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[haroldkrell]

FANCY FEASTS!  A game I made for Little Awful Jam 2017!  

Have you ever wanted to learn how to cook food like a real champ? Now here’s your chance! Just follow four simple steps and you’ll be making chicken dinners in your sleep!

Fancy Feasts can be downloaded here.

ALSO: This game will be streamed today at around 5pm PST today (Jan 21) at https://www.twitch.tv/sagamedev if you wanna join in on the fun.  Festivities start at 4pm, so why not stay for the whole shebang?

[haroldkrell]

Lou-ny Balloon-y Goes Floatin’ ‘Round Town is finally here!

My entry for Big Awful Jam 2016 has been released to the public!  Play as avid balloonist Lou-ny Balloon-y as you fly your way through four whole levels of flap-happy mayhem.  Rendered gorgeously with Game Boy inspired graphics and accompanied with toe-tappin’ chiptunes, this will definitely appeal to the retro-gamer within us all!

Big Awful Jam Entry page and instructions here: 

http://www.awfuljams.com/big-awful-2016/games/lou-ny-balloon-y-goes-floatin-round-town

Download and play here:

https://harold-krell.itch.io/lou-ny-balloon-y-goes-floatin-round-town

[jamaldolleygames]

Game Dev Journey No. 28

This is an overview of one of the late game levels that I’m working on. I decided to just use the metal boxes as the primary platforms to build the level with, it was more of an aesthetic choice than anything else. The layout is done and I have added enemies and some other obstacles however I have yet to add collectibles though.

The levels starts with the player being chased by a big spike obstacle that inflicts massing amounts of damage, as the players primary focus will be to get away from this obstacle, it will require some replaying to be able to collect all of the coins if you wish to obtain a 3 star rank on this level. As with all of the other levels I have also added some hidden coins that will require some skill to reach.

As this is a late game level, expect many instant death pitfalls and tricky jumps, the ball puzzle at the end of the level is particularly challenging as it is more of a skill based challenge than a mentally taxing one.

Please let me know your thoughts!

[haroldkrell]

(Harold Krell)

The Main Theme for Polar Adventure.

A small little ditty I ended up composing on the last day of a two-week game jam.

[jamaldolleygames]

Game Dev Journey No. 25

A year ago today I launched Ninja Ball Dash on mobile devices. It took me a year of blood sweat and tears to get the game completed, due to it being my first official game to be created and published. As a result I had to learn programming, pixel art animation, level design and game design etc, the end result was a game I was pretty proud of, however it wasn't without its flaws.

I would like to thank everyone who downloaded and played the game on iOS and Android devices, I really appreciate the support! I would also like to say a special thank you to those users who gave me valuable feedback regarding improvements and optimizations that the game required, after the initial launch. This feedback was invaluable in the creation of the first game update.

As many of you are aware work is well underway on my next project and until today it was untitled. The reason for not just going with Ninja Ball Dash 2, was due to the fact that the game shares similarities with my first game however it has enough unique gameplay features to set it apart from Ninja Ball Dash.

[Imaginary drum roll.....]

Epic Adventure Quest is the title of my new puzzle platformer for mobile devices and I am super excited to get the game done and in to your hands, which would be very soon!

If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments section below or alternatively you can reach me on Twitter @jdolleyart01.

[jamaldolleygames]

Game Dev Journey No. 24

I have implemented these 2 enemies recently, in order to add some more enemy variety.

The Spirit enemy spits skulls at you when you he sees you and the Canon enemy shoots canon balls, both enemies needs to be avoided as they cannot be destroyed. These are enemies which you will encounter in the late game, hence they are more tricky to deal with.

I’m thinking about making it possible to kill the Spirit enemy with a powerup collectable. In addition you do not lose health when colliding with the Canon enemy.

All backgrounds are place holder assests only.

What do you think?

[haroldkrell]

Varying levels of polar bear.

Hey! Do you like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure games? Then, why not play my brand-spankin’-new game Polar Adventure!

PLAY IT HERE! (Caution! Strobing effects!)

Polar Adventure was made for Something Awful’s Little Awful Jam, in which participants were given two weeks to create a game from scratch based on a certain theme (The theme for this jam, btw: CHILL).

I worked ever so hard during those two week! Nearly every aspect of this game was made by me including coding, art, music, sound effects, and voice work, and it would be ever so lovely if you could bemuse yourself by playing it!

You can play the other entries of the Little Awful Jam here!

Stay tuned for news regarding the judging stream in the next few weeks where my game will be featured!

If you’re interested in joining future competitions, look here for more details!

[haroldkrell]

Trailer for my very own video game Polar Adventure.

Coming January 22nd.

Look here for more info!