Bytejacker: MaBoShi’s Arcade

As soon as i got home i opened my browser and i checked to see if the new bytejacker episode was up, and it was. The great thing is that my voice mail got aired on the show.

First Webcast

Well i tried doing a small webcast on my idea of a good game. Didn’t turn out like i hoped it will, i was a little nervous, forgot what i wanted to say, but i hope that my message was easy to understand. If you have any suggestions on how to improve future webcast please do post a comment here or on youtube. Good luck everybody.

Working on a new Game Script

Well i said before i will release WME this Christmas but to be honest i didn’t quite yet finished fixing some bugs that were left because i was busy working on a “Design Script” for a game that suddenly popped into my head while i was teaching my 5 year old cousin how to model some household objects in Milkshape 3D. So she tried to model a puppy.. What she got was something that looked like a Blob and a Donut. Later that night i had to put her to sleep and she wanted me to tell her a story. I tried telling her about Snow White and the Dwarfs but she knew it. Tried Cinderella but it was the same so, i quickly made up a funny little story about the blob she draw and that donut. After she started dreaming i started writing down that story. What i came up with after that was a small Game Design Script for a game i should start working on. I will try to finish WME soon and then i will start working on the new engine.
And now, before you will quickly type in another URL into the address bar, please take some time off work and spent a few minutes with your loved ones. You never know what can pop into your head! Merry Christmas everyone.

WME: Dev Clip II

Second ,and final, clip with Waste My Earth. Hopefully i will release it on 25th December. After i will see my first game released i will start working on something i am preparing for some time now. Anyway here you have it.

Free Indie of the Year

Some of you may know that Bytejacker, “a review show for gamers with fast connections and short attention spans”, has released the results for the Free Indie of the Year! Below you can see, and download, the nominated games.

#10 – Seven Minutes – http://tinyurl.com/sevenminutes
#9 – 8bit KILLER – http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_8bit_killer.php
#8 – Nanobots – http://tinyurl.com/nanobots
#7 – Mighty Jill Off – http://tinyurl.com/mightyjilloff
#6 – Teeworlds – http://www.teewars.com
#5 – 10800 Zombies – http://tinyurl.com/10800zombies
#4 – Rescue the Beagles – http://tinyurl.com/rescuethebeagles
#3 – Meat Boy – http://tinyurl.com/meatboy
#2 – Dyson – http://www.dyson-game.com
#1 – Iji – http://tinyurl.com/ijigame

Tune in and watch the show here: http://www.bytejacker.com/
P.s lets hope that someday one of my games will get to be nominated on ByteJacker

View Sprite Animation

I spent a few hours working on a good meteor sprite for WME and i got tired of having to load and change the animation settings in-game, so i made a small app, which i called VSA(View Sprite Animation). The user must specify the path to the image(.jpg, .bmp, .PNG), total number of frames width and frames height. Simple and yet useful, at least for me.
And here is the Read Me file, because i know 80% of you won’t even think of taking 40 seconds to take a look at it.

# # ##### # ###### # #
# # # # # # # # ###### ## ##### ## ## ######
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
# # ##### # # ###### ##### # # # # # # # #####
# # # ####### # # # ###### # # # # #
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
# ##### # # # # ###### # # ##### # # ######

How to: Press O to load your sprite.
Input the sprite name.extension: Example:

####################################################
###Type the file name to be loaded(Eg: blob.PNG):###
###blob.PNG ###
###Frames Width(Eg: 4): ###
###4 ###
###Frames Height(Eg: 1): ###
###1 ###
####################################################

Use + and – to change the animation speed.

I know there are some bugs but i won’t keep working
on this.

Unless otherwise stated, the software on this
site is provided without any express or implied
warranty. I will not take responsability for any damage
that may arise from the use of the software.

Download: Media Fire Link

A Leg Up in Next-Gen Technology for Indie Game Developers

That would be the name of an article i recived from an old friend of mine, whom i respect and thank for teaching me allot of things ’bout game developing and more then that. I decided to check it out and it seemed like a good idea. Basicly he gave an interview, or better said he has written an article that proved to be full of usefull information for me, and i hope it will prove to be the same for you. You can read the article Here

WME: Dev Clip I

The first day of developing Waste my Earth has almost ended and i tought of making a small clip in order to show my progress. Right now i have finished doing most of the important things like moving, shooting, time system. I still have to create a “laser” effect that could be heard while shooting, and do a small, and yet nice, hud. Also today i downloaded, for the first time, FMOD and to be honest i am quite sure i will keep on using it. Thats all for today, Good Night.

First Post: First game announced

Hy there, my name is Bacioiu Ciprian, a 17-year old Romanian Student, and this is my new blog made specially for games or game-related projects i am doing. I decided to start this new blog at the same time i started my verry first game that will, hopefully, be completed. I had other attempts at game developing, attempts which failed do to the lack of experience(started a MMO Game Engine a few months ago, but stoped the project soon enough because it was extremly complex and i just couldn’t continue working on it, and another game called Millennium Pong wich also got canceled after my HDD broke, and i couldn’t recover the source code).

Now about this new game… It is called Waste My Earth and it will be similar to the well-know Asteroids game but instead of driving a spaceship, you must protect your home planet(Earth) using a space tower you created in the far depths of space. Got the project off the ground and brought it into a “play-able” state. Since i want this to be my first completed project i won’t make it to complex because i really want to finish it. So it will only feature one level, and the goal would be to survive as much as you can. Not to much but hey, we all have to start somewhere.

Here’s a small screenshot i just “captured”:

That’s about all for now, thanks for reading, good luck.