Screwattack.com seems to be down for an indefinite period, so I’ll just be putting this post into the void more commonly known as my blog 
Here’s what’s new with my Ragnarok remake, Mortals of Midgard:
Hey, look! I’m still working on this game, AND making progress to boot! It hasn’t always been easy (I lost about a week’s worth of full-time, everyday work at one point), but I so badly don’t want to give up. 
So far, the game lets you travel to the first 6 maps, all of which are randomly generated. Besides that, there’s name entry and gender selection, and an inventory screen and corresponding button (which is only half-visible in the pictures, as the bottom is cut off–stupid tiny netbook screen resolution).
For special effects, the enemies and player now flash red when they take damage (I’m sure I heard a collective “OOoOoh” just now). One day, I hope to have the modern amenities of music, sound, animation, and 3D… all right, skip the 3D, but the rest I will have.
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G’day! And a good day it is, for I’d like to break my self-imposed speechlessness, once again, by making an announcement. (Well, it’s a good day for ME when that happens…)
This time, I’m working on something I didn’t expect I would ever attempt again… making a game, in one of my many non-native programming languages. For this go-round, it’s C# in XNA Game Studio 3.0, and let me tell you… it’s tough, but I can actually see this thing happening.
The game is a Roguelike RPG, a relatively easy choice for an amateur like myself. In fact, to make the task even simpler, it’s just a sequel/update/general rehash of an existing DOS game, Ragnarok, originally released in 1992. But I plan to make it my own by re-penning all the pixel art, changing item names and effects, making new monsters, etc.
Here’s how it looks so far:
An orgy of badgers badgering our poor player
A badger is encased by impassable mountains. Ha ha! Take that, badger.
If you’re wondering who the wackjob holding the skull is, it’s the Alchemist class. Take a look at what the old sprites looked like to see how I came up with this.
The majesty of nature in 16 colors
A hoOGa chAAga
‘Ello dere. Not much new around here, since I’ve been out of videologging-mode for a while. One of these days I’ll get on with the show, but I did create a little diversion that I should share in the meantime.
(That mystery was solved, btw: it was Peter Pan and the Pirates, a not-very-good and also, apparently, unmemorable game.)
There isn’t much else to say for my first quarter of 2012… well, I’ve taken a shine to several XBLA titles, especially Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes (you can find me online as iluvegg.) The 2-on-2 games aren’t really my thing, but 1-on-1 is a deep and utterly engaging experience.
Today I also finally got ilomilo, since it’s on sale for Gold people. It may be the top-selling xbla game, but I’m not going to let that influence my appraisal of it… though I’m going to recommend it based on my gleeful experience so far.
Well, ta ta for now! See you soon.
Nay, Hell hath not frozen over, though it nearly did while I was making this video. I’m not sure why it was in production hell for so long, but it’s finally over! I really hope you enjoy it.
From October 26th (which is now in the past for me) to November 1st, you can get a free table, called Paranormal, for the game Pinball FX2 on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Once the offer is kaput, table’s price will be raised to 240 points.
You seem to have to depend on word-of-mouth to know about anything free from Microsoft–that’s just how it was when I found out I could get Carcassone and Undertow for free. So thanks to my friend Terry for the info!
Pinball FX2 doesn’t cost anything, and comes with some trial tables. I’ve had it for a long time, but I couldn’t justify paying the asking price to unlock some of the full tables. I’m actually very fond of pinball games, so I’m glad they put this one up for free (especially with the spookiest day of the year almost upon us). I’ve already played it for a couple hours, and it’s shockingly realistic, fun, and full-featured–but I guess all modern games seem that way when memories of Sonic Spinball, Kirby’s Pinball Land, and Maxis’ 3D Pinball for Windows still swim around in your head Anyway, addictive and authentic pinball action it is, and I highly recommend it.
So GO GET IT!
Hey guys!
I guess whoever was “holding” my domain name when I let my registration expire finally gave up the ghost, because I was able to buy it back just a few days ago. As if you haven’t noticed…
Well, it just made me happy.
Here’s a brief update on my gaming activities of late.
Playing:
Banjo-Kazooie on N64 – possibly the best game I almost didn’t play. May have to get XBLA version one day, but only after I’ve played Tooie.
Kirby: Return to Dreamland on Wii – a really nice throwback to 8- and 16-bit days in a lot of ways. Highly recommended.
Watching:
Batman: Arkham City on PS3 – technically a nice game, but some of the characterizations and writing wears on me QUITE a bit. See nerdbastards.com: http://nerdbastards.com/2011/10/21/not-to-btch-but-whats-with-all-the-btch-ing-in-arkham-city/
Wanted games:
Professor Layton and the Last Specter
Radiant Silvergun
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Ms. ‘Splosion Man
and more
The AVGN recently wrote a blog entry about the bygone era of video rental stores. He invited readers to share their own memories, so I did–and it ended up being long enough to be its own blog post! (I feel kind of bad for co-opting the post like that, but oh well).
I was already planning to incorporate these memories into a video someday, but really, this is the best way I can tell the story So here we go!
Yes, it has been quiet here for over a month as I cobble together a new video. But rest assured, it is coming! I have a lot of footage for SMB’s 2 and 3, and the script is advancing. It will be a bigger-than-normal video… maybe the biggest I’ve done to date. I won’t be able to work on it next week, as I will be out of town, so I don’t know when it will be finished exactly.
We just have to keep telling ourselves: Krusty is coming, Krusty is coming… er, the video, that is
More nostalgic gaming goodness. This time, we’ll be taking a look at my first, and favourite, peripheral on the NES–the Zapper light gun–and three games for it that I grew up with.
EDIT: sorry for the video’s absence up until now. I think this standard player is the one I have to use in WordPress.
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