Yeah it’s true, finally i was able to finish the game! The neverending game Marble Sheep, formerly known as Utz Wollewutz the marble madness clone is now available and ready for download on the Marble Sheep Website. Well it’s still starring Utz Wollewutz for those of you, who miss the cute name. I was so busy the last months finishing it up and struggling with university, that i had almost no time to update the blog. Big sorry for that, i hope to return to the high update frequency i had when starting the blog soon again. Uhhh… i can tell you i’m very exhausted but happy right now, that the whole thing is finished and i’m pretty satisfied with the results also.
If you have any questions regarding the game, feel free to drop me a line at the comments. I’m happy about any comments regarding the game. Oh i almost forgot to thank everyone involved in making the game, motivating me to finish it and so on… by the way here is a little YouTube video i made to show you the action, in case you don’t know if you should try the demo yet.
Some of you might already know it, Blizzard has announced Starcraft 2 officially in Seol. So that was the secret game they where working on so hard. Not that everyone and their mother guessed it.
This is great news for lots of fans, i can remember how i went in a big shopping center in germany some years ago, to get my copy of the original Starcraft. A big shiny protoss was printed on the front cover. I finished the game as fast as i could for shure, and even got on my sisters nerves, to play some multiplayer games with me. It also came with the first RTS ingame editor i ever used, to make custom maps for a game.
Here in the YouTube Gameplay Video Number 4, you can see the used graphics engine. Starcraft has a big entertaining value in Korea. There are even television stations showing starcraft games(and soon Starcraft II probably). The best players are treatet like stars, you can only compare this to football or basketball here. Blizzard therefore said, that they use old but good looking graphics in the game, to make it run on older hardware and reach a broader audience of cause. They learned this lesson from WoW. That this does not look any old at all can be seen in the video. Read the rest of this entry »
If the rate of updates goes on like this, i will have problems watching it. Ichiro has released a new Indie Superstar Episode just in case you missed it. This time topics are the following games:
FizzBall
Absolute Blue
Peggle
Dumbow & Cool
Addictive Football
Trophy Bass 2007
He also shows us newbies how to catch the real big fish…
I was already on my way to my warm bed when i discoverd that a brand new episode of Indie Superstar was announced by Ichiro in the Conitec 3DGS Forum namely Season 2 Episode 2. Unfortunately it takes a while to stream the video from YouTube. That means the bed must wait! New is a Text Transcript of the Show wich is especially useful for people who are not so fluent in the english language or want to practice understanding.
This time Ichiro introduces the following titles from other indie developers in the usual funny way:
It is really impressive what other teams can accomplish. These are huge complex projects. That show especially the two adventures with spoken text and lots of story/animation work!
OvO is even some kind of Playstation 2 Eye Toy Clone, where you have to make fun of yourself while you try to pop baloons or make a window clean in front of your webcam. A very funny partygame when not only your webcam is watching you jumping around like a freak. :p I did not even know until now that such programs exist for the PC.
PC GAMER says about Mr. Robot that it is ‘…the most enjoyable independent game I’ve played since Defcon!’ and because i liked the setting of this game i downloaded the demo. But i wont go into much detail here, i only want to say that its worth investing some more time - both for watching this great episode and diving into the demos. Thanks for this worthwhile 8 minutes!
Although it some time has passed since Ichiro posted a new episode of Indie Superstar it is well worth watching it. In this episode he talks about the games: Moonpod’s Starscape, Hamumu’s Loonyland 2, PawleyScape’s FastCrawl, littlebig’s Bubble Ship Boy, and Top Meadow’s Minigolf Mania.
You should not miss this one if you are interested what other indie game developers finish!
Marble Sheep, formerly known as Utz Wollewutz the marble madness clone is now available and ready for download on the Marble Sheep Website. Well it’s still starring Utz Wollewutz for those of you, who miss the cute name. I was so busy the last months finishing it up and struggling with university, that i had almost no time to update the blog. Big sorry for that, i hope to return to the high update frequency i had when starting the blog soon again. Uhhh… i can tell you i’m very exhausted but happy right now, that the whole thing is finished and i’m pretty satisfied with the results also.
