Here’s a quick update on the status of Run, Humanoid, Run!

I’ve got bombs that explode when you touch them, turrets that rotate and shoot in 8 directions, keys that unlock electrified doors, electrified doors that will fry your ass if you touch them, and robots that… well the robots just stand there for the moment because I haven’t written any AI for them yet.

I’m working without a design doc or an exact game that I want to emulate so I’m not sure of the final direction. I’m just playing with pixels, Flixel, and FlashDevelop!

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Working on another quick Flixel game. Once again, I’m using some Gameboy-inspired visuals. Here is the title screen:

So far, all I have done is the pixel art. I’m thinking about trying out the voice synthesis features of LSDJ for sound.

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(You may need to click in the window before it works)
Controls:
Left and Right Arrow Keys – Run Animation

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Busy day today so I haven’t had much time to work on this, but here’s an update showing off Flixel’s particle emitter as an enemy spaceship is being destroyed:

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Not my most fabulous title screen, but here’s a teaser of my new Flixel-based project:

I’ve spent all of about a day on it so far, but again, I must say Flixel is awesome.

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Screenshot of the “Game Over” screen:

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Still working on my winter vacation game. Here’s an in-progress version of the title screen:

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I designed a simple retro-style font called 8-bit to use on my thesis game. It was created using the online tool FontStruct. It is a normal TrueType font so it should work on pretty much any OS.

I’m releasing it for others to use under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Happy Christmahanakwanzika.

Download 8-bit Font

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In a follow up to my previous post, I now present Inspirational Links: The Pixel Art Edition!

Pixel Art Tutorials

• Derek Yu’s Pixel Art Tutorial
• Creating Minimal Pixel Art
• Sexy Tiles: Sidescrollers

Pixel Art Examples

• Pixel’s Gone Mad – A nice collection of pixel art images from around the web.
• Devil’s Crush Full Map – A nice example from a retro game.
• Metroid Map – A good example of pixel art and tile layout (and an excellent example of level design).

Pixel Art Communities

• Pixelation – A community forum to post your pixel art and get feedback.
• The Spriter’s Resource – Pixel art from many classic games and more contributed by the community.

Miscellaneous

• List of 8-bit color palettes – A good reference for artists trying to match the palette of a classic computer or game console.
• Pixen & Reptile – Sprite and tile tools for Mac OS X.

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This is a few days late since the new alpha version of Blender 2.5 was released back on Nov. 24. I finally had a chance to download and try the new build of Blender 2.5. This is a pretty amazing redesign. I really like the new interface. Here are the important links:

• Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 Release Notes and Road Map
• Blender 2.5 Manual
  
• Get Blender 2.5 Alpha 0

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