Werewolves?

Hosting a game of Werewolves at this forum here. If you are unfamiliar with the game, it's basically an organized minority of people against an unorganized majority, full of trickery and deceit and backstabbing and paranoia. We need 32 people, only have about seven or so so far, so if you're interested go ahead and join.

Busy Month

Sleep levels are at an all time low.

Finished Mono for the YoYo Games Rapid Development Competition, where you make a game in 4 hours. Theme was "Black and White." Landed 5th place.

Also finished a game called Neo-Retro for another Rapid Development Competition, with the theme being "Retro." It sucked. Sucked so much that I don't even have a YYG link to it. It still placed in 2nd, somehow.

Pannenkoekenhuis tied for 5th place with a grand total of one vote in the GMC Jam.

Entered Pannenkoekenhuis and Retroplat into the Team Dark Tomorrow Contest, Retroplat placing 4th. Was originally going to polish up Camp, but it was way too buggy and I quit.

Also made a half-game called Quasifluid for the Game Jolt Inventions Competition but I got bored halfway and stopped.

Currently prototyping a procedurally-generated SHMUP where bullet patterns are randomly generated. Looking sort of stupid, in a glitchy, hey-I'm-a-program-and-I'm-going-to-hijack-one-of-your-system-functions sort of way.

Phew.

I think I'm going to lay off indie game design for a while.

College Emails Spam

Well I'm getting spammed with college emails. Rather than inb4rage on them I'm picking out their subject lines out-of-context.

Most likely to assassinate me: "You're on my list, Roy!" (Fordham University)
Most melancholic: "Trying to reach you ... please respond?" (Swarthmore College)
Stalker much?: "Since you're online, please read" (Drexel University)
Most likely to be a line from Watchmen: "They are people who deal in big ideas..." (Lyle School of Engineering)
Most... what?: "Our alums show up in a big way to help you succeed" (Colgate University)
Best attempt at a guess: "How are you mapping out your search for a college home - on a napkin?" (University of Chicago)
Most openly racist: "Be Decisive. Choose Rice." (Rice University) (Yes, I am Asian).
Most confused about Darwinian theories: "Roy, Your Evolution at Rutgers Begins Today." (Rutgers University)

Good night.

Pannenkoekenhuis

Finished a game for the GMC Jam: Pancakes. The title means "Pancake House" in Dutch.

Download

Made in 72 hours. Scrapped two projects until I managed to get to this (was originally a SHMUP, then a 3D city destroyer, then this). First time trying to make dubstep music and I'm pretty proud of that.

Here's a timelapse, though it's not very good:


Meanwhile, going to fix up the Games page of this blog sometime later. When I feel like it.

Let's play a game. "How long will it take thatsnail to finish updating the games page?" Place your bets.

Film - "Gifted"

Finished a film for school, thought I might as well post to it. The assignment was to make a film about being "gifted", interpreted in any way you want.


And here's the timelapse for it. 13 minutes of watch-how-fast-my-motivation-drops.

New Design

SEE I TOLD YOU. I TOLD YOU I'D GET AROUND TO FIXING IT BUT NOOO YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME!

Well here it is. Still sort of choppy on some fronts but it beats that frackity (new word nominations) green alien thing.

Ludum Dare results and a really shitty film.

Ludum Dare results came out for my game Trip (n.). Broke pretty much even, no highs or lows (though I haven't scored lower than 2.5 in any categories, which makes me happy).

Think I'm going to do mini-LD #23 in a few weeks or so.

As I'm writing this post I'm waiting for this dumb film to render. It's this video I have to make for high school about being gifted. My retarded self decided the best thing to do for such a video would be a surreal, silent indie film.

Have been working on this for two weeks straight.

If I had a time machine, I'd go back in time two weeks and punch out my former self for doing something like this.

PS - have a web template made in Photoshop but am too lazy/busy right now to import it, am sorry. That dumb green alien is annoying.