OMGWTFGAMES!!1! » development http://omgwtfgames.com games, served indie side up Thu, 27 May 2010 23:26:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Write an Aussie Chumby widget, win cool stuff http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/12/write-an-aussie-chumby-widget-win-cool-stuff/ http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/12/write-an-aussie-chumby-widget-win-cool-stuff/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:01:27 +0000 perry http://omgwtfgames.com/?p=68 Internode is running a Chumby competition for developers: create an Australian localised Chumby widget. The creator of the highest rated widget wins a chumby, a copy of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional and an $800 credit towards Internode services …. and lots of glory. I probably won’t have time to participate, but any keen Aussie Flash developers should really give it a shot. I reckon some sort of backyard cricket game would go down well.

chumby at home
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  • GrandMasterPixel now available for testing in the Android emulator
    • ]]>     Here’s an interesting breakdown by indie developer Niklas Wahrman about the development process for his game Astrorope.

    It’s a bit like a “Swedish” tunnel running game crossed with CluClu Land. What’s most interesting to me is how the game was effectively ported between languages and platforms twice before the final product emerged … first written in C#, then ported to the Android Java SDK, before finally jumping on the iPhone bandwagon. I also like the discussion about keeping productive through ‘ritual’ … get up early, drink water, eat healthy, execrise, don’t overwork and take a break if you become unproductive. Good Ludum Dare advice :) .

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    ]]>     http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/10/the-making-of-astrorope-c-ported-to-android-java-sdk-ported-to-iphone/feed/ 0     Schwartz’ notes on Procedural Modeling of Urban Environments http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/10/schwartz-notes-on-procedural-modeling-of-urban-environments/ http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/10/schwartz-notes-on-procedural-modeling-of-urban-environments/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:33:56 +0000 perry http://omgwtfgames.com/?p=44 Procedural Modeling of Urban Environments.

    ie automatically generating 3D models of cities. I wish I had time to code something like this. L-systems, agent flocking, lots of cool stuff going on. Maybe one day, if I can find a good excuse.

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    ]]>     http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/10/schwartz-notes-on-procedural-modeling-of-urban-environments/feed/ 0     Flex for Flash games coming of age http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/05/flex-for-flash-games-coming-of-age/ http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/05/flex-for-flash-games-coming-of-age/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 22:21:38 +0000 perry http://gamedev.pansapiens.com/?p=28 Adobe Flex
    Around six to twelve months ago I did some research into using the Adobe Flex framework to create Flash games. I found an amazing port of Doom using the Flex SDK, but at that stage, there was no source code on offer, so I couldn’t learn much from it (except maybe that Flex was capable of some pretty impressive Flash games). Ultimately, I decided not to work with Flex for two key reasons:
    1. There didn’t seem to be many games written with Flex at that stage, and very little in the way of how-tos and tutorials. All the tutorials I found from Adobe and others were geared toward ‘business applications’ and the like.
    2. The Flex compiler only generates Flash 9, and I wanted to make Flash games for the Wii Opera browser, which only supports Flash 7.

    Well, the Wii stil doesn’t support Flash 9 (my guess is it never will), but things are changing on the availability of game-making resources for Flex.

    Chuck Arellano over at scripted fun has ported his Herder game for Pygame to Flex, and is having some success.

    Meanwhile, Andy ‘pinacolada’ Fischer over at gamedev.net has written an introductory tutorial covering the Flex SDK for coding Flash games.

    I suspect that there has been a blossoming of Flex game creation content occurring while I wasn’t watching … it could be worth revisiting.

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