ArcadePanic Blog http://blog.arcadepanic.com Flash experiments and demos, and us trying to explain why exactly our latest game is late Tue, 26 May 2009 10:38:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Rollerdude.com continues to be the greatest website ever http://blog.arcadepanic.com/2009/05/rollerdudecom-continues-to-be-the-greatest-website-ever/ http://blog.arcadepanic.com/2009/05/rollerdudecom-continues-to-be-the-greatest-website-ever/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 10:38:53 +0000 Luke Thompson http://blog.arcadepanic.com/?p=69 www.rollerdude.com has been updated with a few basic teaser images of the menu/story. (That link may not be clickable from the blog homepage as our blog theme sucks a bit in that way. Sorry.)

sweeeeeet

sweeeeeet.

These are very early though so it’s likely to change. Still. At least I did something :)

Incidentally, the Rollerdude font is the first font I have ever purchased. It was $16 from the absolutely wonderful Typodermic.

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We’ve got the next Line Game in the works (mostly needs programming, all the levels are ready) as well as some other ideas being cooked up. We’ve been very busy indeed with exams lately.

However, we’ll soon be working SUPER HARD to get another game out.

Hopefully…

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One of our first games - the original rollerdude

One of our first games - the original rollerdude

When we first started making games, we used a tool called GameMaker – a simple drag and drop affair. This was probably 6 years or so ago, and we were nothing but kids who wanted to make games. Since then, we have been through many websites, brands and game concepts – learning lots along the way. Most of our earlier stuff was a bit of a mess, none of us really knew what we were doing, presentation and finish quality was poor and out ability to organize any form of deadline was nonexistent (we went for over two years without ever finishing a game!).

Now, however, we believe we have settled with a brand we love and are planning to churn out high quality, professional games on a regular basis. Woo!

And for those of you who interested, I present you with a few of the first games we ever made.

They are .zip files which contain the .exe game and possibly some other files – just extract the zip file (right click – extract all) and run the game!

Rollerdude
Bubble
Tank Commanda’
Pig Fling 2

I recommend Rollerdude (a tricky little platformer) as the best game to try, it was a huge viral success at our school and greatly annoyed the network admins and teachers. We are currently remaking it into a swanky flash version and it should be one of our next releases – this is your little preview of what the engine will feel like.

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:D (coming May 2009)

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Oh well, it’s only 20 days late. Hope you enjoy it! :)

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Heeeere it is: I see Lines doctor, Everywhere!

As always, the track is free to listen to and share with anyone you like, but if you want to use it in your own stuff (games, short films, whatever) then please get in touch with us or Djur. You can email us at hi@arcadepanic.com.

You can visit djur at www.nissebanan.com. I’m sure he would love your company.

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A lot of people really enjoyed the track he created for What the Flip so we’ve uploaded it here for your listening pleasure. Enjoy! Loser Cowboy Club.

It’s (obviously) free to listen to and share with anyone you like, but if you want to use it in your own productions then please get in touch with us or Djur. You can email us at hi@arcadepanic.com. Cheers!

Also, his website is at http://nissebanan.com/. There isn’t a lot there yet but perhaps you could drop in and leave him a nice comment :P

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Releasing today or tomorrow, hopefully.

So, here are the levels:
http://arcadepanic.com/levelmaps.png

Check it out! :)

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Line Game: Orange is late. Releasing either this week or next week.

I blame society. And Jack. Mostly Jack :P

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It’s coming, guys.

The name is Line Game: Orange Edition. It will have 16 levels (that’s double last time!) but half will be super easy ‘training’ levels. Yeah, we’re trying to make it more beginner friendly.

We will be releasing more editions after (up to four total).

The deadline is the end of the month. We usually overshoot those by like a week (or a year or so if it gets really bad…)

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