Gordon Freeman calls Coast to Coast
Gordon Freeman should get a tinfoil hat to go with his hazard suit. I can even forgive them forcing words into our favorite mute theoretical physicist’s mouth.
Via: Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Areas
Play Areas
Areas is an pretty super exercise in minimalist design. There’s no sound effects, any graphics are purely functional, no text, and a simpler input mechanism than I previously thought was possible. Only the movement of the mouse is used. No clicks. No keyboard buttons. Unlike the graphical design, the decision to only use mouse [...]
Media for Happiness
So I just wanted to drop a quick note about Knytt Stories. If you haven’t played it, I assure that it will improve your quality of life. It’s just got a real nice, quiet atmosphere. And the atmosphere is what really makes the game.
Download here.
Also;
I guess I’m a bit late to the Dan Deacon party, [...]
Kingdom of Machines ver 1.3
I’ve just added music to Kingdom of Machines! Plus there’s a bit of bug fixing and tweaking, but nothing major.
Go play it!
The music was made by my own two hands (plus GarageBand and it’s loops — I can’t actually make music for real) and it’s released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. If you want [...]
SFXR
I’ve just downloaded a program called SFXR by DrPetter. Windows only unfortunately, but really worth having. It’s a really simple specialised tool for creating 8-bit style sound effects that even I, who knows nothing of pitches and tones can use to make cool things. You can use the selection of sliders to change the attack, [...]
Another Captain
This time less cartoon, but more dinosaur patch. So the awesomeness rating evens out.
Prototype 09-12-07
Not particularly fun. Using a physics engine like APE straight out of the box can slow down prototyping a little, when you can’t get the functionality you want without breaking the laws. But I don’t know how to program constraints!! It’s just a pity APE’s constraints are so soft, and there’s no real way around [...]
Passage
Best five minute thing I’ve done today? download and play Passage.
It’s heartbreaking, and has wonderful design and presentation. It’s also interesting if you’re interested in abstract representations of complex ideas, rather than standard literal interpretations. I didn’t notice until the right towards the end the weird effect that’s going on isn’t just a weird effect, [...]