, take for example the brunette in the aisle with the player character. Talking to her, she got scared and ran away, but getting sauce next to her, she just moves to make the action easier. Overall I had the most fun with this game.

#play this thing

Reading

I read the reading.

Photopia

I got has far has the red planet before I got so lost apparently that I could only go from the crater to the ruins of the greenhouse. The rest of the game before that is ok. I was surprised about the language, but thought it more funny then anything else. I just got so frustrated that I had to walk away then and have not had an ah moment yet so have not gone back.

found this

http://www.puppygames.net/revenge-of-the-titans/?ref=pw-RotT-ad.125x125.1.3&pw-a=166247&pw-ab=54126&pw-b=100152209&pw-c=34158

#game #indy

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