Longest Ever Post I think For the New Year (2011)

Hey All,
First this is a very very very very long time since I post, but I was really busy and still busy but now less busy than before.
The reason I was away was due to army first I was away for 50 days in my training camp then when I returned I go everyday from 5:00 am and return home at 6:00 pm working for army so I reach home tired and go for sleep directly or see a movie and sleep.
No big deals and what make it worse for me that I am have collegue post graduate studies and I was having exams and I didnt study well because of the army.

Lets forgot about all that and lets talk about games and news. First thing before you start reading BEWARE!!!! this post is long and require lots of free time to try everything and test lots of stuffs in it. So if you aren't free mark this post as good post and come back when you are free :)

First part of the Post was for the New Year (2011) :) First thing I must say Happy New Year 2011 and Goodbye 2010 (I know its a bit late but I said my execuse in the upper part) So forgive me about that :)

There is nothing better to celebrate new year than trying best games of 2010. The following lists are made by lots of sites espicially Indiegames and TIGSource.

TIGSource best and most popular games on forums accross 2010 are

• Super Meat Boy
• VVVVVV
• Hero Core
• Minecraft
• Super Crate Box
• Steemerz
• L'Abbaye Des Morts
• Amnesia: the Dark Descent
• Hydorah
• Space Funeral
• Desktop Dungeons
• Norrland
• Redder
• Limbo
• Revenge of the Titans
• Give up Robot 2
• Recettear: an Item Shop's Tale
• suteF
• Houkaimura
• Flotilla
• Digital: a Love Story

IndieGames Weblog best 2010 games with their category

• Platformer Games
  
  1. Escape from the Underworld
  2. Mamodora
  3. Under the Garden
  4. TowerClimb
  5. Drakfate
  6. Flood the Chamber
  7. L'Abbaye des Morts
  8. Frogatto
  9. Jables's Adventure
  10. Teleportower
  11. Ninja Senki
  12. Teppoman 2
  13. They need to be fed
  14. Dear Agent
  15. The Hive
  16. Jigsaw
  17. FiNCK
  18. Nudo
  19. The soul of Dracula
  20. Houkaimura
• Browser Platformer Games
  
  1. Redder
  2. Loved
  3. Liferaft: Zero
  4. Coma
  5. Grand Mystic Quest of Discovery
  6. Endeavor
  7. Blue Knight
  8. K.O.L.M.
  9. Give Up Robot 2
  10. Fishbane
• Arcade Games
  
  1. Hero Core
  2. Shoot First
  3. Action Fist
  4. Super Crate Box
  5. Cactus Arcade 2.0
  6. Warlock Bentspine
  7. Octodad
  8. Sombreros
  9. Illuminator
  10. Cygnus
• Browser Arcade Games:
  
  1. Streemerz
  2. Cat Astro Phi
  3. One Button Arthur
  4. Pipedreamz
  5. Epic Combo!
  6. Icarus Proudbottom in: The Curse of the Chocolate Fountain
  7. Mamono Saber
  8. Chase Goose 2
  9. Road of the Dead
  10. Mt.
• Adventure Games
  
  1. The Journey Down - Over the Edge
  2. Digital: A Love Story
  3. Air Pressure
  4. Eternally Us
  5. Which
  6. Looming
  7. By the Numbers
  8. A House in California
  9. Snakes of Avalon
  10. Choice of Broadsides
• Puzzle Games
  
  1. SuteF
  2. Feign
  3. Synopsis Quest Deluxe
  4. Q.U.B.E.
  5. Mamono Sweeper
  6. Seasons
  7. Entanglement
  8. Bo
  9. My First Quantum Translocator
  10. Grow Valley
• RPG Games
  
  1. Desktop Dungeons
  2. Space Funeral
  3. The Spirit Engine 2
  4. Rogue Survivor
  5. Dungeons of Fayte
  6. Realm of the Mad God
  7. Maze of Space
  8. Dubloon
  9. Madness
  10. ro9
• SHMUPs Games
  
  1. Hydorah
  2. Boss Rush
  3. Bat Country
  4. Invaders: Corruption
  5. chaos Invaders
  6. Radial Plus
  7. Steel Storm
  8. memrrtiks, suashem
  9. Destroy the Brain
  10. Action Escape Kitty
• Experimental Games
  
  1. One Chance
  2. Convetous
  3. p0nd
  4. Ute
  5. ...But That was [Yesterday]
  6. PlayPen
  7. Roulette
  8. Activate the Three Artefacts and then Leave
  9. Hazard: The Journey of Life
  10. Loop Raccord

After this large list of top games GameMakerBlog have made a video for 100 Game Maker Games in 10 minutes


Now for the 2nd Section of this post which talks about some game news but for some reasons all the news I will going to talk about related for Apple stuffs either iPhone or iPad or MAC.

First the famous GameMaker game designer Jesse Venbrux have pulished iPhone games and MAC games of his old games. The games are

1- They Need to be Fed

2- Frozzd

3- You Probably Won't Make It

Second Stuff is that YoYoGames have started there store which produce games for PSP , iPhone/iPad, MAC and Android go and check everything

Third stuff is that World of Goo iPad version have 50% discount and you can buy it now by 4.99$ only go and grab a copy.

Last thing in game new that Cactus made a MAC version for lots of his old famous games,

• Psychosomnium
• Clean Asia!
• Mondo Medicals
• Fractal Fighter
• Illegal Communication

Third thing is Open Source News :) as lots of stuffs are now turning Open Source so lets check whats new there.

Daniel Remar (Creator of Master Peice IJI and Hero Core) Games have gone Open Source to download sources for his games here is the link.

The master piece game Canabalt goes open source and here is the link.

Fourth Part is some interview and videoes of famous and nice indiegames developers

1- World of Love 2010: Cliff Harris talk



2- Into the Night with Jason Rohrer and Chris Crawford



3- Thomas Vian's Elevator Pitch for sfxr and as3sfxr where he has made an as3 port (http://superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/) for famous Dr. Petter's sfxr(http://drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html) program



4- Interview with Chris Hecker of SpyParty



Fifth Part is about New Game Music release

1- Kometen

2- NightSky

Sixth Part about new Game Competitions

1- TIGSource Versus Compo

2- Experimental Gameplay Inanimate

3- TIGJam UK 4

4- Game Jolt Official Invention Comepition

at last there is discounts on FGS 2011 tickets for a limited time, use the code “I_Love_Mochi” when you register and you’ll get a 25% discount on FGS 2011.

Seventh Part is my music picks for games soundtrack of 2010

• K.O.L.M.
  
  • Strained Voice
• World of Goo Music
  
  • Are you coming home, Love MOM
  • Burning Man
  • Cog in the Machine
  • Years of Work
  • Inside the Big Computer
  • Best of Times
  • Red Carpet Extend-o-matic
  • Jelly
• Aquaria Music
  
  • Title
  • Light
  • The traveller
  • Home
  • Technique
  • Archaic
  • Undiscovered Waters
  • Remains
  • Hope of Winter
  • Bright waters
  • Lost Waters
  • Dark Places
  • The Return
  • Bonus Round 4: Marian- Travelling
  • Trailer
• Leap 4 Blue
  
  • Origins
  • Leaping 2 Blue
• Company of Myself
  
  • Jack
  • Kathryn
• The Oil Blue
  
  • Observatory
  • Lighthouse
• Liquisity 2
  
  • Main Title
• Escape from the Underworld
  
  • I, CaveDweller
  • NewExpresso113
  • TPC101d
• PPPPPP
  
  • Presenting VVVVVV
  • Pushing Onwards
  • Passion for Exploring
  • Positive Force
  • Predestined Fate
  • Potential for Anything
  • Pressure Cooker

Eighth and last part is some pixel art I do quickly I know they are bad but better than nothing

Huuuuuh, This is too long I shall stop now :) Hope you are not angry of me after all :)

I had to go now :)

Bye Bye

Cached News :)

Hey all,

Long Long Long Time, I know that but I was too busy working on Hello World! as besides its MMORPG game I want to make its my graduation project in college and my delivery date was last Monday 26/7/2010 and I want to deliver a stable bug free version but this version was containing minimal features but stable at same time.

The main supported features in this version was moving, wearing equipments, pick items from ground, throwing items, melee attacking, ranged attacking, leveling up and assigning attribute points.

Then I stopped working on it because I was having bad week due to that I have to make some paper for the military services in my country so It took from me lots of time. So I was having no time either for the blog or the game :S which is a bad thing but when I became by now free again I decided me and my friends on Hello World! project to continue working on it till the IGF competition as we aim to deliver it into IGF 2011.

I will continue working on the game as soon as possible may be we will start this weekend :) I dont know.

Another piece of news is that GameJolt made a GameJolt Jam this past weekend and I participate in it with a nice person called Bret Hudson since he is still not proffessional in flash like me so we decided to use GameMaker 8 So I started making a game called Mountainer where you play with a mountain climber whom wants to get to the highest part in the mountain.
The Game design and art (I made it) the code at the begining was made by Bret Hudson but since he was busy so I made the code (but he started it).


You can try a simple demo made for the Jam in this link.

I decided to continue the game but I will first port it to Flash using FlashPunk v1.3 so that to learn it as the only thing I learn was FlashPunk v0.7 which completely differ from v1.3.

After my game news lets talk about indie news in the scene :)

First of all the competitions :)
Since the new version of Andriod v2.2 support flash so all companies starts competition to make games using flash for Android.


Kongregate website makes a new flash competition for that purpose for more information here is the link.


FGL also make a flash compo for the android also for more details here is the link.


Mochimedia also launch a compo for android and for more details here is the link.


Indie Games Arcade made a compo for the expo and it call for submissions these days for more info see this link.


Experimental Gameplay launch a new contest called Zero Buttons Contest where you must develop game that doesnt use any buttons :) for more details here the link.


For more running contest you can check this page on GameJolt where it keep track with all indie running contests. Here is the link.

Lets forgot about compos and talk about some indie news.


First about No More Sweden Compo

Cactus made a presentation showing his games which is so nice :)





Also Oxygen Games make 3 parts video for its new game Project B







for more videos go the website of No More Sweden.

Lets talk about some awesome soundtracks.



First one is for a game by Drazzke made in WinniPeg Jam which is called Leap4Blue, the music is made by Infinite Ammo creator.


Second game soundtrack is the oil blue game which is so amazing here is the link.

Here are some discounts on some on some games.


First there is discounts on some amazing games here is a link for more details.


Second there is discount on some indie games on Direct2Drive for more details here the link.


There is a 50% discount on Eufloria game here is the link to buy it.


Lets leave these discounts and go for Game Career Guide news. This month the issue is for free you can grab it here.

There is some video interviews with some indie developpers (creators of Cletus Clay game)



These are all for now :) Hope you like it and sorry for not posting anything last few days. Hope to change that. I had to go now :)

Bye Bye

Sorry it has been long time

Hey all,
Sorry for not posting from long time :S But I am too busy these days as at the morning I had a 2 weeks military training :S which is so bad and hard on me.
And at night I had to work on my Graduation Project which is changed to fit with my interests (this change happens by luck :D)

Now my GP (Graduation Project) will be an RPG Online Arena game :) it will be looks like DOTA but in my friends prespective :)

I am sorry for not updating so often so I have some old and new news :D


The first piece is the Experimental Gameplay month theme is Rejection :) you can find all the info on that link.


The second thing that TIGSource Assembly Compo Results are out :D yay :D here are the results :)

1. Bitworld
2. Dungeons of Fayte
3. Realm of the Mad God
4. Mr. Kitty’s Quest
5. BirdyWorld
6. Backworld
7. Tiny Crawl
8. s h i n e
9. The King, the Queen and the Jester
10. Great Dungeon in the Sky

For more info about the results here is the link of the post :)

Third stuff is FlashPunk v0.8 is out with lots of cool features new documentation and new games section on the main website :) for more information about new stuff in it :) go to the original post here.

Last thing about my YoYoGames compo entry :S (Night Guard) I made the main engine of the player movement long time ago but I stopped and didn't continue due to military training and GP project so I don't know if I will have time to finish it.

And about starting with FlashPunk I wanted to do that so hardly but I only use it for 2 hours then I had went to sleep and from that time I didnt see it again due to the same reasons for not continue working on Night Guard.

Thats all what I can say right now hoping that I can do something good. May god be with me :) Thanks for everyone who still come to my blog I will try to make frequently news now and often after my military training which will end on next thursday :).

Thats all for now :)

ByeBye

A News Cocktail :D

Hi All,
There aren't lots of news by the time so I will tell you what I have for now :)



First is that the day I said that the IGF finals will appear I mistaken in my writting I meant that this day is the day to view all the entries for the IGF.

As you see from this link :) Bactoriam is their so which me luck (although I know It won't be qualified for finals as there are lots of other games so amazing :) here is a link to see all others)

Also there are some bad news I have heared. The famous hosting site for all GameMaker People (WillHostForFood) is now down due to some financial issues so if you want it back just donate.

An some how old news is that a new version from GameMaker8 is now available now here is the link

Games created or saved in this version of Game Maker will also stop functioning at the end of December 2009.

for more information about bug fixes here is the link.
Another thing Now its time for final choosing the winner for 2BeeGames Contest :) so go now and vote for best game :) but if you see more than one game nice plz vote for my friend game :) Kablooey as he promised everybody if he won his next game which is Sand Box of God Remastered Edition will be for free :)

Also GameJolt Minimal Contest is now finished and here are the winners:
First Place: Spectrum Wing
Second Place: Saut
Third Place: Fetus

Last News is the Famous Game Designer 2DCube (aka Jesse Venbrux) (creator of Frozzd and Karoshi Series) has released a new game Called Focus based on a prototype game he made long ago called Wrap go now and try it for free its so amazing I played it for hours since it was released :).

here is a its teaser :)

Last thing about my Game The Egg & The Stone it will be integreated tommorow and will go in testing phase :) hope we finish it soon so you could try it :) although Its an educational game as I said before.

Another thing that Captin Forever is now free to play due to the release of new game Captin Succssor so go and try it now :) link

Thats all for now :)

ByeBye

Return to Colleague :)

Hi All,

I just wanna say that tommorow will be the first day in the last year in my colleague (Computer Department Faculty of Engineering Cairo University) so my updates here on the blog and new games and working on them will slow down may be I release a game during colleague days or may be not.


Hope that I find good idea for Graduation Project :) till now I still dont have an idea nor a supervisor for the project.

Last thing is the theme of the Experimental Gameplay site this month which is Numbers. I won't enter I think as I will too busy next month due to colleague.


I will update here if there is new contests or may I suggest some games that I think they deserve to try them.


Bye Bye

New Game Release: Mailure

Hi All,
Long enough since I posted here thats because I didnt have anything to write about also I didnt want to spoil my new Game (Mailure).

I think that is super great news I released a new game with no geometrical graphics it is totally pixel art made by me :)

Description:

You play with naughty boy at school who always fails at exams. So the principal of his school decided to send a mail to his mother, but sending one mail is not enough because the boy may stole it from the postman.
So the principal decides to send lots of mails till the boy's mother call the principal.

So What you are waiting for Go and try it now and tell me your opinion :) (Link)

This game is made for Experimental Gameplay Failure compo :) Also I am going to participate with it in 2BeeGames Compo.


Another news YoYoGames starts a logo contest for GM8 where you must make a new logo for GM8 and the first prize will recieve a GM8 Pro version copy for free also will win 250$

So what are you waiting for start designing the logo :)

For more information here is the link

Hope that these news are Good enough to forgive me for not posting for so long :)

ByeBye

News-(aki) :D

Hi All,

Long time since last post, I didnt work on Ninjaki this week too, But I have good news for some competitions.

First Thing: My Game Bactoriam is now featured on KwikLook Blog.

Second Thing: QOG is making Birthday Compotition for making a game in 3 hours which must contain either one of these stuffs (Candles - Gifts - Sugar - Clowns - Cone Shape Hats). All the entrants will recieve a small review on his website and the winner will get large review. Dead Line is 16th September. For more info here is the link.



Third Thing: The Owner of Blog Mouse No is running a contest for artist for drawing a wallpaper for his game Cool Men. Top 3 posters will recieve a copy from the beta. For more information here is the link.



Fourth Thing: The New compo for Experimental Gameplay has been launched couple of days ago. The theme this month is Failure. For more information here is the link.

This is all the news for now :) Wait for more news later :)

ByeBye

Bactoriam Full Version Released

Hi All,



Sorry for not updating the blog for long time, But I was busy in training and other stuff so I didnt work on anything till yesterday.

I finished yesterday the full version and waited to launch it today. As I said before I am going to participate with it in 3 Compo

GameCOG

Experimental Games

2BeeGames

I have uploaded the game on GameJolt and also on 2BeeGames and on YoYoGames for playing and GameCOG have a link on GameJolt page also Experimental is the same too.

So In full version:
- I modified the music (removed the blank time in the music before it starts)
- Highscore tables for all gameplay modes and difficulties
- Fixing some serious bugs I didnt notice (Thanks to Mozarty for reporting the Bug to me and my brother SaSa for finding when the bug happens)

Hope I win in the any of the above compos (GameCOG or 2BeeGames) :)

Link of the Game: GameJolt / YoYoGames

Keep waiting this week for some news about Ninjaki and first look on it.

Bye Bye

Bunch of News

Hey All,

I return today from Alexandria (a city in Egypt) during my stay there I started my new game which I will participate with it in GameCog contest Hope to finish it soon for the competition :).

I will give you a hint about it, its a shooter game in a new way.
First although lots may knew about that so far but I totally forgot to say the new version of GameMaker 8 beta is out if you like to test it. The features are the same but some bugs were fixed here is a list of the fixed bugs(link) :)

Another thing YoYoGames said that anone whom will buy GameMaker 7 Pro version these days will take a free upgrade to GameMaker 8 free of charge.


Another thing I participated by CrytorYan in Experimental Games this month competition :) and now it is consiered as an entry in it.

Another Thing about Madness Compo made by QOG I was awarded a prize called "This Would Have Won Had You Not Spent Five Hours On It" (link) and I think thats cool.
Last thing I think :) GameJolt chose me as one of the beta testers for the Ad-Revenue beta system :) so I can earn some money from the advertisement in my profile page or any of my games. (link to profile page)

ByeBye.