Interestings from around the webs
• Old School Animated GIFs (not actually animated GIFs at all)
• The Birth of Mega Man In this lengthy interview, illustrator Hitoshi Ariga talks to Akira Kitamura for the first time about his experiences with both the Mega Man and Mega Man 2 developments.
• Powder Toy Physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! The game provides you with various building materials, liquids, gases and electronic components which can be used to construct complex machines, guns, bombs, realistic terrains and almost anything else. You can then mine them and watch cool explosions, add intricate wirings, play with little stickmen or operate your machine.
• Usborne 1980s Coding Books for kids Check out the motherlode of old-school game-programming goodness in book-on-PDF form. The PDFs on the right hand side of the screen are free to download.
• Catlike Coding Tutorials for Unity 3D proper and some handy plugins.
Small Scale WiP Polish Checklist
Upload ƒinished project to
/HIVE Shared/HS/_FINAL/SS 2016/Name_of_yer_Game
Last last last day to have your game ready is Thursday February 18th.
Your projects should have:
• A GOOD NAME. Name your game something relevant. Make it snappy.
• AN INTRODUCTORY SENTENCE. Set the tone of your story in brief. Give the player an idea of what they're getting themselves into before they jump into it. Create a txt file intro.txt and leave it in the root folder of your game. This is also a good place to explain controls and/or any troubleshooting caveats, such as for example full-screen toggle quirks.
• BOX ART. Set the mood for your game in one picture. 1000×1000 pixels. No text in your box art. Label file boxart.png (or .jpg) and put it in the root folder of your game.
Interestings from around the webs
• Free Loaders some FRESH FREE games to try out
• Pipin Barr makes cool low-fidelity pixel art games
• The US’ Top Game Design School Will Now Publish Its Own Games
• Bosca Ceoil A free, easy to use online/download tool for creating midi/chiptune music