Archive for August, 2009

Harvester

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

This was apparently the month of 48-hour game design competitions–the things were just everywhere. I was ambushed by one this weekend as  tried to work on Telepath Psy Arena 2.

The bad news is, the Ludum Dare competition pulled me away for a couple of days. The good news is, I’ve made another free downloadable game for you to play: Harvester!

HARVESTER

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This is a little bit of an unusual game: part cave exploration game, part puzzle game, and part collectible card game. There’s also a rather involved storyline with it. Or as involved as I could get in there with only 48 hours of development from start to finish, anyway: I did the music, sound effects, graphics, coding, etc. all by myself from scratch, so as you can imagine, this has been kind of a frenzied weekend.

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Ham Sandwich RPG on RockPaperShotgun!

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Well, this is exciting: RockPaperShotgun has just run a piece on the RPGDX 48-Hour Competition, and they give prominent mention to Ham Sandwich RPG!

I always like this kind of community experimental games compos. RPGDX have finished their 48 Hour RPG competition, where developers attempt to do everything on a small game in 48 hours. They’re voting on the results now. The theme this year is “side-scrolling”. I haven’t had a chance to play them all, but the pair which are leading the voting – Ham Sandwich RPG and Feyna’s School Project certainly are impressively completely envisioned. Also, one stars a Sandwich, which is making me peckish. Others look fun – the more unfinished Jade Figurine – pictured – is actually impressive in looks, and its Golden Axe/Barbarian approach one I think pursuing. Well done everyone. Find some videos of the games beneath the cut, or follow the links to see more.

Check it out.

Ham Sandwich RPG!

Monday, August 17th, 2009

No, this isn’t a prank–I actually made a game called Ham Sandwich RPG. Honest. It was for the RPGDX Side-Scrolling Mini-RPG Summer 2009 Competition, a 48-hour competition that challenges you to create an entire RPG in one sleepless weekend. Luckily, I had Tyler Schmal around to help me out by writing music and sound effects while I was off busily programming, drawing, and writing incredibly silly dialogue.

So, without further ado, I present to you:

HAM SANDWICH RPG: THE ADVENTURES OF HAM HAMILTON

Ham Sandwich RPG Screen Cap.

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