Hey 64digits. It's been like... a long long time since I've posted. But anyhow, I'm just posting to say we Monster Users over at GameMakerGames.com are hosting a game making competition where you can win $40!

Here's a carbon copy of the rules:


You have to pick multiple genres from this list, anywhere from two to all, and combine them into one great game!

1. Christian
Do you love Jesus? Christianity? Being Religious? Why not do what any
wholesome love-filled Christian would do, and program a game to spread
this deep love!

2. Educational
Teachers suck, and video games rule. Kids have to learn, and we can learn
them well by shoving a video game that secretly educates them in front
of them.

3. Rhythm
Do you have rhythm? Awesome, most kids do. Most kids like music that
they can press coloured buttons to. This is a genre of games which is
made popular by being musically talented!

4. Militainment (Army Recruitment)
Because the draft is not "Ethical," sometimes the best idea to get
young kids crazy about killing under the name of the law is to make them
play a video game!

5. Therapy (Mental Illness Treatment)
The mentally ill need to be taught better, and using video games to do so is
commonplace! It's great! It's wonderful! Schizophrenics will love to get through
their problems with your program! Maybe the bipolar will love to hate (or hate
to love) your creations!

6. Advertisement
This genre is dedicated to you by Coke Beverages. When programming an
advertisement game, you can know that a tall sip of Coke will keep your fingers
nimble and your mind running. You will be a programming beast with the magic of
Coca Cola.

7. Government Simulation
Do you like Governments? Do you like simulating the Government? What could
be more fun than programming a Government simulation game! That would be
fun... To the extreme!

8. Disease
Not only is video-game addiction a disease, but so are some games! Program
a game centered around the life of a disease. It's functions and actions, or, what
it does!

9. Ladder-Oriented
Ladders are a magical creation that climbs and breaks the skies. You must program
a game about these wonderful monsters. Ladders are delicious, and so will you be!

10. Picking up Trash
Finally! Those who enjoy video games can learn better about cleaning up garbage!
A genre to be enjoyed by all, young and old! Get dirty with this wonderful genre.

11. Sports
Thumb Wrestling? Wife Carrying? Water Polo? Kickball? Moustache Growing competition?
Sports are the foundation of game, and you can recreate one of many sports that you
or your friends may or may not enjoy! Sometimes, sports are funner on a video game
than in the mortal shell of the human body!

12. Stealth Game
Sneak! Sneak harder! Sneak it up, to the next level! This extreme genre combines being
sneaky and not being unsneaked! Sneak it to the top, sneakhead!

13. Survival Horror Game
One of the downfalls to life is you never get to survive a zombie wasteland or a haunted
house. But, with the magic of video game technology, you can simulate what it may
or may not be like! Your creativity is the limit!

14. Puzzle Video Game
Use your intelligence and pattern recognizing skills to piece together solutions for
points! Use these points to brag about the cool things you can do by pattern recognization!

15. Top-Down Shooter Game
Walk around and shoot things! However, do it from a birds-eye angle! Straight down!
No holds bars!

16. Text-Adventure
A game where the audience has to use their vast imagination. Programming a text adventure can be fun!
Many great Text-Adventure games have been made, maybe you can make another! The genre certainly
is not dead! It just stinks!

17. First-Person Shooter Game
Nothing is more real life than a first-person shooter. Not even real life. Walk around with the view of a person,
place, thing, whatever you want, and do things. Probably shooting. What are you shooting? I don't know, you
figure it out, it's your creative imagination!

18. Side-Scrolling Game
Nothing is as conventional as the side-scrolling adventure. It's fun, and your creative mind and interesting choices
may create an entire new side-scrolling world!

19. Turn-Based Tactics Game
Turn-based tactics games are a very common game genre. Famous turn-based games include Shining Force, Final Fantasy
Tactics, Advance Wars, and the ever classic, Sam and Max: Hit the Road. Making a tactics-based games is for slow-minded
adventure enthusiasts. Make one.

20. Fighting Game
Nothing makes me feel at home more than a classic beat down! Survive the abuse in a Fighting Game! Where
people solve problems through world-wide tournaments that involve beating each other up!

21. Digital Pet Game
Pets are an enjoyable creation! Maybe you want to have a pet you can admire for a bit and not feel bad
when you lose interest in it! That's where a digital pet game comes in! Live out the dream, kid!

22. Racing Game
Move fast and make fast decisions in a racing game! Go top speed, slow speed, even medium speeds!
Racing games are the building block of games about racing, so why not give this genre a hand?

23. Party Game
Do you have friends? Do you have parties with these friends? Why not make a game to enjoy with your
friends at these parties? Heck, people like that stuff. Entire consoles are dedicated to party games! Jump
on the bandwagon, before it's too late!

24. Train/Airplane/Boat Simulation
You don't need a fancy license or permit to enjoy boat train and airplane driving! You can just put on
a game from this wonderful genre and feel the true fun of years of hard work, paid off!

25. Typing Game
Teach elderly people and children how to be up-to-date, by teaching them how to type!

26. Board Game
Board Games are those things you play when the power goes out. But, when the power is on, what's
stopping us from playing these games?

27. Real Time Strategy
Think. Make decisions. Be fast. Gather resources. Construct more pylons. Need more minerals. Can't build
there.

28. Tycoon/City-esque Simulation
Sadly, most people aren't authorized to become a manager or mayor. However, due to the magic of technology,
you can pursue a world in management! Manage money! That's fun, right?

29. Roguelike
Dungeon Crawlers, for the most extreme of us. Enjoy getting your butt kicked if you play one of these
bad boys. Even programming one will kick your butt! But do it anyhow, you butt!

30. Erotic
:naughty: (Please, if you do choose this one, try and abide by the GMG rules. If you want, you
can ask what your borders are.)

31. Health (Within the Body)
Like Operation. But a video game!

You will be judged on:

Originality:
2 Points: You did something amazing, and I love you. You're a great human being!
0 Points: Yeah, that was pretty cool, but not very original.
-2 Points: Not original at all. You really dropped the ball on me, here.

Gameplay:
2 Points: This is really fun!
0 Points: Yeah, it has gameplay.
-2 Points: Booooring. I almost died of boredom playing your boring game.

Story/Atmosphere:
2 Points: I was interested. You did a good job. You deserve a trophy.
0 Points: Yeah, I guess it entertained me. It didn't go above and beyond, however.
-2 Points: You have no visible atmosphere and an unoriginal/boring story, or no story at all. Why did you do this to me.

Interface (graphics and sounds):
2 Points: Cool sounds and graphics. It was great.
0 Points: You had sounds, and graphics.
-2 Points: Did you even try? I don't think you even tried.

Entrants:

Rokuji - Text Adventure Party Game
Toadfrogs - Top-Down Turn-Based Shooter
Link3000 - First-person Stealth game
Atom Bomb Jr. - Christian Militainment

The date this is due, well, we talked about it. It came down to this: We want a lot of great games from you kids! So, the due date is September 21st, 2010! That's a good amount of time to make something Godly!

PLEASE POST YOUR GENRES NOW! We want NO CHANGE in the genre you pitch! IF YOU CHANGE YOUR GENRE, YOU ARE DISQUALIFIED! And only ONE of each combination can be made! So no doubles of Advertisement Disease games, or Ladder-oriented First-Person Shooters. I am very excited to be helping host this competition! I really hope this goes through as well as we plan!

You may submit more than once, however, you can only have one current pitch at a time.

If you see any errors or want any help in what is going on, I will do my best to respond as fast as possible. Please, post in this thread over any problem, or to pitch a genre you want to make. Also, it goes without saying, try to do something completely weird and you're more likely to win. Also, new games only, please.

Team Games are allowed! However, only one of you is getting the money, you need to decide how to split it up for yourselves.

Funding:
Kafka (20 dollars)
Andyw (10 dollars)
Atom Bomb Jr. (10 dollars)

Just make sure you register on GameMakerGames and post which idea you're applying for on the topic! Thanks for the interest!

All right, kiddos, it's that time. I'm working on an RPG, as you may all know, and I ocassionally update.

This RPG I am working on is known as Dual Dreams.






Dual Dreams takes place in a world on the edge: a world where there are two opposed continents. There is one continent that has the idea of freedom; they are subjugated to the other continent but want to be free because the King is an evil one who seeks self gain above all else. The other is that of the King; the mainland. They are neutral to the king; he is just a leader to whom they pay taxes. He does not enrange his homeland as such would be suicide.

This state of the world has led to a group opposed to the king to sprout up in the city of Erosion; the heart of the subjugated continent. This group is slowly gaining steam and getting political and militaristic power. Chase Norman, a boy of 17 at the time, joined in this rebellion. He was proud to be a soldier ready to fight for his homeland. However, a few years later, there are leadership changes. This leadership change has brought forth a girl to the head of the army, a girl roughly Chase's age. She has a vendetta against men and specifically Chase. Chase, knowing what was best for him, left the resistance.

So, Chase stayed in Erosion for a bit and later left it abruptly for undisclosed reasons. He wondered southward into Istok, where he would meet the mercenary that would turn his life around.


Features
-This is the first Full-Fledged RPG in Game Maker
-Realtime Battle System
-Intriguing Story With Surprising Plot Twists
-AI Tactics Control. You can tell your AI what you want them to do, and they'll do it.
-Skill and Magic System
-Giant Sidequests
-Twelve Possible Endings


Positions
Here's what I need and what you can do:

Dungeon & General Area Design
You basically design dungeons, towns, houses, ect. When you have them drawn out, you then put them together in the game. This involves tiling, placing NPCs, placing blocks, and calculating warps.

Tiling and Object Drawing
Basically, you draw tiles and common objects found anywhere. Like, bookshelves, balls, hat racks, anything you'd find in a house or whever.

NPC and Character Drawing
You basically design NPCs and the characters on the overworld, and then you sprite them.

Background Artist
Make beautiful backgrounds to fight in.

Magic and Skill Design
Come up with magical attacks and special moves for the characters and enemies to use.

Enemy and Boss Design
What do enemies look like and how do they act? How do bosses act? What skills do they have?


Sound Effects
Find sounds to fit situations.

Dialogue Artist
This is the actual characters speaking. I'll probably either do the mainframe of the speaking or give you the general idea. These guys just criticise it, add comedy, and make it generally better.

Character Artists
You draw or sprite the character art.

Polish Agents
Basically, these are the guys that make everything shine. If there is anything in the game that looks rough or unappealing, they say "Hey, let's make it look better!" and add the graphic, special effect, or sound effect to make it more aesthetically pleasing. Now, this requires skills at image manipulation software. You will need to draw backgrounds for menus and the like.

If you are interested, tell me. Further, please sign up on GMClans and post:
http://www.gmclans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7306&st=0
And then tell me what you want to do.


Anything helps. And, I mean anything. If you're willing to do anything I don't have to do, I'll have you. So, who wants to help? Credit will be given.


There will also be a demo within a month.

And, I've been up to everything. Yeah. However, you're all random people on the internet who don't care about my personal life, so allow me to bore you with relevant details.


As you all may or probably do not recall, I was working on an RPG. It looked like this:

Yeah, horrible, right?

Now, it's looking more like this:

Excuse the green block, that's going to be her portrait when I get around to doing it.

I've been working these couple of months. I've been working a good long time. And, I still don't have the menu system completely done! But, it's not possible to get it done. Hooray!

That's basically the progress in a nutshell.


I plan to release a demo around the 4th of July, so keep in touch. Unlike most of my works, it will not fail to impress.


Speaking of failing to impress, I made something that fails to impress as of late:
http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/35508

And, I don't think I showed you all this one, either:
http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/26543
Which, to be honest, was actually fundamental to getting me back to the RPG. How so? The art style. I looked at St. Jimmy's, wanted to mimic his coloring scheme and did. Then, I said, "Hey, I can use this on normal sprites," which was incredibly helpful as spriting was the main drag in the game making. However, I'm having a drastically easy time with it with this new style.



And one last classic for all time's sake:
http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/35844

Enjoy!

Yeah, it's still Thanksgiving in California. Wooh!



Anywho, here's a turkey.




And, here will come the people to call me a turkey.




Anywho, it's business time. Because, no one cares about personal life stuff that doesn't effect them.


So, remember how I was working on that Cross of Greed RPG? Yeah, that died. However, over the past couple of months I've been trying to get in the RPG field again. And, this past month, I have. So basically, you're getting a Cross of Greed engine with another one of my RPG's storyline. And, it's actually going to get done this time because I'm not depending on other people to send me the resources and break deadlines.

Here's a pic of progress.

Yeah, sorry about the stars standing out. They give a fluid sand look when in motion that just doesn't come out in a photo.

But, yeah, I'm on a roll with it. I spend hours trying to debug this NPC script that was acting up for no reason( I checked the debugs and the if statements. Every single condition was met and it wasn't doing what it was suppose to be doing). I ended up just changing the method and fixed it in ten minutes that way. And now, my head hurts...

But, that's basically all on the RPG field, if you care.



And some side sights:

I uploaded Phoenix Wright FTW again. I made it easier to beat Edgeworth at one part, as well.
http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/17648

I CAN believe it's not butter.
http://www.icanbelieveitsnotbutter.co.uk/

And, who can forget the obligatory forum link?
http://z8.invisionfree.com/Lloyd_Owns_Fayt/index.php?

God bless,
-Kaf

Yeah, I was bored. I made a parody. It's called Ark 23, because it's one above Ark 22.


http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=337182

For some reason, people thought I was making a serious game when I was making it. Kiddos, it's a parody. Parodies are not serious.


Anywho, Kafei's here, in other words. And, he's been gone for a good long time. And, he's starting work on yet another RPG. Well, actually it's two I was working on earlier; I use the storyline from one and the battle system of other. So, for those of you that liked the Cross of Greed demo I posted on here, expect more out of that. I'm going to use it in a new project.

In serious business, anyone keeping up with the election?
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008__1/daily_presidential_tracking_polling_history
Within the last month, Mike Huckabee, a second tier candidate, has now jumped to the first tier. This makes me happy, as I've been supporting him since he was at 2%. :D

Anywho, how are things? It's been a while.

And this time, they're real.


Here are the spoilers wrapped up for you in a neat little package(Spoilers are at the top, so you've been warned!):
http://www.zendurl.com/hallows/

Yeah, this is just to A: warn people that plan to read the book to disconnect their internet and sow their ears shut and B: to give the people that want to spoil it fuel.

Mwahaha!


All of my life since elementary school I've been compared to Harry Potter. Oh, I look like him. Next time someone says that to me, they get a spoiler. And, there will be much weeping and the gnashing of teeth.


In other news, HAI ITS KAFEI. Yeah, I've been living. I've been out and in. I've been closing pools because of AIDS, but now I stopped. Yeah.

By the way, I'm going to stop making terrible games. Why? Jesus. Any questions? Good.


Anywho, minor update in the whatchamacallit called Kafei.

*Edit*
Obligatory Lloyd Owns fayt link:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/Lloyd_Owns_Fayt/index.php

So, everyone, it's that time of year again. AIDS is as maximum capacity and spreading like wildfire. It is due to this, that we must rally together to stop the spread of AIDS.


How do you ask? Well, do you know what Habbo Hotel is?

...


Wait, why am I waiting for an answer? You're reading this. For those of you that don't know, it's an online game full of basically stupid preteens that spout ASL every chance they can. At least once every five minutes, you're bound to hear it. They also have terms such as "habbo virginity" and ask if anyone wants to be their "habbo bf". Yeah, they're just drawing in the pedophiles.


Well, anyway, someone got the brilliant idea to teach these people a lesson. About 364 days ago, a bunch of people logged on the game all at once dressed as afroed black men in business suits and blocked off everything. The mods banned a lot of them, but, they could not ban them all. The site's functions started to shut down.

Anywho, they're doing it again on the anniversary. So, tommarow, at 7:00 PM EST, there will be thousands of people standing together, once and for all, against the spread of AIDS. And, I'm going to try my hardest to end AIDS once and for all by closing the pool. It's got AIDS.

I bet you all thought that Kafei didn't care about anyone. :P

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Fun times.

Yeah, I'll have a real blog up later.


Flashback: AIDS with a capital S, Kafei.

I've made another high quality game!

http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=305925

Yeah. I've been bored again. I wanted to get one last one in before I left to Colorado. Enjoy!

I'll be gone for two weeks, speaking of Colorado. Off into the large mountainy mountain... fun. In the mean time, run around in circles screaming in panic because there will be no more excellence in gaming coming your way. I know you will all put on your sack clothes and cry to get me back home, but, a note in advance: that won't work.

Anywho, have a good day,
-Kafei


Obligatory Site Plug:
Do you wear two belts? Are you a real man? Click here and join Lloyd Owns fayt! Or, carouse around on it. I don't care. Just click.

So, I've made the second greatest game in the world.
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=304507

It's better than Zelda.


Yeah, today I woke up, and fell asleep, and went utterly crazy, came to my senses, went bored, sat around, then made this. It was fun.

While I've not been insane, though, I've been working on Seize of Power for a while. None of you know what that is or care, and I'd like to keep it that way, so I can surprise a whole lot of you. Mwahaha!

Anywho, time to get carted around all this week and shipped to Colorado. Wooh, fun times! I'll be gone for two weeks, so, if you detest bad games, be happy for a while. Until I come back, in which case... mwahahaha!



And, I need to plug my forum again, like always:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/lloyd_owns_fayt

Oh, I forgot to mention Earthbound in this. Yeah, I'm still obsessed with Earthbound. I played Smash Brothers today and beat Very Hard Classic with Ness. Wooh!

So, I have created the best game ever.
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=303917

You will be wowed.


So yeah, I played Earthbound the last couple of days and beat it real nicely. It was prety fun. I named Ness after Richard Nixon and gave everything else a stupid name, so yeah. Anywho, the mole scene from that game inspired me to create the above greatest game in the world. Because, that was the greatest video game joke in the world. Mwahahaha!

Anywho, play Earthbound if you haven't. It's a pretty sweet game; you won't regret playing it. It's not the best game in the world, but it's pretty great.

After beating Earthbound, I started on Star Ocean 1 again. I named Ratix Ness. Yeah. After I named Ness Nixon... I was bored. Anywho, I played that and got supremely ticked off at it, as seen here:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/Lloyd_Owns_Fayt/index.php?showtopic=1588&view=getnewpost

Yeah, that game ticked me off so much. I literally started hurting in my mid-chest after playing it. The experience was that bad. Blech. I'm staying away from that game for a while... ech.

To finish up, Kafei = Keaton. Kafei = working on serious game that'll get delayed by a bunch of stupid Summer projects. Many of you will be angry. I'm back in business, gentlemen!