Here’s a new PLOK Remake Image, now that I’ve got your attention, I’d love it if you can check out my friends twitch channel. He’s just hit the 50 follow milestone needed for Twitch affiliate and I’d love it if you can boost it further if you’re interested. You can find the channel here
Thanks a bunch! See you in the next PLOK update
Tom
Hey,
I’ve just launched a second YouTube channel and I really wanted to highlight the struggles that went into creating the most recent devlog. Feelings of overwhelm, impostor syndrome and lack of motivation. I go into how I managed to overcome these issues on this occasion and talk through what that process was like. It’s different to my normal game dev videos but it’s quite a personal video and I hope you’ll enjoy it as you get to know me better.
Thanks,
Tom
Happy Halloween! I’m unable to do game development for a few weeks due to LIFE. I decided to spend some time quickly before I’m busy to make this art work to celebrate Halloween. We’ve got PLOK as Ghost Rider, The Bobbin Bros as Joker and Batman, two of the undead fish enemies as a ghost and a bat, the Sprout wearing a pumpkin mask and Rockyfella dressed up as Frankenstein. We’re burning the in game logs because they’ve caused too many deaths catching us off guard. The bike PLOK is riding is from some mock up art that hasn’t been implemented for the motor bike stages. Ground tiles taken from the latest devlog (though currently unused). Water was just hue shifted.
Read more: Happy Halloween – PLOK! RemakeCouple of minor bits I’ve done while I’ve got time before my big busy calendar block.
– Updated Profile Picture and Banner art on the YouTube Channel
– Added score popups for defeating enemies, see this short to see it in action
– Scheduled side by side level comparisons on Mondays and Weds each week ending on the 22nd November for currently made levels.
– You can see a bunch of extra material if you join the discord here.
What do you mean you don’t know who Bario is? BarioWare: Swap is my entry to the Game Makers Toolkit Game Jam for 2023. The theme was Roles Reversed.
The examples given for this theme in its announcement video were;
I applied the theme to WarioWare which became WarioWare but you’re in control of the microgames, now while a WarioWare game already exists where you make games (WarioWare DIY) I decided to make a game that instead has you modifying and setting up existing microgames to maximise your chances of defeating the player (The AI).
An example from the game includes a microgame where the AI is trying to pop balloons within 5 seconds, in this example you get 5 seconds to spread out the balloons as much as possible so the AI can’t click them all fast enough.
You can play the game for free on itch.io, if you’re also taking place in the GMTK Game Jam, why not give BarioWare a rating while the submission page is still open? Thanks
itch.io Page: https://tompouchergames.itch.io/barioware-swap
Submission/Rating Page: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2023/rate/2155728
I’ve had a presence on YouTube since in some format since 2011. Around this age I assumed all the content I put out was great and would share it with people at school to the point of adding everyone in my friends list into a chat and sending out a video link to my comedy series “life sucks”, I did podcasts and even sang on YouTube on the same channel. My sense of embarrassment didn’t seem to be present.
Continue reading “Learning to be OPEN about my YouTube Channel”Hold The Throne was creating for the Weekly Game Jam 150 taking place on itch.io last week. The Theme was ‘You’re The Enemy’ I interpreted this as you being able to cause damage to the player, just as enemies can. I decided to go with the idea of your projectiles bouncing and wrapping screens. These projectiles could hit you in the back and damage you similar to an enemy. You can play this in the browser for free here.
I decided to take part in a Game Jam for the first time in a while. This was my first solo Game Jam, in which I roughly spent a couple of days on. The personal gains for this Game Jam were to motivate me to create a game for the first time in a while by forcing myself to stick to a theme and see it through to the end. Devil’s Diner is a memory game about ordering food.
Today I released a puzzle game called “Color Dome” for Android on the Google Play Store. The game is a high score style game and you must rotate the planet to find the correct colours.
Hey everyone! So a recent project I started with some friends was a movie, tv show and games review website called Online Media Review. It’s already starting to take off and I would really appreciate anyone that takes a few seconds to check out the site and what its offering. Feedback would be fantastic which can be given through the contact section on the website or by commenting on this article. Check out the site by clicking here.
It’s time for a small site upgrade moving forward. As of today you will notice the blog has changed in appearance and some functionality. I hope you enjoy these changes. I would like to post more often so make sure to be active within the community as it helps out a lot.
Thanks,
Tom
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