Allen T's Forum Posts

  • Happy Holidays, JimPxl !

    I love the platforming mechanics, sound design is good too! (very fitting 8-bitty sound)

    I also admire that you can portray the graphics atmosphere so well with such minimal pixels.

    However on controls, i prefer using WASD keys as directionals, seems a more natural finger position to me.

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  • The cooking sim 'Fry Me Omelettes' has a special theme whenever you play the game around X'mas.

    (Dec 24 to 31 from your time)

    Come gather around and emerge yourselves with the Christmas cheers!

    MERRY CHRISTMAS! <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing"> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing"> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing">

    You can access Kongregate.com or Google Play from my forum signitures below.

    additional: Opera Store: (Android)

    http://android.oms.apps.bemobi.com/en_r ... html?pos=1

  • Why are you share it also on kongregate? You have to share it also on itch, indiexpo and gjolt!

    The game is nice and you have to reach new players! It's just a tip!

    Thanks for the advice Marius87, but this game is fixed on Kongregate for now. (being my 1st game, I want to "stay on the ground" and observe & not to be overwhelmed by too many outlets, you know.)

    Yeah, will certainly go for a broader approach for future games, though.

  • This is an update for 'Fry Me Omelettes'.

    'Fry Me Omelette', the egg-frying simulation game, has finally reach ver 1.3 !

    This is the defining version you'll love to play, especially for those who haven't play the game yet.

    More Complete Than Ever

    Now Fry Me Omelettes is in complete package, as originaly intended.

    here's a quick list:

    • 2 Play Modes ('Casual' and 'Challenge')
    • 'Record' mode for you to see your previous cooking attempts
    • 7 Challenges
    • 8 Ingredients(fillings) & Dressings
    • 8 Unlockables
    • 18 In-Game Achievements
    • 4 High-Score Leaderboards (Kongregate Statistics)
    • 6 Holiday Opening Screens
    • X'mas theme (happens in Dec 24-31)
    • 8 Music Tracks (including X'mas theme tracks)
    • 200+ different Egg Sprites (just on 'Egglook' alone)
    • & Unlimited egg dish possibilities!

    Now an intro for those who don't know the game is about:

    It's basically a sandbox game-- You do the cooking and then get points and unlock stuff and achievements.

    The main gameplay process is like this: Frying -> Dressing -> Judge Panel -> End of Round

    First: you fry an egg or omelettes using mouse actions (to simulate cooking) with no strict manual instructions.

    The game is designed to be as 'intuitive' as possible (maybe not player friendly). You may not know how to do it properly--but try to trust your 'cooking instincts', it takes tries to get the hang of things.

    The 'Dressing' section is about the same-- but without the fire & pan...

    The 'Judge Panel' is another highlight of the game, where your dishes be judged by our food critics in sequences. If you win 2 judges or more, you get a 'pass' or 'ace', if not you got 'fail'.?

    Little do people know there's 100+ of unique comments/critiques based on how you make your egg dishes.

    Ver 1.3 adds 20+ new critiques and even some random comments, bringing more variety & humor to our players.

    This is much more than just a simple cooking sandbox game.

    The game lets you make specific dishes, or try all kinds of 'experiments', or just to troll our judges.

    All in all, It depends on what you want to do as an omelette-frying chef.

    ?

    ?If you're an web gamer who's interested on sim games or cooking games, you might want to TRY 'Fry Me Omelettes'... Because It is, TRULY-- a cooking simulator like no other!

    You can click this button below to play the ver 1.3 !

    You can also visit the game's landing page or the development log here or here.

    Or visit via Facebook, Google+ or Twitter to follow & support my game.

    Have FUN!

  • Ver 1.3 has updated!

    Play it now on Kongregate.

  • Current Version: alpha 0.3.5

    Greetings everybody on the start of the holiday season!

    Right now, I'm be focusing on the graphic enhancing/revamping for this month or two.

    Here's the updates-- combined with several dev logs from my website.

    Graphic Revampings

    The collectable 'Orbs' now have some visual variety instead of just--plain orbs.

    The energy orb is a precious energy which need small container to stabilize the energy core.

    different realms, different orb containers.

    The new orb sprites on the stage is a bit too pixelated (especially on diagonal shapes) ... I could try a higher resolution sprite then.

    Also, as I stated in one of my older logs: I will improve the sprites of the 'think path'.

    I did a few re-designs and this is a better looking one I'm fine with.

    Hope you like this small improvement.

    Block Fillers

    'Block Fillers' is a puzzle element that is very similar to the circle trigger for holographic walls. (from Demo 1, level 2) But this one mostly needs multiple pushing-blocks & takes a shape(the outline) to "power on" and opens a trigger or a door/wall.

    The sprites still needed a bit revamping though.

    More Music Tracks (drafts)

    First 2 songs are for Bluzoul: a blueish, simplistic, crystal-like realm, it's also the homeland of the alien you control. So far I'm pretty okay with the feel, only need a few more layers of sounds and also a better beats.

    The 3rd song is for Enigmus: a more dangerous, energy mining realm with facilities and hazards.

    This one is an oddball track. The base melody is "puzzle-y" , but mixed with a more 'treacherous' feeling harmonies, with metal & boom soundings... I still couldn't quite capture the right mood... maybe adding reinforcement sounds for the main melody may do the trick, I hope.

    Click here to listen to the excerpts.

    *Right-Click to "open link in new window" to just listen.

    *Some tracks you listened may not be present in Demo 2, but will be kept for the official release.

    So that's all for now.

    For those of you waiting for demo 2:

    There's still much to do. Most graphic needs to be revamp & enhanced, and there's no REAL levels yet, so it's still pretty much a 'bare-bone' state...

    Let's hope for Feb 2018, guys. (fingers crossed)

    update: the game development is postponed in place of another new game.

    Date of returning development is not yet confirmed.

  • Hi again, Scirra members!

    It is confirmed that there will be update for Fry Me Omelettes. (ver1.3, probably the last major update)

    This new update will not go for graphic improvements or any new features... only to fill in what's left which are supposed to be added... to make it more complete than ever.

    (*the new update will only be available online-- on Kongregate, around early December.)

    Sorry but no new mobile version, for there's technical difficulties releasing new version and I want to hold that off for now.

    Now, continuing the development.

    • Current version: Post Release 1.2.7
    • New Challenge added
    • New Unlockable Ingredient
    • New Critiques added

    The New Fillings

    The 4th and final addition of the ingredients (fillings), Mushroom is a good choice for a vegetarian diet!

    Actually, I was supposed to draw sliced mushrooms that are bigger like real-life, but I just thought smaller mushrooms looked better, so it was done... A bit unrealistic but well... I hope you'll like these drawings. ;P

    By the way these mini mushrooms really looks like Shimeji mushrooms.

    In game, The mushrooms are raw when you just put in the pan. You have to cook it a bit longer than the usual carrots & onions. Brown color is the indication of the mushrooms are now okay to eat.

    Cooked too much and the mushrooms will turn bitter and many judges won't like it.

    Veggie Mushroom Sunnyside Deluxe

    This is a new 'challenge' for the game. One final add-on challenge.

    I already running out of ideas in ways of cooking the egg/omelette(within my coding limitation), and I don't want the new challenge to be too similar to other challenges. So this is the best i can think of, a bit unoriginal:

    A combination of making a sunny-side up, with adding 2 fillings together.

    ?I hope this challenge will be interesting enough for you.

    So that's all for now.

    This update is near completion only with a few new sprites & debugging left.

    Few weeks left to go!

  • Sorry but I got lazy for a while...

    The development will be slower because in the meantime I'm also working on a the final major update for 'Fry Me Omelettes', which includes many art assets & coding to be done.

    Alright, return to my 2nd demo plannings.

    New worklist for the next stage.

    In general, the focus of Stage 2 development is Graphics & Music.

    Development will mostly on adding art assets/revamping graphics.

    It will be a more polished demo, to give players how final version will probably look like.

    There will be a menu, level selection screen, and also a challenge mode...maybe.

    There will be 3 realms to choose from. (open realms for this demo)

    And for the demo, I'll probably have 4~5 levels available per realm.

    Of course, all levels will be new and are demo exclusive.

    Level Select Design

    Originally I was going for a ring of levels layout, with diagonal level boxes.

    Then i later realized it doesn't mix well with the square-grid game design.

    Sometimes those simple, tried-n-true layout does the trick for it's functionality.

    Pictures below are the mockups of level selection menu.

    Due to the mobile-game style of open level selection, there will be no more 'finalized' screen for score after finishing a run. Each levels will have their own data records (your best & recent score,steps,time).

    The green big score at the bottom is the grand total score of all levels' score combined.

    Winning Screen

    I added 'alien win screen' for every end of a level.

    By having a large cute alien picture, this could make players feel more invested about the character they play.

    It adds likability.

    A jingle will also present during the win transition.

    Also, if you get stage bonus you will have visible bonus score--added into the total score.(lower right)

    Again, this screen layout may not be the final version.

    The text may need some revamp for visual aesthetics.

    ?For a more attractive presentation, I could put in a few animated sprites of the big alien picture... for the release version. (fingers crossed)

    Making Music Tracks

    Little did I wrote about how i make music so here it is...

    I use Reason Limited, it came as a side gift from my Korg usb midi keyboard purchase.

    I'm really start to love this software even it's not full-version & has limitations.

    I also use FL studio, but once I get into Reason I like its way to make music, in some way easier to input notes than FL Studio. The sounds in Reason has great quality (some instrument sounds are just so fantastic in the get go...)

    Here's the style of the game music, in list form:

    • Steady beats (not fast, not slow)
    • Electronic/Synth sound textures
    • Upbeat rhythm with a dash of mystery/enigma
    • Somewhat space-like, somewhat E.T.

    Most of the time the music turns out not quite what i wanted to be.

    Beats are my weakest link-- compared to melody & rhythm. Mixing is still poor but I'm getting better every moment, slightly.

    So far the pieces i make lack an 'E.T. feel' to it, I figured that adding some noise-type sounds could enhance the feel.

    Alright, I'll let you listen to some of the game music tracks.

    So far I only finished 3 pieces. (6 for pre-beta version)

    Here's the mp3, excerpts from 3 music tracks.

    *Right-Click to "open link in new window" to just listen.

    This is all for today, folks.

    See you on next log!

    (*for additional personal/side info about the development, come visit my dev log site.)

  • so much work on sprite animations, respect!

  • 'Alien Maze' demo #1 is now online. Come try out!

  • Let's talk about the score system, and a few new game elements...

    Score System

    It's very simple, It functions like an arcade style of scoring.

    You get a score each level, and accumulate them trough levels and you get a total when a run is complete (or realm). (*A 'run' is a group of levels played in linear order,weird term i know)

    What happens when you fail a level, how's the score add up?

    Every time you lost/retry in that level, your score returns to the original amount.

    eg: if you start a level with 750, get into about 1230 on that level then you died, you go back to 750 again.

    Since I already wrote about the path-combos and 'diamond tiles', I won't repeat again.

    STAGE BONUS

    The stage bonus points are added into total score after you complete a level.

    It consists of 'step' bonus and 'time' bonus.

    The faster (or less steps) you finish the level the higher points you can get. It adds way more points than the other ways for a good run. In that way the game rewards you for using less steps and also less time.

    P/S: Every time you retry a level, the bonuses you get afterward (in that level) will cut less by 15~20%. It can reach as low as 20% from the original amount you could normally earn.

    Block Pushing

    I finally fully debugged the rather hard codes-- the puzzle element: push blocks.

    Let's have a quick look.

    White translucent blocks are the classic push blocks in many tile-based puzzle game.

    You can not push 2 or more blocks together (the alien is not that strong), only 1 at the time.

    So, ?How come the alien to don't "push" the blocks?

    Well, for starters-- The alien never uses its hands! It uses legs for almost everything!

    Landmine Detection

    I wanted this to be a surprise game element but I just can't help it...

    The alien can sense hidden danger through his antenna. It changes color according to the danger scale.

    Its antenna acts like a mine detector. It also sends audio signals.

    This requires some logic & guessing to figure out where the landmine is at.

    Brace yourself when you encounter one. It's possible to have multiple mines in a small area!

    I am happy to say I love this game element personally and have fun coding it.

    In future update I may add a better warning sounds, and the flashing signal of the alien's antenna (something like that)

    By the way, I also figured out how to balance out the 'path-combos':

    Don't try to get high scores from 'path-combos' too much, focus on 'less steps'/'less-time' completion instead.

    The score addings will gradually reduced if you use more than 3-4 times of path-combos.

    Not all elements are introduced, but you'll found out in time.

    I still have a few bugs left to work on.

    I will upload to Scirra Arcade within this week and that's for sure.

    Have a good day!

  • Wow, you did it! A legit fighting game made in C2!

    the AI is not bad too, awesome job!

  • Try to make 'screen shake' ... comes up like a Salvador Dali's art.

    #AcidTrip

  • Next, is the "Path System", a key feature of the game.

    It works like this: When the alien steps on a certain "pad/platform", the time stopped for it's 'steps planning', a phase for the alien to think for his "next route".

    It may not shown in very-early levels, but this will be important to the gameplay in overall. (though I hope it does work in sense of solving puzzle)

    Here's a demonstration GIF:

    Gee, this system may be one of the hardest part to code. (and felt so rejoiced when the system finally worked properly) A few functions are yet to be done, but I'm quite happy how it turns out.

    Also, something to note about this 'path system':

    No criss-crossing.

    In other words, when drawing the path, you can't overlay an already drawn cell/square from the path.

    Has length limit.

    At default the alien may have a maximum of 5 cells to draw. It may increase the length every time it "upgrades". (*upgrades are not available in demos)

    Drawn only inside a zone.

    See the large flashing selections when the alien reaches a square platform? They're zones.

    ?The path can only be drawn inside the zone.

    For future improvement, I will re-work on the graphic of the path. (zebra lines) as it is not very nice-looking.

    Perhaps change it into a arrow-pointing appearance then...(also a bit thinner & denser lines)

    Path-Combos

    Notice the neon-green numbers the bottom-right corner, they're obviously SCORE.

    What you see ("+100" and so on) are the addings from the 'path-combos':

    The more length you draw the more points will add to the score.

    This combo feature may sound cool... but right now I still can't figure out how to apply this feature in a better way.

    One does not simply walking the 'path' continuously, keep adding up to whatever score they want. (cheat to get higher score)

    I have to think of some good idea for its function to flourish, though...

    Before wrapping up, here's something exciting:

    I will upload the game's first demo soon-- on Scirra Arcade.

    It's a demo to let players testing out the mechanics & puzzle elements, letting them know how this game plays first.

    There are only 6~7 levels and they're demo exclusive.

    ?And don't be over-critical about the levels, they are basically test levels put together.

    Date is not confirmed but it'll be on the first week of August.

    Next log, I will write about a couple of new elements in the game & also more details on the 'score system'.

    ?Until then.

  • Hi there, I'm compiling this post from my recent dev logs. This will be a bit long.

    Today's all about the game mechanics.

    Let's jump right in shall we?

    Since day 1, I've been working on building the basic structure of the game-- the stage.

    It took me a couple of weeks to finalized the stage layout, and a function-able 'walk-around' game mechanic.

    But first, have a glance on the interface:

    Pretty self-explanatory here.

    The design is very simple & straightforward.

    For the fonts, I'm using these typefaces but it's not 100% confirmed.

    The choices of color themes are actually "realm-base". When you play the levels inside this realm(or planets) you get the same theme. Yes, there will be other realms as well, but only available when the game is fully released. I'll be using this bluish-purple theme as default for my demos.

    The Grid

    Grid is there so you can have a more controlled situation. (or in my case, steps) It makes puzzling manageable. Same account goes to all the other elements(most) in my grid-based game--grid bounded.

    If you have a keen eye, you'll notice that the tiles are not totally square:

    It's 48x54 pixels to be exact. Why is that?

    For me they looked more aesthetical in the game than total squares. So it's a design choice.

    Character Positioning("Camera")

    At the very early concept, the stage was stationery and the alien walks across the screen. But that may cause a problem as this restricts the moving area severely. If you want to increase the "reach" you have to decrease the grid size, it'll be harder to control the alien movements, and very hard for mobile players to see.

    Thus, the alien will always be at the center of the screen and the map 'moves' around him.

    It works better that way. I can make larger maps without much hassle.

    Next, here's some of the elements on the level:

    Glowing Orbs

    It's the alien's main mission. You have to obtain all of them in order to pass the level.

    Though the design it's not confirmed. (it may not even be orbs in the future)

    Well... why would an alien with a space-craft have to obtain stuff physically? Why risking life walking into those traps? ...I have no answer for that. XD

    Ground Spikes

    While not showing in the log, it's but a simple puzzle element, just don't step on them!

    Lazer Beams:

    These are not really much a well thought elements to my degree, it's just a very convenient "puzzle device". If I have to use them officially, the lazers will be used in harder levels--and in adequate usage.

    I've thought of making the beam reflectable to other angles but it may add difficulty to the coding, and also making the puzzle too complicated. Since I'm not making a puzzle solved by lazer reflections but by steps predominantly, I probably won't consider it.

    Padded Grounds/Diamond Tiles

    The diamond shaped paddings are something extra for the game. At first i don't feel it's necessary to the gameplay, but now I can see them work as a side-bonus to get additional points. (point system will mention on next log)

    Triangle Spot

    To enter & exit the level. But you have to get all the glowing orbs first--in order to be beamed up to the spacecraft.

    Forgot to mention, when you die(hurt) in the game, there's no game over screen. The level simply resets & you return to the beginning spot.

    Right now, there is no real puzzle elements in the game but those simple hazards (spikes & lazers), I hope to design some real good items/traps for puzzle soon.