I’m going to cut to the chase… Oh, and hello again 😉
First update, showing my progress with illustrator… the plan is to do a minimum of 3 updates pr week, showing my daily practice session with Adobe Illustrator.
So here’s my first day 🙂
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The necromancer returns…
Rise my minion! *Tastygraph casts a resurrection spell on this blog*
Hi everyone…
it has been ages…
years in fact…
and for that I apologize (Lets face it, its not like you were holding your breath, waiting for a new update… if so… then… yikes, I hope this resurrection spell affects you too then, my poor zombie friend 😉 )
So what does a Tastygraph do in about 4 years?
We’ll I’ve worked hard at becomming better at programming.
I’ve practiced my 2d drawing skills and managed to save up money for a Wacom Cintiq13HD drawing tablet, bought a spanking new supercomputer and a whole bunch of other things(tm)…
Been promoted at work to now be a part time school teacher as well, so I am in charge of planning and teaching the computer science classes for the 5th graders (the only grade that is taught computer science at this school)
I’ve managed to release a few games on my Kongregate Page and I have also started livestreaming my game development sessions which you’ll be able to watch on my Twitch Channel (its like a television program where you watch whats happening on my screen while im explaining what I am doing 🙂 )
And lastly I have also been posting updates to the Tastygraph Game Development group over on facebook 🙂
oh… and as a little visual proof of concept, so you can see that I havent been completely slacking off! Here’s a video of what my super mario / meatboy and zelda2 inspired 2d platformer currently looks like 🙂 (This is after 2 months of work)
personality test
I am in the process of signing up for an online class on game development by the WalkerBoyStudio at www.walkerboystudio.com
One of the steps for it involves taking a personality test (and answering truthfully, of course 😉 ) so I figured I would post the result here 🙂
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INFP – “Questor”. High capacity for caring. Calm and pleasant face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.
Introverted (I) 55.26% Extroverted (E) 44.74% |
Muammar Gaddafi is dead and it made me think of this chaplin speech
The media is constantly bombarding me with horrible images of a dead man…
all while they are complaining about how little girls shouldnt be playing with a tattooed barbiegirl…
and companies are selling wartoys for kids…
It’s sickening and somewhat confusing.
Charlie Chaplin spoke the truth 70 odd years ago… that much I know!
3d modelling its way harder than it looks!
at least thats what i think 😛
been spending the past week’s vacation by learning the basics of Blender3d and figuring out fancy stuff like UV mapping and baking normal maps and all kinds of stuff that I never thought I would learn 😛
something different… brown & gammon blow my mind
Yeah, not exactly game related… but damn! this track definetely blew my mind! Im lovin’ it, and its not even released yet! darnit! ;D
Very much looking forward to Brown & Gammon’s release of “Blow my mind” , it should be out sometime in October if we’re lucky 🙂
Enjoy! (just ignore the radio ads in the middle of the song… this shit is so good it will blow your mind EVEN with the ads 😛 )
oh… and game related news coming very soon! I promise 😉
new retro pixel graphics for Twitch Defense
yay, new blogpost and it hasnt even been a full year yet?! Holy crap, something fishy is afoot! … err… jokes aside, I’ve just been feeling very productive lately, and here is the picture to show it 🙂
Twitch Defense has really changed a lot visually in the past few days… I decided to go for a sort of modern graphics meets retro style… not really sure how to describe it… I made the sprites in a regular Pixel art style, 16 by 16 pixels, and then applied a few layer styles in photoshop to give it that sort of glowy look to it.
All in all i think it suits the game quite well, let me know what you think ? and give the game a go as well! Wont be long before I can start adding more varied enemies and a couple of new powerups 🙂
progress update on my stencyl game
yep! Twitch Defense has an upgrade button at last 🙂
currently you can access the upgrade system after you’ve played through the game (aka died… as there is currently no win criteria.. but i am considering making it so that you can select between Infinite Mode and 60 Second mode. But ill see about that 🙂
remember, its still an early work in progress, but im working on it on a daily basis… when rl doesnt butt in 😛
to those curious, it was made with StencylWorks, a pretty easy to use, yet advanced flash game creation program 🙂
please post comments and let me know what you think about Twitch Defense in its current form… and also, I am very much interested in hearing what ideas on game design you might have 🙂
embedding test for twitch defense
yeah… what the title says 😉
I want to try embedding a flash game in the blog.
http://www.stencyl.com/game/embed/6462
but darnit… iframe tags dont seem to work for me… ah well 😛 leaving the blog post up anyways 🙂 Enjoy!
Twitch Defense … now more gamelike :P
added a bunch of new graphics and sound effects to Twitch Defense… tweaked the values on the Bonus Object, and i am currently working on adding in an upgrade system that allows you to remove and add bonuses to your player…
for example: removing some of the negatives from shooting bonus objects…
increasing the combo value when bumping into bonus objects
faster bullets
more bullets (currently 1 is the max)
more health in the form of a shield that can take 1 or more hits, depending on upgrade level.
check it out at http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/6462 and remember, its still a work in progress demo 🙂
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