Show us yer programming projects!

[PaulCunningham]

Converting this to XBIG is currently causing me a great deal of grief!

[nyarla]

I'm making a music app for iOS with an artist/muso friend of mine. Early days yet.. It's basically a drum machine with an interface made of cute dancing people, and some cool sequence manipulation stuff which I haven't seen in any other drum machine program before. Programmable but partially algorithmic beats, sorta thing.



And I started making a quick little game (for iOS as well) yesterday, needing a break from the music app, which is far beyond my comfort zone and sorta scary Inspired partially by Pac-Man CE and Blockman Gets (the look, obviously) and this game Crossroads 2 I loved on the C64. Also inspired by Yak and Giles and their new regime of small, fast games It's gonna be 1 or 2 player (on the same device). I always loved games set in mazes... so far it's just a random pacman-ish maze generator. It looks like a pac-man clone in these screenshots but only some levels will involve collecting dots

[korruptor]

Your iphone stuff is ruling.

[gravy]

I'm not sure what this going to be yet

[_TinOmen_]

Lovely shiny chunky pixels there Gravy! If it's anything related to Robotron then please let me be alpha tester
Few people have played the original Robotron as much as I have, and I dare say this even on this forum.
Just don't add too much realistic physics. Old arcade games hardly ever benefit modern innovations like that imo, except as eye-candy of course.

[PaulCunningham]

Looks brill.

[gravy]

Bit more!

Keep rewriting low level tech instead of game stuff

[nebogeo]

Keep lurking here and getting inspired so thought I should post - betablocker ds, livecoding music thingy, should make a better video, but hope you get the idea. More info here http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Pr ... ablockerDS

[nyarla]

wow nebogeo! i have no idea what's going on there but it looks and sounds amazing.

also looking very cool mr gravy

[Mark]

After my dogfight game got a warm reception last time I posted (thanks, guys ) I considered giving it another chance, and decided to give it a week of work to see if I could turn it around into something I had faith in, otherwise it was definitely getting put on the backburner. A lot of my concerns were with the art style, so I put most of my focus on that. Happily at the end of that week I was much more confident that it could turn out nicely, so I've stuck with it ever since. Progress hasn't been quite as fast as I'd like, but it's getting there. Still lots to do though - there's almost no game structure, very little AI, I haven't even tried it on the Xbox yet (I'm hoping to get this on XBLIG if I ever finish it) and there are plenty of things still missing or placeholder, but I reckon it's probably manageable.

So anyway, here's an updated video:



And to contrast, here's the old one again:

[t0ne]

That looks great

[Istar]

Yep, really liking the looks of that.

[Muttley]

Looks fantastic

[toxibunny]

4th'd!

[sack]

That definitely has a certain kind of charm to it - sort of a 'screw realism - I just want to be fun!' kind of appearance.

I like that a lot