Let’s start posting more often!

So, I’m finally gonna take myself by the neck and start keeping this thing up-to-date. If I make progress on a project on any given day, I’ll post about it. Gonna have to get into a habit of updating so I’ll keep it up.

On that note, I mentioned about my Magical Drop -remake last time around. I’m still not entirely sure how far I should make the prototype before putting it aside and presenting it for other people, but there’s still quite a few things that need addressing. So while you wait, have a pic:

The visuals at the moment are (hopefully obviously) all placeholder. Also, there’s only three kinds of drops present, for testing reasons. Most of the core mechanics are already in place and working, but more functionality is needed before the thing can start to be called a game.

Guess that’s enough for now. Till next time (which will hopefully be in a couple of days)

Funny coicidence

So I came across this game yesterday…

The Crypt of the NecroDancer

Basicly, it’s a roguelike crossed with DDR. You move around and kill enemies to the beat of the music. The funny thing is, I came up with a similar idea just a few days back: Crossing rythm-games with other genres like FPS/Action. Shooting/hitting your enemies to the beat of music. Not really much else to this, just thought it was a weird coincidence.

And since we’re talking about genre mixing, I guess I might as well share my thoughts on another thing.

I’m in love with Awesomenauts. It’s a 2D-platformer-shooter-Dota thing with funny and unique characters. And it’s awesome as it’s name states. Now the actual thing I was going to talk about: Crossing genres with MOBA games. As TotalBiscuit says in this video, Awesomenauts is interesting because it took many elements of MOBAs and turned it into a 2D-platformer. And that makes it really stand out from Dota/LoL/HoN.

So I started thinking, how would one cross MOBAs with puzzle games? Instead of shooting/attacking towers you would play little arcade-like puzzle minigames. Or something. You attack enemies by shooting puzzle blocks and they have to clear them with the same kind of minigames. I sadly didn’t get far with my ideas, since they didn’t blend together too well, but I think you get the big picture. The concept itself intrigues me quite a bit. I don’t think there many, if any, games that blend action with puzzles seamlessly. I might just keep turning the idea over in my head and see if I can actually come up with a decent cross-over that works.

I guess that’s enough chit-chat for now. Till next time.

Fucking stuff and fuck

Time for a rant. Right here right now.

So, I just wrote almost a whole post and accidentally pressed the “backwards” button on my mouse and LOST IT ALL. This was going to be quite a bitchy post anyways, but now I’m just fucking irritated. Well, let’s try to cover all this shit again.

So, I’ve been sick for the past few days and that’s really been a bitch. Well, today atleast. I won’t go into the details too much for the SECOND time, but let’s just say this flu sucks big time. And partly because of this I’ve been feeling really “uncreative” today, even though I’d have quite a few things to do, like the third and last game demo for the game development course at school. The thing just is, that demo just doesn’t really have enough “game” for me to get inspired on. And if that wasn’t enough, I’m having a major “not-knowing-what-I-wanna-do”-syndrome again. I’ve been really trying to focus on learning 3D modeling lately, but now I’m having some inspiration to do some good old 2D art too. And for the last game demo I’d have to do programming, 3D and 2D art, designing and all that jazz, but I don’t feel like doing any of it.

But what I’d like to do? I’m really been itching to do a Magical Drop clone. If you don’t know what Magical Drop is, it’s an arcade puzzle game, Google it or something. So here’s the thing. Magical Drop 5 was released about 6 months ago, but it’s still struggling to keep it’s playerbase active because of bugs and what not. So I’ve started thinking of trying to recreating the core gameplay and mechanics of the game, just to see how hard it would be to get it right. Because, you know, the controlls and movement of the MD5 have really been bugging me from the getgo. There’s quite a bit more into this thing, but I don’t wanna make this post overly long.

And yeah, Icebreaker is kinda on a hiatus I guess. Too much stuff going on ATM  but once summer kicks in I’ll try to get more involved with that. And yeah, I’ve managed to “recruit” a friend of mine into making the game with me. He’ll be working the code from now on so I’ll have time to work on my 3D-modeling skills.

It begins!

Welcome to the Odd.

I’m Oddy (sometimes known as OutoMaisteri) and you have found your way into my blog somehow. Actually, most likely you’ve found your way here long before you read this, but I digress. I bid you welcome and hope you’ll find entertainment in at least some of my rants.

Maybe I should write a bit more since I’m at it, yes? Let’s do that.

Why did I start this blog? Well, simply put, I wanted attention (kinda). No point in hiding it, but before you close your browser allow me to expand. From quite a young age my dream job has been a “game maker”. I didn’t obviously know much of the ways of making games back then, but it didn’t stop me from trying. My efforts never took much wind though and so making games remained a hobby at best. And long story short, my fire has been relight recently and I finally have the know-how, passion and means to make my dreams happen (hopefully).

So what will this blog be like, you might ask. Basically a bit of this and that. If I find something interesting to say about a certain game I’ll do it here. I will discussing game design be it my regarding my own projects or otherwise. Game demos, things I’ve learned… all sorts of things.

I guess that’s enough ranting for now. Let’s get going!