GameJolt held an Indie-Demake-Contest. My entry was a de-make of Crimsonland, called Bugland. You can play it online in your Browser or offline.
BTW: Checkout Warning Foregone, it’s an awesome de-make 
If you haven’t heard about ConK, well check out my new Micro-Site. There are some videos on YouTube and some screenshots. But what’s ConK?
ConK is a minimalistic Space Real-Time-Strategy (RTS) game, inspired by Qonk and Galcon. Currently, you can play it in your Browser (Java 5 required). It’s easy for testing / updating and distribution during alpha- and beta-phase.
There is a lot of work to do At the moment you can play versus a computer AI ( Hint: Don’t wait too long, expand quickly ). I’ll update my progress here.
Just a little update after a while. We launched a new website for JQuiz aka QuiBuzz (sorry, german only). If you’ve a question, just add a comment below. The software is fully customizable via XML.
For me it is very hard to create some art assets, because it is definitively not my passion. But with some tips you can create some nice stuff, no commercial like assets but better than some rectangles and circles AngryOctopus wrote a little Tutorial about this.
So, here you go:
Part 1 (Procedural / Random)
Part 2 (Drawing)
Do you ever wanted to know what your MacBook Pro is made of? Well, have a look here. Just awesome
Over one month without blogging. Time is passing by very fast in the last few weeks. I’ve a lot of work which need to be done here in Cologne. It is a big project for a german insurance company. This reminds me of a song by Muse:
By the way, i just bought the book “Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed“. It has nothing to do with Java. XNA is a Game-Framework für Windows PC and XBox 360 written for .NET (C#). But there are some nice examples you can learn from.
Happy coding @ll
Yeah, i got finished my first real game in Java. It’s nothing spectecular but i got it. A small quiz / puzzle game. You must guess a picture in the background, it’s hidden behind puzzle pieces. Every second a puzzle-piece is removed and you see more of the picture. I’ll post some screenshots later with a little more details inside.
For me it’s very difficult to know all, or at least some, blend-modes. I found a posting on JGO and a link to Pulpcore. Pulpcore is another 2D API for Java-Game-Devolopment. As far as i know, it uses only Java internal stuff to do the rendering. Anyway, there is an article about Alpha-Compositing aka Blend-Modes, very useful information.
So, after updating to WordPress 2.7 and destroying my old Theme i got the new Theme installed. I have searched hours and hours to find a good and clean Theme for my blog… Sometimes it can be really frustrating. But here we go
Expect some updates in the next days / weeks. I got around with my game dev stuff again. I’d to much work to do and some deadlines to hold. It’s a hard business, but it’s fun! Cause: Code 4 Life yeah…
Just found a cool site about math called algebralab.org. You can find all kind of definitions there like Cross-Product, Dot-Product or simple angle calculations.