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Skeletons in the Closet PLUS

thesycophant — Wed, 03 May 2017 07:14:04 +0000

Find all bottles to move onto next stage. Avoid skeletons.

Use arrows to move, X to jump.

A tribute to CGA IBM compatible games and to jfroco's Skeletons in the Closet, a tribute to Sinclair ZX Spectrum games.
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Here is my very late submission to this most excellent idea for a game jam! As Danni said about the original Skeletons in the Closet, "This is neat but it needs way more levels." So I present to you, Skeletons in the Closet PLUS! Whereas the original game had only three levels, this enhanced port gives you TWELVE.

jfroco's game is a tribute to the style of ZX-82 games, which they grew up on. I really liked the game when I played it in the GDC Pirate Kart. Personally, I don't have any particular nostalgia for the Spectrum, but my equivalent would be early Apogee-type shareware platformers . So my little headcanon is that this is the MS-DOS port from the late 1980s that alters the original Spectrum game, moves things around, and expands it a bit. All three original stages are adapted for this version!

Link to original game: https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/3053

(If this game gets too hard, use the secret cheat code for more lives: Hold down L and press Space!)

100 Free Beetles

mkapolk — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 05:23:52 +0000

WASD: move
mouse: look
scroll: zoom
Space: Jump
n: next scene
p: previous scene

A mashup of 100 Free Assets by Blueberrysoft and Noisy Beetle by clyde.

I really enjoyed reading about the process of Noisy Beetle, that of making a series of
very deliberate and thoughtful formal experiments to see how the different
elements of the game interact with each other to form a whole. I went to school
for digital media art, but where I felt like the classes for more traditional
forms of media had exercises that let you practice these formal interactions
really closely, the program I was in didn't really have that level of rigor and
experience when it came to game development.

The unity asset store is a treasure trove, and I feel a particular
materialistic allure from the funny meeting of the val-u-store marketing and
toylike nature of individual assets on the asset store (Fantasy SFX Sample Pak
w/ 10 FREE WEAPONS). Importing and playing with free assets is fundamentally
satisfying, but if you arrange and select your assets in the way they want to
be arranged, you end up with a game that's, at best, as milquetoast as the
individual assets. 100 Free Assets felt like a very good experiment in
reappropriating and recontextualizing those assets in a way that resolved* them
somewhat. So I wanted to try doing that, but with more of a compartmental,
Noisy Beetle kind of way.

The scenes are presented in the order they were made. I think there's a sense
of progression among them. The car and mushroom skeleton, particularly, feel
clean and purposeful and intentional, although with the skeleton particularly
it feels like I found a few asset packs that fit together tonally and
thematically and made a scene with them, rather than working towards a more complete
resolution to the problem of assets, in general. But the idea of climbing on a big skeleton overgrown with mushrooms
was too delightful, and when I found that wonderful space within his ribs,
well, I couldn't resist. I'm not sorry, but I do think there's a lot more work to be done before I feel really comfortable using assets.

* By resolved, I'm referring to the process of removing the various tensions that one feels from these assets:
On a formal level, they have the quality of images cut out of a magazine: a skeleton with an attack animation
wants to have something to attack, a photorealistic rock wants to nestle alongside a HD river with bloom lighting.
There's a context that gets conspicuously cut when the assets live on their own.
And this also gives the assets a certain awkwardness, since they often
aren't created to live in any world in particular, or they're made with reference to some kind of amalgam of random artistic styles
the artist wanted to mimic, but they don't land in any in particular.

There's also a political dimension to this tension, since the ostensible
purpose of the asset store is to serve up *professional* assets. Assets that
look as if a professional made them, and they belong in a AAA game. The deal being, if you
use these assets your game can look like it's a professional game too. And
the games that are born out of this faustian bargain - you know the type, with
a 10,000 poly Dark Knight stomping around an empty field with cartoon goblins -
reveal, by turns, the optimistic dreams of some kid who Wants To Make Games
When He Grows Up, or the cynicism of someone taking a pre-built infinite runner
and hacking in a different player model, or the narcissism of a
3-idea-guy-and-one-programmer team's kickstarter ($10 pledged of $500,000)
who've got the next big MMORPG in the making. So this particular aesthetic
becomes a synecdoche for the whole fucked up relationship between individual gamers and
the multi billion dollar video game industry, with all the implications that that conjures up.

So, I know of two strategies to resolve this tension. The first is to simply
find the right assets that go together, polish up the gameplay, and make a
convincing fantasy that can hide the political dimensions of the relationship
between the game maker, the asset store, and the games industry. The other is
the strategy of the collage artist: to combine the elements in such a way that
their original purpose is subverted or obliterated. And there's a lot of ways
of achieving that: through punning recontextualization of the images, or
intentionally ruining the high quality assets, or using the objects such that
they're reduced to their formal qualities, or using the objects in such a way
that you create an aesthetic of ugliness, or whatever. 100 Free Assets makes
some good moves in that direction, THE ARCHICTECTURAL BODY AUTOMOBILISATION KIT
is another good one, and oikospiel looks promising, though I haven't played it
yet, but I think for the true masters you have to look back to Hannah Hoch or
Rauschenberg, and go from there.

Mega Mountain 2100

adrian09_01 — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:03:58 +0000

Mega Mountain 2100 is a "climbing platformer metroidvania" without an ability to jump that's an unofficial sequel to the Glorious Trainwrecks classic Mega Mountain.

It's heavily inspired by indie classics like Cave Story, Undertale and Mega Mountain.

The game isn't finished yet. The game *.exe and the itch.io page are placeholders and everything can change at any time.

Features:
- not too much, it's a demo.

Washy's Watery Wonderland

sergiocornaga — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:38:36 +0000

A marker game inspired by Yoshi's Whaley World.

Whimsical Snack Planet

sergiocornaga — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:35:57 +0000

A marker game originally drawn in 2013 for Klik of the Month Klub #75, inspired by Whimsical Snack Hound, Magnificent Planet, and Putt-Putt Saves The Stew.

Cave Sporey 2

sergiocornaga — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:40:49 +0000

A marker game sequel to Cave Sporey.

Chaos Butterfly 9000

sergiocornaga — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:50:53 +0000

A marker game inspired by Pamela's Adventures in DreamLand.

The Zang Zurfers Restoration Project

mkapolk — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 01:13:55 +0000

Not much is known about the ancient art of Zang Zurfing. The only remnants are scattered screenshots, a few minutes of blurry let's play footage and, for the few lucky enough to have played the original when it existed, the vague memory of the feeling of zour powder between your toes...

From these, the Zang Zurfing Restoration Committee has created the definitive facsimile edition of Zang Zurfers. Enjoy!

WASD, Mouse, Click to Zurf Zang.

Music stolen from our dear nuuup because I couldn't track down the original: https://nuuupin.bandcamp.com/album/horrorscope

Destroy Your Home (a clone by clyde)

clyde — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 04:03:01 +0000

This game was made for the The No Pressure Appreciation Nicejam on Glorious Trainwrecks in March of 2017 by clyde.
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/10522
I've wanted to make a clone of Destroy Your Home by juliette for a long time.
Here is the link to the original game.
https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/5279

Also of note is Earth Defence Force Your Home by Blueberry Soft
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/10305

You can contact me on Twitter @cafefiction

Credits:
I used Unity.

Some meshes were made with ProCore Bundle
Editor Extensions/Utilities
by ProCore
I especially used ProBuilder and ProGrids.
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/15447

TangyTextures Material Pack by LemonSpawn
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/19225

Low Poly Destructible 2 Cars no.8 by 1Poly
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/45368

Billboarding solution by JustinReinhart
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/52656/how-i-can-create-an-sprite-that-always-look-at-the.html

Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - The Song of the Sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92RDby71_I&index=1&list=PLZaIs2byC5wKa-jGup4q3KkKbt8AEwiYj

Susato - Crumhorn Trio - Ronde Wo Bistu
by Early Music in a different way ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14Ilh0p550

Lamps Pack 3D Models by Nova Shade
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/55018

Chalet Style Furniture
3D Models/Props/Furniture
by Rendwork Studio
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/31966

Free HDR Sky
Textures & Materials/Skies
by ProAssets
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/61217

Beautiful Underwater Experience 2017

FirecatFG — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 22:49:36 +0000

A sort of "HD remake" of Zecks' beautiful underwater experience.

Phat Jung's Auto Sequencer

Protohm Johnny — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 03:40:43 +0000

Q:
Who is Phat Jung, and why should I care?

A:
Phat Jung is the most incredible BEATZ™ maker in the world! You fool! You horrible fool you!
Shut your mouth and witness the tragedy of Phat Jung's Auto Sequencer.

Font: http://www.1001fonts.com/urban-slick-font.html
Inspired by Clyde's "Musical Stacks": https://clyde.itch.io/musical-stacks
Made for the appreciation jam.

Escape from the Crazy Place

J. J. Guest — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:16:11 +0000

You've been locked in a padded cell for no obvious reason with only a deranged hamburger-eating clown for company. The cell doesn't even have a door. So begins an adventure that will take you to many places including custard-filled caverns, the world's worst Indian restaurant, the planet Venus, and the inside of a cereal packet. You'll meet such strange characters as the peculiar Plugalug, the mysterious Cow of Honour, Rampateuay of the Hills (a prophet who predicts things he's about to do) and the sinister Boss.

Can YOU make it alive through the forest of the Ostrich People? Fathom the mysteries of the marmalade satnav? Survive the mutiny on the 'Milky Way'? Discover why you have ham on the brain, ham on the brain, ham on the ham on the ham on the brain? Can YOU escape from the Crazy Place?

Written over 33 years, Escape from the Crazy Place is a sprawling TWINE game with over 90,000 words of text. It is also an example of exquisite corpse writing, combining the talents of around twenty different authors. Some wrote just a passage or two, others wrote dozens.

This new TWINE version was originally intended to be a trimmed-down, more polished version of the 2006 TADS 2 version, but myself and my friends Loz Etheridge and Mark Bailey got a bit carried away, and somehow or other the 2017 version ended up being two-and-a-half times the size of the original. The game will continue to expand as I intend never to stop adding to it.

"Like the twisted literary lovechild of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Homsar, Escape From the Crazy Place is quite possibly one of the funniest things I've ever touched!" Ryusui - rec.arts.int.fiction.

"I've been playing your online Escape from the Crazy Place for the last half hour and I have to say it's... well, the best damn thing I've ever seen ever." Sprite - The Adrift Forum.

"This is a surrealist gem. I've never beaten it, despite spending some time on it, but the remarkably surreal world kind of sucks you and drags you along." Bad Dog Studios - IFDB.