Game File: 

this game has bugs in it.zip

this game has bugs in it

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social security.zip

It's not social or security!

Game File: 

Manygames in one megapack 3.rar

The third megapack is here! Even more games for your Manygames game reader. Download and play it standalone, or merge it with the other Manygames packages.
This megapack includes the following games:
Arachno
Devil Stuff
Maze Of Danger 2
Merely Pretending To Be A Coin
Mice Life
This Game Does Not Even Exist
This Is Where You Die
Trick Or Treat
Waiting And Stuff
Win Forever

Trust me: you want to click this link if you haven't seen it yet.

The 4th in my chess variant series. This one is almost playable, almost not playable.

In an effort to help this site grow, I will be giving weekly updates on my various experiments with Glorious Trainwreck's favorite democratized game creator, Klik & Play. I haven't used KnP in 8 years, during which I've learned a fair amount about both programming and game design by making games in other languages, and working towards obtaining a college degree in computer science (the last part being in the last 3 1/2 years). So far, returning to the event-based game design paradigm has felt extremely limiting. Many simple things I could do in more advanced languages are either difficult or impossible to accomplish in Klik & Play. What I've found very interesting, though, is that solving Klik & Play problems rely on both computational, and physical strategies. What would be impossible to do with the built-in object movements can usually be done with numbers, and what is difficult to do with the limited calculation abilities of Klik & Play can be assisted with the built-in movements, or other properties and behaviors of the program.

One of my later projects in KnP was an attempt at recreating the grappling hook, or "Ninja Rope" from the game Worms. At the core of my original design was a platform movement object constantly shooting particles at the grappling hook center point. I assumed that I could measure the distance from the player to the center point by the number of particles not destroyed by contact with the hook. Whenever the number was too high, I would lift the player higher. Eventually there would be some swinging code, changing angles, and everything would work out fine. Of course, this didn't work at all. The player quickly levitated off-screen, never to be seen again.

Yesterday, I took up the problem again. My first notion was to create chained object groups in even-odd pairs, aligning them by hotspot to action point. After a lot of testing various object selection methods (to some rather hilarious and frustrating results), I found a simple cycling scan worked best to build a segmented chain. I could easily manipulate the length by setting visibility cutoffs for chain elements with values higher or lower than the desired length. The biggest drawback to this multi-object line was the apparent refresh rate, due to the cycling update. With only 16 chain elements, the fastest I could rotate the construct was once per 30/100th of a second. I went as far as adding objects to calculate and visualize impulse speed (IE: letting go of the rope), but the results were inconsistent.

Today I plan to revise the system to a two-origin line, by calculating the end point of the chain directly, and drawing the line from both ends. This should effectively double the refresh rate, and thereby the maximum rotation speed. But by calculating the end point directly, the chain becomes not the driving force of the simulation, instead a visual cue. If the visual representation of the chain becomes broken slightly at high speeds, at least the actual positioning of the end point will remain consistent.

I have taken screen shots of this experiment, but I'm not currently at the computer they're on. I might post them later if people are interested in them. Next time I'll either talk about the difference between a swing simulation powered by update wait adjustments vs distance adjustments, or I'll talk about misuse of the built-in platform movement to approximate a limited physics simulation. Whichever people are more interested in. Or I'll post some pixel art. Who knows for sure!

Back in the heyday of Klik, I sometimes called myself "The Master of Useless Effects". I've spent a lot more time on game design balancing as of late, but sometimes it's just fun to make effects. At least now I have a better chance of transforming these ideas into finalized projects!

Game File (Mac): 

JourneyOfFateMacv2.zip

Game File: 

JourneyOfFatePCv2.zip

This is a minimally interactive randomly generated narrative experience. It's slightly inspired by old first-person role-playing games. It's also kind of dumb. I think you need java installed to play it. Enjoy!

Someone please make this for the benefit of the world. Thanks.

Game File: 

CC15 by mno.zip

"Without thought conciousness, all creation is meaningless." - Chuck Summers, Challenging Thoughts

Collected here is 10 levels made by me, for you, in CCTools (or Channel Cipher Tautology of old longing stocks); truly the tool for the modern designer. It is available pre-packaged in a pre-configured copy of Tile World so any novice or expert or newcomer or extreme will be able to find an easy start and launch to get playing. Use the arrow keys and enter key to go! (Note: Tilde's Wonders is not owned by me, but I packaged it into this release for convenience of all users. The story follows below...)

Chapman's cinders fell down from the ceiling as you careen across the cavernous cliff-face known only as "BLISS"! So is the journey that leads you to falling as well, down into the barren pits known only as The Challenge Rooms Of Chipmunk's Crevice. Can you complete these ten mind bending puzzlers? No, nobody can! Thankfully, by pressing G at the start of a level or after being defeated horrible or after pressing Ctrl+R, you can enter one of the following passwords (in an unknown, mysterious order...) to get to one of the other 10 levels, even maybe the one you're on now! Check it out:

For easier perusal, these level signifiers are available to all in the download folder. Figure out the secret key codes to unlock your personal access! Now, onto continuing the conversation around Clammy Chippy's Challenging Chapsticks. Each level is an idea, or several, put together, or arranged, or something like that. Not all of them are as interesting to play as they were for me to make, not all of them take as long to finish as they took me to make. It's true! That's why you can access any level you want, in a pre-determined order outside of the natural lineage, should you find any of them frustrating.

By lowering the barrier of access to progression, the only thing that counts now is getting the highest overall score- but who's keeping track? Only the dedicated few ever will, so they can be ignored. What really matters is, in the words of Chuck Summers, "EXPERIENCE IS THE MEDIUM!". And I would agree. These levels ask for no more attention than some idle curiosity, and questioning:

Is level 7 really meant to be playable? How long did it take to make a pair of oppositional levels? Why do I always need to pick up these chips? Why did you ruin your mixtape like progression of ideology present throughout the normal arrangement of levels by making people over-consider the idea to play through the levels haphazardly at random, by perusing the selection of passwords, without even having to put in the effort to read the forums at GamerFAQS? Just how many levels are there? Are you going to stop telling me what to think?

All of these have answers, but how many can you figure out on your own?! You'll have to crack open your copy of Chilly Chambers right now, and walk into every block you see to figure it all out for yourself. No guidance will be provided other than that already listed. The only possible information that would be useful for those who don't have the dedication to walk into every possible combination of blocks as I do: try walking into anything you don't understand in Delightful Designs, it might just open your eyes.

"Curiosity bottled up leads to only an outpour of drain waste." - Chuck Summers, The Final Collection

Game File: 

lichtenstein.zip

My first foray into pretentious art games. I um.... failed....