First, a half hour documentary about Ocean and Imagine games circa the early 80s. The boom and bust stuff is so over the top that it couldn't even be scripted. An absolutely amazing look into the world of the early UK development scene and gaming culture.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Tales from the Old School
Two very cool peeks into the fascinating days of the 80s and 90s games industry.
Monday, November 9, 2009
This Cat Is Horseshit - Final-ish Build
Pretty close to done with this one. I added an extra difficulty mode, changed up the interface and graphics, and tweaked the mechanics.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Ripple Dot Zero
My future favorite game. Beautiful colorful spritework. Yamaha-style Sega Genesis synths. It's the real Rocket Knight sequel as far as I'm concerned.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Shnabubula - Playing Super Mario World While Taking Mushrooms
Holy cow, what a tour de force. This is an incredible Super Mario World Medley/Jam Session injected with healthy dose of soul and humor by Shnabubula using the original Super Nintendo soundfonts. The final few minutes are pretty mind blowing. Take ten minutes out of your time and listen to this insane thing.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Mike the Cat's Legal Defense Fund: Demo 2

I finally made some more levels for Mike the Cat's Legal Defense Fund.
You can download the demo HERE. It's about 12 MB.
It includes three new challenge levels, an overhauled engine and some tweaks to the original levels. My microphone is broken, so I unfortunately wasn't able to record new dialogue for the CEO character. If you want to level select, you can press "d" on the title screen. I think I might whip out a couple of more CBS Storybreak remixes for special levels. Now that I have a better engine and have basically made it from the ground up, I'm going to try to push myself to work on a level or so a week. It's good to have the muse back.
Labels:
cats,
design,
mike the cat,
multimedia fusion,
my games,
platformers,
robots
Thursday, June 25, 2009
I'm starting a resource for Kabuki Quantum Fighter

Labels:
1990s,
famicom,
kabuki quantum fighter,
nes,
platformers
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
This Cat Is Horseshit
A videogame I'm developing for Something Awful's Development Challenge IV. The theme is Deals with the Devil. The game is called This Cat Is Horseshit. It's the Garbage Pail to the Cabbage Patch of Petz games. You have to pet sit for Satan's unruly nightmare cat. Working now on AI for the cat and balancing the resource management. This engine test is being manually controlled to show off the early level design. Here is a demo of the theme song.
Labels:
cats,
design,
indie,
multimedia fusion,
my games,
programming,
videos
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