Interview to Synapse game

On Kongregate you can find an interesting interview to Synapse, developer behind Tyrant a game born in Facebook and ported to Kongregate.

The Spelunky Lessons

I've found this article quite fun to read and I suggest to everyone to take a look.

It describe how working on Spelunky (dont' ever play it? Go and play it! It's free, open source and fun!) help developers to think about gameplay working on small prototype, have feedback from peoples and go on, in more and more iteration finding a good balance and perfection.

It's important one think in the article: how passion in one genre (rougelike) have been mixed into another genre (platformer), creating something unique: really, really inspiring!!
I wonder what kind of "mix" of different genres can be done, for example: mixing together puzzle games with first-person-shooter (Portal anyone?) or mixing tower defense with rts?

Angry Birds HTML5

You can try now the game Angry Bird here! Requirements? Chrome or Firefox4

Slick Competition 2011 time to play!

Slick competition 2011 is ended and now is time to play and judge.. so follow this link and start to play with free games made with Java, Slick, Artemis and MarteEngine!

Procedural generation for videogames

Question is simple: procedural generation can have as result a lesser work in videogame?
Sound a little criptyc, right? Imagine to have done a nice platformer with nice physics, but you don't have time to design many levels, so why not have someone procedurally generated?

I've found nice resource about this topic, listed here:

• Procedural generation part1, part2 and part3,
• Braving procedural generation

Just some notes, but everyone can starts from this ones, because they offer good examples :D

Summon heroes to go home

click to play

My entry for Ludum Dare 20: theme was "It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take this!"

Old mand give yoy a wand to save the world (again), but you decided to get money instead!
So summon heroes, fight monsters, get money and buy a ticket to trip home!

Select heroes and guide them into dungeon!

- Use mouse to select heroes from bottom bar,
- Set target for heroes path,
- Every summed heroes costs mana and mana is limited.. choose carefully,

Made with Flashpunk in only 10-12 hours :D