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authors who've finished a game previously may now RE-ENTER THE FRAY and pick another game!

changed the controls from Z and X and escape to X and C and escape!

added some rules regarding controls. please see them below

"YEAH! WOO! YEAH! Make your selection now." - Action 52
WHAT IS ACTION 52


thanks wikipedia!

paul eres wants me to show this to you. AV(irgi)GN plays this terrible game. (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/65116)

SO WHAT IS ACTION 52 OWNS?

ACTION 52 OWNS (tentative title) is going to be two week long jam, consisting of 52 different game developers creating GOOD remakes of each of the 52 games on this terrible cart. we are going to make a GOOD ACTION 52.

WHERE CAN I GET THE ORIGINAL ACTION 52?

at the risk of being sued and banned, i've provided a copy of the game here (http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/action52.rar). some NES emulators are unable to run the game. find one that does! (i've tested it on NNNester. it doesn't run on FCEU or FCEUX and apparently runs slowly on nestopia)

BUT I WANT TO DO CHEETAHMEN

cheetahmen has the distinction of being one of the most notorious of the games on this cartridge. as such, it's not simply 'up for grabs.' throughout the course of this thread, people may throw their hats in for the honor of doing this title justice. i will choose someone at my discretion.

RULES AND GUIDELINES

first and foremost DO NOT MAKE TERRIBLE DEMAKES. these games are terrible enough in their unfiltered, unrefined form, there's no way i want to see these games made even worse with some "HEH KLIK ANE PLAEYE!!!!!"-esque humor. the point of this game jam is to create a resultant game that maintains the integrity of the original game intact, while making some allowances for the sake of gameplay/fun. again, i will repeat: PUT EFFORT INTO THESE REMAKES AND MAKE THEM LEGITIMATELY FUN GAMES TO PLAY (and try your hardest to make them look good too). don't try to make your games funny through stupid means! keep it real! keep it pure.

in trying to maintain the essence of the original game, a good rule of thumb is to play at least to the second level, before selecting a game and remaking it. a faq (http://cheetahmen.silius.net/action52n.txt) containing all of the games and their stories might also come in handy!

please try to stick to the original stories as much as possible. they are great

the game does not have to be a faithful recreation! just keep the spirit of the game alive, somehow!

the ingame music should be as similar to the source material as possible. this may mean having to find a musician. there are many talented and fine musicians on these forums, and i'm sure you'll be able to find one that can do a remix of a 10 second ditty (as most of the music in these 52 games tend to be).

in terms of graphics, choose your own style, but BE WARNED: i am limiting you to a resolution of 640x480. do whatever it takes to achieve this resolution (up/down-scaling, WHATEVER). if you are including a fullscreen option, please add an option to turn it off (the games are to run natively in windowed mode). if you are going to rip graphics from the game, please either make the effort to enhance them, or find an artist who can.

all games should be runnable via an EXE file. that means no "install python then run this batch file" games, and no "drag this to your browser" or anything like that! the games should be runnable by simply executing an EXE file.

please only use the following controls: arrows, X and C and escape.

all games should feature a menu with a the game's official title (see wikipedia/signup page), a one/two player option (note: it's not required for you to add a two player option), and a "main menu" option that quits the game. the escape key should return the player to the main menu, and pressing escape on the main menu should quit the game. you enter the game by pressing X or C on the main menu.

the reason i am making these strict demands is that i want the finish product to seem like a single, cohesive package. i understand that many people are using different programming packages, and that some of your packages will not be able to comply to these standards. if that is the case, i'm sorry but you'll have to sit this one out!

anything else goes (this includes collaborations, whatever.)

THIS PROJECT WILL GO ON FOR LOOSELY 2 WEEKS (UNTIL MAY 14th) OVERTIME MODE UNLOCKED

WHERE DO I SIGN UP!

i've hacked together a really sloppy signup page here. it requires you to do some simple stuff to your TIGsource profile, but it's nothing too major (and it doesn't steal any information, so relax!)

http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/action52/index.php (http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/action52/index.php)

if you are having second doubts about doing a project, the only way to remove your reservation of a game is to PM me (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=765), or email me at [email protected] (http://mailto:[email protected]).

MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW (and unban superjoe)

i chose micro mike

i'm doing underground. babbys first spelunky? sure.

Yeah, I want IN  8)

My sig says it all.  In a week though?  I hope so!  :o

Prepare for a rockin' Sharks remake.

DICKS YES.

I'm in (I think).

i want that one, whatever the hell one that is

edit : MADCHESTER INNIT

I will try some remixes then.

Reporting in for French Baker. Wohoo!

For my first game made for this site, I would like to have a go at Shooting Gallery!

yeah dudes chat me up for some music i want in but cant makes games for shit

music man music call me yeh

JMickle, wanna be my music boy?  :beg:

He is the music boy of every game. So am I. I will now proceed making a new version of the intro song.

By the way, I played through cheetahmen now. Fucking hilarious game. After a little bit of research (reading the wikipedia page) I found out theres even a sequel that was never sold anywhere but found in a warehouse. Though it is a single game, it's just as horrible as the original. They didn't even change the music or characters, haha.

(http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/9064/aufzeichneng.png)

HELLS YEAH!

Oh, another thing for musicians, this video might be interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGQAhV8Ga1k

I'm IN. Can I have Illuminator?

yes i do :) what game you gonna do?

This is going to rock so much! How about we create threads for our games as little devlogs? Something like [Re:Action52] Title of Game

(http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/meong1.png)
"Board game of strategy and skill. Try to get places from starting line to
 goal. Watch out for hidden traps. Harder than it sounds." -- Commonplace Book, H.P. Lovecraft

This is going to be so awesome, am in. TOWS DAM BUSTERS   :panda:

Trying to get Space Dreamers but it won't work =/

Never mind. BRINGIN' THE SATAN BABY SHOOTAN MAGIC

Wait wait wait. What about a flash file? Is that allowed? Or do I have to rejig it into a displayable exe projector type thing?

This sounds awesome, hopefully I'll have spare time in which to participate. I'd quite like to tackle Bits and Pieces (and I'd also appreciate any suggestions as to how the existing 'gameplay' could be improved).

Yes.

working on the visuals for my remake of..
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/ac525.jpg)


Heres what they are like so far:
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/NonHuman_assetsPrev.gif)

Not really sure how ill make sense of all of this yet.

Hey, i was playing around with the intro song and thought it's quite boring to leave it in it's original state. How about making it background music for the game selector? (While also being intro music, of course)

By the way, Frankie, as always, awesome. Quick even!

Frankie,  :o ...  :tearsofjoy:

Here is version 0.1 of my Bubblegum Rossie remake:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3698916/BBGR0.1.rar (no music and no sound yet)

(http://i40.tinypic.com/fav1v7.png)

Oh and here is the original game:
(http://i39.tinypic.com/k0nfyx.png)

non human and bublegum rosy look great so far, keep at it

podunk are you sure 2 weeks is enough; we don't even have all 52 slots in yet

holy cow, bubble gum rosy is awesome, rdein. you could very easily turn this into a full blown game.

non human looks amazing as well. keep up the good work, fellas!

as for the music C418, we'll see. i kinda thought the intro song was a little bit annoying and repetitive, but if you've worked some magic with it somehow, put it up here for us to listen to, and we'll see how it goes.

added some rules regarding controls. please use the keys z, x, and escape. i know it's not awkward-keyboard-layout friendly, but it's become the de facto indie standard.

keys changed to X C and escape.

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i19/GoldMatenes/Dreams/hero.png)
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i19/GoldMatenes/Dreams/enemybear.png)

nightmare fuuuuuuuel

I'm gonna try my hand at using Construct to remake Silver Sword. It'd be nice if I could find a pixel artist willing to work with me. I can handle the rest myself.

i'm switching my game from underground to streemerz. underground is now free for people to choose.

after a thorough chewing out from konjak, the keys have been changed from Z and X to X and C and escape

First music progress. I started with the intro. I didn't do much on it. I have no other idea.

http://c418.org/intro.mp3

After that I thought we have maybe more than just one "make your selection now" soundfile playing randomly. Meaning from more people than only one!

Okay, and here's some game selector music I made. This file has two different, well short versions of maybe looping songs. The first one may be too fast, but I dunno. I like the second one more. This could also be randomly selected though. If you like both.

http://c418.org/gameselect.mp3

I am continuing work deep into the night.

I don't want to say I'll take one yet, because if I do it'll turn out worse than the original. So. Anyone want to draw me some sexy pixels (it includes dragons!) for game #1? I'll probably need some music too, as I'm pretty much a programmer only.

PS: I'm going to assume we're allowed to have external files, so long as the exe will simply "run".

Fun idea, although 2 weeks is short, expect a lot of unfinished games.

Also here to help people choose:
http://www.arkfullofsorrow.com/a52text.htm

external files are a-okay. i just didn't want people to have games where you had to go through a thousand hoops to run the game.

Okay, here we go. Two looping songs that could be for a game select screen.
http://c418.org/gameselect1.mp3
http://c418.org/gameselect2.mp3

Now I will proceed remixing songs from the nsf randomly. It counts 118 songs, although they probably cheated a lot. Though, if you want to make me remix a song for you, it would be nice if you shuffle through the nsf and find the number of the song. You can find the nsf here (http://blog.kevtris.org/blogfiles/Action%2052.nsf).

And you will find some working nsf player and plugins here (http://www.zophar.net/utilities/nsf.html)

From what I can tell from playing Shooting Gallery:

The character is either...
 - releasing animals into a pen to shoot for his amusement.
 - out on a very fudged-up hunting trip.

Ideas to improve mechanics involve having a delayed hitscan weapon, similar to games like Cabal (ARC) or Wild Guns (SNES) rather than having projectiles. (This could take some calculation)

A reloading mechanic (Your gun can only hold so many shots. Should be easy to do).

The animals fly in (Ducks, Green Pheasants), run across the screen (Horses) appear from a nearby pond (Crocodiles). Similarly, they should also be able to run away. This should mitigate the lack of challenge.

I am yet to make any mock ups, since I want to make sure I can make the mechanics work solidly first.

IN FOR BILLY BOB.

And fyi, VirtuaNES (http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/nes/virtuanes.html) runs Action 52 great...if such a thing is possible.

I'm going to attempt to make Ooze.

Underground is so innately terrible, that I've decided to build it from the ground up. (hurr, it's a pun)

Illuminator (sorry pgil).

 :tearsofjoy:
Storm Over the Desert

Started roughing some sprites.  I'm not entirely satisfied with the character's design:
(http://temp.natewm.com/pics/ooze_rough_sprites.png)

Game Screen:
(http://hg101.kontek.net/action52/ooze3-nes.png)

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2773617/my%20games/gforce.html

(http://imgur.com/GQEyU.png)

(http://imgur.com/crXNr.jpg)

ahhh not quite. also, way too penisy.

Noooooo, I hesitated for a day and Streemerz got taken. Ah well. I'll take Dedant, honestly kinda like that idea better now. Hooray for fate!

I can do my own art and graphics, but would anybody be willing to help me out with the music? You can see some of my other games at my website since I'm mostly an unknown here (link on the left), although you might recognize me from indiegames back in the day.


I'd like to second this. I finally signed up for a TigSource account just for this compo (absolutely amazing idea guys), but two weeks is rough, since I'm out of town this weekend and in crunch at work for the next month. An extra week would be ACE.

I've managed to mock up some sprites for Player 1 and Player 2. Say hello, sprites!
(http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1980/playercharacter.png)

I'll be presenting this game in 640 by 480, but it'll be 320 by 240 double-sized, since my sprite skills aren't exactly all that good when I upsize. :(

Next up I'll be mocking up some animals and targets to go shoot at.

However, I don't think I'll be able to capture the original "Feel" of the original game. I hope I get it right in practice. I'll play through the game start to end to see if anything interesting crops up.

(Apparently Bubblegum Rosy has a driving level!)

the two week deadline is kind of loose, as i've said, but the idea here is to remake these fairly simple games in a fairly simple way. i'm trying to avoid a scenario where someone reserves a game, and hogs it for 2 weeks, doing nothing, as is wont to happen in these types of situations. so if you're gonna try to do a game, do your best, and keep us posted in the thread. otherwise, at the end of the two weeks, i'll probably prune out the guys who didn't really do anything and start the process anew.

I'm going to try and make something fun out of the most boring game of the 52, Jupiter Scope.

Gentlemen.  :gentleman:

i tak babby

Signed up. Man, I'd love to see cactus or biggt tackle Time Warp Tickers so much. :-*

Aquin, you bastard.

I wanted Chill Out.

Shame nobody took Mash Man. I blindly made a song for it.

http://c418.org/bigfoot.mp3

Oh, and here is my take on lazer leagues extremely complex tune.

http://c418.org/33.mp3

Someone will take it eventually!

(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4351/abillybobaction52.png)
This is what I have done!  :durr:

(http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/meong2.png)
The timer at the top shows the passage of time. The hand swings through 90 degrees per second. The Spring trap tiles reveal themselves when it passes 3 o'clock, then they flip back and the Summer tiles flip over at 6 o'clock, then Autumn at 9 o'clock, and Winter at 12 o'clock. The player's clock (yet unseen) counts down when you step on a safe tile, and you have about 3 seconds to choose the next tile. To step on any trap tile, be it revealed or hidden, will cost you a token. This, I think, reflects the original Meong's gameplay to a fairly reasonable extent.

Do Cheetah Men.

I said: do Cheetah Men.

New character sprite design for Ooze.  I think he looks more interesting than what I had before.
(http://temp.natewm.com/pics/ooze_concept_sprite.png)

This. Fuck yeah THIS.

I am trying to remake Boss. Been doing a little spriting. Note that despite their fairly amateurish nature they still look better than Boss. Scaled up 4x for your viewing pleasure!

The player (needs some work, might redo him)
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3149/playert.gif)

Most of the enemies
(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/8898/helisnake.gif)(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6756/gecko.gif)(http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/7550/gunbot.gif)(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/4065/snakej.gif)

The titular Boss (needs one or two more animations, i.e. hopping)
(http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/7096/toadh.gif)

Will probably need to get some music as well. If you'd like to do some, note that the original has none so you get free rein.

in for starevil
:U

original
http://c418.org/haunted.original.mp3

my version
http://c418.org/haunted.mp3

seriously. Konjak is the chosen one. It is your destiny.

Now listen to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r8uU2E4ekk

Cheetahmen remixes are no prize, but damn, that is smooth.  :noir:

I'm gonna do Ninja Assault. Making a decent beat-em-up is no small task so it will probably take me more than two weeks, but I should at least have a prototype going by then :ninja:

Edit: Actually I might not be able to do this. It all hinges on whether I can make Flash respect the Escape key and integrate into the menu. I'll have to look at AIR and see what it can do now...

Edit 2: Looks like it's all possible, I just need to learn another API. Whee.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/smind/screenshot103-1.png)

Rocket Jockey lives.

an ICONIC SCENE for fans of Bubblegum Rossie:
(http://i41.tinypic.com/2vt7iau.png)
(also, don't mind that wrong part not tiling right hahah)

Okay, lets sum the stuff up I did so far...

Two tracks for the game selectorr and the ominous intro
http://c418.org/gameselect1.mp3
http://c418.org/gameselect2.mp3
http://c418.org/intro.mp3

A song for Mash Man if anyone ever does that
http://c418.org/bigfoot.mp3

A song for Lazer League
http://c418.org/33.mp3

A song for Haunted Hills/Halls (I will probably do different versions of that)
http://c418.org/haunted.mp3

Aaaand a recently finished one for Space dreams
http://c418.org/spacedream.mp3

...phew. Oh, almost every song loops.

You have just earned a notch of my respect.

http://imgur.com/BvH9s.png

why does everything i model always look like cocks or balls

Uploaded version 0.2 of my remake
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3698916/BBGR02.rar

No sound effects yet!

SO I was looking at the guidelines for controls, and there doesn't seem to be a standard key for pausing a game. I think we should have it so pressing escape once pauses the game, and twice goes to the game's title screen (with x or c returning to the current game). Anyone agree?

 :o awesome

Yes, I was playing one of the games, and accidentally restarted when I was trying to pause.

this is awesome. i noticed two things though;

A) the player's sprite is still broken -- if you jump while facing left, you appear to jump higher than if you're jumping right. consequently, you "skip" around if you change directions in midair.

B) there's an enemy that's kinda cheap. he's the one that's throwing blocks atop a little pillar in front of a spike ledge. it's kinda unfair because 9 times out of 10, he'll hit you once before you even realize what's going on, since his blocks get so close to the frame's seam. i'd correct this either by moving him back a few tiles, or removing the frame-by-frame scrolling that you've got going on.

yeah rdein, its looking really great.  I hope you add in an animation for the girl blowing the bubbles!

Also I put in another vote for Konjak to do Cheetah Men.  He was the first person I thought of.  I really want to see Konjak do a Cheetahman sprite and animation!

A) i was being dumb, haha fixed
B) i changed the design a bit so it's hopefully better now!

also i added a title screen art, fixed the "going to classic mode" bug and added hints at the start of the game (normal mode only!)

Here be link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3698916/BBGR02.rar

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/action_fifty_two

LEGITIMATE FONT (UNSHADED)

Nice! I will use it on my game, good job. :handthumbsupR:

The spaceship shmups were not a popular pick. I picked Megalonia just because I liked the wonky spaceship and there wasn't much else left.

Game idea, feature creeped: Megalonia + Megaman. Various characters from Action 52 are the bosses (i.e. boss ship pilots). You defeat them and get a weapon, and various weapons are good against various things.

Rough concept art (http://androidarts.com/megalonia/Action_52_roughs.jpg)
Reference graphics (http://androidarts.com/megalonia/Action_52_ref.jpg) of the characters that I picked.

The music has some potential to be... catchy, but I'm not much of a musician. First I'll try to finish a complete graphics set. That way, if I fail in the programming phase, someone else can pick it up and maybe finish something.

Finished the Atmos Quake remake. :)

New
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4801027/atmosquake1.PNG)

Original
(http://i45.tinypic.com/35dckdk.jpg)

(I only remade the first level from the original because I liked the design of it - replaced it with a progressively more difficult level.)

Also, have reuploaded it, hopefully fixing the music for everybody @rdein.

Direct link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4801027/AtmosQuake.exe

ffff i wish i saw this sooner. i wanna remake shitty games ;_;

Hey Nal, music wasn't working for me. Nice remake, though!

NO ONE HAS TAKEN ALFREDO?  :crazy:

Someone get on this

nin nin

I totally thought that too. He handles a cast of characters in a way these arseholes could only dream of doing.

Whoever is in charge of making the menu screen - I move that it be somehow patterned after this monstrosity: http://cheetahmen.silius.net/agm.html

Also Arne I was secretly wishing for you to take that one. Nobody else can do justice to the Empress Machine "Megalonia". (http://forums.tigsource.com/Themes/tigsource/images/starpanty.gif) :eyebrows: (http://forums.tigsource.com/Themes/tigsource/images/starpanty.gif)

hahahaha, this owns very heartily. i was fooled by the screenshot -- i thought you'd lazily just upscaled the sprites, but it looks a lot better in action. superjoe suggested maybe giving it more of a geometry-wars esque aesthetic, but i think it looks alright as is.

my only other issue (and this is sort of a nitpick) is that i want you to add an action52-esque menu screen as well if possible. besides that it's awesome as hell.

Super joe is banned and is therefore disqualified from giving any kind of feedback. Nal, you must ignore this suggestion that you illegally heard from beyond the banhammer.

0 games free, oh baby.

Are you just looking for the part that lets you pick number of players and shows the highscore, or something more like the game selection screen? Will add one if it'll help it suit more. And thanks for the compliments :)

just a peek at my reinvention of streemerz

(http://imgur.com/3ufnV.png)

The first level could do with more orange ships that shoot sideways, or maybe even green enemies that fire aimed bullets.

And maybe something special near the end of a stage, like a sudden huge rush of enemies?

This is the best theme a contest ever had. Can't believe theres no game left already!!

i'm sure a few will be freed up after a few weeks as people realize they don't know how to make games afterall

anyway, micro mike is going ok -- i have the basic mechanics workin, will do enemies next

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2773617/my%20games/gforce.html

it's what I have so far. maybe need some feedback on the gameplay..what's missing and whatnot

(http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3577/whatyi.png)

Screen cap of the ant model for Dedant. With any luck I'll have the spider and flying ant models done before I return home, and then the coding commences!

(http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedantsample.jpg)

It's a bit more complicated than it needs to be, with about 760 faces and 382 verts. I'm shooting for a GMA950 as minimum spec so that it doesn't leave the netbook crowd and people with older machines in the dark, so I may need to simplify it a bit. At only 640x480 and top down, it's wasting a lot of cycles doing detail nobody will ever see.

CHECK OUT THESE SWEET NUDIE PICS

original:
(http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/streemerz_screen_original.png)

new:
(http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/streemerz_screen.png)

Most of the difficulty currently comes from fast-moving objects, which is obnoxious. Instead you should move away from "random noise" enemies and create recognizable patterns for the player to exploit. Galaga is a prime example of this - pretty much the same enemy formation at all times, but the break-and-attack thing makes the situation more dynamic and adds strategy. Other shmups go for more of a level-design approach where everything follows a beautiful arc and the player memorizes it all.

G-Force's "thing" seems to be that the enemies release shots when they reach the left side. Maybe accentuate this aspect - every enemy that reaches the left side sheds one or more slow-moving bullets that drift to the right and serve as obstacles.

what already no more game spots
i should've taken the one about ninjas when i could... if it ever frees up gimme a sign (or really i'd take any game hhhheh)

A crack team of 52 TIGers seriously taking on Action 52. This is an amazing idea. Kind of surprised no one thought of it before.

I can't wait to see who is Worthy of Cheetahmen.

Most of the enemies are one hit kill so you really don't need a strategy to exploit. Also, the enemies just move in a straight line in the original, no fancy circles or maneuvers like in other shmups.

But I just updated the build, same link. I slowed the enemies down quite a bit, and gave them a chance to shoot back like in the original. And they still spawn randomly, no formations yet.

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad216/overboyagain/screenshot100-8.png)

Kind of messing up by using transparentness with GB palette, so I'll have to fix that.  :concerned:

it only took the world's anti-tig/pro-pig to set the wheels into motion. as for he who is worthy of cheetahmen, it may have already been decided, but i won't be making any announcements until its set in stone.

Yay for programmer art!

(http://www.imagebanana.com/img/6quzahiq/progArt.png)

Looks a hell of a lot like French Baker, doesn'tit. Well. Not quite.

This compo OWNS. Seriously. Amazing stuff everywhere.

(http://goldenfish.robosquid.com/misc/crysisbaby.jpg)
cry(sis)baby

It's actually pretty easy to see cry baby re-imagined as a fps. Awesome.

i'd like to do cheetahmen

 :cavestory:

I'd like konjak to do cheetahmen

Stop cockteasing us, Arthur, just give it to 'im. At this rate there won't be enough time to actually develop the game.

Rozy 0.3!
pretty much all content is done, I guess?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3698916/BBGR03.rar

(end's after boss intro)

I think its pretty clear that cheetahmen will be allowed more time than our comparatively mediocre models.

What if cheetahmen was started only when all of the 52 other games are made, and produced by a group rather than an individual?

I mean this is cheetahmen, damn it!!

This...this is bigger than any one of us...

Last I recall, konjak likes to work alone.

I think Podunkian might have been waiting for Derek to arrive on his white horse and take the cheetahmen for himself,but then Derek never called.

too cool for teams...

believe me, the hold up is not on my end -- the very fact that he's even entertaining the idea is because i offered it to him from the very get go. he's the champ of platformer-beat-em-up style games, and i only thought it fitting to offer it to him first.

(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6126/rung.gif)

Haters gotta hate.

I'm almost done with the pinups for my project. See my previous post (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=12439.msg375576#msg375576) in this thread for brief info.

Large image (WIP) (http://androidarts.com/megalonia/Action_52_characters_c.jpg)

Gfx To Do:
- GUI stuff, Title screen, Win screen, Lose screen, Level select.
- Pickups, Bullets, Explosions, Spaceships, Backgrounds/Terrain.
- Empress Machine.

some new stuff
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/NonHuman_assetsPrev2.gif)
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/Dude.gif)

Yeah its not much new stuff, I'm busy with commissions right now... I should get crackin' on the actual game soon enough.

Also I think ill have a go at making the games music myself, something I dont do often...

Using 15 colors in all... still room for one more... maybe something for explosions?

Cor Blimey, that's some top notch concept arts.

In other news, haven't had time to work on my game today, but I'll get to doing more tonight or tomorrow, though I'm currently mocking up target sprites and such at the moment, then I'll get to coding out the targets.

(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4583/mockupzn.png)

Quick little mockup of the game in progress and at full resolution to show some of the background art. The majority of the gameplay is not properly added yet (those enemies are just static, alas) but I am getting there. Most of the art is complete at this point. Proper level design will have to wait until all the gameplay mechanics are implemented, but the game should be finished by the deadline. Hopefully.

Probably won't be that long of a game but I hope it will at least be enjoyable.

Level 1 of Ninja Assault will look something like this:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/254701/blog/action52/level1.png)

I went for sort of a Karateka-inspired layout. Imagine it with a rain effect over it. Got lazy as I went left to right though, and my limited skills are hurting it too. I'll probably go back for another pass.

Original:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/254701/blog/action52/56755.jpeg)

I am looking for a collaborator to help with sprites. There are too many characters and I don't want it to look as cheap as the original.

Spider model is done. Black widows are boring, all the color is on the bottom of the critter so you can't see anything except black from the top. Cold, dark, dead black. BOR-ing.

(http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/spiderpreview.jpg)

I wrote a script to extract the graphics from the Action 52 rom and save them to an image.  Unfortunately these 8x8 pixel tiles need to be stitched together into sprites and tiles before becoming useful in any way.  There is a lot of space between the graphics sets for each game, so figuring out what's what shouldn't be too hard.

Here it is in all it's glory. (http://temp.natewm.com/pics/action52.png)

[edit]I cannot guarantee this is complete and without errors.  I wrote the script pretty quickly.[/edit]

Here is some progress on Fuzz Power
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3149882/Fuzzscreen1.png)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3149882/oldfuzz.PNG)

There is so much beauty going on here. Almost feel like I should have joined in when I had the chance, but I'm excited just to see all of these when they're done.

i love how yours is all amazing.

versus popcorn.  8)

Wow, I know it's a little late for this and I'm not very well known around here, but I'd like to offer my musical services to anyone who needs them.

Some examples:
made this one a long time ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmOEnyA-zH0
And more recent (uploaded by a friend)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku2TtVgnfLg

Not my best work, but they're the only two things I have on hand at the moment.

Gotta love Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden in that second song.  :handthumbsupL: ;D :handthumbsupR:

One thing I thought might be cool is to float this past the guys over at http://www.ocremix.org (http://www.ocremix.org). They do remix albums of various game soundtracks periodically, it would be pretty slick if they collaborated with the musicians here on an Action52 album to coincide with the remake. Sort of a crossover project.

That would take way to long to set up, wouldn't it?

Don't have to turn it into a full-blown thing, maybe just post on their forums to let them know what's up?

Karateka! (:

While I have found songs I liked on ocremix.org, I don't think I've ever liked any song on their full album remixes...

Just adding some negativity up in here.

Houston, we have basic gameplay and feedback!

(http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5676/wehavefeedback.png)

I'm really taking a shine to Object Oriented Programming - this is turning out to be near-seamless!

You can find this demo (Number 3), and previous ones here:
http://sites.google.com/site/lucamakesthings/games

Demo Countdown
1 - Basic Movement + Shooting
2 - 2 Player Movement + Shooting
3 - Stationary Targets + Feedback + Score Tally for Player 1 and 2

Player 1 Controls: C = Left, V = Right, X = Shoot
Player 2 Controls: Number Pad: 2 = Left, 3 = Right, 1 = Shoot

The albums are good yes and some songs are pretty good, but maybe most of them wont fit in-game...

Plus, it would take a bunch of time to make the songs.. since there are like more than 100 songs in A52.

@Luca Pavone:
When you press the fire button repeatedly you occasionally get stuck in the shooting animation.
I have only been able to reproduce this error with player 1.

Quick demo for my game.
I got the movement and rolling done. now I just need to finish the levels and enemies.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3149882/Fuzzy%20Power%20V0.2.exe

JaJitsu - The movement is great, and I like your take on the graphics. Keep it up  :beer:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/smind/screenshot102.png)

Here's a Rocket Jockey WIP (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3125554/26_rocket%20jockey.exe). The lasso works, and I've got some random cows and bad guys flying around, but nothing can hurt you yet. I have some sounds and music too.

Fantastic job on Rocket Jockey.  Lassoing space cows has never been so fun.

Wow, great work! I love how the roll feels especially from the air; a bit like Sonic! My only point is that he seems to move a bit too fast for his own good - shouldn't he gain momentum first (especially since rolls to attack?)

pgil, would be nice if you could choose between fullscreen and windowed, but nice work overall!

nessxx has dropped out of the competition, so time warp is now free for anyone who wants to give it a shot.

I got it. ;D

Do you mean he should go faster after he rolls or only while he is rolling?

Aw...
I guess I snooze, I lose.

Ooze Man and blob.  Currently untextured.
(http://temp.natewm.com/pics/ooze_man_01.jpg)

This main character is probably going to be the most time consuming part of making this game, but I'm getting close to finishing him.  After he's done things should start moving more quickly.

I plan on making Ooze into a sort of Megaman style 2.5D game.  I'm going to try to pull some elements in from the Genesis Action 52 if I have the time.

Ah okay. well i made the normal speed a bit slower and while he rolls he goes faster.

Keep checking the thread and the signup page, especially as the deadline nears. You just KNOW we'll have some dropouts.

MELLYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
yeah apparently i was seconds/minutes/hours/bananas from getting it too

melly you have what is possibly the weirdest game in the bunch, use it well

Dang, I think they look pretty slick just shaded, awesome work.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4801027/AtmosQuake.exe

I've updated Atmos Quake to include a mocked version of the "1 Player/2 Player/Main Menu" screen. It doesn't do much, it's just a splash which responds to any key being pressed.

Also altered it so instead of Esc being a quit key, it's "quit to menu" if you're in-game and "quit game" if you're on the menu.

hey guys, just sent out/am sending out a semi-passive-aggressive sounding PM to all the members of this project. it's not supposed to be as scary as it sounds, and i'm not expecting anyone to have tons of work done on their projects, but i just wanted to get a status update from everyone involved, so that we can all see how everyone else is doing (which is fun and awesome) and also so that i can begin pruning non-active members. SO LET'S GET IT OWN.

Saw the warning message today, and figured it's time for a status update! I am working on my game, I just have been pretty quiet because, well, it's not that graphically amazing yet.

Title screen (title letters bounce and waves move):
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/72165/sharktitle4.png)

Veeeeeeeeeerrrry WIP, preview of bubble effects:
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/72165/sharkwip.png)

Anyways, I'm soon to work on the simple shooting mechanics and some sharks to blast. Shark and jellyfish sprites should be fun. Still deciding how much I want to deviate from the original game, since it was really really boring. Was thinking about making it a more frantic one-screen shooter, where you're constantly blasting sharks, collecting treasures and dodging sea creatures. Considering adding bosses at ends of levels. Really depends on how much time there is, but there will at bare minimum be something more playable than the original.

Anyways, don't remove me from the list!

Oh! And does anyone want to do the music for this? The original theme is pretty awful, so I don't know how well it can be remixed, but I'm sure with a lot of creative expansion it can be a completely different theme doesn't suck.

Podunkian, if all games are required to be executable through an .EXE, does that mean flash games played on the browser are out unless I manage to find a way to make one of those executable projector things like VVVVVV did?

Also I just managed to get in on this so this is basically my progress report. I do have plenty of amazing ideas forming in my head, a story of danger, love, time travelling shennanigans and the decaying of an entire universe. I will begin working on it as soon as I'm home.

Would someone have a guide to build those .EXE Flash apps?

still a great game, you don't need to add a "two player" option to the menu if your game won't support it (^:

yeah, i'm afraid so. but if you're developing within flash, it's very easy to create an EXE projector file, and i'm sure the flash gurus around here will be able to help you out if i'm wrong. plus you could prob. find a solution very easily on google.

So when you say that programs need to be runnable from an exe file, is it okay if their resources aren't embedded into the exe, but rather in a folder with the executable? (Otherwise, I guess I can spend some time adding the ability to load exe-embedded zips to Plum. But I'd prefer not to ;_;)

yeah, basically the game just runs when you click an EXE. external files are A-OK.

Lazer League, reporting in! (starring the Power Rangers as the Lazer League!)

(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii237/wp001/wip1.png)

...Scissor guy was probably the only enemy that looked like anything. Now I have to draw some weird, abstract stuff. :wtf:

Here is what I have!
(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/8692/undergroun52.png)

Seriously though, I have a basic engine going, and a few sprites.

Podunkian, I don't seem to have received such a message; would you like a progress report anyways?

A few ways:

• If you have flash, under the publish options you can set it to create an .exe projector. 
• If you have the Flex SDK, check your flex sdk folder so you can find  'runtimes\player\win\FlashPlayer.exe'. Open up your SWF with that and in the menu there should be a "Create EXE projector" or something similar.
• Download the standalone flash player from Adobe and follow do what I said above

I made a lot of progress, but it's not going to be very good and I'm only very sure that I'll finish in time. Free up my slot for Storm Over the Desert.

yeah -- it just took awhile for me to send as the TIGsource forums have a 20 message per hour limit, so i had to break up the message into two parts. you're an IRC regular, so it's not necessary for you to post in here unless you want to show off your work, which is always cool.

as for all the other entrants, a good place to get quick feedback is the TIGirc channel, which is on irc.esper.net #tigirc. a lot of people are usually working on and talking about their A52O games on there, some by if you want.

okay. thanks for being a pal. that game is now free.

Fifth, get on here, go go go!

Well, just to prove that Bood_war's hardships weren't for naught, here's  some of the animations I've got so far for The Adventure of William Roberts (a.k.a. Billy Bob):

(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z286/godsavant/Walk-1.gif)

(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z286/godsavant/Jump-2.gif)

(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z286/godsavant/Climb-3.gif)

EDIT: We've got a build ready, but there's some bizarre movement bugs we're still sorting out; tell me if you'd like to see it.

I've been busy lately so I haven't got much further than the concept/planning stage at this point.

(http://anotherdimension.pyoko.org/jojaw.png)

If haven't got anything more concrete to show off by the end of the week I will gladly abdicate.

.
That game was pretty promissing. It could be an awesome Pitfall-style game


If you can't make it for the love of the Great Indie Gamer In The Sky someone use this glorious concept art. :-*

fifth i am terribly sorry, i will be making alfredo


however there is still storm over the desert available


haha i feel kinda bad fifth you might be one of my favorite dudes around here, remember i think i sent you an e-mail telling you to finish Nothing  (which you should) ages ago

Yeah, but I was thinking more Prince of Persia; the original game was a blatant rip-off, after all.

And wow, that Lollipop guy's an awesome Michael Jackson fashion sense.

overboy, i've made your switch (i can't PM for another couple of minutes, haha)

Thanks man, someone more worthy can now take Illuminator.  :giggle:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/254701/blog/action52/hokutonoken.jpeg)?

I should be starting on the Ninja Assault code this evening(had some stuff to clean up before getting on it). My estimate is that by the end of the week I'll have the backgrounds going and maybe a placeholder character, and the 15th I'll have the first two levels, with most of the functionality in place. It's mostly dependent on getting the spritework in.

I might start visiting IRC too.

Status update on "Hambo's Adventure":

I don't got no fancy "concept art" or "mockups" or "screenshots of a functional game" to show off to everyone, having been bogged down the past few days. I just finished up a major CS assignment though, so hopefully that'll free up a good chunk of time to work. Currently, I've gotten work done on level design, some rough non-textured modeling, and a few prototype levels just to make sure I've got the engine working the way I want it to. Hopefully by this weekend I can post some in-game screenshots or at least model renders for everyone.

If you use flash and want to create a nice EXE projector replacement for the default adobe flash player, try Versiown:
http://www.goldshell.com/versiown/main.htm

It lets you change the icon, change the title of the application, right click menu, file menu, etc.

and its free.

Got some basic code down, waltzin around and shooting smoothly.

bonus, new gif, walking mouth guy is animated! Its still missing a death animation, a jump and fall frame.

(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/MoutherWalk.gif)

I haven't started on mine yet but I plan to get a good start tomorrow and over the weekend.

You guys who have started all seem to be doing well. Your stuff looks great!

I have the game mechanism working now, but all my graphics are ugly placeholders, I might have something to show tomorrow.

Currently working on some concept art. Will post something later if it turns out good.

I'll also try and start working on the code. Hopefully I can set up my main mechanic quickly enough.

I need music for CRAZY SHUFFLE

here is the original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUfRt6oQr0g

here is the current look for the remake
http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1273122641

Started working on the terrain tonight, it renders but it's unlit and very boring right now, so I'll post screenies tomorrow.

http://www.aquinhasa.com/scratch/chilloutoriginal.mp3 (http://www.aquinhasa.com/scratch/chilloutoriginal.mp3)
http://www.aquinhasa.com/scratch/chillout.ogg (http://www.aquinhasa.com/scratch/chillout.ogg)

I did the music for the start menu, basing it on the original music.  It's still very much a work-in-progress.  I got some concept art lying here, but I'll save it for another day. 

Tilemaps will be done tomorrow.  Actors will be done by the end of Sunday.  Gameplay is already prototyped a bit.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/254701/blog/action52/ninja_assault_mystery_1.mp3

Started in on music tonight. Just a first pass - the percussion is an unfinished sketch and I'll probably make the arrangement radically "bigger" with more variations and additional themes by the time it's done. I like working my music over with a two-by-four.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGQAhV8Ga1k&feature=related

An interesting comparison of much of the Action 52 music and its lifted source material(stuff made in the Atari ST "The Music Studio" program by Ed Bogas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bogas)). I'm basing the Ninja Assault track partially on the NES version and partially on the "Mystery" original, which is a groovier, slower arrangement.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/TWTconcept1.png)

A bit of quick concept art. There's more, but maybe I'll leave to show them later. I wanna get something playable done. maybe I'll get the elements of Timewarp and give them a more Tim Burton-ish feel, or just up the insanity tenfold.

Melly, that looks awesome :)

Started in on art tonight, got the perspective and camera working the way I want so now I can focus on assets. Here's a quick screen with a bunch of temp elements (red/yellow boxes are meteors). Will look a lot better with lighting.

(http://26k.org/dev/img/jupiter_v005_3.jpg)

video of my STREEMERZ remake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T76mfTdPyy4&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T76mfTdPyy4&feature=player_embedded)

I love you guys so much  :tearsofjoy:

More mechanics added to the great game called MEONG.

(http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/meong3.png)

The tiles sandwiched horizontally, vertically or diagonally between SUN tiles and MOON tiles are trapped. The player must try and spy these lines and alignments and avoid them.

The tiles horizontally west of WEST WIND tiles are trapped, as are all of the tiles horizontally east of EAST WIND tiles.


What these rules mean is that, in addition to all of the labeled tiles, the following unmarked tiles are trapped:
(http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/meong4.png)

This may seem impassable, but to make things a bit more entertaining, the player can move diagonally.

The wind curly things look like they're headed in the wrong direction on the tiles.

Played it last night, loved it (although i don't seem to remember those opening or closing cutscenes); out of curiosity, what does grabbing the bag of money do? I spent nearly ten minutes getting it...

graphics are almost done, game mechanics are on their way. Space Dreams curtain shooter anyone?

I see Battlerager joined the fray. ;D

You better not skimp on mah music! >:(

I wont! I signed up for Moth cause Evil Empire happened to be the very game he wanted to do, but the registration wasnt working for him. So yeah, I'll make evil empire with moth and send you some trax for the time game  :wizard:

I was just teasing ya, really. I know you're not the type to do that. :-*

Lets make some love and birth something awesome.

:-* It will have vampire teeth, look like a pig with long ears and be able to deliver electric shocks.

Since Time Warp Tickers is such a bizarre game, and while I already have ideas of my own, I'm wondering what the game inspires in other people in this thread. I think having different views of the game could give me more interesting ideas to use with its concept.

Here's a rough for my title screen. I'm thinking the logo needs to be more Megaman'y.

(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/title_screen.jpg)

Question: Does the black screen with the "1 player / 2 player / main menu" need to be first after boot? In Ooze it comes after a title splash screen. Is someone planning to write a loader?


Some perhaps late ideas:

The first case has a bunch of options which may not be valid. There might not be 2 players and main menu doesn't go to a main menu.

The second case could be a still image. It has a little more character. It could be a 2x pixel thing with very little info to change for each entry. It could show a bunch of relevant info. Another idea is to have the blue borders be closed, and slide up to reveal the game's title screen.

The last idea is that everyone makes their own paraphrase of the intro splashes (perhaps not featuring the cheetahman), but that's quite a bit of work for some.

(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/splash_ideas.jpg)


Melly> Maybe go Towlr on it?

my idea is to get the game creators to fill out a small file filled with some basic information that can easily be read into the menu system. most likely the information displayed will be controls, the game's story, and a simple description of play. or something like that.

http://siiseli.kapsi.fi/audioupload/upload/ee.mp3

My "music" for Evil Empire. which i was asked to do by Stargoat before he dropped.
It's basically the original nsf re-arranged a bit with guitar wankery on top. i still have project file.

Since all the games will be accessible via one executable file, wouldn't it be an interesting idea to make a main Action 52 OWNS executable with a menu for easy access of all 52 games (selecting a game would run the target executable), which would be bundled with it in neat separate folders, to give it a more authentic feel? Kinda like what Arne said about a loader.


I love the logo the way it is. Gives me a feeling of old space fantasy/science fiction works.


I honestly have no idea what you mean. Googling now.

EDIT: http://www.towlr.com/ I believe you mean this? That's quite interesting, but I'm not sure I could make something like that and make it enjoyable. Still, something to think about.

Trying out some music (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3125554/rocketjock_blue.mp3). It' kind of a bluegrass version of the original Rocket Jockey tune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rYvG6tLGDc).

I like the look of this game, but I think the tiles could feel a bit more "mysteriously Asian", so I just went ahead and made a slightly different tileset encorporating Chinese characters.
(http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo355/sailormarcus/meong_tiles-1.png)

(east, west, sun, moon)

Feel free to use, modify or dismiss them in any way you please :)

I like those. :handthumbsupR:

Well to tell the truth my intention is to subvert the "mysteriously Asian" flavour of some computer games by making all of the characters on my tiles just be Latin letters in a brush font, to show that the 'otherness' and 'mysteriousness' of Chinese letters is mostly illusory. (This sort of evolved from the 'A52' player tile.) But thanks.

Wikipedia states that the East Wind is one which gathers in the east and blows westward.

Towlrs are really only supposed to be games in which none of the game elements have semantic meaning, leaving it up to the player to attempt to comprehend the relationship between the elements.

I think Time Warp Tickers should be more than that, though. It's got a dreamlike vibe to it, and the thing about dreams is that its elements are not void of meaning, but instead have counterintuitive or contradictory meaning.

Have a look at: videos of the games Yume Nikki and Weird Dreams.

Haha, missed the mark completely there then  :beer:

Maybe I'll go partway by making some of the characters be Greek letters in a brush font.

You shut your whore mouth.  :mockangry:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3149882/Fuzzy%20Power%20V0.3.exe

Basically everything but enemies... and an actual title screen.

Nice! The walking feels much easier to control, now. I did have trouble having to hold down the Roll button instead of just pressing it, though.

Also, when you walk up against a wall, instead of stopping, Fuzz starts spazzing out and clipping.

And how do you jump past that accursed wall?!? >:(

Thinking about Fuzz Power, here's what would be neat to implement:
* A few more stages, ending with the "Land of Guru" advertised in the manual. I'm picturing a fuzzy-cloud-filled Shangri-La filled with hippies and levitating Indian gentlemen.
* Rolling into enemies resets the 'roll counter' so you keep going through a long trail of foes (Donkey Kong Country)
* Losing hair makes your attack weaker until, when bald, you can't do any damage at all, and just bounce off.

This.

Screenshot of some dirt in engine. I think it need some plants to border it and some small rocks for barriers. I was planning on using the terrain slopes for barriers (since spiders can crawl over them in the original), but now that I've got the dirt realized, I don't think that will work. I may just have spiders be blocked by rocks and use the flying ants as the "go anywhere" baddies.

(http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/terrainpreview.jpg)

I'll need the help of an artist, especially someone skilled in pixel animation, because If I have to animate all my stuff I'm not sure I'll be able to make this as good as it can be.

Anyone interested?

I was gonna make Cheetah Men for a while, but time, stress and now illness is gonna keep me from doing work on anything. Truth is I wasn't that keen to begin with, though. All I got for a whole week were the main characters and two animations:

(http://www.konjak.org/abandoned/idle.gif) (http://www.konjak.org/abandoned/run.gif)

Well those are still awesome. :-*

What's the third cheetahman wielding anyway?

A reall small crossbow. I think I saw a picture of that.

hahah decided to put the impassable wall like in the original. I will add an ending though.
so unlike the original my version can actually be completed.

i'll work on the donkeykong roll. Have no clue how to not have the spazz at walls. Does anybody with MMF know how to fix it? By anyone I mean Podunkian of course.

And sorry for the lack of Guru Land, my version is taking the story in a new direction.

Regardless of who it is that ends up donning the mantle of Cheetahmen, they must include this (http://www.gamespite.net/toastywiki/index.php/Games/Cheetahmen). (Note: features Cheetahmen II canon (http://cheetahmen.silius.net/cheetahmen2n.txt))

made some new buildings tonight (intact and destroyed) and lit them. Brightened up the sky and changed the camera angle a bit.

(http://26k.org/dev/img/jupiter_v006_2.jpg)

lowpoly that is looking beautiful.

Progress report: Start working on the code for the player mechanics, made a few tiles, and I also decided to flesh out the enemies of Time Warp Tickers and make concept art of them:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/fridge1.png)

The Fridge:

At first I thought this enemy was some form of cilinder on wheels, but reading the faq it seems to be a refrigerator.

I'm not satisfied with how the fridge version looks, but the idea is that he's the least directly harmful enemy, with no proper damaging attacks. Instead he has the ability to shoot TIME?-enhanced ice cubes that when hitting you freeze you in time and make you vulnerable to attacks of other enemies.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/handyoyo.png)

The Yoyo

Combining the background hands and the yoyo enemy, you have this enemy that keeps lowering and raising a bladed yoyo that damages you on contact. He's meant to be primarily an environmental hazard, but can attack you with the yoyo directly on occasion.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/snake.png)

The Snake

Snakes were the most common and easily dispatched enemy of the original game. My version is an enemy that slithers through the air, constantly increasing its length. Touching any point of the snake causes it to shock the player (so it's an eel-snake or something). You cannot hit the snake's body, you must aim for the head, to dispatch the whole snake.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/eye.png)

The Eye

These are some creepy motherfuckers. One thing I noticed about the original enemy was that it was the same color of the background, giving it some mild camouflage that actually made it more difficult to be noticed quickly. I decided to incorporate that and make this be an invisible enemy, that always waits until your back is turned to attack you. If the attack fails it'll be visible for a while before disappearing. It's only vulnerable when visible.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/microphone.png)

The Microphone

I had no idea what this was until I reread the faq. Bottom sketch is hthe first version, top sketch is the microphone version. Its the main melee enemy, moving very fast towards you and trying to attack you with its bladed feet. It's also able to release a sound shockwave. If it hits you, it makes you lose your ability to perceive your surroundings for a moment.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/clock.png)

The Clock

The clock is a normal clock possessed by an alien abomination taht slipped through the cracks of reality. It's slow and weak, but has great mastery over TIME? powers. It can shoot energy spheres at you, as well as time slowing attacks that if hit you make you move and act much slower than usual. It also has a few more defensive tricks up its sleeve.

As usual I'm open to criticism and feedback.

Melly, those designs are great. Can't wait to see some in game screenshots.

Melly, those are  :-* :-* :-* :-*

awesome stuff!

(if possible every buyer of the original cartridge should be informed when action 52 owns is out... not an easy task but well maybe if the AVGN gets informed about this project he will announce it at some point.
its worth a try i think.)


imagine the parents that bought this cartrdige and thought it would be great that their kid has now 52(!) games...
what a great deal.
"this will keep the kids entertained for a while" they probably thought.

and then think about the kid at the receiving end:
sitting in front of the tv screen when the "lights! camera! action!" stuff flies in...
awesome...
but well... then it discovered game after game...
that the whole "action" isnt all that great.

...and then...
well what should the poor kid say
(i mean the parents just spent 199 bucks on that one...)
sad.
sad story.

if those people (who were kids back then) will now almost 20 years later discover that there is now a good version of the 52 games available...
could be a healing process for them  :beer:

I made a simple LUA script for FCEUX 2.1.2 (which is the only version which runs Action 52). It's very sloppy and could be cleaned up a bit.


Does:
(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/ref/action_52_lua_hud.png)


Also, it appears that you score in Bits and pieces by jumping on the monsters' heads. Inspired:

(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/graveyard_smash.jpg)


Melly> And drawn like that I can imagine Timewarp tickers having music from some 70's - 80's eastern European kids program. Or IKA i rutan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYQ6JjreOY) which is a bit melancholic and tic-toc'y

Thanks for the support guys.

Arne your little sketches are always so entertaining. You should make comics.


That is a bit creepy and a bit awesome all at once. I love it. That girl's got some great eyes.

The general idea I have to for the game so far is to thrust a somewhat 'normal', cliche'd superhero (the kid controlling the finger bot) into this warped, crazy world of illusions, nightmares and random time-travel. And have him slowly cope with the idea that not everything is so easy to define as he was used to.

And there's plenty of mind-fucking along the way.

I honestly wish I could work on this all day, but work and college beckons.

And Podunkian, if you let me do Cheetahmen, I'll unban Super Joe.

EDIT: and I'm still looking for an animator.

You could have a detector on the side of the character that determines whether he's overlapping a wall right next to him, and if so disable walking in that direction.

Still looking for somebody to help me out with the music for Dedant. I'm afraid that my music mixing abilities are pretty much non-existant  :'(.

This is the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYRnM1MggI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYRnM1MggI)

PM me the code and i'll school you. but do it today if you can, as i'll be leaving for the weekend!

new stuff:
(http://i39.tinypic.com/dzeejq.png)

A few people have posted some music earlier.  Has anyone worked on a version of Ooze's music yet?  It's a pretty catchy tune.  I'm sure you will have a lot of fun making this music ... and, oh hey, it just might coincidentally also help me out a little!  Wow!  It's a win-win situation!

Original music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PREP4ZQt6ZU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PREP4ZQt6ZU)

This is the music i'm using in my game. It's slightly based on 32 (but 32 sucked so yeah).

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/421763/blipsnr.mp3

Podunkian wants more experienced developers for this I think.

Yeah, I'm not really good enough at programming or graphics to do this terrible game justice. However, I look forward to playing all these games when they're finished.

OHGODOHGODOHGOD

(http://tinyurl.com/2um224z)

What the fawks. Is that your game?

Halfsize placeholders and a misplaced spawn command, but yes

also: destroyed internet image quality

Mesh is doing the spritework for my game, so I thought I'd show it off. I removed all the placeholder stuff, if you're wondering why nothing's there. Neon green squares are a little distracting.

http://www.mediafire.com/?de3jtw5mygd

Yes, I know the animation breaks when you hold down two keys at once.

Hey guys, Critical Bypass is re-available. And Storm Over The Desert...


Request: I'd like eight or ten, 64x64 or larger, dialog box character portraits of various kinds of humans. Any facial expressions permitted, but at least one of whatever emotion 'willingness to fight for your friends' is.

I've updated my LUA script (http://androidarts.com/megalonia/lua/bubblegum.lua). It should make researching the levels/graphics/mechanics more tolerable. Yeah, that's Metroid style energy tanks. I went through over 200 health getting to the last boss in Haunted Halls.

(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/lua/lua.png)

EDIT: I just noticed that having lots of Hit Points in games with life bars will cause graphical glitches (due to sprite limits etc). Just change the thresholds in my LUA script to fix that. e.g. if (Health < 2) then Health = 2 end; Some games give you multiple rapid hits though, so beware.

Another lil animation done, mouth guy dies!
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/MoutherDie.gif)
Spent like 6 hours on it, I was always distracted... I have a terrible attention span today. Hoping I can get much more done tomorrow!

I'm making pretty decent progress, though I wish I had more time available earlier in the week.  Currently I have about half of the core engine features completed.  There is still a lot to go.  There is no real gameplay code yet -- I just have an animated guy running left and right with a 3d tilemap.

I'm not entirely certain if the allotted 2 weeks is going to be enough, but if next week turns out to be very productive it might just be possible.

Thanks for the LUA script. definitely comes in handy  :handthumbsupL:

I wonder, who will release the source code here?

I think I might make my source code available ... but mostly to get help with porting it to Windows, as I'm using Linux.  But, oh no!  People will see my odd design decisions! :crazy:

http://bitbucket.org/triplefox/fireball/

I'm building an engine and a demo suite via this and other short-term projects. The Ninja Assault game is being incorporated as the "Nina" project.

I'm trying to get collision going tonight. I wrote some basic environment code this morning, a fake 2.5d system like a lot of classic brawlers where only a point of the actor is sampled against background tiles, and Z and Y are somewhat mixed. Haven't integrated or tested it yet, I fully expect it to clobber me and keep me up all night or something.

Meanwhile, I have almost nothing new for art, cause I've had to build out so much new code for this. I got the tilemaps importing, drawing, and scrolling the other day...nice and smooth(except Flash doesn't understand the meaning of "vsync" in its default wmode - maybe I should look into a different default, but the alternatives are all slower to render).

oh geez... I don't think anybody could understand what I did on some of these parts...

Hmmm, a haXe/Flash engine, I've been working on one myself a bit. Was that GSC project yours as well? I see you have the character sprite from the GSC demo as your avatar.

My unfinished/unreleased game engine, Plum (which I've only developed under Windows -- since my Linux partition died a while ago and I don't have a Mac), is BSD licensed with source available here: http://github.com/Bananattack/Plum

The game logic for my thing is in Lua. I might pack it in a renamed zip file, to bundle things in a tidy little package, but that's about it. I've never really bothered hiding coded for my games when I'm giving them out for free, since it's not like people are going to really "steal" anything by looking at the source. For games from jams or compos, who really cares either way.

Yes, I abandoned GSC cause, IIRC, I did a lot of things wrong. (I wrote a bunch of abandoned things when I started with haXe.) But I kept the character :) Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm going to stick with Fireball. This is try #3 at a Flash engine and I think it's my best one yet.

I have the player's ant in game and animated. Right now he just looks around, walks, and throws rocks (or at least does the motions for it, no rocks implemented yet). And climbs on mountains, apparently.

(http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/theantwentoverthemountain.jpg)

Dang that looks good.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/progressshot1.png)

Just implementing different things.

Started my remix of Silver Sword's theme. It's slightly off, but it works okay.

http://www.mediafire.com/?1yjtzz5niw1

Is that a flaming finger flick?

That's a Power Flick. I'm just trying out stuff at the moment, not sure what will be in the final game.

EDIT: C418, why did you stop making muzacs.

Please make more muzacs.

Question: If we finish our games and get through the deadline, but there are still games to be made, will those that finished their games be given a chance to remake another free game? Just asking cause if nobody does Lollipop I cannot let it go to waste.

hahhahahah (lolli)popcorn.mid  :tearsofjoy:

I didn't stop. I'm just not fast enough to make some after work. I tried to take on zara's game. I don't like the outcome though.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1051220/zara.mp3

What am I going to do now...

Signed up for Storm over the Desert.

Here's the wip version of beeps and blips; 4 levels pretty much done I guess.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/421763/blipshwa.exe

Easyname that's awesome.

i died though. @_@

Wow, it has good gameplay. It feels so un-Action-52-like now :P

Easyname that's turning out great. You should tweak the difficulty once you have more levels though. It's a bit hard right now. :wtf:

That music is made of pure win.

Late reply


No.

There are 46 and a lot of them are 5 second loops or repeat in different ways. It's not a lot. If every individual game wants to have more though, then it is about 100, haha.

The NSF holds 118 files, more than half of which are just sound effects.

I'll probably add some new levels in between the ones I've got right now to smooth out the difficulty curve. I don't think I'll have much time to work on it for a bit (like until wednesday/thursday) though since my art exam is coming up in a few days and I dont have enough development work ):

I can probably add some stuff anyway though. It's fun to work on.

Damn, it turns out I'm not gonna have the time for this. Unexpected stuff going on all week

I fold, somebody else please take starevil

shame

(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/EyeArms_Move.gif)
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/EyeArms_Die.gif)

Eye enemy, a miniboss ish thing. I really like how the death anim turned out.

Does that creature pull its own eye out? Hardcore!

Another song. I ...think I got a request for this.

This time underground:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1051220/underground.mp3

Here's (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3125554/pgil_rocket_title.mp3) music for the title screen of Rocket Jockey.

And an update (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3125554/pgil_rocket_level1.mp3) on the level 1 tune.

speaking of music, if anyone wants to take a stab at the song for Jupiter Scope, I'd love you for it. Art is taking longer than expected... The original track actually isn't that bad, so maybe there's something to work with there?


only got to play a few minutes of this, but really liked what I saw

I'd love to give it a try.

Heres some more!

(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/Orenger_Walk.gif)
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/Orenger_Death.gif)

(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/WormishMove.gif)
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/WormishAttack.gif)

Yes, the worm is really enjoying this.

The game is at triple resolution by the way, 3X pixels. Cant wait to get really crackin on levels, I just have a few more enemies to do and some more tiles.

(http://i42.tinypic.com/24ovlo4.jpg)


Been making some progress. All gameplay for the player is now done. One or two enemies to make still. Most art is done.

Haven't started on programming the boss. Not all of his art is done either. May need to do some more background art also, and remake those lasers (they are the wrong size).

If anyone would be willing to do music I would love them forever.

Here is a challenge for a musician:
Operation full moon has probably the worst "music" track in the whole Action52 cartridge. I would apperciate help on this matter. Making this sound good is a worthy challenge. :gentleman:

Oh man oh man I'm so glad some games freed up. I'm going to play through them now and pick one :)

Is it still ending on May 14th? If so, power-coding time!

Edit: Woo Fire Breathers!

Question. Is java allowed if you let the java executable be started by an exe? I think I know someone who would be glad to try something.

Menu screens, especially non-diagetic ones are harder to make than it seems, whilst remaining in the same room, but I eventually got it figured out.

You can find it at http://sites.google.com/site/lucamakesthings/games Under "ShootingGalleryDemo4.zip"

All I need to do now is add game modes within Single Player, Double Player and Keepy Uppy.
So far so good, I think. I also got the 'keeps shooting' glitch fixed. :D

Oh, and shoot the ducks that fly by on the title screen if you're quick enough.

I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE  :tiger:

Operation Full Moon Original: http://www.box.net/shared/sebfh2cct1
Operation Full Moon Awesome: http://www.box.net/shared/id7qs8s2el

Wow. You win! For now, at least... I wonder if you'll have any competitors?

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad216/overboyagain/screenshot100-9.png)
(http://hg101.kontek.net/action52/starevil-nes.png)

Meh, still workin' on it.

Signed up so I could give this a go.. I'm late, but what the hell I'll try remaking lollypops

My summer break's this week, so this'll give me something to do. I guess I'll take Lolli- erm, Manchester Beat. A game about making music with your fists is my kind of game.

Rhythm game / beat em up hybrid please!

Another demo. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3149882/Fuzzy%20Power%20V0.8.exe

this one has heath and enemies.

That's the plan.

I've tried to make rhythm games before, but I could never get the music to sync up to the action. It is an interesting problem to try and solve.

One possible solution is to build a music player into the engine and just feed it notes. Anyone know where I can find a MIDI of the level themes from Manchester Beat, or something similar that I can grab notes from?

Haha! Love the surprise at the beginning.

Also, are there fuzz (health) power-ups? I thought that if I got hurt to the point of having no fuzz, I'd be light enough to make that jump over the impassable wall, but no...it'd be an interesting mechanic, giving a lack of fuzz its own advantages.

So. Is there a font that everyone is using for HUD/menu/title displays?
Someone posted a font somewhere earlier but I don't have a fontstruct account.

I'm still working on mine. I'm making progress with the Megalonia spaceship graphics. Here's a preview of the minibosses. The idea is that they break apart and a little Saucer pops out. Since Saucers have transparent domes, I can hint at a little character riding them. This is why all ships have a little dome part.

(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/megalonia_miniboss_ship_preview.jpg)

Yeah, I'm using the player ships from the other games. The Megalonia ships will be the generic main forces, like Gombas and Koopa troopas.


Oh, here's yesterday's warmup (internet was down all day), some Time warp tickers and Underground (http://androidarts.com/megalonia/timewarp_underground.jpg) doodles.

Also, LUA script news: 0x0064 is the fall-to-death counter and 0x0315, 0x0316 x and y position. It would be neat to add an interface for controlling those. I hovered through the entire Non human level. If you hover without setting the fall-to-death counter you'll just die mid air. In Micro Mike, you need to set the x position to avoid getting squeezed to death.

You win indeed. :-*


:-* :-* :-*

Haha, those are interesting ways to look at the enemies. I think I'mma steal some parts of your finger bot design.

Battlerager is working on Timewarp's music, but hey, if any musician there is crazy enough to give it a stab I wouldn't be against it. The more music the better.

Also, I'd like to request that the deadline be extended to the 16th. That would give everyone one extra weekend to crunch away at their games.

I think the deadline will be extended to two weeks after we find out which people actually do work on their stuff.

Aha Awesome! Thanks Laika.
I'll upload a playable build of Operatio Full moon very soon (whatever that means)

Dang, wish I'd noticed this earlier.

If anyone gets cold feet, I'll take your game!

Made a pretty big tileset, its done for now! Putting together a couple levels now.
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/Tileset.gif)
Its a bit dark but in the games context it looks fine

I took lots of inspiration from a bunch of NES games, especially Castlevania 3.

Progress on the set of smaller Megalonia native ships. The idea with the second frame is that they become floating wrecks briefly if the damage situation is right. It's easy to paint these kind of damage frames because I can just paint some random junk over the intact ship line art.

There'll be generic gib pieces that explode outward with speed depending on size. The larger ships on the previous image have some special gib pieces. Hopefully the gibs don't get in the way of reading the action/bullet situation. Enemy bullets should probably be rotating, flashing and color coded to attract the most attention.

For some ships I want to to some animations, be it moving parts or Vic-Viper rolling. Rolling is a pain though since details have to be consistent in perspective.

I varied their size a bit.. to create... variation. The right ones could come in swarms, maybe rolling/spinning because it's a small image and less work to animate.


(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/megalonia_standard_ship_preview.jpg)

Edit: Some test animations.
(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/megalonia_testanim.gif)

Any interest in collaboration? I'm really busy until quite close to the deadline, and I wouldn't mind switching to a graphics-only role or something.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/254701/blog/action52/collision.png)

I'm gradually teasing out environment collision by building up a tremendous debugging suite, fixing the problems that surface as obvious, and then going back to add more debug info. Progress is good - and not stressful, which is so rare when I work on collision. I might actually have it working by tomorrow! After that I'll still have a collision editing tool to do(I opted to untie it from the art tiles), entity spawn placement, entity-entity collision, and then animation...and then I think I'll start to have a game!

(http://i41.tinypic.com/3445fcz.jpg)
Scene from lvl 2 (subject to change w/o notice)

More progress; only got one enemy to make now and the boss, of course. Most of the tiles are done although some could use a remake. Working on finishing up the levels and so on!

Spent the better part of the day today trying to make the snake enemy works as I envisioned, with unsatisfactory results. I may have to redesign it, though that's for later. Right now I wanna do something that doesn't take ages to get right.

A first playable build. Stayed up working the last seven hours or so to get the environment collision going.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/254701/blog/action52/5_10_7am.swf

All you can do is jump around(X key) and try to break the collision by going into the solid area. I think it's (mostly) stable now.

Code for this system is here for your reviewing pleasure:
http://bitbucket.org/triplefox/fireball/src/tip/fireball/collision/BeatDown.hx

triplefox i don't know if it's my machine but that doesn't link to something i'd qualify as playable, it looks like some collision debug thing where a courageous rectangle can flyyyy

here's the Mashman sprite from me and HandCraftedRadio's entry.
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o214/ndk5027/other%20work/mashman2a-1.png)

Just being curios, but is anyone considering doing any of the Genesis A52 games? I would love to see a remake of Sketch.

There is nothing stopping anyone who would want to remake any of the Genesis games if they wanted to, but for this it is strictly the NES version.

I've decided that instead of using a game in 320x240 resolution upscaled 2x, I'm doing a fully 640x480 game with 2x upscalled sprites.

Cactus, eat your heart out.

It's really just because rotated sprites look like piles of ass in such low res.

Melly> You can make the graphics at 1x (320*240) and then scale up and do something similar to Font hinting (http://www.ascendercorp.com/fonts/on-screen-legibility/) (in the case of pixel art, you smooth out curves and slopes but don't add detail). Basically, you provide better sample points and reduce flicker this way.

You then rotate, then scale down, then scale up again... :O

Yeah, too much work perhaps. I did some tests years ago and it does make slopes and curves look a lot better since the source image has finer staircases.


Anyways. I got some code done today. It went really smooth thanks to OOP. I haven't put any gfx in yet, but I have a simple little physics system with explosion shockwaves that pushes everything around. It's neat to see the debris (boxes) fly off the hulls (boxes).

Now I need to make an editor where I can place the debris parts (panels etc) onto the hulls so it looks complete before it breaks.

I think I'm going to quit.

Free Bubblegum Rossie!

 :-X I forbid Ein to quit.

hahah sorry bro, maybe next time!

What?!? After you tease us with all those screenshots of a game nearly finished you're going to quit? What the hell?

I'm making pretty good progress, but there's still a lot to do in these few short days.  Fortunately, I believe I have already taken care of most of the more difficult tasks.  This is still going to be a quite a challenge to complete this in time.

I think it's the time limit that is causing people to quit...  :droop:

Are you MAD? You have a game that's fun to play and practically done! Seriously, just slap some finishing touches on it and release it, it's pretty good so far already.

Mind explaining the reasoning behind the decision, at least?

In other news, like many other people are saying, I'm making steady progress but I'm not really sure I'll be able to finish this to the standards I wish for it to live up to by the deadline. Hopefully we'll have an extension.

http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/demo.zip (http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/Demo.zip)

"Playable" build tonight! Nothing fancy, you just throw rocks at each other indefinitely. I mostly just want to check for hardware incompatibilities, specifically on Intel chips. Anybody willing to give it a spin on an Atom based netbook?

I'm so close yet so far at being done..

Pretty awesome, not a netbook but your game ran fine here (q6600).

ok, playable version is go: http://26k.org/dev/play/jupiter_v010.zip

there's still a lot of missing/temp art in there and no sound yet, but this should give a good idea of how the game will look and play. Eventually, there will be other enemies besides meteors and hopefully a change or 2 in location (time willing).

Really interested to see how this runs on people's computers, windowed 3D is shaky at best from what I've seen so far...

Have at it :)

sorry battlerager

Timewarp Tickers Original http://www.box.net/shared/f4sybtf476 (with sfx :/)
Timewarp Tickers JMickle http://www.box.net/shared/gr9rv2nb4f

Haha, that's pretty good. Battlerager will just have to make his BETTER. >:D

And lowpoly, runs like a dream here (though this is a beefy machine). I really like the look of it and the gameplay works fairly well. Pretty difficult to keep all building from being destroyed sometimes.

I am too busy this week. Ahh, I'll have to quit (aka free Star Evil). 

Jupiter Scope suggestions:
* Exploit the difference in significance between meteors heading toward houses and those heading away from them. Make the RNG send out loads upon loads of unaimed meteors (meteors that won't hit any still-alive houses) that serve to disguise the few aimed meteors (meteors that will hit houses.)
* Make the meteors a bit faster, but compensate by making the Star-Zap's shots a bit wider.
* Since the Missile Command similarities are obvious, maybe add a "blast radius" that can neutralise a bunch of nearby rocks at once for large bonuses? (Possibly assign that chain explosion to a 'charge shot' that is unleashed by holding C...)

Ran perfectly fine, and very smooth, on my netbook (Atom based, ASUS 1000HE). It averaged 75 FPS running on powersave mode with a web browser still open so it has good performance. It also was only using about 15% of my CPU when I wasn't hammering on the keys (It rose  to 50% when I held the key for long enough) so it seems to be running perfectly well on my system.

I spent the night actually writing some code, and I made a very simple playable thing (http://androidarts.com/megalonia/builds/), without graphics though.

I've been writing it in BlitzMax, which has some OOP stuff which is neat. It was very easy to add 2P coop because of how I handled classes, instances and lists. The 2nd player is controlled with Numpad8456 and Numpad+. Esc to quit, R to reset game. >50% and >75% accuracy gives big score bonuses.

This build is more of a thing to show the engine. The game I'm planning to make will have a Megaman weapon collection element to it. I don't think it will be very bullet spammy. Instead, firing bullets will have a cost, and x/c will fire different (captured) weapons. I think laying down careful combination fire will be more fun than just holding the button and strafing back and forth.

The green background 'matrix' is bucket contents drawn so I can see if anything is wrong, but I haven't gotten a crash yet so no out of bounds stuff going on that I know of. Physics is under 1ms for me.

The tiny gray stuff is debris - little panels which will fly off the ships. They're affected by explosion shock waves which gives a nice effect sometimes. Hopefully they won't clutter stuff up and cause crap deaths. The player has health anyways, and the enemies generally won't fire tons of bullets. This test version is quite random and unstructured though, because everything spawns... randomly.

rdein you're probably the one with the least reason to quit seeing as you're more or less ALREADY DONE

Gaah whats up with all the quits
you quitters....

after im done with mine ill finish all of your games for you and then SPANK YOU WITH EM
Ill film it put it on the 'tubes and grab all the moolah from youtube ads ill be a rich man

:handshakeL::apoplectic::handmoneyR:

Works great on my computer. Btw, here's some music for you: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3125554/jupiter%20scope.mp3 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3125554/jupiter%20scope.mp3). Is this the style you're looking for?

Also Ein don't be a quitter.

i more or less finished my game. now i've just got go back and polish the ending, make sure the levels aren't too hard (and by too hard i mean too too hard, as the whole game is kind of just hard in general), and then add in the extras. not too bad at all for less than 2 weeks worth of work.

Does this have to done by Wednesday or the end of the week or something, because if so I can't do it :( there's a big art exam right now which would slow things down anyway but now the power adaptor for the laptop I make games on has exploded and I won't have a new one for another week. (can't use the laptop at all)

Also what the fuck rdein. Seriously, you are finished and want to quit. CHICKEN.

This particular irked me quite a lot because I was looking forward to the Star Evil remake. In fact, I decided then and there to use the powers of high-speed game making to quickly assemble a replacement!!

(http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/starevil1.png)
http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/StarEvil001.exe

Controls:
X - fire, skip text
C - skip text, lower the good/evil meter

You have infinite lives, but you lose some progress at death. Nothing happens after you beat the boss. I'll put together 2 more levels in a little bit.

...

Meanwhile, in Meong:
(http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/meong5.png)
These puzzling haikus appear at the start of several rounds, and introduce new game mechanics. Fortunately, your player-character will re-explain it in plain words after they appear.

You can totally help me finish mine like you said you would. :-*

And ein, are you going to give us at least some satisfaction as to why you quit? I sure as hell hope it's not because you don't think your game is good enough or some other similar bullshit. I know it's your choice in the end but at least say something.

Awesome, thanks! Way better than I was hoping for!

Shit. there are so many people quitting. I am almost done. Can probably finish today, but I'm waiting on somebody to sing my ending...

Anybody want to be my barbershop quartet? 

(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6385/illum1.gif)

Hm, I think I got the "Lights!" down, but it's probably gonna be a while before I get to the "Action!"

http://www.l-ames.com/logan/illum-1.zip
X is flashlight, C opens doors.  Click with the mouse to add what would be a burning enemy.

I'm kinda worried that the lighting is way too inefficient, though.  Could I get somebody to put a couple burning enemies in the big open area and tell me if it slows down too much?

Haha, that idea was awesome.

Hey, if you're gonna be done soon, I woudln't mind some graphical help. :-*

I know I'm sounding like a leech asking for help from everyone, but there's SO LITTLE TIME. :crazy:

Find me a barbershop quartet and i'll help you.  :lol:

if all else fails i can give it a try so long as you aren't expecting anything mindblowing

I'll BE your barbershop quartet.

Oh wait, I can't sing. :(

Send me a script and I'll try though.

I'll give it a shot.

That is exactly what I expect.


Just kidding. I will like anything you give me, haha.
If you really are up for it I can PM the 2 bits to sing.

woah! everyone wants to be them!

lemme send out some scripts.

Storm over the Desert:

(http://i40.tinypic.com/2q8ocp4.jpg)

I'm looking for an artist to work with.

Bonus if you also know something about designing fun shmups, cos I don't. I signed up for this last Friday after someone dropped out, and unless I hear otherwise I'm assuming the two weeks run from then.

What I have so far - it might seem to be doing nothing for a long time while it's loading: http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1273603282

I want the American tanks to feel powerful, hi-tech, and well-supported. The stuff on the left hand side of the screen is eventually supposed to have things like air strikes or infantry assaults that you can pay for with oil; but I'm thinking now that this is both too much work for me and too much clutter on the screen.

The Iraqis will get lots of poorly-directed pink tanks. To match the original they also need giant Saddam Husseins running around the battlefield, doing I don't yet know what. It may involve chucking scud missiles.

So if you want to draw some deserts, tanks and giants, get in touch. I could halve the resolution if desired.

here's my attempt, i downsampled it to 64 KBPS, but eat my farts (also i kind of just gave up trying near the end):

http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/quartet_lofi.mp3

hahahah that was awesome.

Do you think you are going to do the first as well?

Here's the latest on Rocket Jockey:


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/smind/screenshot100.png)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3125554/may11rocket%20jockey.exe (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3125554/may11rocket%20jockey.exe)

Got a title screen, a variety of enemies, and part of the first level. If anyone has any ideas for other stuff, let me know.

Fantastic!  Singing something that wasn't intended to be sung is truly an amazing feat.  Nicely done.

some issues, pgil. the esc menu is misleading. esc actually resumes game while x/c quits. also after some time the game doesnt show any more enemies/cows.. it just keeps going on. i think i noticed it when i got full blue bar?

prob not. i gotta do my own game and then i have work work to do. sorry bro

Ah yeah.. The excape menu I switched the keys and forgot to change the text. I'll fix that.  Also, the cows + enemies stop because that's the end of the level so far. What do you think of the controls and the enemies?

i dislike how you get hit and lose all health accumulated; it's a bit too hard to survive maybe? great game though, congrats.

That's really good.

awesome so far, but found this error:


also, I dunno if you saw but the games should by default run in a window, not fullscreen

I really enjoy what you have so far.  Rodeo clowns or a stampede of space horses could make for a cool addition.

Just FYI, an error occurs if you die with your lasso out, which is the most shameful way for any rocket jockey to die.


You've tantalized us with your dulcet tones and left us wanting more.  Encore :handclap:, encore :handclap:

damn. I have an intro and ending that don't match @_@

Juxtaposition! How very... indie!

streemerz is finished

i just wanted to put that out there.

(http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/streemerz_logo.png)
download it here (http://bit.ly/dvGGfO)

Does that mean you can remake my intro?  :eyebrows:

Barrels that you lasso to grab and throw! Followed by a boss that dearly needs a barrel to the face.

Also: Ghost Riders in the Sky.

Finally beat Streemerz. Very fun game. I love the ending stage, it was so cool and awesome and funny. Also:

(http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/ac40/handCraftedRadio/satanslevel.png)

I...HATE...this SCREEN!

A52 characters:

(http://i44.tinypic.com/e13l3m.png)
fuzz, time warpers, beeps and blips, streemerz, cheetaman, lollipop, OOZE, haunted girl

So you're back to making Rosy? ;D

Streemerz is a fun game. Beat it.

Very fun.  The Bionic Commando homage was awesome.  Great job.

I made some enemies (http://androidarts.com/megalonia/interlacing.png) which glide in and take a shot at the players with a giant plasma sword/flamer thing. I discovered that I had to scale down the ships so I did that with the engine, so it looks a bit sloppy.

Also made a Stress test (http://androidarts.com/megalonia/stress_test.png). The lasers are individual bullets, and while the explosions are invisible, you can see the effect of the shockwaves (which affect everything). It's 4ms worst case now. The game won't be quite this busy though...

I too hate that screen. it's the one I died the most in. dumb.

Added fire ants to Dedant. Not in the original, but dang it's just such an obvious enemy.

http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/Demo.zip (http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/Demo.zip)

Level 2 of Star Evil is complete.

(http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/starevil2.png)

http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/starevil001.exe

Added: new enemies, new boss, scoring, level skip cheat.

Level skip: Mash the "right" key on the title screen until something happens, then push X to start at level 2.

(Incidentally, has anyone remixed the Star Evil music yet? I could do with something like that right now.)

Ugh... I'm really sorry guys, but unless this gets some kind of extension (like, a week or two) I'm going to have to drop out. I feel terrible for leaving it this late but I was so sure I could do it.

3:10am  :tired:

I am practically done.

still need:
a title screen
credits at the end
and Mr. Podunkian's intro [if he is kind enough to do it.]

i'll get the credits in first thing tomorrow and upload the game.

http://sites.google.com/site/lucamakesthings/shooting-gallery

Aside from some polishing that needs to be done, the game is in a 'ready' state.
Try out the latest demo, play with an IRL friend at the same keyboard, and go shoot some Barrels, Ducks and Crocodiles (which fly into space!)

Probably the only things that need doing are Music, and maybe another target variety to spice things up.
There's also a minor bug for putting too much input on game over which I can't quite get figgled out yet. I'll think of something and implement it tomorrow to overcome this problem.

I don't get why people are dropping out just cause of a soft deadline. I'm going to be full-time through the rest of the month with this thing! :beer: And if the other brawler games need code support I can lend a hand there, too, by reusing the engine.

I got the idea to mash up the "original" (ripped) music of Ninja Assault with that of other martial arts games to make an insane medley of furious fists and flying kicks. I haven't really worked on this idea yet but I'm sure I'll get to it sometime soon. After I have sprites and collision, maybe. I'm going to get multiple actors spawning and have them collide tomorrow("today"). I'll also do a ninja sprite. I've got some preliminary concepts sketched...the final will just be rotoscoped off Poser though, I can't spare the time for a more detailed treatment.

I also figured out some broad concepts for combat. I don't want to do block anims, and ninjas should dodge anyway, so there's no blocking in this game, just attack priorities and knockback. That gives me these anims for the ninja(supplemented with lots of effects and flashing):

• idle
• walk
• jump
• knockback/death
• standing attack
• charge attack(optional?)
• jump attack

I might not get them all done in one day, not with the other stuff I want to do; enemies can get away with fewer, fortunately.

Depending on feedback on just how "soft" this deadline is, who knows, maybe I'll be staying.

A lot of people are working really hard, but aren't really close to finishing. I'm just going to keep working on my game, whether I missed the deadline or not.

It is somewhat reassuring to know that at least I was not the only person who had some trouble with this screen. I probably hit around 50 unfortunate deaths on it, myself.

Just keep working hard on what you got and possibly cut down on anything that isn't core to the game. Definitely don't drop out tho. I get the feeling that there are enough people here who are pretty close to finished, but would really benefit from another week or so of dev time (myself included)

Then again, releasing a bunch of broken and incomplete games would be in the spirit of the original cart ;)

If you don't count the two gaylords who worked on it, I was the first person to beat Streemerz. i think

My issue is that I have four essays due in the space of a little over a week, and as a result have pretty much no free time in which to work on it. I could probably finish it if I had a 4-6 hour gap free at some point... thanks for the encouragement, though!

Star Evil now has a level 3.

(http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/starevil3.png)

http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/StarEvil001.exe

Added: difficulty level selector, an endboss.

Level skip: Mash the "right" key on the title screen 10 times, then mash the "left" key 20 times, then press X to start level 3.

All that's left is a closing cutscene or two, sound effects, and for someone else to decide to remix the Star Evil theme. Then it's back to Meong.

I'm gonna keep working on TWT even if it takes the whole month. I'll try to prioritize the core elements so I can have a proper playable build as soon as possible, but I got big plans for this baby.

Love the screenshot. I think the download link is broken.

Ah, right. Fixed. http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/StarEvil001.exe

I can't be that hard a deadline. We've already had several people drop out a week in, and any new dropouts certainly aren't going to be replaced with a full game in 3 days. My plan is to have mine in a ready and releasable state for the weekend, and then if there is extra time polish it up nice and pretty over the following week.

Done. [kinda]

Fuzz Power V1.0
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3149882/Fuzz%20Power%20V1.0.exe

only thing missing is a proper title screen. Which I'll do tonight.

I'll just continue working until I'm done or badly derail. It's looking pretty promising now though, because the project is still manageable. To further this quality, I'll spend the day on program structure/flow so it's clean and nice.

Okay, Star Evil is hard. Those are some small gaps you have to dash through. The high-contrast background and the noise make it tough to see the obstacles.

Podunkian's music was a wonderful reward for for my victory over the Robobarber.  Nice work.

Derp, mine might be in a couple of days late, due to 3rd stage slackeritis, and my comicompo page.

teh. L, star evil's cool as heck, but please don't take on more than one game!


with that said, i'm gonna reopen up one of the two games you've done (sorry :^|), so you'll have to choose between star evil and meeong. it's nothing personal, i just want to have as much a variety of different games by different people if possible.

(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/CrawlerWalk.gif)
Had like 4 hours of free time today at work. Didn't have game maker with me so used the free time to make that thing!!!

Also game is advancing well but I don't think it'll be done on time, maybe a day late.

Yo, put on sum Eye of the Tiger and get crankin foo.

Hot damn that's awesome.

I would love to see a video of your creative process sometime. That is awesome looking.

He's got some timelapse videos of his pixeling on the youtubes.

Posting some progress on SLASHERS:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/ghorath/characters01.png)
the characters so far (player 1 and 2, thug, boss)
alpha build:
Version0.1 (http://www.box.net/shared/04zy5nrsl4)
-basic movement and attacking
-enemies are just dummies for now
-background is temp
-player 2 to be added
-more animations are already done but not yet implemented

I could really use a musician to do 3 songs (level 1, subway level and boss fight)
plus possibly menu screen tune + credits music.
Preferably in midi, I'm going for a NES feel.

The characters look cool. I kind of miss the busty ladies and spiderman-looking guys from the original though.

Oh, well, okay. I suppose since Star Evil's closer to completion with respect to the May 14 deadline, I'll keep that game, then. I discard Meong.

(Mostly, my motivation for doing this was to just get us as close to 52 finished games as soon as possible.)

yeah, like i said, it's nothing personal, just wanted to give more people a shot at things. plus star evil kicks some major fucking ass, so i'm glad you made that decision!

Thanks! For something of that size I would have probably recorded the process if I had been at home when I made it.

I'm almost done with all of the games subweapons. About half of the enemies are in too. Most of the level isnt laid out yet, that and the music is the two things that will take the longest out of whats left. The boss too, but at worst I will just leave it out.

Here is a demo of Boss! There's only one level so far, and no sound effects. Music is courtesy of x___, many thanks.

Here's what's done so far in a little package for you to try out.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6880571/bossdemo.zip (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6880571/bossdemo.zip)

No high score capability yet, sadly. Please critique!

Some humble requests:

* Defeated foes should perchance stay onscreen flashing a little longer.
* Don't stop the music on the "level 2" or "level 3" cards.
* Make beating a level only bring back one level of hair. (i.e bald -> trimmed)
* Make the boss's projectiles a bit faster as it runs low on HP.

That's haaard. :crazy: I only played a bit, couldn't get past the very first area without losing all my lives. You gotta tweak the difficuty mang.

Other than that it looks very promissing.

Bug in BOSS: felled enemies' "beam breath" continues firing for a second after the foe is felled.

cool game only the third level is way to easy...
other than that, AWESOME!

Interstitial Star Evil update - http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/StarEvil001.exe
Added sound effects, made Easy mode a bit easier, made the first 2 bosses less pushovers.

played through this twice (one time on air) -- you should really, really, really consider having the roll counter reset once an enemy is killed, like in donkey kong country. it will make the game super easy, but as it is, the game is frustratingly hard simply because taking on a row of consecutive enemies is almost a crapshoot because you can't really anticipate where you'll stop, meaning you might stop just short of hitting an enemy, which'll cause you to get hurt.

another thing is that it would be nice if the bosses's thrown brown ball things hurt you, and if the the boss escalated in difficulty the more he got hurt. it could be any assortment of simple things, like having the boss, for instance, maybe throw out some bombs with the brown balls (if you decide not to make the brown ball things hurt you), or mixing up the scissor throwing pattern a bit, or even simply repeating it. it's no fun fighting a boss that repeats its pattern in the same exact way over and over.

I agree with all those points. Rolling can be fairly frustating as it is and the boss could use some more dynamic gameplay.

another vote for the roll counter reset thing.

It's fairly frustrating but the game is not so long so I found it okay

Tiny Cartridge (http://tinycartridge.com/) just posted about Streemerz. Congratu-well-done, Mr. Podunkian.

So, attempting a Zelda-like in two weeks is a little much to try, especially since all the sprites were started from scratch and I have no fucking talent with sprites.

So I'm going to release two versions: Classic and Enhanced. Classic is more akin to the original game, but has a fully-scrolling, randomly-generated landscape, five sword types, new sprites (with the character based on Arne's design) and a bunch of enemies. It's a pure arcade-style game, which means you are going for points or time lasted, not "finishing".

Enhanced will have an actual overworld, dungeons, items, and bosses. It'll be more like a "real" game.

This good enough for the compo deadline, Podunk?

* Defeated foes should perchance stay onscreen flashing a little longer.
Done.

* Don't stop the music on the "level 2" or "level 3" cards.
Done.

* Make beating a level only bring back one level of hair. (i.e bald -> trimmed)
Not done.
My choice to keep the full health refill.

* Make the boss's projectiles a bit faster as it runs low on HP.
Done

*roll counter reset
Not done.
Can't seem to figure this out, but i'll keep tryin.

*boss escalated in difficulty the more he got hurt.
Half done.
I have the scissors do a different pattern when he is almost dead.
Working on the bombs. I love that idea.

Boss is done, and way more fun.

I know I won't be able to finish in time.  I actually have quite a lot left to do on Ooze -- at least one weeks worth of work.  :shrug2:

do your best. never give up. quitting is for quitters.

I wasn't sure how far past the deadline we are permitted to go.  I'm not saying I'm quitting, but I'm not sure if I will be able to complete this in a timely manner.

Me neither, but I'm still doing it until Podunkian pulls the plug. Well, I'll probably keep going past that even.

I'm making this happen.

Same here.
All I need is to get the menu finished, finish the last of my spritesheets and put together my opening cinematic... and fix a few bugs and balancing issues.

where doing this

where making this happen

(http://www.manuelbieh.de/kram/blog_highfive.jpg)

Heck yes we can!

Any preview builds? Those models were pretty sweet looking, I'm curious what they look like in game.

(http://temp.natewm.com/pics/ooze_man_scrn_001_small.jpg) (http://temp.natewm.com/pics/ooze_man_scrn_001_big.jpg)

As you can see, there's not much to see.  There were some bugs that had taken a few days to fix and then I lost a little steam and was a little lazy for a few days.  Under the hood there's more going on than these screen shots might allude to -- that would make the addition of lasers, blobs, pickles?, drips, and other hazards pretty easy to implement.

Currently I just have my test tilemap block and test map.  I plan on making the levels out of 3D tiles for the ease and simplicity of level design.  There will also me other set dressings such as non-interactive background details.

As far as programming goes, I still need to get audio working, level loading (beyond just tilemaps), GUI, and maybe a few other things.  For graphics, like I said, I need a variety of tiles, some of the player's animations, a few more enemies, backgrounds, other interactive objects, GUI design, etc.

I would also like it to have a little bit of a story, but I'm not certain what about yet.  I could just go generic aliens.

There is also the question of how levels should end.  In the original Ooze the levels simply end at points of no particular interest then you move onto the next level.  There obviously needs to be a better goal than that!

So, all in all, it adds up.  If I become inspired and motivated I could probably get through it pretty quickly.  Getting feed back from people on the direction I should try to take this might help to get me going.

Edit: Looking back at your comments I just noticed you said "builds."  Sorry, what I have is the guy running and jumping around in a small area -- which, at the moment, might not be too fun for anyone to play.

Nah, screenshots are fine too. Any work in progress is awesome to see. It helps me to stay motivated when I see other people getting stuff done and moving along as well.

Is that all your own render tech? It looks really good.

Actually, I'm simply using Ogre -- which is very nice to work with.  The guy's graphics is an animated Ogre entity (of course), and the tilemap is made by building static geometry with the tile graphic entity.  It's pretty a pretty simple design, actually.

The time wasting bug I ran into had more to do with entity management -- I accidentally made it exponentially add entities, but since they all had the same position and animation I thought my game was quickly slowing down when there was only nine guys in the scene.  :facepalm:

V1.2 is out

try it now: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3149882/Fuzz%20Power%20V1.2.zip

Sorry Mr. Podunkian, I stole your txt doc and filled with my info. it was a nice base.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Radix/hhshot01.png)

Maybe something playable later today.

Those colors are PAINFUL. :wtf:

Awesome. :-*

Here's all I could get going so far for Operation Full Moon. Unfortunately I don't work as fast as you guys.
so far it's just an engine test, with very basic levels and only one type of enemies.
I will continue working on it, final version should have, at least 3 different enemies, background elements, moon bases, powerups, sounds, music that loops nicely, maybe a boss.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ztml4yinfmm

Radix: That looks a lot like Ghouls and Ghosts, hopefully once you're done greyboxing it all out it'll look better, and more awesome.

Yeah, I'm going for a Ghouls 'n Goblins slash Castlevania thing. They were clearly going for Castlevania with HH (just look at her jumping animation) but the thing that stands out about the A52 game is how annoying the jumping is, so I went to Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts for inspiration.

Made more progress today, but this will certainly NOT be done by the deadline tomorrow. Unless I had all day to do it (which I don't), and even then it'd probably be lackluster.

I will continue working on it diligently past the deadline, though, and try to finish it as soon as possible.

In brighter news I think my main mechanic should allow for some fun level design.

(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5505/sg1c.png)

http://sites.google.com/site/lucamakesthings/shooting-gallery

Aaand I'm Done! This didn't turn out so bad for my "First Game Made for Competition" and "First Game Made for this Site" as well as "First Game Completed and submitted to Internet" on top of "First Mostly Self-Motivated Project".

I would have submitted it tomorrow, but I'm running DnD, so I'd be busy.

I just finished steemerz. It was awesome.  :handthumbsupR:

2nd playable: http://26k.org/dev/play/jupiter_v013.zip

nearly finished, just a few more things to do including sound. Should be a lot more fun/challenging now and hopefully it still runs well (I went a little fx crazy in the end). There may still be some weirdness with player death, I was fixing bugs at 2am last night so I'm not entirely sure how 'fixed' things really are.

I have to go out of town this weekend so at the very earliest, I probably won't be finished until Tuesday night.

Oh well, my game is done since wednesday but I cant post it because I still need two tracks. Sorry for the delay..

mine is deffo going to be late. :concerned:

awesome! amazing! everything in this thread is making me cry...

very addicting. awesome.

Recently managed to get all the bags of money in Streemerz. Who's Sgt. Poison meant to be anyway?

You know Arthur, I've wondered, why exactly did you choose to organize this in TIGS? You don't seem to like here much in general, so it's a bit odd.

Holy crappity crap those are some pretty visuals, and the game is fun to boot!

If he wanted it to actually work, there's hardly a better place. Most sites don't have the population of developers to bring it past "joke project" status. We've seen tons of dropouts, and I think most of the remainder are starting to sag under the scope of work that many of these games need to not suck. I'm definitely having some doubts myself - if I can't get art support, my game will be going through the end of the month, yet I really want it done so I can prove all the technology I'm doing, so I'm actually more motivated than I normally would be - I would be doing one of the various jams going on this weekend instead if I didn't think this was a good project to work on. But... the developer list is still filled up and there's a queue. So if this project doesn't collapse from low morale, the sheer numbers of people involved will make it work.

The drama stuff I honestly don't get - I see the conflict presently taking place on the front page as an embarrassment. I don't want it to affect this project.

Anyway: after detouring to do some stuff to release DSD(it is out now and will hit portals sometime over the weekend, yay) I'm pretty much where I was last time I posted - have to get actor-to-actor collisions and spawns going, then I can think about doing some ninja anims.

Phillippe Poisson, aka Annabelle's assassin.

That bastard.


That's looking delicious lowpoly. Runs like a dream here, and is quite fun. It's a bit easy to defend a single remaining building, though the saucer make up for that.

Got 44300.

This idea is so awesome that it is self motivating. Even though I started into it only a few days ago I've been spriting my face off to get things done for the deadline. The sooner we can get 52 games (based on iconic, hilarious nonsense) to a completed level of disproportionately superior quality, the better in my opinion.

Get to it guys! Finish hard!

So the deadline past.

the finished games should be posted in the original post.

The Jaj-man helped me a bit with some anims.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/cheetahkidsheet2x.png)

Here's our protagonist.

Work continues.

Ohh look at the little Cheetahman kitty I wanna skritch him behind the ears and call him Chippy.

er, what I meant to say was: Nifty spritework there, Melly. Can't wait to see how this game will turn out.

Congratulate JaJitsu on that one.

Current progress: http://www.mediafire.com/?dmkmtktgogx

Finished: Attacking, elemental weapons, map generation (random each time you start a new game), movement.

Needs to be finished: HUD, Enemies

Missing From Classic: Dungeons, bosses, story.

Sprites are by Mesh and rdein.

STAR EVIL is finished... sort of.

(http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/starevil5.png)
http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/StarEvil.zip
Added: attract mode story cutscene, 2 ending cutscenes, some balance fixes, more sound effects.

But it isn't really finished until someone decides to make me a music track for it!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Radix/hhshot02.png)

Video up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRGkaUjauvQ

Yeah, I clearly missed that deadline. 

Everything is pretty much done except the sprites.  It's a bunch of blocky placeholders at the moment.  I'll probably ask for help on that.  The main character and a few enemies are all that's necessary; I'm pretty happy with all the other graphics.

I haven't posted here in a while. Added barrels that you can pick up with your lasso and throw, Got the high-scores screen working. Also got a sketch of a first level boss-- a mechanical bull. I'm thinking I'll have it so you can use your lasso to throw the rider off, then the bull goes crazy on its own. Maybe you'll defeat it by luring it into asteroid.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/smind/bull_boss.png)

That's looking great man.

Lots of quality around here, I gotta step up my efforts.

Hello! This is aski, some of you might know me as the programmer of Tower of Heaven. I'm working on a remake of billy bob for this collaboration, but unfortunately my partner godsavant has packed up his computer for the summer, and will not be able to provide any more graphics for the game.

The game engine and almost all of the character animations are complete. However, many of the graphics (mostly scenery) are missing! I'm no good at pixel art myself, so I need someone's help to complete this game.

If anyone is willing to work with me and provide graphics so I can complete this game, I would greatly appreciate it!

Hey dere, would be considering trying to do something for either Meong or Bits and Pieces (Bits and Pieces prefered). We sign up using our ID from TIGSource right? If so, I should be done in a moment.

It's actually pretty awesome to see Action 52 being revamped, good luck to everyone on this =D.

(Update)

Ok, set to work on the game. I'm pretty newbie when it comes to programming, so I might need to ask for some guides and assistance from time to time, but here's the basic plot outline so far~

--Whilst out with your girlfriend one Hallow's Eve, an ominous white light filled the sky, lightning cracking down from it! When it faded, shadows began to encircle you, monstrous beasts from beyond! Before you could do anything you are struck down, your girlfriend being taken away the last sights you witness in life...

After the events, you awaken somehow, confronted with the image of a horrifying, skeletal man, enshrouded by a crimson red cloak. He speaks, claiming to be Death itself. Certain things have been unleashed this night, which prevent him from doing his job. As a result, he bargains with you, promising you a second chance, providing of course you solve this mystery, and defeat the evil that lurks in the night.--

I'll draft up a topic once I have the time to =D.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/gameShot1.png)

A little WIP shot. Deciding my next course of action.

Non Human is doing really well, heres a screenie
(http://www.frankiesmileshow.leafo.net/Stuff/nonhuman/screenie.png)
Working on the sound now. Maybe it'll be done tomorrow?!
Still have a few minor glitches to take care of, the audio, the game boss and 2 other enemies to make. Otherwise the level is all laid out and its pretty fun, except it doesn't end yet since the boss is missing.

Frankie: Love it. It's like Castlevania and Commander Keen had a baby.

Melly: I think you should darken that checkerboardy background so the character doesn't blend in so much. Otherwise it looks good.

Yeah, I agree it's probably a little too busy. I'll experiment and see what I can do.

"Hambo's Adventure" is nearing its completion, and will most probably be completed by tomorrow, and if not, then within only a handful of days! I'm still waiting for my composer to get back to me with his music, and until then, I have a little checklist in front of me with what I have left to do:
- Finish modelling the final level
- Add in the ambient sounds
- Finalize the title screen
- Add the story elements to the scenery
- And, if time, add some embellishments to the levels
So, never fear. 1/52 of the project is still falling into place!

Old
/
New:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/gameShot1.png)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/511152/gameShot2.png)

Better?

I've got a sensible program structure now, an IM GUI which works with mouse/keys/whatever, and an editor for the debris. The debris are pushed off the ship by a shockwave, and next I'll add some missile puffs that the debris will leave as trails. So, there'll be a standard central explosion animation, then the little trails from the bits which fly off.

(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/debris_editor.png)

Action 52 related roughs:
(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/haunted_halls_roughs.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Radix/hhshot03.png)

Just joined to say you're all doing fantastic work

Noticed something when I ran through fuzz power, was able to replicate it a few times but if any of the brown hairballs (I assume) are near the boss and you roll into them it drains his health in a heartbeat. I've been able to take the boss out in about two rounds.

Just so you know, unless it was intended for 2hit kills if you have the right timing down

Finalizing most things. Just wondering, do we have to make our 'back to main menu' command do anything besides close our program?

Radix, that's really nice.

It doesn't really solve the problem, which is that the full brightness range is used on both the foreground and background.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/254701/blog/action52/gameShotedit.png)

This is a quick and very extreme edit, meant mostly to stimulate the imagination. I cut the BG and FG into different layers and made them internally less contrasty, colorized the background, and brightened the foreground. It's still possible to retain the "pop" of the original and use less obvious color coding with some more effort - but from a pure readability standpoint, restraining background, foreground, and characters to specific color and brightness ranges is probably the most effective thing you can do.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/254701/blog/action52/ninjaRun_unfinished.gif)

I've got an unfinished ninja run. Still got the cleanup/lights/colors to do, and the swords need some size and position tweaks, but the basic look is OK, I think. The rotoscoped approach really worked out!

I've put up a new build here (http://androidarts.com/megalonia/builds/). It just shows off the explosion stuff I've been working on, so, while playable, it's not a game demo.

Sorry to bother once again, but is there any way we can swap/change projects? I've signed up for Bits and Pieces, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time to finish it within a reasonable timeframe, but I would be able to remake Meong. Is this ok? =o

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Radix/hhshot04.png)

Oh man. Spent way too much time today giving regular enemies like boss-levels of logic.

I didnt try it yet, but can't you just resign via the signup page and then immediately sign up for something different again?

I've tried to, but it keeps saying this;

"You've already reserved a game!
Invalid TIGSource ID"

Wonder how the other porjects are going, Haunted Hills/Halls is looking pretty damn epic so far.

Radix, it's been bothering me for the longest time, but I swear I've seen a healthbar like that in some game before, any ideas on what I may be thinking of? It's something that's now bothering me a wee bit on trying to remember.

PM Podunkian, he's the only one that can switch people around.

Where has he been lately anyway?

@ Triplefox

I see what you mean, though I've had several opinions saying that they weren't bothered by the background even before I made that change. I guess it's more evident in motion.

I'll experiment with it later and see if I can come up with something better.

i'm not sure myself, but it reminds me of this:

(http://konjak.org/abandoned/medusa_2.gif)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Radix/hhshot04.png)

Saw this thread.  I said to myself "This will be awesome."  I want to help in some way, but I'm not skilled at game development, music making, or graphics.  So instead, I want to make a user interface in Game Maker that loads each of the games .EXEs, complete with descriptions, previews, etc.  Would it be OK if I could do this?

I think podunkian himself would do that. And if you aren't talented in any way in graphics, why would someone let you do the loader anyways? I'm sure he wants it to look nice and fancy.

I was thinking of using graphics from the actual game, plus I HAVE used Game Maker before.

If you know Game Maker well enough to make a loader, why not try making a game?

I'm not THAT good at Game Maker.  Making a menu is easy, and so is getting the game to load other programs.  But I'm not talented at making the actual game.

there's only one way to learn, kid

Boss is almost done. It lacks only a boss and an ending or end screen. Should be done in a day or two. No worries.



There's even music! and sound! and bullets!

sorry, i'll be taking care of this.

i've swapped your game assignment. enjoy making one of the strangest games ever.

(http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/titlescreen.jpg)

Title screen for Dedant is done. The ant points at your current selection.

Yes, it's a survival horror game now.

Finishing up graphics.

...anyone else have any ideas for making a pink coathanger look threatening?

I'm finally done.
Here it is, Bubblegirl Rozy.

Download (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3698916/BubblegirlRozy.rar) (version 0.7)

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3698916/screenshot104.PNG) (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3698916/screenshot1100.PNG)

put a fetus on it.

Nice. That's pretty fun. I found the yellow powerup the most useful because it didn't have knockback, and you could do a little trick with it in which after firing the yellow bubble you turned around and the spread would fly to the side you're facing. Not game breaking, but it helped in at least one part.

Red powerup rapes the final boss.

I don't think I got all the little Action52 trophies. I imagine something happens if I do?

You get a special message if you beat it in Classic mode with 100%, but that's it : P
There are 8 trophies in total.

Thanks Melly!

Bubblegirl rozy is great!

Had a rather strange bug happen though in the middle of world two, had one of the powers that knock me back, and got hit while blowing a bubble, caused two screens to merge into one and Rozy just exploded midair with no enemies around her. No idea how it happened but it's there.

Also are there any healing items or anything? I keep getting to the end of world two and dieing. I suck at this D8

I have no idea, dude. I never put much thought into that stuff.

Fair enough, earlier today realized what it was, memories of Battletoads + Double Dragon's hearts. Ah well, guess I'm odd.

Another thing I found while beating classic mode in rozy is a pretty hilarious bug, not sure what could be done about it but might as well point it out

(http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/5776/rozyglitch.png)

Stand on the block I circled and if your on the left edge the camera won't be able to decide which screen to be on and it starts freaking out.

Wahaha, That is funny, no, you are not odd. Just Friday I was playing Battletoads + Double Dragon with some friends.  You said Radix life bar looked familiar.  I thought about it and it reminded me of Battletoads, even looked it up Google to double check my memory.  So yeah, you aren't alone in finding the health bar similar to the hearts in Battletoads.

@ThisIsACoolDude
I can't do much about your first issue, but I fixed the one with the blue block. Also yeah, no healing items! Thanks for your input!

Fair enough, the surprise at the end (I'm assuming, only beaten it on classic so far) was rather fun if not tough, taught me not to jump around like a moron, that's for sure

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Radix/HHgarg.gif)

I'm enjoying this, but I think I have run into a glitch with classic mode. Spikes don't seem to be harming me in the slightest! I think every time I've hit them has been after I've taken damage, though I don't know if that would change anything. (edit: decided to check after posting since I'm still in game, and it's not killing me at full health either. I probably broke something and have no idea how.)

Annnd one other thing. The boss in classic mode is beating me up, which is fine, but I noticed that you respawn right outside the door, which is also nice! unfortunately, I also noticed that both of the level's trophies respawn. Do those have to be recollected for 100% completion, or will they stay collected after I die despite appearing back in the level? (edit: Ended up answering that for myself, they stay collected, at least from the final boss respawn. Maybe make the trophies not show back up to avoid confusion?)

This is great!

I'm coming real late to the party though. I just grabbed the one available game, Bits N Pieces. Which I have not played, though I just viewed it on Youtube and I think I can do something interesting with it.

Am I too late? How many of these games are still outstanding? I'll spend some time reading through the thread to get up to speed.

 :handforkL:

This last bit got me to on that trophy before the door, I collected it every single chance I got as I wanted to make sure it counted.

Classic mode emulates many features from the original bubblegum rossie. First, spikes will never kill you (the original game also had this). There are also no hints, no hud, a very simple bubblegum and only two HP for the player.

Also, yeah, you don't need to recollect trophies.

I wonder how many people got 100% on this? haha

You should grab the rom and an emulator and play the game as much as you can to get a good feel for it.

Oh! The spike thing was intentional! Okay, never mind then. I haven't actually played any of the originals, heh.

It was pretty fun!

Dammit.

A friend spilled pop all over my lappie, and I lost all data on it.

I'll redo what I had soon, but I don't have the will right now...

Shit Bood, that sucks. :(

No backups?

Also, I was thinking. This isn't really a competition, but a community project. Maybe it'd fit better in the Projects forum? I don't care much that it stays here, just wondering.

Just checking in.  We didn't make the deadline but Mashman should be finished really shortly.  Here's the walk cycle for mashman.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795491/mashman_walk3.gif)

Haha, that's looking great.

Well on my way over here. Game is done, last few art assets to do.

(http://i42.tinypic.com/20gfqll.png)

Really awesome looking. It's not done in Flash, is it?

Not yet. Probably after the event, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaH4k1sQkIs

coming soon

Anyone interested in doing music for Storm over the Desert?

Current state of the game is this, ten days in, with me doing programming and unsilentwill doing art: http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1274137798 (no giant dictators yet, but we promise they will make it in)

There isn't any music in the original. I'm thinking the sound effects will be explosions and tank engine noises, and that it would be good to have some music to fill in the background.

I'll be working on level data structures today. I was thinking of using a one life approach where the second player can either be coop or an extra life of sorts (like how you can join an ongoing game in some arcade games, except each player only has one life). The levels will be pretty short (more like boss runs) and randomly picked.

Unrelated:

(http://androidarts.com/megalonia/macromike.jpg)

...amputee?

also, micro mike looks promising

I got stuck on the corner of a building with three tanks and wasn't able to move anymore.

Well, I ended up finding some music to use for Star Evil, so it's fulfilled all of its competition requirements now. I did a marginally long post about my design decisions on this forum (http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?p=744165).


My only request is that at some point the player is taunted with the phrase "You've dicked with the wrong dictator!"

I'm pretty sure LaikaMickle would love to do you sum muzacs.

Space Dreams DX!

Unfinished, as you may guess by my bitching about art assets in the readme.
Definitely need balancing feedback and etc.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7216965/SDDX0.9b.rar (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7216965/SDDX0.9b.rar)

I'm still tempted to change the terrible story line on my instruction page to the even more terrible one from the Action 52 manual.

Status update on "Hambo":

- All of the modelling is completed, the ambient sounds are in, and I've got the title screen working to the collab's specifications (yea!)
- I found a bug that occurred in my builds, but not the IDE. I think I've solved the problem, and that should be cleaned up very soon.
- I'm still waiting on my composer for music. I'm going to take the time to add a few more embellishments to the level (which could really use it...) and possibly add achievements into the game.

So to TL;DR: The game is essentially complete once I fix one bug, and then I can add music (once I get it), ZIP it up, and post, hopefully within the next day or two.

Well, it's technically a shmup where you die if you collide with something. I could make the collision detection on buildings a bit more forgiving.

I meant that I literally got stuck. I couldn't move, and nobody was coming along to shoot me so the game was kinda soft crashed. It wouldn't be bad if you died on collision.

Small video showing some of the current progress on Ooze.  Now that I have a tileset and a good portion of the engine code done things should start moving a little quicker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfN1tDij6c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfN1tDij6c)

That's looking pretty good Armchair.

I guess I should probably post some progress in here.

(http://i44.tinypic.com/55mm2s.png)

(http://i49.tinypic.com/2mpwuhg.png)

I think there's only gonna be two levels, but I'm spending a lot of time making sure the level design is good. After they're done, I'll see if I can put in a couple cutscenes and a boss, but they're low priority compared to finishing some actual levels. Also in the best case scenario I'd get a second song done.

Man, that's looking nice. I'm starting to think my game will be subpar in comparison to you guys. :'(

Which game is this? I don't recognize it.

This is looking really promising, modeling and animation looks great!

It's the original Jigsaw.

Oh yeah, that game that doesn't load half the time.

Sweet like mother's milk. Suggestions:
* Narrow the playing field! As a vertical shooter, it would be more compelling if the playing field was taller than wide.
* C to slow down, in the spirit of all quality danmaku.
* Make aimed bullets a different colour to unaimed bullets. I think the well-used cyan-unaimed/pink-aimed colour scheme would work well for this game.
* The enemies that fire downward are much more defensive than other kinds, but there's no real reason to explicitly engage them over other enemies. Idea: make it so that they fire aimed shots in addition to downward shots.
* The enemies should be deployed with a bit more intention - mix high-threat targets with low-threat targets, for instance.
* Scoring idea: In addition to an enemy's point value, you gain n extra points if you didn't miss with the previous n shots.

Yet another update. Mostly graphical, I've been making assets and trying to pretty the game up a bit. It's the home stretch now, The rest of the AI will come pretty quickly.

http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/Demo.zip (http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/Demo.zip)

SUDDEN AMAZING SUGGESTION:

Finishing Cry Baby should give you a special cheat code for Space Dreams.
Or vice versa.

ALSO:

Mr. P would you link the done-like-dinner games in the first post? I want to lord it over the others consolidate the finished stuff in one place so we don't lose track.

Thinking about promoting the final product, would it be okay if the Flash entries go out to portals, with big obnoxious links to the project site? We could, like, gang up on all the big portals and swamp them with A52 games all at the same time, or maybe over the course of a week.

Okay, here is 1.0!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7216965/SDDX1.0.rar
It's basically 0.9 with all the graphics, a few small fixes, and more sounds.

Now I'm not done yet!
This is simply the first complete version.

I've had lots of ideas for other features, and lots of suggestions (thank you L), and I'm going to see what I can hack around with while the other entries trickle in.

This is great. I made it to lvl 3, how many are there? Very hard but overall cool. I wish there were more upgrades to the gun though, or ways to fire more than 4 shots..

Last two days weren't too productive, but I already have the first level's design pretty much decided. I just need to touch up the gameplay, make two more enemies, a boss, and I should have a playable build.

If battlerager manages to finish some songs for me of course.

In other news, I'm still a bit undecided on the boss' design. Anyone wanna contribute ideas for what a Timewarp boss would be like?

There are 12 levels.
Upgrades are another good idea I may try.
I honestly can't tell how hard it is because I've been testing it too much.

Alright, it's "need some feedback" time!

(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9711/illum2.gif)
http://www.l-ames.com/logan/illum-2.zip

C turns your flashlight on/off.  When on, it depletes.  When off, it charges, and when overcharged can shoot out a beam that can kill ghouls.  The regular light can still hurt ghouls, but only very slowly.

X is the action button, which opens doors, picks up items, and plugs lights into sockets.  There's an action context display thingy in the corner to help keep track of what you can do.  The plug-in lights you can find are very helpful, so keep an eye out for them.

A finite number of ghouls will appear in the house, but nothing happens when you kill 'em all.  I'm not really sure what the best sort of goal would be here.

And I apparently can't draw human peoples, so there's no player graphics yet.


What I wanna know:

Does the lighting system run too slow to be playable?  Particularly when an enemy is burning?  I've only got my own computer to test this on, so I'd like to know how drastic this issue gets.

Does the game, as it's going, have merit?  Is the flashlight over-charging thing too annoying, how you need to be so vulnerable for a short time before you can attack?

Could you figure out how to play at all?  Is the display too confusing?

Would X be a better choice for the flashlight?

...And any other thoughts on the game so far.

I like it :) . It doesn't run slow for me in windowed mode at all. Even burning ghouls in a fairly large room I don't get any noticeable slowdown. In fullscreen It lags a little, but it's still playable.

I think the flashlight charging mechanic is good the way it is. It might be interesting if you could close doors to slow ghouls down a bit.

At the risk of being a late idiot, has anyone who's on the list dropped out?  

Also, a lot of these games are shaping up pretty great : )

I'd like to make a game...

 :o

Pod, drop some slacker, we need Increpare in this shit.

If there is a slacker, of course, though honestly I doubt all of the 51 developers are working. The odds of that are pretty slim.

i'm removing people today.

(http://echostains.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/wood_amgothic.jpg)

     :durr:     :durr:



(too obscure?)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/421763/beeps%20and%20blips.zip

So yeah theres a title screen and a boss and stuff (the boss is after level 7). Also theres no ending. The game ends, theres just no ending. I might change that later some time.

Anyway I guess this is pretty much done? (Apart from ending).

 :mockangry:increpare is remaking cheetahmen. :mockangry:

also, i've removed a lot of the people i hadn't heard any progress from. sorry if you were working on something but i think my PM's were PRETTY CLEAR a week ago!

i am still alive don't worry i see you worrying like little girls

alfredo is going slow but he is going

however i understand you going MAKE STUFF OR GET OUT and so unlike what i currently have which is broken and ugly tomorrow i'll try to have something that is worth showing to your sensitive human eyes

Holy shit! :o

Think you're up to the challenge Increpare?

Though in all honesty it seems like the opposite of the type of game Inc tends to make. Could be very interesting though.

@ muku

o.o Erm...

Paul told me you were wondering about the progress on Silver Sword, Podunk. The progress is this: everything is done except enemy sprites. Once they are done. I'll post a classic version for inclusion in the compo A52 release. The gameplay is fairly simple, so I don't know how fun it will be. All you do is kill enemies with different elemental swords and drive up your score until you die.

Then I'm going to work on an Enhanced version. If I finish it before compo is over, I'll submit it too.

Just 2 questions. Im just a follower of this project and I would like to know. Will you put the link of all the games and how many MB will the file measure.


TY all for making good games out of shitty ones. :)

Be prepared to be pulled forcefully from your cosy existence
(http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/handpull.png)


Into a world of intrigue and cheetahs

(http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/bandw.png)

a...are those cheetits...?

yes. yes. yes. YES. YES.
this is gonna own

Just an assurance that Billy Bob is being worked on, but that most of it is coding, which is makes for boring posts, unless you get off to that kind of thing.

I have made an addendum to Shooting Gal(lery), it can be found here:

http://sites.google.com/site/lucamakesthings/shooting-gallery

Changes:

Menu Layout changed to comply with rules
Crocodile now moves in from the right
Venetian blinds effect on exit!

Have a go and please leave feedback so I can continue improving this little project. :)

I'll post a new version of Operation Full moon very soon

looking forward to it

Doing Cheetahmen as an art game would be pure genius.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7216965/SDDK12.rar (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7216965/SDDK12.rar)

this is it
except if i really screwed up
bluuuuuhhhhhhhhsleepnow

Mr. P you can green my game name on the big list too. If you missed the link to the final version, it's here: http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/StarEvil.zip

Shooting Gallery suggestions:
* Is there any penalty for missed shots?
* The crocodiles add a bit of humour to the game. I think you could pursue this vein further by including more, stranger animals that pop up when time's running out - rhinoceroces, for instance, or maybe flamingos, penguins or dinosaurs.
* Get a title screen object to quit the game when Esc is pressed.

One last Space Dreams suggestion:
* The enemy hit sound is a bit... hard? It seems a bit out-of-place in a game with such a gentle theme as this. Should sound less like hitting a brick wall with a hammer and more like hitting a sack of flour with an spear, if that makes sense.

@ increpare

I don't think my body can take that. It's too much. :crazy:

CheetahMEN not CheetahPEOPLE.

The "Punch and fly" glitch should be preserved in the form of an unlockable cheat.

-SirNiko

@ increpare
 the nice thing about this is because its black and white you can get an E rating by saying its just spots!

Manchester Beat isn't as far along as I hoped it would be. My lack of music experience has caused me to hit a snag with the rhythm half of the game. The beat 'em up part is nearly finished.

Hopefully I can start filming Manchester's sprite today. I'm going to try something like Mortal Kombat for the graphics.

EDIT: Anyone have any suggestions for the second level's graphics? The one that is originally just a bunch of peace sign tiles? 'Cause I have no idea...

A peace rally where you beat up hippies.

Also, Mortal Kombat style video sprites sounds cool.

Mister Podunkian, can you put links on your page when people complete their games? That would be helpful.

Having just picked up Bits and Pieces a couple days ago, on a very busy week, I'm going to have to go minimal with my game. Expect to see some bits n pieces of minimalized Bits n Pieces this weekend.

Here is the completed movement engine for our remake of Billy Bob. Arrow keys move and duck, X jumps, C and V are test keys for picking up and throwing items.
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/5640/billybob.png)

Download - http://www.mediafire.com/?mymwyayyjmk

I can't do any more work on the game until I find a pixel artist though.

Whoa, I had no idea the background looked so grating in-game! You'll definitely need to replace that.

Also, I'm impressed you can type so well.

Why is no one helping this man

Got some work on G-Force Fighters after I desisted to work on Dam Busters. I've a main engine made, although I want to add a multiplier and I still have to program the enemies, but this should take an afternoon. I was think about making this like an arcade, one-level only game but with the ship getting faster each time you do a lap, while making things interesting with multipliers (and perhaps power-ups?).
Here's a screenshot (some sprites need work, but the final game will be more or less like
this):
(http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7118/gforcefighters.png)

Yes, the background is repetitive. Thanks, I'm glad I improved English!

I don't have access to any of my art tools or software, I had to put them in storage for the summer; if anyone could lend aski a hand here, I'd give you a notch of respect.

Idea: Think of something to do with the "G-Force" in the title and story. Maybe rather than just a straight shooter, the ship gradually starts to be pulled downward. Eventually, the gravity becomes so strong that the 'up' button no longer moves you up but simply slows your descent. Fortunately, the level starts slanting downward at that point so you can keep going.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/421763/babscr1.png)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/421763/babscr2.png)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/421763/beeps%20and%20blips.zip

I guess this is done done.

also esc goes back to main menu (but you will lose progress)

HELLO MISTER SUB12. If you need any help with the music on Lollipops, please tell me, because I have made remixes. I think good remixes.

Here is part of one. (http://www.box.net/shared/dhvoaee1xo)

Oh God let me help you with Lollipops, I noticed this contest too late

@easyname:  Found a small bug.  It seems that if you sustain damage and press escape to go back to the main menu, and then decide to play again, you restart the game with the same amount of health you had when you quit.

In any event, the game's still fun, and much better than Active Enterprise's version.  I'll play through it a bit more later.

I fixed something very similar but somehow completely failed to spot that. Thanks for pointing it out :) It's been fixed.

here (http://drop.io/action52owns) because i was bored and enjoy wasting time.

Hey there,

Been working on Meong a bit, and will hopefully be able to get some shots up sometime soon. I've gone for a more Puzzle/RPG style of gameplay with this one, with the random pits and tiles being replaced by various traps within a dungeon. The goal of the game is simple; try to navigate each room, scanning carefully for traps and working out puzzles along the way. I just hope the final product will be enjoyable for people to play.  :epileptic:

I hate to be the bearer of semi-bad news, but I found a movement bug.  It seems that when you hold down c to lock your firing direction, you cannot move diagonally downwards (so no down-right or down-left). This also occurs if you charge your shots and lock your direction (so holding down both z and c).  The direction you are facing when you lock your position does not matter.

i'm sorry but it's a problem related to your keyboard. i can perfectly do what you are saying it's impossible. some keyboards dont allow you to hold more than 3 keys at once, so it's prolly a problem on your end.

Hmmm... Odd.  :-\  I don't quite know if it is a keyboard problem or not, though.  It could be, but if it's an input problem, shouldn't I be having problems moving diagonally upward, as well?  That works fine for me, even though I'm holding down four keys.  Also, down stops working for me when holding z and c, while all other cardinal directions work fine.

I'm not saying you're wrong... I just find this a bit odd.  I'll do a few tests with my keyboard; see if my keyboard sucks or not. :)

EDIT:  It does appear to be my keyboard.  I'm still a bit perplexed as to why certain key combinations work while some don't though...  At least I know it isn't a game issue.

Keyboard can be like that.

The event limits the buttons to X and C, so I believe we can't really make keys configurable.

Well, if there's anything I've learned from my programming classes, I've learned that computers have the tendency to be very finicky.

I just hope that it doesn't impact any other testing I do for you guys.  I may not have much (or for that matter, any) experience with making games yet, but I'll be more than happy to report any bugs I find during play.

By the way, Beeps and Blips is pretty awesome. I like the sounds and music, though I think you went a bit too far with the screen shaking, and the large circular blue shots seem to have a slightly unfairly large collision area. You should make sure the player can't be hit by something when no pixels touch eachother (in a circular object, using bounding boxes, it's better to make the box smaller than the sprite).

Ok, I updated the collision stuff for the circles.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1550500/sombreros.png)

first time I've really had anything to show for sombreros

Nifty keen. So what does the Sombrerometer do?

freezing time and calling shots like so:

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1550500/sombreros2.png)

Whoa, that looks awesome Dustin Gunn. Reminds me a lot of Flint from Mother 3 haha.

I see a Gun.Smoke vibe there.

That is a good vibe.

Yeah the sombrer-bro is definitely based on flint.

Wow, I really like this! You did a great job embracing the details of the original (both the gameplay and the odd style of art), and making it into something better. Thanks.

Updated with V1.3 of fuzz power
I just made the title screen a bit less lame.

I'm using my site to host the file and deleting all the previous ones I used dropbox to send.

so you can check out my site (http://jajitsu.com/games-html/fuzz-power) or click this. (http://jajitsu.com/wp-admin/incl/libfile.php?PHPSESSID=f5ojng4g2m2pdbmvjv6i9ihkp2&path=&filename=Fuzz_Power_V1_3.zip&action=download)

That's cool - I wasn't able to beat the final boss, but in general it felt really neat.  Great stuff   : )

Been busy, got some work done today, though. Basic gameplay and scoring is in.

THEY CAME - 0.3 (http://home.no/omraa/TheyCame-Alpha3.html)

Fun! Just beat the boss. The ending is quite charming. :)

It gets really tiring holding down the direction-lock to aim upward at the boss. Could it be a toggle? Also, it's really easy to lose the player character during the boss what with the shaking screen and the explosions which look remarkably similar to the player.

Jupiter Scope is done!
Get it here: http://26k.org/play/jupiter_scope_v1.zip

(http://26k.org/img/jupiter_v1_1.jpg)

Pretty happy with how it turned out, probably ended up spending just over 2 weeks total on it.
This was really fun, glad to have been a part of it, can't wait to see the rest of the 52.  :beer:

Wow, lowpoly, Jupiter Scope looks great.  I really like the art, such nice colors, city, night, nice look to it. I gotta give it a go.

Taking Thrusters, the best of the 2 games free..

But please give me a few days to make it :P

The music still seems awfully repetitive, what with only 6 seconds... Didn't the original Action 52 music change things up after 2 loops by switching out some of the instruments? Just a thought.