Holiday Cheer
Holy crap lots to talk about!
As you can see, the site has undergone a redesign. I'm pretty happy with the new color scheme. If you have any suggestions on how I can improve it, feel free to drop them in the comments.
New Jumper! The title isn't final yet. The fourth game in the Jumper series will be played in your browser with the Flash Player.
Development is progressing smoothly. I'm currently writing myself an editor (also in Flash) for the game, but going a bit beyond the call of duty and making it more of a general-purpose editor. I'd like to make something I can reuse between projects. If what I come up with is polished enough, I might even release it for others to use for their projects.
New Jumper is being programmed using Chevy Ray's FlashPunk engine. I'm helping him bug-test and offering suggestions as I work. The engine seems to be nearing completion, so hopefully that will see a public release soon and everyone can try it out! Trust me, it's really awesome!
It's the time of year for top 10 lists and "best-of" lists and other miscellaneous lists! I've been fortunate this year: MoneySeize and RunMan have both made it onto a list each, with the latter even making it onto two.
Edmund McMillan: MoneySeize 5th best Flash game of 2009
Gamasutra: RunMan 5th best indie game of 2009
Play This Thing!: RunMan 4th best indie of the year
I'm really blown away by the amount of exposure I've been getting this year! The friendliness of the indie community never ceases to amaze me.
I never expected people to flat-out volunteer their help (and contacts) with marketing and selling one of my games, but while working on MoneySeize I had Edmund McMillan approach me and offer to help me sell a Flash game. I really cannot thank him enough for this, and I've heard tell of him coaching a few other indies through the process as well. Really man, you're the best and I hope Super Meat Boy makes you filthy rich.
Later, I participated in Ludum Dare 15 and that was just a blast. I ended up winning second place with Broken Cave Robot, which was very cool.
And then finally: RunMan! Tom and I had been working on this beast for a loooooong time. I'm actually kind of shocked that we finished it at all. But the enthusiasm and support we've gotten from the indie community has been amazing and I'm super happy to see so many people enjoying it. For the curious, our download counter is sitting just below 35,000. We've also entered it in next year's IGF, so wish us luck!
Well, that's it! Merry Christmas everyone!
Site Redesign
As you can see, the site has undergone a redesign. I'm pretty happy with the new color scheme. If you have any suggestions on how I can improve it, feel free to drop them in the comments.
New Jumper
New Jumper! The title isn't final yet. The fourth game in the Jumper series will be played in your browser with the Flash Player.
Development is progressing smoothly. I'm currently writing myself an editor (also in Flash) for the game, but going a bit beyond the call of duty and making it more of a general-purpose editor. I'd like to make something I can reuse between projects. If what I come up with is polished enough, I might even release it for others to use for their projects.
FlashPunk
New Jumper is being programmed using Chevy Ray's FlashPunk engine. I'm helping him bug-test and offering suggestions as I work. The engine seems to be nearing completion, so hopefully that will see a public release soon and everyone can try it out! Trust me, it's really awesome!
Praise!
It's the time of year for top 10 lists and "best-of" lists and other miscellaneous lists! I've been fortunate this year: MoneySeize and RunMan have both made it onto a list each, with the latter even making it onto two.
Edmund McMillan: MoneySeize 5th best Flash game of 2009
Gamasutra: RunMan 5th best indie game of 2009
Play This Thing!: RunMan 4th best indie of the year
In Retrospect
I'm really blown away by the amount of exposure I've been getting this year! The friendliness of the indie community never ceases to amaze me.
I never expected people to flat-out volunteer their help (and contacts) with marketing and selling one of my games, but while working on MoneySeize I had Edmund McMillan approach me and offer to help me sell a Flash game. I really cannot thank him enough for this, and I've heard tell of him coaching a few other indies through the process as well. Really man, you're the best and I hope Super Meat Boy makes you filthy rich.
Later, I participated in Ludum Dare 15 and that was just a blast. I ended up winning second place with Broken Cave Robot, which was very cool.
And then finally: RunMan! Tom and I had been working on this beast for a loooooong time. I'm actually kind of shocked that we finished it at all. But the enthusiasm and support we've gotten from the indie community has been amazing and I'm super happy to see so many people enjoying it. For the curious, our download counter is sitting just below 35,000. We've also entered it in next year's IGF, so wish us luck!
Well, that's it! Merry Christmas everyone!
Labels: 2009, Broken Cave Robot, devlog, Flash, FlashPunk, general, IGF, indie love, LD15, Ludum Dare, MoneySeize, New Jumper, press, redesign, Runman
posted by Matt Thorson at
12:31 PM
8 Comments:
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The dithering looks really cool, though when you scroll it makes my computer flicker. Looks awesome as long as it stands still.
The color scheme is really close to the German flag, which makes it look like you're from Germany (even though you atleast seem to live in Canada). They're not bad colors, it just seems wierd. :)
The "games" page takes up too much of your browser's flow. ctrl+click won't let you open a new tab in firefox, so you can't open multiple entries in different tabs, which would be nice. Also, it'd in my opinion look better if the games page showed all games without a scroll bar. When you click on a game, it should allow you to scroll back up and select a new one, you shouldn't have to press back at all.
Overall though, it's a good design, I just thought I'd fit as much constructive feedback in here as I could. Hope that's cool! :)
- Peter
Constructive feedback is always welcome! I'm definitely considering reworking the games page a bit at some point.
First of all wow I dlove the new website design :) Its awesome :)
Second Hope RunMan win in IGF next year as its an amazing game :)
You rocks man :)
By the way I still dont like the games page it needs some remaking as its looks weird in the site :)
But I dlove the new design :)
"The dithering looks really cool, though when you scroll it makes my computer flicker."
This happens to me too, but I'm not that concerned.
Overall the new design is SO awesome. I feel you've struck gold with your colour combinations, and it's certainly got retro appeal.
One suggestion I have is that on your games page you should lose the internal scrollbar and just have the central frame as tall as the full table of games. Uh... does that make sense?
Merry Christmas to you too!
D'oh, I think my suggestion was already suggested? How did I miss that...
Oh, maybe one more suggestion... I think BG.PNG should contrast a little less (preferably darker) so text is easier to read.
God I'm wicked excited about Jumper 4 xD Don't rush it though; we want it to have some really nice quality stuff it in :P
You should call it microJumper. He looks a bit smaller than Ogmo in the previous games.
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