Game Off 2017

I’ve never done a game jam before, so this is my first!

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2017

The theme is “throwback”.

Well, I remember a game I played a long time ago. It was like asteroids but… not like it. It had colourful explosions that filled the screen and was crazy to watch. It also had black holes.

So, I’ve decided to do something similar. I’ve called it WakiZoids. Here’s a few screenshots from the game in progress:

and another…

This one has the “ACME Tracking” display. A simple radar showing you objects of interest. The original asteroids had rocks and one spaceship. I’m going for loads of rocks, lots of spaceships of varying types, beasties, sentinel ships… hyperspace?

All in one month?

EEK!

 

Rethinking FX with Melody Mine

Instead of four global FX, instead I’m going for 4 FX slots per instrument. You can build a simple chain of FX that way.

Sample Browser

Melody Mine in wxWidgets (the old one)

Created with wxWidgets.

Melody Mine, Patterns

Pattern editing

Melody Mine… in JUCE!

Melody Mine rewritten with JUCE. The Song page.

My first day at Codies

My desk sat facing three offices in the sound engineers corridor. I could hear machine guns firing, as one guy worked on Flashpoint.

Behind me was a voice booth. Another engineer was recording sound effects for a horror game called Jericho.

So, machine guns in front, screaming behind me. Sound engineers play things LOUDLY. I had a headache at the end of my first week!