Yesterday YYG announced winners of the Ancient Civilization Competition and new competition based on co-operation was launched. Official rules you can read here.
I’m probably going to enter this competition because it looks pretty interesting concept. I just have develop ed three initial concepts and have to decide which of them turn to a game. Due this theme I decided to talk little about co-operation which could be implemented in games.
“I have this idea of 3d MMORPG where you can train mounts, kill trolls, mine gold….” Before you start to plan your new WoW, stop to think about what it really takes to make this kind of game. Large teams and couple of millions bucks to spend. I guess you don’t have neither huge team or money. So calm yourself and accept the truth that you aren’t ready today, or tomorrow, or day after tomorrow to do that huge games, atleast alone. So start with something smaller.
In this article I will cover some of the basic mistakes what I have seen especially in Game Maker world where new users have too big plans compared to their skills.
I’m not going to explain how beginning user should learn his or her tool be it Game Maker, C++ or any other. I’m going more to how to avoid some basic mistakes in game design when starting first projects.
Sometime ago I was reading this at Making Casual Games blog. After being couple of years developing games with Game Maker, I just can’t agree more with the article. When it comes to freeware and shareware games, it’s very important to give good first impression to the player. In this article I will cover some of my thoughts related to the first impressions.
I have been very sick this whole week (strange how I always catch somekind flu etc when vacation starts) and have been very bored. Luckily I found this great blog by Danc, Lost Garden. It’s great resource for free graphics, game design articles and game concepts. I have now explored nearly whole site and I’m very delighted how much quality stuff there is. I really recommend to give a look for this site if you are interested game development or games in general. It’s just great.
Arctic Flower’s first completed game developed for YoYo Game’s Winter Competition.
In the game you play as a half-god whose job this try to keep your human tribe alive through cold winter using magical cards provided by higher gods.
This is one of my first works with markerpen and Photoshop combination. Original sketch was first inked with markerpen, scanned and coloured with photoshop. Eventhough I didn’t use any textures or patterns with this work, I personally think it’s quite good.
Character of the picture is giant, whose job is carry witch’s or wizard’s house. This character lately inspired me with new game concept which will hopefully finish soon.
This picture I made for Adventure Developers’ first background competition. Theme was beach. It’s not my best works but I’m still quite happy with it. You can freely use this picture as a background in your games or desktop as long as you give credit to me. Below are links to different sizes of image:
At last I got this site up to the net. It should have been released a long time ago, but seems like always there was something which needed my attention. However, site is now happily online and I have to say that it’s very smooth to update with Wordpress. I can recommend it to anyone who wants to make cool looking blog or website but who don’t have time to fight with html or php.
Currently site is pretty empty, but soon we will add some more content here to satisfy your needs. Until then, see ya!
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