The A Game By Its Cover Competition’s voting is coming to a close quite soon, and I finally was able to release a trailer featuring all 67 games! I put a TON of work into this video so please play all of these awesome games and head over to tigsource and vote!
Exterminator is a game that seems to have been in development for a while now; and I do hope it gets finished. The current build of the game is beautiful and the game-play is very exciting. The different difficulties offer great replay value and the co-op mode is a blast. Exterminator is a side scroll, platform shooter in which you must eliminate all the Grubbies in each level as fast as you can before they “mount” and multiply. The posters throughout the levels, along with scrolling messages promote some overall storyline; however we will have to wait for the full version to dive into it.
I was in contact with Chad for a while, asking for updates and anxiously anticipating the game’s release. When the demo came out a while ago, I played it and was very glad to see the progress this game has made. Recently I was curious on the games progress and have had no response. I do hope this game gets finished, because it truly is a gem!
Here is some new character art from Dave for upcoming levels in Sandy Evolution. They look very stunning and it seems the artwork is only getting better. I’m excited to see what he will come up with; and I’m even more excited to see the characters come alive. (hope you guys are to!) We will get working on the second level, and hopefully a playable build of level 2 will be available soon.
Voting for the AGBIC contest has officially begun! The quality of the games entered turned out EXCELLENT and like Anthony said from Bytejaker,“If you haven’t been keeping up with the A Game By Its Cover competition on TIGsource, I can’t even bear to look at you anymore.” So, head over there, download the torrent and give the games a go! And afterward, don’t forget to vote of course!. ^_^
Today I decided I needed to start a game development blog –lately I have been working on so many projects with such a narrow minded opinion. After participating in some contests (especially the TIG Source AGBIC contest) I realized that community feed back not only adds to a games success but it is essential. So I will now be updating my progress on my current games and I hope to get some good feed back from you guys!
Currently I am working on 2 projects simultaneously; Sandy Evolution and Guidance (working title).
A build of Sandy evolution was released for the TIG Source AGBIC contest and received some positive feed back. Sandy Evolution is a horizontal shooter in which you kill your enemies and collect their fragments in order to become a stronger creature. Currently the game only has 1 level and a boss, but we plan on developing a total of 9 levels. So stay tuned to follow its development, and give some great feed back!
Guidance — or what ever i’m going to call it — is a game that has been in the making for almost half a year now xD. The game will include up to 30 levels in which you must place various type or trampolines, gravity shifters, worm holes, and other objects to alter the balls path and send it to the vortex. The game includes many unique visual features such as when you beat a level, the level is sucked into the vortex and spit back out to form the next one. The development time has been so long because this game has been more of a side project for me. We are finally getting around to finishing it; a video and playable build will be posted soon!
Thanks for reading! Stick around to follow the development of these two games; your feedback will be much appreciated!
Game Development Blog -- Kurt Waldowski 