Bomber Madness, Pontifex III, and fan art

What happens when you combine a bomber with unlimited ammo, bad AI, and Lorenzo Lamas? I don't know! But here's what happens with the first two things. I've also been messing around with a ground attack plane, which you can see at the end of the video.

Here's a couple early Pontifex III screenshots:

There's still quite a few things we're still adding/fixing up, but it's starting to come together. The main new gameplay feature is the concrete material, so you can build your own anchors.

Also this guy made some Hitlers Must Die! fan art and won't stop bugging me about it, so here it is:

Finally if you're wondering/didn't know how to play the one Hitlers Must Die! level in No Quarter: V-Sides you have to enter the Konami Code with a gamepad while Cryptic Sea fades in and out at the beginning. The actual No Quarter beta won't start until next month, I think.

Cool fan-made HMD video

V-Sides Development Video

This video shows the prototypes of the V-Sides at about an hour increments, as you can see in the video Rescue Helicopter was actually harder than it is now. Most of the time was spent trying to get to the tasty gameplay center, even though the graphics look like they must've taken months they actually did not.

By the way if you're doubting that Rescue Helicopter is possible to beat, here's a screenshot proving you wrong:

If you didn't doubt that it was possible then you win a prize.

-Alex

No Quarter V-Sides

I've made a couple games for the Experimental Gameplay Project this month, the theme was Bare Minimum, and despite that I barely finished on time. Actually I spent about a day each on the games, which can be downloaded here: V-Sides Download

Update!

I realized I forgot to explain the controls, they are:

Rescue Helicopter:

Up/Down: Increase/decrease throttle

Left/Right: Rotate left/right

Button A(Space bar): Lower basket

Button B(S key): Raise basket

If the throttle is about 3/4 then you will hover, gentle taps of left and right are necessary to keep you balanced. Only one person can fit in the basket at a time.

Return to Skateboard Mountain:

Down: Duck

Left/Right: Lean left/right

Button A(Space bar): Jump (only if you're already ducking)

You can jump and flip if you lean and duck and then jump.

Using a gamepad is highly recommended.

The games are:

Rescue Helicopter, a helicopter sim inspired by Choplifter, where you try to rescue people with your helicopter. This game is HARD!

Return to Skateboard Mountain, inspired by Ski Stunt Simulator, skate down Skateboard Mountain doing radical jumps!

Both games use the No Quarter framework, which allowed me to prototype them very quickly. They feature old-school vector-based graphics, for all you old-school vector-based graphics fans. I have some videos that I'll try to throw together in the next couple days that show the progress of the prototypes. It won't be as cool as Petri's video for last months EGP but oh well.

Also thanks to all the people up in Toronto for showing me an awesome time, by some beer at The Beer Store for me, eh?

-Alex

Mission: Canada

Tomorrow I will be heading to Toronto to hang out with Raigan Burns and Mare Sheppard, the Brad and Angelina of indie games, and Jon Mak, the George Clooney of indie games, as well as some other people that I'm sure are the somethings of something. While there I will be attending a prestigious event presented by the Hand Eye Society, where I will be presenting some of Cryptic Sea's prestigious projects. If you're in the area feel free to stop by, just be sure to wear a tuxedo, or clothes.

No Quarter Beta Update:

We received a great response from the call for beta testers, next week we'll go through the emails and hopefully have a version to send out by the end of the week.

-Alex

More to come

Some video of part of one test level of Hitlers Must Die! from No Quarter. I'll be doing some videos of the other games from No Quarter soon. If you're interested in beta testing contact us.

Gish 2 won't be out until next year, deal with it.

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