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Aposunaclypse
Tue, 07/30/2013 - 07:27 — Johny L.
The apocalypse has come, the sun as a real rumor, that Earth has come to an destruction.
DrBlowhole20 presents you a short science fiction about the end of the world, in another nutshell, known as the sun burning earth, made in Twine.
October 2015
Sat, 09/10/2016 - 17:19 — everythingstaken
Sequel to January 2015 loosely based on embellishments about TotalBummer's life during October 2015 and not during October 2015 and real world events.
Controls:
[Mouse Click] - advance dialogue
[W, A, S, D] - moves character
[Space] - interact with doors, people, and other objects
[>] - go to the next day
[<] - go to the previous day
[P] - password enter
(enter "Oct" and date
number to go to different
days, ex. Oct25, or Oct9)
Contract of Faust
Sun, 04/28/2019 - 11:46 — gisbrecht
Contract of Faust
WARNING for Self Harm
my first GT game (collab with mno)
Sat, 10/20/2012 - 17:53 — deckman
i worked on a game with my friend mno called GUU STTOB! it's a text adventure that becomes slowly infected by a spambot. he did most of the work but i did some of the writing and a bit of the programming!
i still hate pygame but pygcurse does look fun...i might use it in a solo project some time
Babymine
Sat, 02/27/2010 - 06:01 — Genius
Baby lost in mine! Oh no. Get to the exit and run away like a thing that runs away.
Self Portrait
Thu, 12/05/2013 - 13:42 — thecatamites
Hecker's GDC Rant: Please Finish Your Game
Wed, 03/17/2010 - 03:28 — zumAt GDC, Chris Hecker (whom you may recognize as an outspoken commentator on games, a co-founder of the Indie Game Jam, and one of the driving forces behind Spore) delivered a rant about jams and compos that you might find relevant.
Watch. (The rant proper begins at 3:25, if you want to skip ahead.)
And, well, sure. There's much to agree with here. Fixation on time-on-task is a worrisome trend in the independent sphere. (Not to mention a firmly entrenched problem in the mainstream.) Games that explore mechanics to their fullest potential of expression -- to their aesthetic completion, as Hecker puts it -- are beautiful, important, hard to come by, and often undervalued.
Some of the other remarks are more difficult for me to get behind.
ExciteMike left a measured, thoughtful comment in the post about the rant over at Ludum Dare, and I largely agree with what he said, so I'm just going to quote it here:
I want to challenge the notion that games should be deep or fully explore a mechanic. It seems like it goes without saying, but a lot of games have not really done that, but are still things that we think are worthwhile. Braid was in at least in part Jon Blow’s reaction to Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time precisely because it was a very good game that many of us loved, but did not do much with it’s rewind mechanic. Ico didn’t really explore all the gameplay potential of guiding around a helpless girl, but was wonderful. I also loved Braid and I loved VVVVVV’s amazing use of what can be done with such a simple mechanic. The point of the examples is that great games can be made either way! A deep exploration of what one game mechanic is just ONE way to make a game that is interesting and worthwhile.Another point worth making, I think, is that when he talks about taking a game to it’s aesthetic, artistic conclusions or to explore it to the degree it deserves, it’s not really clear what that means. So like, Katamari Damacy comes along and explores an interesting control scheme and an interesting new mechanic, but how do you judge whether rolling things up was explored deeply enough?
It was one of the last few lines that really bugged me though. “We need more depth and understanding.
We don’t need more wacky ideas or shallow games.”That part is ludicrous.
I don’t say that because I’m angry or because I’m offended. I say it because it truly is silly to just dismiss such a broad category of games like that. You might as well say that more books should be nonfiction and we don’t need short stories, that paintings need to be more photorealistic and we need fewer sketches, that we need more prose and less poetry, that we need more stand-up comedy and less joking around with your friends, or “We need more GDC talks that are deep and insightful. We don’t need more rants.” (Please don’t think that’s what I’m saying. I like both kinds of GDC talks!) Liking a certain sort of game is completely fine and normal. But that doesn’t mean we need less of the other kinds.
I'll add this: I believe it's important to consider the creator and the process along with the creation. I don't mean this in a masturbatory or self-fixated way. I'm a firm proponent of the Crap Art philosophy that creation should be as much a process of discovery as of invention, and that cultures of exclusionary criticism are ultimately a detriment to artistic exploration. And I can believe this even while I hold true Hecker's "the good-enough is the enemy of the excellent."
In some ways, I think this is what sets us apart from a lot of other jams and communities. Check the manifesto on the frontpage: Glorious Trainwrecks has always been about getting out there and making something. Even if it's not good! We don't vote on submissions; we have yet to impose explicit themes or guidelines or constraints for jams. Hell, we hardly even care about the two-hour limit; it's mostly there to keep blind, hubristic ambitions in check. The hope is that you'll come out with something at the end rather than throw up your arms in exasperation.
I think the community understands this implicitly. Everyone is encouraging and welcoming to newcomers, and most of the fun of the Klik of the Month is is hanging out with folks on IRC -- or, increasingly and to my great delight, in-person. And I love it for this. At the same time, I think a lot of us care deeply about design and craft and, yes, art. I think we can still hold dialogue on these things.
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I made Jeremy a game for his birthday. I don't think it's a very good game -- I could go into how, as a score attack, the object spawning is too nondeterministic, how the scoring system lacks depth, how the notion of a score attack doesn't even work in that context without some kind of stress or time constraint. Nor do I think it makes some kind of grand statement. Both of these things are kind of beside the point. It was my hope that he saw that I thought of him, and that he got a kick out of it and out of some of the things in there that we both enjoy.
And, hey, if someone happened to think that it's even the slightest bit poignant that a T-Rex can't hold a birthday cake in his arms because they're too tiny, well, I wouldn't be displeased.
Knytt of The Month Klub #9
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 14:31 — Son of a dolphin(mostly cut and pasted from sergio)
Make a Knytt Stories level in 2 hours! Alternatively, make something else in 2 hours. It's up to you, really.
(But Knytt Stories levels are profoundly awesomer than everything else in existence, so why not just make one :3)
Never used the Knytt Stories editor before? No problem! Download Knytt Stories here. (If you've never played it before, give the tutorial or bundled level a go to get a feel for how the game works.) The editor comes included, and a good way to learn to use it is by cracking open existing levels and poking at them to see how they work. This guide is also recommended reading.
Join us on IRC for camaraderie, support and merrymaking! Point your favourite IRC client to #glorioustrainwrecks on irc.freenode.net, or use our handy-dandy in-browser chat here.
(If, like me, you haven't used IRC before, just go to this site and type in #glorioustrainwrecks for the channel name, and you can use any nickname. I'm just saying this to minimze confusion )
Upload your level here when it's done.
Games made for Knytt of The Month Klub #9
| Name | Created | By | Screenshot | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daughetr Of The Frog Giant | 08/08/2015 - 18:54 | clyde |  | 6 |
| Where the Water Goes | 08/11/2015 - 16:52 | Danni |  | 7 |
| i livefor notwo | 08/09/2015 - 23:50 | everythingstaken |  | 6 |
| gohantop ofthemountainthat livesfor noone | 08/08/2015 - 21:07 | everythingstaken |  | 5 |
| Juni Gets a Food | 08/09/2015 - 20:20 | Fubaka |  | 3 |
| Juni in the Haunted House | 08/12/2015 - 20:24 | Healy |  | 7 |
| The Five Minute Hallway | 08/09/2015 - 19:31 | pfrangip |  | 3 |
| Mystery Island v1.1 | 08/07/2015 - 20:54 | relicshine |  | 5 |
| Being and nothingness | 08/09/2015 - 17:44 | rhetoricstu |  | 1 |
| This Is Not A Level | 08/09/2015 - 21:12 | sergiocornaga |  | 6 |
| Pineapple (knytt stories level) | 08/07/2015 - 01:04 | Son of a dolphin |  | 7 |
| Tomatoes! | 08/08/2015 - 16:44 | Vegetal Gibber |  | 8 |
McDonald's Paint
Wed, 07/06/2016 - 19:24 — rhetoricstu
made in Gdevelop.
I just wanted to use canyon.mid in something
