Haven’t updated this page lately, I’ve been busy.
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The Countdown Begins…
What does this countdown symbolize? It symbolizes my next post, which will have the biggest announcement this website has ever seen!
(… if you’ve read any of my past posts, you know exactly what this is for. I’ll need support now more than ever, so stay tuned!)
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(Countdown towards Kickstarter over. Countdown towards end of Kickstarter begins.)
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(also, shout out to Uji-Countdown plugin for WordPress, easiest countdown plugin I could find that actually works! The video of the installation was a help, too! http://wordpress.org/plugins/uji-countdown/)
New Demo for “James – Journey of Existence”
New demo for “James – Journey of Existence” uploaded. Made as a offline build, to let you experience to full quality of the game.
Click here for a Windows build.
Click here for installation instructions.
( I haven’t tested this thoroughly on different systems, and haven’t tested at all on Mac or Linux computers. Please comment below to let me know if it works on your machine, and your thoughts of the game overall.)
Sprite Lamp – Some Smart Guys From Australia
I don’t normally talk about what other people are doing. This is a site dedicated to Dust Scratch Games after all, and I am a rather selfish fellow. But sometimes, something comes up that just knocks my socks off.
Here is a group of guys from rural Australia who are working on something called “Sprite Lamp“, a dynamic 2D-lighting mapping tool for game development. It doesn’t sound like much… why not just have a point light in your environment and move it to where you want light to be? Well, with 2D art and 2D planes, that light gets reflected the same for the entire sprite, and it appears this new tool offers a way to define the effect light has from certain positions on a sprite. The result is some incredibly detailed art, making 2D pixel art look new again.
What’s Wrong With The Gaming Industry?
Yes, the games industry is in a bit of a rut.
“But Jasper,” you say, “we’re in the midst of a next-gen revolution! Shiny new consoles are being released that are 10-times as powerful as what we were using before! Some of the best games of the generation were released in the last year! Surely these are great times for the games industry, right?”
First off, don’t call me “Surely.” Second, yes the games we’ve gotten in the last few years have been fantastic. If you time-traveled back about a decade ago and showed them “Skyrim” or “Grand Theft Auto V,” they’d wet their pants. But remember that for every good game like these, there are several mediocre ones that somehow get on store shelves, but even those titles are slightly better in quality. And all of these games seem vaguely similar, despite being of different genres. I guess I’m saying after years of gaming, I just don’t feel excited like I used to.
