Monday, August 31, 2009

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

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Indie Super Sale!

Buy Gish and get 9 other indie games for free! Only $30!