PlayJamesGames BLOG

0:20 Side note

2010-06-22T21:42:00.002-04:00

You know, I just realized that over the last few months, I forgot to put 0:20 Challenge up on my "meh games" page. Sorry about that. If you go there now, you should see the new entry for download. I'll have it up to play on GameJolt soon.

Level Design

2010-06-19T21:09:00.003-04:00

Well, to be honest, I haven't finished all the elements of Enlitened (Enlightened?), but I've decided to go ahead with the level design process anyway. My theory is that I will create new elements as I design levels, and this will give a nice progressive and refreshing feel to the game, as it will add more and more elements as you progress. So far this theory is actually working... even though I've only finished the first 2 levels.

Another fact about this game: Standard levels are about 1600x1600px wide. I may vary things up, though, depending on what I feel like doing. Maybe a 50000px tall falling level. Or a 10000px wide race level. The possibilities are endless!

Anote Updates

2010-05-10T18:19:00.003-04:00

Enlitened is progressing well still, although, I'm starting to question the title a little bit. It will probably be longer and more... Titlistic in the end... if that's a word.

Anyway, "what progress have you been making", you may be wondering. Well I'll tell you what; here's the details in list form:

New enemy: Floater - Slowly moves toward you if the way is clear. All black expect for his tiny eyes, so watch out for him.

New enemy: Guard - On patrol all the time. Get too close and he'll fire

New enemy: Genesis Species - Most basic creature. Has no eyes due to environment. Merely walks around, but it completely black. Be careful not to run into him.

Jumping addition - Pressing down causes your player to kneel and jump a little bit higher and a regular jump

Absolute dark - Periodic blackouts in certain levels where nothing is visible. I hope you took note of your intended path.

Also some littler things, but I don't have time to list them off right now.

Enliten Screenies!

2010-04-30T14:56:00.002-04:00

BLAMMO! Here they are. I bet they look a bit confusing, but what do you expect for a game based completely around the dark and stationary lights?

The screens here aren't actual size, I just make them small for my narrow display, and it's just easier to fit everywhere.

This game's getting sweet

2010-04-29T21:11:00.002-04:00

Still no screens, but for a new reason. I'm having some trouble with the views. But I'm getting help with it as we speak, so do not fret.

Some neat features for Enlitened now are a lot of small things. The main view in-game is set to follow a small light. This light follows you, but with a delay. This results in very smooth panning.

There is also a "terrain" feature. The nice thing is that the bumpy terrain in-game isn't just aesthetic, your player moves according to it. I hope this will make the game a lot more natural feeling.

This game will be sound-rich. Sounds for jumping, landing, running, dying, lights, finishing, enemies, it's going to be bounteous.

Another neat little feature is about your "Follower Light" which was talked about at the beginning of the second paragraph. It's normally a white light, but if it returns any dangers near by it will turn red. If the danger gets closer (or you do), it begins to fluctuate in size; giving you a broader view of the area around. It's a sort of mercy feature I suppose.

Anywho, that's all for now. Stay tuned!

Enlitened

2010-04-27T11:48:00.002-04:00

...is the tentative title for my latest WIP. This game is a platformer where the entire world is black (not just for aesthetics) and the only way you can see where you're going is by lights placed around the levels. There are "Omni Light", "Spot Lights", "Follower Lights", "Axis Lights", and I plan on having more types in the future such "Endless Lights", and "Living Lights".

The character movement, design, is about 99% done. I'm quite proud of it ^_^.

SCREENS COMING SOON.

It's over

2010-04-04T19:45:00.002-04:00

So, earth week for me is over. The result?: Utter Failure. Oh well, back to what everyone cares about; games and stuff.

In other news, I've been diving into lots of Javascript/PHP/everthing. Just web related stuff. I just got a new computer running Linux as well, so I'm going to get that hooked up to a flat screen and start learning the server end of things.

Game-wise? :/ Not too much happening. Sorry guys.

Earth Hour? Psh; Earth WEEK

2010-03-28T19:40:00.002-04:00

Yesterday was earthday (where I live anyway). But I was thinking "an hour isn't that much, a week would be cooler--though impractical". So for this week I will be... earthy. How so?

No electronics for me except my computer (because I'm addicted) and the nessecities (because they make me feel safe). That leaves the kitchen appliances, tv, audio players, and my Wii to go off.

Also, for symbolic sakes, this site's background will be GREEN.

See you guys in a week!

Over a month? Say what?

2010-03-23T12:16:00.002-04:00

Yeah, you know I'm getting cramped for time when I don't update my most favoritist thing in the world--this blog.

Although I haven't given up game development by any means, I have nothing to really show you guys because I'm kind of... lost. I really am not sure what I want to do for my next project. If you guys have any suggestions, my ears are 100% open.

For now, I have actually tinkered with a game design. I finished the character, but am on my laptop, so I can't post it right now. Here's the story anyway.

On the island of ten villages God looked down on. what he saw was nothing but bad; An immoral community bringing to ruin his earth by their polluting ways.

It was bad in the eyes of God so that he searched for a good man. A man in whom there was a good will. To this man he said: "I am bringing these villages to ruin for there is not a single family with whom there is good. In every village, however, there IS one man trying to do what is right. I will protect them during the destruction, and they will not die. You must search them out and bring them out of the ruined villages.

I will give you power beyond what is normal in order for you to fulfill my purpose.

All this that you have heard, you must do, my prophet."

...that prophet is you.

So what did you think? Leave your comments down below. Thanks.

AmperComp's Over

2010-02-20T19:17:00.002-05:00

So in conclusion to the AmperComp, you all may play my haphazardly coded platformer.I'm sure there are some glitches, but I tried to catch as many as I could with-in the given time-frame. If there are any glitches, please report them and I'll work on fixing them.

Images? Images you want? Well, the game's not that good. Just check out the GameMakerGames.com decription.

Entering the Ampercomp

2010-02-08T11:25:00.002-05:00

So recently, Ampersand announced a competition on the GMG. The theme is difficulty. I'll be entering... and hopefully winning.

The game I'm designing (currently) is a simple platformer. Each level must be completed with-in 20 seconds (tentative), and you will have to fulfill certain tasks in order to win. They're either: 1)Smashing all the required objects, 2) reaching a goal, 3)reaching a checkpoint and then reaching a goal, or 4) reaching the goal in a certain way. It's all tentative, but the graphics are coming together nicely and I'm about half-way done the game design. Then I will proceed to level design.

The dead-line is February 16th if anyone reading this would like to enter.

In other news, I'm still working on my other projects, but trying to keep everything fun. I'm a little more busy as well since someone asked me to do a website design for them. It's taking some precedence seeing as I'll be getting paid (I like money).

All is functional again.

2010-02-05T15:16:00.002-05:00

All the Name Server changing is over, so you can continue with all your bounteous comments to admin@playjamesgames.com

Switching Hosts

2010-02-03T13:05:00.001-05:00

I'm currently in the process of switching my hosts (upgrading). So my site may be down for a breif ammount of time. Please do not try to email me for a bit as it may not go through.

Thanks.

Holy, a Game!

2010-01-28T21:34:00.002-05:00

There seems to be a pattern forming. I make a game about every 3 or 4 months.

EARTH GONE ROGUE is a mini-game I designed for the GameJolt Rogue contest. I just finished it today. Now, you may be saying to yourself "But the contest ended like 4 days ago!" Yes. I know. It makes this game one big joke. Don't think that because it's was based around a joke, it's a joke game, though. The development was far from it. I packed a lot of detail (relatively) into this game. This game implements a lot of little elements that I wasn't familiar with just 4 days ago. Small things like screen rattling, custom transitions, and liberal use of sound. Areas I thought of as so petty before, but am realizing are integral for making an okay game into cool... or even awesome.

So, enjoy!... oh, and take a second to rate and comment on it on GameJolt.

PS: Here's the link to where I added it on my website if it's of any interest - playjamesgames.com/mini_games.php

Marble Experiment Screens!

2010-01-14T14:21:00.002-05:00

Finally! I'm showing you guys them!
So in image 1, and 2 we simply show most of the textures to be used as well as some elements. In image 3, the same but the screen is beginning to fade red as the timer winds down.

Monochrome - Ampersand

2010-01-04T11:23:00.003-05:00

I forgot to mention this from about 5 days ago.

On the GameMakerGames Forum, there is a member named Ampersand. He designed a simple, extremely difficult platformer called Monochrome. Now, you may ask "James, why are you telling us this? There are lots of platformer games being made". Well, the one thing different about this is that I made the one loop used in it.

Although not very complex, I'm happy that I was able assist in the development of someone else's game.

Nice working with ya Ampersand!

PS: You can find more at daveysplace.net

Unity3D

2009-12-24T12:50:00.002-05:00

So I haven't made much progress with Marble Experiment lately, but that is due to me playing around with Unity3D Indie. It's quite a brilliant program and I encourage everyone to give it a shot.

I currently going through a couple hundred pages worth of tutorial right now, so the fun developing part will have to wait, but I'm feeling pretty pumped still. I want to go straight into a 3rd person Platformer type of game, and it's actually looking promising! As with any programming languages, there are dozens of questions always floating around in your head, but I'm trying to supress them right now so as to keep at it.

Marble Experiment hasn't lost all hope, though. When I said I haden't made much progress, it didn't mean I haden't made any at all. I've created "sticky forms" for the game which padden your fall, but also hinder your jump. Along with that, I'm designed the classic arrow bump, polished the graphics a bit, and added some HP/XP objectives. This game is going to have Boss(es), by the way. Oyah!

Anyway, I will post some screenshots in my next post, so stay tuned.

Too much to do

2009-12-01T12:59:00.002-05:00

It kind of annoys me that I can't post more often in this blog, considering the fact I AM doing so much; Just nothing worthy of posting for the gamers reading this. Oh, what the heck, I'll give you guys some updates anyway.

I've currently got a few projects going. The first, and fore-most is the game I've not been able to tell you about for the past month. Now, I will tell you it. MARBLE EXPERIMENT 2. I know, it's awesome right?! :P. The game is going to have a linking story-line to the first one and will have much superior graphics, cooler effects, better music, better mood, and awesomer gameplay. I've already got a 3 beta testers on it, and so far have revieced mostly positive feedback.

On another note, I'm developing a little bit of music for someone elses game; a platformer. Since it's not my game, though, it's also not my place to release any info about it. Just be ready for it.

And finally (huh, I always seem to have 3 points to bring out), I'm brainstorming with-in my own brain, of a game made of more than 1 genre. I call it the RPP/TD Mix. That stands for: Role Playing Platformer / Top Down Mix. I don't really know where this'll go, but I'm feeling pretty good about it.

And that's about it!

Update - Nov 17

2009-11-17T13:01:00.002-05:00

New website design, everyone! I dropped the previous look for something a little more sleek. Although I didn't mind my previous design, I seemed to get somewhat luke-warm feeback about it. So I decided I should take another run at it. Tell me what you think. It can only get better with feedback... or it'll help anyway.

As far as game development goes, I've hit a little snag with some tiles I'm trying to implement into the game. MY computer seems to hate then, it's causing lots of lag. I'm currently trying to resolve the problem, but this means, progress is being delayed :(. I hope to have it fixed soon, as I'm really excited about the style of this new one. Oh, and I still can't publicly divulge what's happening ;)

On a tertiary note, I might slow down my game development for a little while as New Super Mario Bros. Wii has just been released. I'll sinking ~~some~~ lots of money and time into that.

That's all there is to say, enjoy the new site.

The end begins

2009-11-07T15:50:00.003-05:00

Hey ~~everybody~~ anybody. Sorry for not keeping this blog updated. My main reasons were:
1. Nothing happened for about a week.

2. GameJolt Competition 3 was on, and I spent over 20 hours developing my game!

I'm feeling relaxed now, since I just posted my entry, and will probably take it easy until the results come in.

My entry was called "Amnesia Story". All I can tell you is this: You've got a head injury. It's a room-based platformed with 130+ rooms (why it took so much time). It's not up on my website yet, but I'll probably get it up with-in the next 24 36 48 hours.

This is ALSO, the first game where I've gotten someone else to do music for me (well, sort of). 'Regg Cato'--a buddy of mine-- designed the lone song for this game. It saved me a bunch of time, and probably is better than anything I could do, so hopefully his addition bumps the chances of my winning higher.

Thanks, "Regg" (*cough*alias*cough*)!

PLAY MY ENTRY

On a secondary note: Before I entered the competition, I was working on 2 project, 50/50. One is... something I won't divulge at the moment (it's a surprise! :D), and the second one is called "Sound Bank". You basically bang against white blocks to make piano sounds and collect 'notes' to add to your score. It's a simple premis, but there will be alot more to it than that.

James.

Email Notice

2009-10-22T14:24:00.001-04:00

In the last week or so, I changed my web host and had to re-establish my email. So if anyone's emailed in the last 5-6 days, it may not have reached me.

A second winner!

2009-10-17T11:21:00.002-04:00

Owen, of the MattMakesGames Forum has beaten Marble Experiment! He's now only the 2nd person to do this since Suikoden of the GameMakerGames forum. Congratulations, Owen! You're a very skilled gamer.

Owen didn't have too much to say about the game, but this:
"marble game owns. What a fun puzzle game."

Normally I would post a link of some sort to help out the winner, but I don't have anything to work with. So I'll just post a link to his MMG profile. HERE

Congrats, Owen. Game on.

Silent Progress

2009-10-07T14:18:00.003-04:00

I haven't posted in almost 2 weeks, but that's because I'm getting some stuff done. I almost redesigned my website, but backed out as it wasn't turning out for me. And then game-wise:

I tampered around with an engine for a room-based platformer. Even though I don't have any plans of developing a game out of it yet, The engine has really increased my coding capabilities.

I was playing around with a sequel design today. I can't say much else right now abouit it, but be excited! I've got about half the engine down AND the story-line! I'm hoping to have it done around... I don't know, 2010-ish.

Newest game released on site

2009-09-25T15:59:00.003-04:00

It's an archaic world out there. To make it to the top, you got to fight.

But you can change that. Show your superiority without violence!

DOWNLOAD PAGE

NOTE: The download link on my site leads to gamejolt.com. That's where I've decided to host all of my mini/competition games. It provided players a change to play my smaller games without having to download, and un-zip them to there computer. It also has built-in screens to view, videos to watch, and news to read.

Your feedback is appreciated.

GMG Comp. Results

2009-09-24T14:06:00.002-04:00

A couple days ago, the GMG Mini Comp. #2 ended. I didn't place very well, but it was fun nonetheless.

The entries were:

Passifism - CareFree Games
MicroPacifist - QOG
Finding Peace - Recnepz
A Watching World - PlayJamesGames - (Jaakko) - ME!

You can read the reviews of all the games HERE

Congrats to all who entered!

A Watching World

2009-09-14T14:16:00.002-04:00

I made this game for the Pacifism competition at www.GameMakerGames.com. Here's my entry thread:
A WATCHING WORLD

There are details and screenshots in the thread.

I'm on the frontpage!

2009-09-10T20:47:00.002-04:00

If you check out gamejolt.com I'm in the top 5 for best-rated games!

CHECK IT OUT

This is the first time I've gotten publicity... although un-intentional it may be.

GMG Mini Comp. - Pacifism

2009-09-05T13:52:00.002-04:00

I was away in NY for a while, but I'm back to work now.

Competion going on @ the GMG. The theme is pacifism.

Here's what I'm working on:

SOME FOREIGN GAME

2009-08-27T14:18:00.002-04:00

Yes, it is complete! And 24 hours early.

Read more about it from the DOWNLOAD + INFO page
Play it online at Game Jolt HERE

PICTURES Beloooooooww.

Some Foreign Game completed

2009-08-21T15:39:00.002-04:00

You may recall from my post a couple... posts ago, that I was working on a platformer called Some Foreign Game. Well, it's done.

I'm currently sending it out to get beta tested, but that won't take more than a week. At least, I hope not.

For screenshots, you can look at the post 2 below this one. The style hasn't really changed much, from those pics., except some polishing done.

I thought I'd give a bit of a description, though for you.

SFG is a platformer with an ambient feel. You will consistently feel as if you were in the night. The gameplay is puzzle-like; Keeping buttons pressed to de-activate objects, or switching levers one way and being careful not to turn them back. It'll take a bit of paying attention to pick up the game, as well as a bit of thinking time to to pass each level. All in all, I'm sure you'll enjoy it and agree it's my best effort yet.

GML Dev Show

2009-08-18T14:21:00.002-04:00

Go there and find out more

GML Dev Show

Read more

Also, SFG 91% done... I'm almost done making the music.

Actual Progress?

2009-08-16T16:46:00.003-04:00

Yes, it is true; I have been working on a game AS WELL, as a large side project. Now I will delve into this topic.

About this game. I'm not releasing the title yet, because I'm not 100% sure about whether it'll stay... but most likely. I will give you guys some screens, though.
EDIT: Screen one deleted..

Yes, it is a platformer, but it incorporates coding that I've never tried (or known) in previous games. So hopefully--nay--it will be my best yet.

As for this side project, well, I won't say too much. It involves a microphone, though...

- James, signin' out.

Website issues

2009-08-06T18:10:00.002-04:00

They haven't been major, but lately my site has been down breifly and it bugs me. If it ever happens when your trying to get on it, that is probly the reason. I hope to have the problems resolved soon enough as I'm looking for a DIFFERENT host(not 110mb.com).

Results of the Three Is A Crowd Comp.

2009-08-03T13:39:00.002-04:00

I had a lot of trouble deciding who should win the competition. There were two contestants; Brooke FX with Dark Dodge and SumYungGai with Pallette. Both were nice games considering the limitation of 3 objects, but both had there own strength's and weaknesses too.
Pallette was very professional looking with nice, sleek graphics, and a nice feel. Dark Dodge felt much rougher, but had a more complete experience.

So without further wait, the winner is Dark Dodge!

Congratulations! Although your game was short and did feel a little rough, it was simply more fun to play. You created fuller of an experience with nice music, a score board, and a sense of energy.

You will be sent an email of authentification and the trophy soon. Thanks for joining!

Three Is a Crowd Comp.

2009-07-26T15:55:00.003-04:00

I've started a competition on GameJolt.com, and you can read more about it HERE.

Feel free to enter, the deadline is July 31, 2009, 11:59pm local time.
-James

JAK Taken down

2009-07-22T16:50:00.002-04:00

After reviewing the quality of the gameplay in J.A.K., I've decided it's no longer worthy of being on the website. Sorry for any who still wanted to download it. I suppose you still could if you asked, though.

On the bright side, I'm working on another "smaller" project called (at the moment)
Some Foreign Games. It's going to be my best game yet, hopefully. I've literally spent days figuring out small codes to add little touches to the game. Some of them are button (it's not what you think) and a different room transition. I hope you will all enjoy it! Release date? None... yup, no release date.

Also, with my new web design, you'll notice Traverse is available for online gameplay!

- James

check that

2009-07-16T16:02:00.003-04:00

Due to newly revealed circumstances, I won't be changing servers. But there WAS a new site design!

Website Dooooooowwwwn.

2009-07-11T18:51:00.002-04:00

Just letting anyone reading know that sometime in the near future, I will be switching from my current host to another one... probly just 110mb.com for now. If anyone has some suggestions for better places, I'm glad to hear them.

Along with the new DNS, the site will come back with a new design. I currently have a new html site designed and ready for putting up, but I might try out .php or something too... not sure yet.

On a tertiary note (probably spelled wrong), I've been playing around with another simple platformer. The (basic) features are:

Double Jumping
Jump-Through ground
Neat little fade effect on character
Revolutionary graphical style (maybe)
Buttons and levers
And some graphics I'm trying to make look good this time

Stick around for some more news about. I might just release a video!

change is a good thing + Game Dev updates

2009-07-04T13:16:00.004-04:00

Well, I haven't posted in a while because... well, I sort of forgot about it with other stuff, but fear not! The fact I forgot means I was up to something :)

As anyone following my progress will note (or all my friends), My website changes around ALOT. Now I've noticed that some people think I shouldn't change it so much, but it really is a good think when you think about it. I change is always because I keep thinking of bigger and better things to do. Sometime in the near future, you will actually be seeing my site change AGAIN! This latest website is not as complex, but instead of using Nvu, I will be using RAW html. Actually, I still open Nvu and write with-in it's script editor, but that purely so I can quickly view changes to see if they work, or if there are any errors.

On a second note, I've been working on a new project... a platformer. The main level design is 90% COMPLETE. I just got to add the save points, objectives, and some exits. This new game is a room-based platformer, focusing on exploration, not killer difficulty. In fact, you can't die in this game.

This is the only screen shot I have, but it should do for now.

Now one thing to note: This game style for me is new ground, so it's pretty simple. I DID try to make it fun, though.

Also in the old brain bank is an arcade platformer with some interesting styles... but It's just a concept. For now (:

Site redesigned again

2009-06-25T15:37:00.003-04:00

Yup, that's right. I chose to go with a black theme for the site. What do you think? Like? Hate? Drop a comment a say so.

BIGGEST NEWS OF THE... BLOG!

2009-06-20T13:56:00.003-04:00

J.A.K. is now available for download on the website. Leave your feedback by dropping a comment.

JAK will be released...

2009-06-18T11:09:00.001-04:00

...on June 20th, 2009. That's this saturday.

Watch out because...

2009-06-11T21:50:00.002-04:00

...J.A.K. is coming to an internet near you VERY soon. I know you may have to read this a few times to actually believe it, but EVERYTHING IS DONE. Yes... everything... completely. I'm just getting some beta testing done and then it's going to be publicly released! Well, that's it.

Keep you, the reader, up to date!

2009-06-04T20:43:00.002-04:00

Just popping in to give an update on what's happening.

J.A.K. has currently been 100% of my gaming focus right now. I have completed 2 more levels (which is pretty good), have acquired all of the music, finished all of the graphics, and developed the complete storyline in my head (95% anyway).

The game play of J.A.K. is going to be a one sitting sort of thing, I'm hoping. So there is no saving features in this one. Before I release the final version I will be getting some beta testers, so if I find that it's taking too long of an average to beat the game, a save feature will likely be added.

J.A.K. level set-up is made of 3 worlds. The first world is the largest with 7 levels, the second world has 6 levels, and the final world has... well, I'm not sure. I guess once I'm tired of designing levels I'll call it. It will probably have 5 or 6 as well. So that is a tally of about 18 levels for you all to immerse yourselves with. I personally am able to beat the game in about 25 minutes, but then again, I know every nook and cranny of the place. I'm hoping it takes the average gamer about 1 hour to complete.

Here are some other bullet point statistics you may be interested in.

Game Speed: 30 frames per second
Game Style: Room Based Platformer
Release date: Unknown. Hopefully early July
Expected loading time: 10 seconds (oh yeah!)
Current game completion: .............|...... 70% complete.

That's all for now.

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A realization

2009-05-30T19:44:00.002-04:00

In the time I've been making Games, I have seriously tried my hands at 5 platformers. I have so far finished 1 of them. Unless I figure out a new way of doing things, It might be a while before I actually finish one.

Here are some statistics from the my earliest attempt to my latest:

An Unknown Tale: ........|................ - 25% complete - Extinct
Mr. Boon Adventures: ...........|............. - 40% Complete - Dying
Marble Experiment: ........................| - Complete!!!! - The only one
J.A.K.: .............|........... - 50% Complete - Halted
Sleepy Head: ...........|............. - 40% Complete - Progressive

I just have to find a way to push myself for the last half of it. I'm still contemplating. My guess is to try some very simplistic games, yet not mini-games. I actually have in my head an idea for my next game. VERY simple plot, so I don't need to worry about the storyline, or having certain things fir into place and such.

Well... I'm getting there. Actually, after all this babbling because I just wanted to write a post, I'm going to go work on J.A.K.! Seeyalatta!

A competition occurs

2009-05-29T17:05:00.002-04:00

Well, I'm entering this mini game competition on the Game Maker Games Forum. I'm not sure how well I'll do, but the game that I am entering is called "Sleepy Head".
And I've decided that this game will begin my venture into learning Game Maker "to the core". You may have noticed that my games are not of the highest quality when it comes to my way of codes and graphics and... well, yeah, I won't say anymore. So I'm going to learn all there is to know about the Boolean things, Arrays, The power of Variables, and all that other stuff I don't know much about yet.

Oh! About the game I'm making! It's a platformer for one thing... my favourites :). The story is that a Nuke is heading to your planet in the middle of the night, and you must make your way to the escape shuttle before it hits! Along the way, the citizens of your planet need help too. So doing good deeds, you support them while trying to keep up the pace. I haven't gotten super far, but I do have a lot of sprites down, have coded a few "Citizen Tasks", and have a nice physics engine and such.
Here are some of the screens:

Suikoden003 Defeats Marble Experiment!

2009-05-26T10:48:00.002-04:00

It is a momentous day for my platformer, Marble Experiment. Until yesterday, no one had ever beat the game. But that all changed when Suikoden003, from the Game Maker Games Forum, took it on, and prevailed. He managed to make through almost the entire game with-in the first couple of hours, an amzing feat considering other's have spent all night trying the first 10 levels.

Trying to overcome the challenging controls, he made his way into the last level of endurance, trying to outrun the death-like mass closely following. After battling for over half an hour, he defeated the game. He overcame the Experiment, he made histroy, and he set a new bench mark of endurance for gamers around the globe.

Suikoden had his own comments too, he said:

My play-through was frustrating, a bit sweaty, painful ( my fingers started to hurt ). This game has punishing and unforgiving controls. The last level took me around 30-40 tries before I did it. I didn't like the collision checking because I was usually one pixel away from a coin or the jump arrow. As for the other levels it was all trial and error.

The game was good and it satisfied me at the end. It wasn't very innovative ( except for the marble movement and jumping tricks ) but eventually I got used to it. I'm persistent! Thanks for making this nice platformer and keep doing 'em!...

Congratulations Suikoden, and continue with your dominating game-play.

Site Re-designed!

2009-05-22T19:04:00.002-04:00

New site look! drop a comment below and tell me what you think of it! I vouched for the light-blue and white theme. I also added a hand-written logo. So you get to see why I don't write ever (oh, did I not mention I haven't written a solid paragraph in like years?).
I added a couple different pages. Affiliates is what used to be Links. And About is what used to be the home-page. I also tried a different style of humor. Anywho, like I said before, give some feedback. You can even sign it as Anonymous so no registering or anything required.

Platformeration Tut. v1.10

2009-05-22T18:56:00.003-04:00

Wowz. I can't believe it's already been close to like... a week since I last posted. But I'm here now, and I have some news! platformeration tut. v1.10 is released. Some of the new features include:

o Completely re-vamped motion. It's way better now.
o The character is animated now. So you just change the sprite to change
the character. No worries about adding sprite index codes or anything
o Player can throw objects at the press of a button.

There might be some more improvement, but I can't remember them. Like before, just go to the Game Info.
Peace!

2009-05-17T16:15:00.002-04:00

Well, it's been about a week or so since I've blogged, so I thought I'd come up with a little something to say about my game J.A.K. (formerly Sulpher Room). Actually... not really something to say... something to watch!

I don't generally like giving out Demo's to the public, (although you could probably find one if you tried ;)) so I uploaded this video as a teaser. Enjoy!

Platformeration v1.00

2009-05-11T15:26:00.004-04:00

This is a base for my own practice on seeing if I can devise good platform engines. But anyone can download it if they want to use it.
It is a .gmk file and will require Game Maker 6 or 7 Lite as well as Windows.

You can learn more about this simple engine in the "Game Information" section of the file

Download: Platformeration Tut v1.00

Java the Awesome

2009-05-06T17:11:00.002-04:00

Well, like the title suggests, something with Java just happened. Javascript I mean. Check out the updated site! The only difference being that now the buttons are roll-over, or change when the mouse goes over them. This I find totally rad. make sure you type in the "www." before the url, just because the "naked" link (without www.) isn't working exactly the same for some reason yet. Anyway that's 'bout it.

Work on JAK (formerly known as Sulpher Room) is coming along still. Just sort of working on fumes with lack of motivation right now. But world 1 is complete. And I've drawn out a design for the beginning of World 2.

Hopefully I can keep this going. One problem being I got this sick Idea last night for a Marble Experiment Sequel. I'm trying to suppress it in my mind until I complete all my other stuff.

Now, shortly on a completely different topic. I'm putting together a bunch of different codes and such to make a simple platform base engine. The simple features will be:
1. Jump Through Floors
2. Smooth Ground Motion
3. Alternate Air Motion
4. Single Room like View transition (maybe).
5. Double Jumping
And that's probably about it.

On my Wii

2009-04-30T16:20:00.002-04:00

NOTE: please excuse the poor grammer while i'm typing this on my nintendo Wii.
Anyway I have just one message: I'm open for link favors. So long as you have good website (by my standards), and it's related to games (or if you're related to me :D). I'll also review the website first. Another rule is that you must have a link to my site from your site. If you are interested, leave a comment or email me a link to your WORKING site and I'll get back to you soon.

Thank you for your patronage.
James

PS: No sub-domains allowed (unless you are related once again :D). I'll accept all common addresses like .com, .org, and such. As well, I will accept abnormal ones like .co.nr and .eu.pn or similar ones that I forgot to list off.

Nothing Much

2009-04-22T14:14:00.003-04:00

Well it's been about a week and I'm sad to say not much is happening, yet I'm still busy. Mostly I have been tinkering with my website to make it look, for example: playjamesgames
You'll notice now that awesome font for my Title... did you? did you?, LOL. No but I turned the title from a font to an image I made. I think it looks a bit better.
Also, I made the menu into images. I'm happy with those too... especially the BLOG button.
A third point you'll notice is that I ridded the site of ASSOCIATES and MUSIC. Actually they are technically there, but just not clickable, you have to enter the exact url to get ot them. mwahahah! But the addition is that I've added a page for screen shots of my games finally. You can click on that through the games page, near the bottom. It's not done yet though... so only some games are listed.

So what do you think of my website? Love it, hate it? Drop a comment off below and I'll read it.

Anyway, I hope to blog again soon, but for now, James K, signing out.

PS: I will probably add the music page again sometime, but only once I build more of a library, and if the music becomes good enough.

Site back up.

2009-04-19T16:48:00.003-04:00

Well the site is back up since yesterday (as of writing this blog). It might be down briefly a couple more times as I, right off the bat had a bit of trouble with my hosting service. Anyway, drop your comments about the site's new look. If you want to compare, you can goto my old site, which is hosted with synthasite: www.playjamesgames.synthasite.com

So still working on Sulpher room (although the name is almost definitely changed now). Keep coming back!

JAMES

Oh & BTW

2009-04-15T21:06:00.001-04:00

Sorry about the games page (you may have noticed no download link for any of the game listed. I had them down for some reason I am forgetting. Anyway, since the site'll be down in 2 days anyway, I'll leave them down, if you want to download them, then go to my testing site, the game links are all active there.
www.jpk.eu.pn

Site Downer

2009-04-15T14:19:00.002-04:00

Well, I've been thinking about my website's design, and well... I don't really like the preset templates I'm using... especially with synthasite. So I'm going to try to switch over to hosting my domain and this website called http://www.hosting.eu.pn/
So anyway, in about 48 hours I'm going to take my site down and try and set it up there. Because of D.N.S. delays and foreseen problems I'll probably get into, I'm going to give you an estimate of being down for about... 5 days. The one problem is that I'm really excited about this new design and don't want to wait, so check out what it's going to look like!
here!
Man, if I knew I could have a free domain like that I probly wouldn't have got a .com... but se la vie. I'll probably keep it now.

look at this!

2009-04-12T16:22:00.005-04:00

I was just playing around with some website stuff and started this:
secondary site

It's my first attempt at actually having my own website... like, using actual custom html of mine, no templates.

I found it at this... place... somehow, it's kinda neat how you can have your own free website with a .eu.pn extension.
I might try this sometime for my main site: www.playjamesgames.com... but not for a while, until I get it completely under my belt.

Oh! Almost forgot, I guess you might be waiting for some screens of "Sulpher Room".
So here you go:

Slight Site Shifting (say it 3 times fast)

2009-04-09T15:29:00.004-04:00

Well... you know somethings different by the fact that you're here.
I was having a couple dumb bugs with the blog on my home page, so I decided to make the official blog right neaw!(here), Even though I like the old format better.
Anyway, yeah, so the video page is gone, and they will now be posted on the homepage instead! That means more viewing... and well not much else.

Now, you may be wondering what I've been doing besides nothing. Well, I'm working on a simple maze/platform game entitled Sulpher Room (tentatively). I don't expect a long, drawn out design period, as I've already tinkered around with level design last night, and just got to implement music and a couple other small game-play elements.

So want pictures, more info, details? Then come back periodically, for updates!
back to homepage

Welcome to www.playjamesgames.blogspot.com!

2009-04-05T18:29:00.003-04:00

Well, this is new for me. I’ll probly not post here often, but I thought since it’s under my name, I should atleast let it look respectable.

Anyway, my name’s James K. I like to makes games, because they rock... and that's about it. Ialso like making music and video, but mostly games. Most of the action is at my website:

www.playjamesgames.com

go there for more up-to-date stuff, and more content.

if you need to email me for gaming reasons, webpage reasons, other reasons, or just because you’re bored and want to right to someone, contact me at the link below (I read them all the same).

james@playjamesgames.com

Well, that’s all for now.

Sincerely, James K.