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[SolarLune]

@Allansona - Ha ha, nah, I'm not the only one. Thanks!

@VortexCortex - Thanks to you, too!

More stealth stuff. Now guards have an actual field of vision that you shouldn't cross if you don't want to cross a guard.



EDIT: Also, followed a tutorial linked by poop in the 3D thread and ended up with a kind of Megaman-ish character - Bulb-Man, at the end of an hour or so. Not bad at all in my book (since I stink at 3D modeling).



EDIT: Another version where I fixed his feet.



@VortexCortex - Cool-looking Tetris game - I like the hologram effect on the currently falling block. Should it be on everything? Maybe that would be too blurry.

[VortexCortex]

@SolarLune: Sweet!  I really like the soldier's thought bubbles.  I kept expecting him to go "..." when he lost interest, but that's probably because I over indulge in the ellipses myself...

BTW, Awesome suggestion!  Throwing "hologram" effects on everything was a bit too blurry, but if I make the "glow" go away from the camera it actually works out nicely.



I kept the towards-the-camera effect for pieces that aren't added to the grid yet.  Also, I disabled that "shit" background...

(Crap, I'm supposed to be working now! )

[ANtY]

looks really fancy 

[Endurion]

I don't understand why people put blurs on everything. It may be an impressive feat technically, but if I personally want to see things blurry I take off my glasses

[VortexCortex]

@Endurion: Screw glasses, if you don't want to see things blurry just disable that effect in the options menu --  The Matrix, 101.

I agree though to a point: The blurry glow I did was a quick and dirty hack, over-exaggerated to ensure I could see it was working -- It'll look a lot cleaner eventually, and should be toned down a bit too.

Now, here's the interesting thing: You can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.  Ergo: I make the game the way I like it, and try to toss in some options here and there if something could be annoying, but for the most part I just realize: There's so many other games to play, I don't worry if someone doesn't play mine.

So, to answer your question: Some people like what you don't like.

[sigfarter]

Using graphical advances from the future on old-school pixel art and sprites is the dumbest. I think people who do this have fantasies about travelling back in time so they can impress the locals with how superior they are.

[JakobProgsch]

A super simple game: http://youtu.be/m1D2f65NV4Y

I tried to be a total attention whore and get some exposure by making a game for a King of the Web campaign... I didn't manage to get anyone to notice though. At least I made a game from scratch in sub 24 hours...

[SolarLune]

@SIGVATR - I personally don't think that's the case. It's not really old-school pixel art there - it's futuristic more-so than anything. For a comparison, it looks like Geometry Wars. And I wouldn't say that using graphical advances on old-school pixel art is stupid - why would I want to make a game that looks just like a retro title? Anyone can do that. To blend current graphical advances with old-school style is something else, though - that's something we can do now that developers couldn't do then.

EDIT:

@JakobProgsch - That's actually pretty cool to have made that in under 24 hours. Are the rooms randomly populated with a table and monsters? Or are they pre-made?

[JakobProgsch]

The rooms are randomly populated and the monster density rises with the distance from the start room.

[paste]

really more of "this week" rather than just today, but i made a little flash game for the miniLD: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-36/?action=preview&uid=10488

[sigfarter]

To blend current graphical advances with old-school style is something else, though - that's something we can do now that developers couldn't do then.

Fucking everyone does it, it looks incredibly amateur.

[Delko]

shh no tears only dreams now

[cystem glitch]

really more of "this week" rather than just today, but i made a little flash game for the miniLD: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-36/?action=preview&uid=10488

This is pretty cool, I like the tune and the humor. Game ends really soon though, was kind of just getting good.

Also, some Japanese guy executed the same mechanic a little better, in his version you rotate between 3 colors R, G, B, and even though his games are short too (both the first game and it's sequel are just 10 levels if I remember correctly) they still feel a lot more complete than what you were able to get done: http://koganegames.com/flashgames.html

(of course, he probably spent more than 48 hours on it)


Edit: the sequel is actually 20 levels, and when you touch a block that is the same color as you it's destroyed, so a little different from what you have going on there

[paste]

Thanks! Yeah, it was short not so much of the time constraint, but because I didn't want to make it drag on. I figure it's better to have people say it's too short rather than too long.

Also, it was a mini-LD, so it was a week rather than 48 hours, but also it's during the week and I have other things to do, yaknow? ;]

[Ashkin]

shh no tears only dreams now

Yesssss. Please say this is going to be a game.