MERRY KLIKMAS LET-OFF-STUDIOS

Thanks so much for organizing klikmas every year, it's my favorite event in the whole wide world!!!

DODO and PENGUIN have teamed up to take over the skies.
PENGUIN has become immune to explosions, and DODO is going
to shoot him with a bazooka gun. Avoid the spikes and lazers, and
collect coins!!

CONTROLS:
Click to shoot a rocket at PENGUIN to blast him up.
Press "F" to toggle fullscreen (when on the game screen)

TIPS:
* Your combo meter increases the number of points you get. If you take damage it resets to zero.
* The combo meter resets to zero if you take damage or go too long without increasing it.
* Graze spikes by moving penguin close to them to gain combo points.

The names in the high score table are taken from the wikipedia page
on early flying machines:

JMM: Jean-Michel Montgolfier
JEM: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier
BDG: Bartolomeu de Gusmao
ES: Emanuel Swedenborg
AJP: Alexis-Jean-Pierre Paucton

CREDITS:
Dancing on Clouds by Eric Matyas:
https://soundimage.org/positive-upbeat/

Coin grafix:
Rotating Coin by DasBilligeAlien:
https://opengameart.org/content/rotating-coin-0

Smoke and fire animated particle by KnoblePersona:
https://opengameart.org/content/smoke-fire-animated-particle-16x16

The prompt:

All I want for Chistmas is:

Flightless Birds
Explosions
old-skool graphics and sound effects (8-bit and older is what I mean)
a high score table
no "games are art" foolishness... I'd rather see messy and raw, goofy stuff in my games
little-known historical figures from the past

Hidden object game.

Way more detail in this one. More to collect, more types of thing to collect, items, quests, more characters, locked doors, more variety in places... I started this all the way back in March and I think this is one of my best. I've been developing it in secret for ages. Months of work has gone into it. Even after starting it so early, it still came down to the wire. Hope you enjoy it!

I wanted to make something for the "Pre-fright Check-in" jam but I started late and didn't work very hard. It's just an old-skool website, really, and some things I find scary to think about. Death and existence, you know. Here's the frame I wrote for the game:

In 1999 the Perfetti Van Melle corporation, in collaboration with the Baudelaire estate, ran a promotion called "Mementos® Mori." The promotion consisted of a limited edition naphthalene flavor of their popular mentos® candy called "Ail-mints." Printed on the inside wrapper of each such roll of "Ail-mints" was a depressing tidbit meant to "chill the very soul of the reader as that ... peppermint candy chills their taste buds."

A promotional website was also created, featuring some examples of text from the promotion, as was the style at the time. A miserable failure, the website was quickly scrubbed from the mentos® website and was never mentioned again. Recently a copy of it turned up on a CD-ROM among the possessions of the late Mr Guy Dupré. He was believed to be 82 at time of passing and was survived by no immediate family.

The restored website is shown above.

Credits:

Shadowlands 7 - Codex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Game based on mno's game based on fizzhog's game.

mno's game: https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/11673

fizzhog's original game: https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/11668

Music:

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/32001
Tommy McCook - Stupid Doctor

images and sounds:

https://mh-1-stockagency.panthermedia.net/media/previews/0004000000/04616000/~forest-train_04616452_high.jpg
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/modern-high-speed-red-commuter-train-at-the-railway-station-picture-id624740220?k=6&m=624740220&s=612x612&w=0&h=72gtbDwGynJb1jDSgcpQaSybKRwqZcxCNbDMePEAvSQ=
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/2d/40/7c/2d407c32be5309bee6a7577cbec79418.jpg
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/166086/
https://freesound.org/people/L83/sounds/455157/

everybody's favorite game in hell, hellball -- but with a twist: YOU are the ball! I don't know what this is, really, but I wanted to make something and this is what I made. I made it REALLY FAST so I hope it's working the way I intended....

Just in the nick of time! This took a lot longer than I expected.

So this is a silly little 1 player paper & pencil adventure game about collecting loot. It's sort of a mixture of Gacha games, the slow and steady progress of MMOs, and a little bit of crafting-y puzzle-y things. In trying to research Gachapon design techniques I discovered Shopkins and was horrified, so I had to channel their hyper commercialized aesthetic a little bit.

There's two uploads- a PDF that's good for reading (the pages are in order), and a PDF that's for printing (the pages are collated like a booklet). Theoretically, it should print onto 5 8.5x11" pages, double sided, but I haven't tried it yet.

P.S. if you read the "Reading" PDF - try to put it into the "pages side by side" mode!

Love from ya boy,
Marek

'What is a video game?' is a prediction of what future game developers will accept as videogames (well at least the games as art movement). It's about showing you SOME of the steps or movements in game development that developers in the future will work towards and pass.

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Ultimately it's about showing how fundemental elements of what we
think a videogame needs COULD be broken down
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I was working on this for some time and stopped around 2 months ago.
All that was really left was to finish off the last section of the context/commentary and pretty all of it up by putting it in a pdf and making it easier to read but I've lost my motivation to finish that off right now. So in the future I may do it but just in case I dont I am uploading it now.

check out the web version on your phone!

for global game jam
the theme was what home means to you
i saw a lot more serious/narrative games this year
seems like a bad idea because people will probably "not go all the way"
or go part of the way just to be evocative
or to be real twee or whatever
though, some of the games that I had liked this year were the more heart warming ones

at home, when my family celebrates christmas,
we put a black santa on top of the tree
i found out recently that my grandma painted him black so he would look like my grandpa

these sprites are mostly color edited to look black
there is a history of black bart bootleg memorabilia
parallels with my black santa
in many of these shirts there will be multiple black barts all crowding around
sometimes all hitting on a woman with a big butt
one of my favorites was my former roommate's boyfriend's shirt that she would wear
it had multiples of different looking barts in a roller coaster
and it says "Bébé's Kids" which is a 90's animated comedy about a black family
that doesn't look anything similar to the simpsons

the sprites i edited are from the konami simpsons arcade beat em up
when the simpsons touch each other, sometimes they do their team attacks
i added a homer strangling bart animation
i was surprised this classic motif from the simpsons,
of homer strangling bart was not in the arcade game at all
i added this in place of having homer and bart's team attack

the sounds are primarily from click team fusion's free sound library
with the exception of a vocal recording of "fuck off mom"

The PC link is above.
This is the Mac Link.

This is part one of a Diptych called "The Force Awakens".
The second game is called "Aerisdies".

This game has content that some may find offensive.

This game has 38 minutes worth of cutscenes.
Play this in one go, preferably around 3am, preferably covered in lotion.

Video Game.

Controls:

arrow keys/WASD: move
R: restart room
P: fullscreen toggle

A small toy-like game about drawing with a circle that rotates around you when you move

I made this in 30 minutes