Last weekend was just super awesome…it was Ludum Dare 23 – The ultimate 48 hour compo. The theme was ‘Tiny World’ and I was in this time (my 2nd LD). I chose to make a game on flash platform using the Flashpunk game library. The game is called SAVE ME in which you control a cute alien which is attacked by some evil species. You can jump on planets and even hop from one planet to another collecting the game power-ups.

Some points about this LD for me were:

• Gave more time and priority to gameplay.
• Drew quite a lot pixel art for the first time (it was fun).
• Tried some new game mechanics.
• Integrated almost all game elements (sounds really matter).

Play and rate my entry.

Now that the compo is over, I have played around 60 entries out which here are my best picks (in no order):

• Memento XII – deepnight: As always, this entry by deepnight has mind blowing graphics. The pixel art is really good and gives a very nice feel to the game. Though being a point and click adventure type, I was not that a fan of the gameplay.
• Astro Break – hulahulahest: This was a really well made contra style game. I loved the sprites and the whole idea of having a shoot’emup on a lil planet was greet. A game to play for powerups!
• Soul Searchin’ – MaximSchoemaker: A 100% into the the theme entry. A very well executed idea where the player can be shrunk and grown to clear levels inside levels…A nice level design too.
• Nook – PoV: Another shrink/grow type jam entry which wonderful graphics and animation. The game is fun to play and effects are neat.

So go ahead, play them, rate them and be cool

If you wanna check out my game’s source, it can be found on github.

Till next time, cya!

Whats JIDE? Well, its an Integrated Development Environment for Java language. Its an application I made as my major project in final year. JIDE is written in C++ and uses wxWidgets library for GUI. It offers features like syntax highlighting, simple to use interface and easy configuration for new programmers.

So here it is:

https://github.com/chinchang/JIDE

Fork it. Play it.

Cheers!

I recently received my meego tablet as a contest prize from Intel. Its an EXOPC slate with an awesome configuration. It came preinstalled with a development release of Meego and had a quite a lot issues with the functionality and UX. So I decided to experiment with the slate and begin trying different OS on it.

The first in the row was the latest build of Meego. Much better than what came preinstalled, but still not there. Applications hung up in between, there were glitches in the UI and stuff…

Next was Linux Mint 11. Worked quite well on the tablet but multitouch support was not present. After researching a bit I found the multitouch framework (uTouch) which is under development by Canonical for Unity.

So in order to test uTouch I switched to Ubuntu 11.10. Unity in Ubuntu was a much better experience on the tablet as compared to Mint. It felt closer to a real tablet OS.

That was not it. The best was still to come. Finally I tried installing Windows 8 developer preview on the tab. At first it didn’t install as I was trying the x64 edition. But x86 one installed just fine. The new Metro UI in windows 8 is a masterpiece. Though the current edition of windows 8 still has plenty of bugs, the experience of using it on a touch device is simply awesome.

I leave now with some pics of Windows 8 running on the slate. Will wait for the final release of Window 8

Cheers!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

It has been an awesome year in 2011, with many things happening as expected and many unexpectedly. But overall…superb.

The first news of 2012 from my side is that I have put one of my alpha games on github. Its basically a clone of the very famous copter game by seethru. You can fork the game HERE.

So fork it, hack it and enjoy.
May this new year bring more n more joy to all.

Cheers!

It has been a long time since I wrote my last post. Well, I have got a reason for this one

Four days back, Nasscom organized its third Game Developers Conference in Pune. What was different this time was the BYOG event conducted by the Indie Game Development India community. Yes, you heard that right a Build Your Own Game wherein a game was to be developed in 48 hours…savvy!

Unfortunately, I could not attend the awesome event this year. Nevertheless, I took part in the BYOG remotely. And what I came up with in this jam was Fun With Force. The theme of my game was ‘physics’. Its a very simple prototype but I’m happy with the result. And yes…it won the 3rd prize in the jam

PLAY HERE.

Let the developer know your comments and suggestions.

More updates on my games coming soon.
Cheers!

Most of the gameplay elements are implemented and are in place. All that remains now is some art work. The main characters in F3 are bugs…different kind of bugs. Here is a pic of one of them. I call him the ‘Super-Bug’ (for obvious reasons) :

Super-Bug - Does he look like someone ?

There are more funny looking bugs in the game. Its been really interesting to work on this project and I have also come with a cool idea for building the next version of F3.

And by the way, my lastest game POOZLE-CAM is on FGL, in case someone likes to sponsor it.

Thats it for now. Stay tuned for more udpates.

Cheers

Yippee !!

I got my first tutorial published on tutsplus+. Its on how to split a running video dynamically into pieces using only Actionscript 3.0.

Its a technique I used in one of my latest game which is going to be released soon.

Read the article here, play and experiment with it.

And remember…share it if you like it

Ever wanted to play any song but did not have the chords in front of you ??
Tried searching them on the web, but you did not have internet access at the place ??

Well, if your answer is YES, here is a cool app for you all.

@chord - An app that finds you chords for any song on your mobile just by sending an SMS.

All you need to do is, send @chord song_name to 924334200 and it will find and send you chords of that song as an SMS.

Vote it and share it if you like it.

If anyone does not know what POOZLE is, its a small jigsaw puzzle game I developed long back. Heres a screenshot of it :

Pretty wierd...huh

Well…it just struck to me why not scramble the camera output instead of numbers. And that is what I sat down to create. Heres what I came up with (Camera required) :

[ CONTROLS : Arrow keys ]

One advantage of using camera in jigsaw is that you have a different picture to solve…almost always and so you don’t need to attach a bundle of pictures with the game

I will be writing a tutorial on how to generate the scrambled blocks using camera’s output soon. Also plan to develop it further into a complete game.

Till then play it. Enjoy.

I have been working on motion tracking since my last blog post on experiment with Justin Windle’s motion tracker. Inspired by all the fascinating stuff, I started writing my own motion tracker in Actionscript 3.0 which is finally done and up on Github.

Here is a small demo I put up to show the basic working :

Though it tracks motion nicely it still needs to be improved to track smoothly and more accurately. I’ll be also working on integrating gesture recognition with it.

DOWNLOAD PROJECT

Will soon upload the demo source too. Till then…Download it. Play with it. Improve it.

Cheers !