Nice News :D

Hey All,
The next couple of days may suffer from lack of updates due to my exams :) as I just going to start at next sunday :)

But there are some awesome news that I dont want to miss and dont tell you about it :)


First piece of news is about VVVVVV game that awesome game has been released by time :) I tried the demo its freakin awesome :) you must pick a full copy fast :) here is a link where you can grab a full copy for 15$ (I think because the website only shows how much it cost in egyptian pounds due to I am from Egypt :)) or try the demo :) but really freakin awesome :)


The Second piece :) GameJolt new contest starts today :) this time the contest is sponsored by TheBlast.fm which is an online hard rock radio :)

The constest theme is Rogue which means "Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others"

The contest prizes is as usual feature on the main site for the first three winner :) and the first will recieve a free game from steam website :)

The contest will ends at midnight between 24 and 25 January :) for more info here is the link of the original post.

Last ByeBye for now as I have lots to study :)

FlashPunk is Out Hurrrraaaah :D

Hey all,
This is a small piece of news :) Chevy Ray (the creator of Skull Pogo and Beacon and lots of other games) have today released his flash library called FlashPunk (which I will learn how to use it to make flash games :))


Its now available for download and it has some documentation and tutorial to start with it :)

It was designed to work with FlashDevelop and not Adobe Flash

Go now and try it :) it looks promising :) and I am so excited for using it :)

Thats all for now :)

ByeBye

Hurrah for Bactoriam and Mailure :)

Hey all,
Today I found a very nice news about both games Bactoriam and Mailure.
They are featured in video of 100 GameMaker Games in 10 min for 2009 games.

Here is the video :)



Also There are lots of cool videos for the game of the year and one of the best shows I love to see is the ByteJacker show and yesterday show was awesome it contain top 10 indiegames in 2009 see that video its nice :)




Another amazing news VVVVVV game will be released on 10 Jan this year with price of 15$ :) It deserve it and you must go and pick it :) there will be a demo to try :)

A new compo is starting :) on NAG forums :)

Theme: Design the same game twice. Then make the two "takes" on the concept hang together coherently.
DeadLine: January 31st 2010, 31-01-2010
More Info: link

Last thing Alexitrón was writing about what he had done in 2009 its a nice post (link) :) and I dlove it :) and he wanted people to share there story with him so I shared mine you can find it in the comments :) there

Thats all for now :)

ByeBye

YoYoGames Compos returns again

Hey All,

A very delightful news I just saw YoYoGames have started new Compo for the new year.
The theme of the compo is to make a game for handheld device using GM7 or GM8
Compo Rules (Copied from YoYoGlog)

1. Your Game must be less than 10MB (uncompressed)EXE only…NO ZIP files.
2. Maximum Screen Size 480X272
3. No DLLs or other extension packages can be used.
4. No Installation packages.
5. No use of the registry.
6. Game Controls must use cursor keys and space-bar only, escape to quit
7. Game Maker versions 7 or 8 only
8. All games must be tagged “Competition” and “05″
9. Contest finishes March 30th 2010 at Midnight GMT
   

More info go to this link

I will particpate in the compo with a new game (the game idea was developed for RoboSquid Contest but I didn't start on it at all as I was too busy)

Yesterday I started making a platform engine so as to use it in my future games where this game will be one of them and Alexitrón (The designer of lots of amazing games such as The Power) told me that he will help me in level designing as I am horrible at it. (I am so happy when I knew that Alex will help me :) )

Today when I hear about the YoYoGames Competition 05 I decided to participate in it with my newgame which is called Night Guard :)

I won't talk about it for now when I finish some parts of it I will post about it :)

Thats all for now :) Hope to see lots of amazing entries there :)

ByeBye

New Year Compo :)

Hey all,
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas :) Hoping that everybody enjoying his vacation :)
I just found a new compo for the new year made by ClickTeam (The Company that made MMF2(The tool used in making lots of famous games example: Kyntt Stories)) This compo have lots of amazing prizes

• Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer or $369 via PayPal - quantity: 1
• 1 GB 3.1 megapixel Mini digital video camera - quantity: 1
• 1 GB MP3/Multimedia Entertainment Player - quantity: 1
• 1 Year of Standard Web Hosting from http://www.atomicpages.net/ - quantity: 2
• Clickteam Hats - quantity: 5
  

The contest named 20 Event Contest :) where you must make a game having no more than 20 events and in each event contain no more than 4 conditions (I think)

It sounds strange but I think the prizes are cool :) The deadline is till 14 February 2010.

The are lots of some resterictive rules you must check them before start making the game :)
For more information Visit this link.

Another news:

Nicalis company has published some music for the christmas very wonderfull and you must check them now :) link.

Also Dr.Petter the amazing person who created the SFXR sound effect tool which I used in all my games sound effects :) its so nice :)
He released an alpha version for his new tool (Sculptris) for creating 3D models by shaping a sphere as it is a mud ball and I am shaping it.
It's amazing :) go and try it :) and by the way you can use it in making 3D models for ur game as it export obj extension.

Here is a video for it :) have fun :)


That all the news for now :)

Bye Bye