So here are the lucky winners!

• Zuky
• Mebibyte
• Dragonoxforce
• Michael
• Hazardhunter

Winners, I have sent you the code though Steam, so you would soon be receiving a mail from them. Enjoy!

And if you didn’t win, no worries. I’m pretty sure I will be having one more of these giveaway’s very soon. Keep you posted.

Wow, 53 requests! Thanks for commenting, people. I have closed the comment section so I can pick up 5 random winners in the next half hour and shall send you guys codes.

In this point-and-click adventure game, one plays as Nelson Tethers, the only agent of the FBI’s Department of Puzzle Research. Nelson is on a mission to find out why production of eraser heads has stopped in the quiet town of Scoggins, Minnesota. Interact with the locals, solve puzzles and investigate bizarre incidents in this pooky, one-of-a-kind puzzle games.

I loved playing Puzzle Agent and I think fans of this game genre ’should’ play this. So with the summer sale happening over at Steam, I purchased a few extra copy of this game. Feel free to leave a comment and five random winners will get a copy each

Dont forget to check out cartoonist/animator - Graham Annable. He created the look and feel for Puzzle Agent. Head to his site to see some really interesting works.

Wall Defender MX is a pet project in development. It’s a clone of Bomb Software’s 1983 Atari Game by the same name. This game take a bit at the lone spaceman defending his last place in space, defending the dysfunctional dead-space fortress as it drifts though Xorthor territory and other space bandits zones. The Video-cap featured here is a preview of art development of the game.

Slow-motion study of the robot transformation.

KSM is a side scroller 2D pixel-style game with a multitude of enemies and equal number of special combo moves as the player hacks and slashes his way though the kingdom in search of treasures.

KSM is only a test game and will be made with Stencyl (Flash game maker). Working on this mini project would give me an opportunity to collaborate with other Stencyl behavior programmers and strengthen my knowledge on how to make a solid game with Stencyl.

Related posts: Red Knight, Red Knight Gets Down.

I’ve turned in the mini test game over to the Stencyl community for peer review and am hoping to get a talented programmer who can help out with all the behaviors that I was unable to tackle. So for now, here are some level screen shots of the game!

Want to read more about the development? Check these earlier posts:

• Enclave – Concept Designs
• Enclave – Character Run Cycle
• Test Game Play
• Learn How to Make a 2-Frame Walk Cycle

Got the run-cycle nailed down correctly in Flash, but it doesn’t look like the best cycle. For now it helps my purpose so I’m going to stick with this.

Concept art for the main character. Run-cycles coming up next.

Well, a big thanks to Kickstarter for featuring our game.

Anther shout-out from GameSetWatch!

Another shout-out for Indie Jones @Blodic.us, sweeet!

And Nobuooo too!

To learn more about Indie Jones, go here.

Game development is really fun, especially figuring out timing on different characters. Here’s a preview of what this bot’s walk cycle would look like.

Recently, Nate mailed saying that he’s uploading his documentary to Kickstarter, asking netizens of the Interbutt to help fund his movie. We spoke about other ways to get this message out there so that more people could support this project. My friend and I have been working on a concept to make this message go a bit more viral. We’re also on a tight deadline to get this completed before the Kickstarter deadline. (Project funding closes on September 1, 11:59 pm EDT)

The concept is quite simple: one plays as Nate, the Indie(ana) Jones who is being chased by this big boulder of time to get all the funding he needs for his project. He needs to collect every little gem he comes across and avoid pitfalls and dodge objects that come across his way.

After we worked out a list of art and animation assets to be made, I roughed out some concept art for the game play and dived right into the style that I wanted the game to look like. First targeting the character designs, turnarounds and run cycle.

Now Nate doesn’t look anything like the character and I felt that I really needed to tweak the art style or do a completely different approach to make the character look more like the reference. Deciding to go 8-bit style, I was able to get Indie to look exactly like Nate…
For the technically curious, Pixel Tools, v2.0 pixel plugin by the neuroscientist Patrick Mineault, is a boon to Flash artists/animators everywhere. I was able to work around the bug that kept crashing Flash.

This game style is a bit new to me as I haven’t worked much on this patience-draining-yet-worth-every-second art approach.

Will keep you posted on further updates.

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This is a small animation that I created for the instructions page for the game mentioned in an earlier post. I’ve included the Flash source file so that anyone can use it for their non-commercial/personal projects. Feel free to download the FLA file and create your own animation with these assets!

The audio track is by REECEY-BOY

I’ve received quite a few requests to create a tutorial on how to rig characters for animation and games. That article will soon be covered.

Cheers!

The character went through a bit more evolution and I fine-tuned the colors so it’s easy to animate. I decided not to use strokes or lines so as to keep the animation easy and that way the turnaround time for the assets would be quicker.

Run cycles of the Kid from Vault 101.

Pvt. Bedlam is a game concept inspired by the movie Jacob’s Ladder. Bedlam’s crew was picked by the Army to try out new experimental performance drugs to make universal soldiers, but things go bad with the first batch of testing and the Private is one of the mad survivors who is hayballin’ his way outta there. Alice’s Restaurant Massacre would probably be the most fitting track for this game.

Cover art for the game of the same name.

The other game I made that’s been green-lit is Sprint Attack. It’s a take on Super Sprint with football players pushing opponents off the tracks, picking up bonuses and dodging Big Red Blitz Bots. It’s a well-made game; have fun playing it here on the NFLRZ.

You can download the template here: (PDF)|(Word) Temporarily unavailable.

Feel free to modify and contribute.

Roughed out some concept guns over the weekend.