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Get motivated to compete in the foodphoto compo or timelapse compo!
The Results Are IN!! Congratulations mrfun, mjau, hamumu, and everyone else who competed!!
Time to hand out some trophies!!
So I played with some ideas .. the one that kept coming up was gunpowder… so that’s what I’ll be doing. You can see in my stuff below that I toyed with marble chutes, race car pile-ups, throwing cars into highways, toxic waste etc .. So maybe I’m going with the boring idea, but it seems like it’ll make for a fun game anyways.
I think I found a concept I like. I’m currently calling it “Pillar”, as in a pillar/tower, and caterpillar. Here’s some concept art.
A character composed of blocks, that acquires new blocks as he moves. The controls I haven’t figured out entirely, but at the very least I think it’ll be based around the idea of picking a block on the character as a pivot point, and rotating him. Probably constanly moving, walking in to walls, until told to turn around (or automatic after a few seconds).
As blocks are collected, they become part of him, evolving in to Tetris like shapes and beyond. The rotating mechanic is your ability to get to new heights, and cross gaps. Physics wise, I think it’ll be entirely axis aligned, since it’ll be far too easy to make shapes that couldn’t normally keep balance. Legs would sprout wherever needed, purely for look cohesiveness. Face always moves to the front middle of the shape. Perhaps tails and other things sprout if a shape deems it.
My only concern at this point is trying to figure out, level design wise, why you wouldn’t want to always create a long piece.
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 The Extremely Hardcore Practical Extraction Reporting and GAming Language (PERGAL) Obfusicated by Design Award Awarded by pansapiens on May 5, 2008 |
 The Gaining Voting Rights with the Least Amount of Code Award Awarded by sol_hsa on May 5, 2008 |
 The Ridiculous Amount Of Statistics Achievement Awarded by mrfun on May 4, 2008 |
 The Authentic Spring a Leak Award Awarded by drZool on May 4, 2008 |
 A jagged trophy as tall as your waist blocks your path Awarded by HybridMind on May 1, 2008 |
 Five Minute Merit Awarded by philhassey on April 30, 2008 |
 The What Gate? Award Awarded by pekuja on April 30, 2008 |
 The "There's Hills under Them Thar Oil" Award Awarded by keeyai on April 28, 2008 |
 Most Clicking Since Diablo II Awarded by Devon on April 27, 2008 |
 The Python Award 2008 Awarded by beta on April 26, 2008 |
 The "In Your Face Time-Lapse" Award Awarded by keeyai on April 24, 2008 |
 The Patient Tranquilty Award Awarded by GBGames on April 24, 2008 |
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