i haven't made any video games, but i * have * written music for video games: https://lillyan.bandcamp.com/album/100. i'm friends with everythingstaken and ihavefivehat.

The Klik of the Month Klub meets right here on this very website on the third Saturday of every month at 4pm Pacific Time (taking daylight savings into consideration) for a two hour Klik & Play Showdown. Everyone who participates gets two hours to create something from scratch in Klik & Play. Abusing the stock objects is encouraged. If you really loathe Klik & Play you can use whatever game development platform you want. Two hours is a pretty tight time limit, though, so choose wisely!

Klik & Play is absolutely free to download, and learning it takes minutes, so everyone can get in on the action. Want to talk to your fellow Klikwreckers? Join us on IRC -- server irc.freenode.net, channel #glorioustrainwrecks. Join the mayhem!

Sign up below to get reminded by email the day before the klikkening begins!

Games made for Klik of the Month Klub #5

I've been fiddling with the text adventure creation system Inform 7 and I decided to make a game for this site. I hope this counts as a trainwreck by your standards, or is at least sufficiently strange or interesting. You can run it with Frotz, downloadable here and also here.

Edit: It should be noted that this was semi-loosely based upon a now-concluded running joke in the comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug (information here, see 'Chaos Butterfly').

Relevant commands:

look (or l)
north (or n)
south (or s)
east (or e)
west (or w)
examine (or x)
take (or get)
drink

This macro, when surrounding a span of text, will search through the text, finds words that are also names of passages in the story, and converts them to internal links.

* Since Twine passage names are case-sensitive, this search is also case-sensitive.
* It currently only matches single ASCII words (letters and numbers) and hyphens contained within, but currently not apostrophe-containing words.

(function(){version.extensions.autolinkMacro={major:1,minor:0,revision:0};
macros.autolink={handler:function(g,e,f,b){function tagcontents(starttag,endtag,k){var a=b.source.slice(k),l=0,c="";
for(var i=0;i<a.length;i++){var w=endtag.length;if(a.substr(i,w)==endtag){if(l==0){b.nextMatch=k+i+w;
return c}else{l--;c+=a.charAt(i)}}else{if(a.substr(i,starttag.length)==starttag){l++
}c+=a.charAt(i)}}return""}var k=b.source.indexOf(">>",b.matchStart)+2,d=tagcontents("<<"+e,"<<end"+e+">>",k),bs=String.fromCharCode(92),re=new RegExp("(["+bs+"w-]+)","g"),words,len;
do{words=re.exec(d);if(words&&tale.has(words[0])){len=words[0].length;
d=d.slice(0,words.index)+"[["+words[0]+"]]"+d.slice(words.index+len);
re.lastIndex+=(len)}}while(words);new Wikifier(g,d)}};macros.endautolink={handler:function(){}}
}());

Usage example:
* <<autolink>>The most popular pets are dogs and cats<<endautolink>> - Assuming the passage "dogs" exists, that becomes "dogs".

Not too sure of the name - might change it later.

_{Feel free to report any bugs to @webbedspace.}

It's done and it looks a damn sight better than what I had up here earlier.

Game File: 

Red Vs. Blue - Da Race.zip

A 2 player, simple racing game.

___

Red stickfigure uses SPACE bar.
Blue stickfigure uses right arrow key.

Game File: 

berate.zip

Don't hate 'em, berate 'em.

FEB 27-28, 2010

Q: What is a Klik & Play Pirate Kart?

A Klik & Play Pirate Kart is a staggering collection of awesome and/or terrible games. All of the games are made in a single 48-hour period. No game is allowed to take more than two hours to make. Contributors continuously churn out games, non-stop, all weekend. When the weekend is over, the result is pure glory. It is an experience unlike anything else that has ever occurred on earth.

Q: Why 371 games?

In 2009, the Global Game Jam brought together more than 1600 people for a single 48 hour period, and the result was a measly 370 games. What a joke! If we had had 1600 people working on the first Pirate Kart, why, we could have easily produced 10,000 games! Glorious Trainwrecks Dot Com is hereby declaring QUANTITY WAR on the Global Game Jam.

Q: Who can contribute?

EVERYONE! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell your grandmother(s)! Our community has grown since the original Pirate
Kart, but 371 games in a single weekend is still an absurd goal, and we need all of the help we can muster. Luckily, anyone can learn Klik &
Play, and thus anyone can make games with us.

Q: How do I participate?

1. Step 1: Get set up and comfortable with a rapid game creation environment. I recommend Klik & Play, but if you've got a 64-bit machine, you might be better of with, say, Construct. Check out our Tools thread for suggestions.

   Remember: you want to make games at an impossible rate, spending no more than two hours apiece on them. Getting some practice in during the Klik of the Month Klub would be a good idea.

2. Step 2: When the weekend has begun, join us on IRC. Everyone who's participating should be in the #glorioustrainwrecks channel on irc.freenode.net. Chatting with us on IRC gets you speedy Klik & Play advice, insights into the creative process, and new friends to make games with.

   If you're not comfortable with IRC, we've set up a handy-dandy IRC Java applet that automatically connects you to your game-making brethren.

3. Step 3: MAKE GAMES LIKE A MAD(WO)MAN.

Q: How do I see the games people have made for the Pirate Kart?

An automatically generated list of games will be available at this link.

IT IS TIME ONCE AGAIN TO TAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE PLUNGE INTO GLORY! JUSTICEWARD!!

Games made for THE 371-IN-1 KLIK & PLAY PIRATE KART II: KLIK HARDER

19 games made!
View a random selection
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Name	Created	By	Screenshot	Comments
Castlevania 10	03/02/2010 - 00:06	Blueberry Soft		12
Trainwreck-o-sphere	02/28/2010 - 23:55	mzo		1
A Social Communist Game Simulator	02/28/2010 - 17:36	bungalo		0
Piggy Game	02/28/2010 - 17:20	bungalo		0
FACTORY SEALED STADIUM EVENTS SHAREWARE	02/28/2010 - 15:39	SpindleyQ		3
Don't Flub Your Line!	02/28/2010 - 15:08	Noyb		3
Pyramido Plunder	02/28/2010 - 04:51	Zecks		1
The Pursuit of Happiness	02/27/2010 - 20:16	MegaIlinx		0
Growing Pains	02/27/2010 - 20:04	pgil		6
Forest Racer	02/27/2010 - 15:38	Zecks		0
The Trail	02/27/2010 - 15:25	Noyb		0
They're Going to Shoot the Mayor!	02/27/2010 - 15:18	pgil		2
WHY RAT LIKE CHEESE	02/27/2010 - 12:53	MegaIlinx		0
CastleAttack	02/27/2010 - 12:34	snapman		1
Yie Ar Klik Fu	02/27/2010 - 08:25	Zecks		0
The House Monopolier	02/27/2010 - 05:56	Zecks		1
Astro Runner	02/27/2010 - 05:30	Zecks		0
At Swim	02/27/2010 - 05:17	Rhubarb		0
Collect the Umbrellas	02/26/2010 - 22:00	Kitoari		0

Game File: 

001_DoorOpener.zip

Press buttons to open doors before the time runs out!