Hello my friends,

This is thecatamites, z tier art dev best known for classics of the shareware era such as Murder Dog IV, Space Funeral, Goblet Grotto & more, I write to inform you all that I have a new thing out now and I think it's real swell.

The name of the game is 10 BEAUTIFUL POSTCARDS and started out as my effort at making a children's game. The genre description / elevator pitch is "yume nikki x smarty x girl's garden". There are many elaborate multimedia collage ruins for you to roam across with your eyes and hands.

The website is here for more details: http://harmonyzone.org/10BeautifulPostcards.html
The game costs $6 and is out for Win/Mac/Linux consoles.

See you my friends,
Stephen

Grrreetings 

I made a new game and I'm here to tell you about it. It's a game called MAGIC WAND:




This is a cheap weird little mystery game designed to evoke the dreamy prissy wander sensations of the jrpg form without having to turnbasedbattle shit. It came out this week and initial impressions were good. From developer of smash hit Monster Party clone  Space Funeral and codeveloper of IGF Excellence-In-Narrative-Despite-Not-Having-Any murder sim Goblet Grotto comes this new one which may tickle you similarly. The game costs €5 but true memories are worth more than goldcoins.

WEBSITE:
http://harmonyzone.org/MagicWand.html

VIDEO:




Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy videogame!!! Collect all the crystals 

Greetings 

This is thecatamites of harmonyzone.org and many fine free games, including Space Funeral, Goblet Grotto, Murder Dog IV, and some others.
I am writing you to announce a new one, in 3d and Unity engine, released as "Pay What You Want" for Macintosh, Linux and PC, known only as "Mouse Corp."

http://thecatamites.itch.io/mouse-corp






This exciting simulation game puts you in "paws" of the Mouse Corp and their benevolent world mission. Explore a weary land. Find secrets and make friends. Kill people, sleep, listen to music. It's just another day in the Mouse Corp.

I hope you like my silly videogame.
- Stephen

Greetings 

This is thecatamites of harmonyzone.org and many fine free games, including Space Funeral, Goblet Grotto, Murder Dog IV, and some others.
I am writing you to announce a new one, in 3d and Unity engine, released as "Pay What You Want" for Macintosh, Linux and PC, known only as "Mouse Corp."

http://thecatamites.itch.io/mouse-corp






This exciting simulation game puts you in "paws" of the Mouse Corp and their benevolent world mission. Explore a weary land. Find secrets and make friends. Kill people, sleep, listen to music. It's just another day in the Mouse Corp.

I hope you like my silly videogame.
- Stephen

Hi TIGSource,

How are you? I am well.
This is thecatamites who developed Space Funeral and some other games. I am posting here my first commercial entry, the "50 Short Games". O, it is beautiful. O, it is wonderful. The blind will see and the dead shall work. A whole 50 games for a paltry €4. The games were previously released for free on glorioustrainwrecks.com but really why get into particulars? It is surely easier to buy this bumper pack - which comes replete with spiffy loader - than download a whole 50 games one by one, and beside this has notes and other things.

Here is a picture of the loader:


Here are pictures of three of the games. The packet contains 47 more.
http://harmonyzone.org/Pics/50ShortGames/MagnificentPlanet.png

http://harmonyzone.org/Pics/50ShortGames/Pamela.png

This is currently only for PC but I hope to have Mac and Linux releases shortly, using money from the PC one.

The website page is http://harmonyzone.org/50SHORTGAMES.html

Well, stay cool.... 

Sincerely,
Stephen / @thecatamites / harmonyzone.org

*Tuh* I'm NEVER gonna find that many Wonderberries!

was the judge feedback ever sent out for this? i desire all crits

For what it's worth I think all the tickets were gone around a week beforehand anyway hah - or at least there weren't any when I checked!

Do they still email people the judge reports? I haven't read all of the pages... 

I'm still depressed and crawling on the ground D:

join the club!

MACINTOSH version was released some days ago, I hear.

GOBLET GROTTO
 


"A mysterious cavern...
Filled with goblets...
Valuable goblets...
Wonderful goblets...
Retrieve the goblets...
Don't get eaten...
Don't get bludgeoned...
Don't get tired...
Don't get caught...
Collect the goblets..."
 
DOWNLOAD:
 
http://harmonyzone.org/GobletGrotto.html window
http://gamejolt.com/games/rpg/goblet-grotto/10253/ mirror

Freeware videogame & mystery pak by Stephen Gillmurphy and J Chastain
Wonderful music provided by NEW VADERS.
Instructions provided within package.
Mac version coming soon - you cannot change this.
Well, thanks for looking at our game.


Over 'n' out.............

-thecatamites 

Hey, it's me, thecatamites. Well, thanks for reading my web site.

- thecatamites

I played one of his shareware games a while back (it might have been The Supernatural Olympics?) and thought it was actually pretty great. It consisted pretty much entirely of running until you flew off the ground and then using different boosts and powers to speed up and remain airborne until you came crashing down again. A bit like the cape in Mario World crossed with idk some terrifyingly elaborate and detailed flight simulator. You actually do end up getting absorbed into this sensation of speed and movement. Most of the actual challenges seemed to be about getting your numbers to stay within increasingly specific ranges (fly to over 1800 metres in 30 seconds! keep your speed between 70~90km/h for 12 seconds!) but it was good for all this. I am looking forward to Platform Masters with ferocious intensity.

I have this book, but it's just some sort of biography isn't it?

To be honest if anything I'd say it's less a biography of Lovecraft and more a kind of statement of intent for Houellebecq as he identifies what he sees as the most important "lessons" of Lovecraft - that 'the real world' is a miserable and horrifying condition, the virtues of imagination over realism, etc. Like this is the very beginning of the book

Life is disappointing and full of sorrow. It would be pointless, then, to write more realist novels. In general, we know already what reality has in store for us; and we have not the slightest desire to know more. Humanity itself inspires in us no more than a mild curiosity. All their “writings” in all their prodigious subtlety, their “situations”, their anecdotes…All this does nothing, once the book is closed, except confirm in us a slight sensation of nausea already sufficiently nourished by any given day of ‘real life’.

Now, listen to Howard Philips Lovecraft: “I am so tired of humanity and of the world that nothing interests me unless it involves at least two murders per page, or speaks of nameless horrors emanating from the outer reaches of space.”

Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890-1937). We have need of a supreme antidote against all forms of realism.

Whether or not you agree with this stuff is another thing but seeing someone very passionately and intelligently writing about works they admire can be pretty great and I know it sent me back into Lovecraft's books with a new eye. It's also pretty entertaining in its own right!

For what it's worth I still prefer Michel Houllebecq's essay/biography of HP Lovecraft to any of the actual Lovecraft stories I've read.

EDIT gulp looks like the link is gone but it's well worth searching around for if you get a chance...

IIRC there's a joke in one of Lem's books ('Peace On Earth'?) about LEMs being specialised disposable space robots that were given the same name as some NASA lunar thing to cover up their real purpose. Wonder if this is a nod to that Dick thing. I like both their stuff a lot and it's real good to see that a whole stack of old Lem books have been reprinted over here.

Right now I'm still reading that Musil book and also going through Alain Robbe-Grillet's "Recollections Of The Golden Triangle" which is basically a carefully constructed labyrinth-book that I'd need to reread to fully get. It's good though and a lot less uh drab than is the prevailing image of his books?? Actually it's stuffed with murders and secret societies and twisting mazes and disturbing fetish stuff and paranoia and is pretty unsettling as a whole.
Also I got a cheap collection of EC Segar's old Popeye comicstrips and they're fantastic. J Wellington Wimpy is a hilarious creation and there's a surprising amount of tonal shifts from humour to action to suspense to adventure comic which are all pulled off well. Def recommended.

quick game barfed up in less than 2 weeks for the 'justice' pageant at superfriendshipclub.com


 

 
Murder Dog is on trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity. Get involved in the proceedings. Six brutal endings.
 
controls: mouse clix
 
DOWNLOAD: http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/murder-dog-iv-trial-of-the-murder-dog/files/murder-dog-v1-0/download/5807/7654/

i am extremely interested in this "heroin" substance which you say has similar effects to popular Peggle game?? please tell me where to buy "heroin""??

edit: is there way to give xbox achievements for successful "heroin" usage?? how can we improve on the gui of "Heroin" for more immersive play experience?? this idea has potential and i predict it will be "The new cool" of games in 2012

Make it addictive
This is one that can’t always be implemented. And of course, all designers probably want this. Get ‘em hooked on a simple but addictive gameplay element and you’ve pretty much guaranteed yourself a bundle o’ dough. Hell, who woulda thunk a game with a unicorn mascot based around a game that became popular with a daytime TV show (Pachinko) would help get their company sold for over a billion dollars? I probably wouldn’t have put money on it if someone had said it that way… but if you play Peggle… then you start to understand why. That crap is addictive like heroin added to your morning cup of coffee. Heck, I’ve put more hours into Zuma-alikes than I’d care to admit.

And frankly, although I seriously dug Crackdown, the thing that kept me playing for hours and hours on end were those goddamn orbs. I just.. needed…. to… get… one… more…

Addict me, I’m begging you.

my profesional diagnosis is that you have severe psychological problems. im ver sorry

Just finished reading Adorno's Minima Moralia. Now I'll begin to read Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham. Looks like a fun book.

what did you think of minima moralia, i liked it a lot but part of this was because a lot of time it felt like an uneasy cross between really sharp criticism and a minor paranoid breakdown.

I'm reading "The Man Without Qualities" by Robert Musil, I had it lying around for aaages but I was too terrified to read it since it's heavy as shit and also 1000+ page unfinished modernist novel aaa. It turns out to be really good and surprisingly readable though, kind of similar to Thomas Mann (musil rises from grave to shriek at me for saying this, holey moley..)