January is INANIMATE
January 1st, 2011
I don’t know about you guys, but the holidays are always a hectic, stressful, horrible time chock full of robberies, road rage, and death by stampeding shoppers. Usually I just duck down and try not to go anywhere or make eye contact until people are within the lazy half-drunken embrace of New Year’s. By that point, my muscles are so atrophied that my wife has to pry me off the couch with a pizza stone and roll me out the door.
In honor of an easier lifestyle, this month’s theme is INANIMATE. You have 7 days to make a game that somehow incorporates the theme. Any platformers will be shot on sight.
Lazy it up, people!
We're a group of indie game developers, running a friendly competition every month. The rules: Make a game based on the month's theme, and don't spend more than 7 days. New games posted at the end of every month.
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Alright, I have an idea and I am going to participate this month. Also… not a platformer.
January 1st, 2011
The easy option would be to just submit a video of a game – then you wouldn’t have to move to play it!
January 2nd, 2011
hmmmm….. tough theme
and those poor platformers…..
January 2nd, 2011
Oh, I anticipate a lot of “ragdoll” games :)
January 2nd, 2011
This is the first thing I thought of:
http://openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=3370
Kinda fits the theme I think, maybe inspirational.
January 3rd, 2011
Might be the first competition I enter. An idea came to me straight away, which can only be a good thing.
January 4th, 2011
Nah, too lazy to enter
January 6th, 2011
I’ll definitely join this one for sure… as soon as my assignment submission was through…
January 6th, 2011
hm… getting inspired by Friday 13th for NES…
“You and your friends are dead. Game over” :D
January 6th, 2011
This is my submission, entitled Giant Doll Velcro Technicolour Sticky Show.
It took about a day of full work, using Multimedia Fusion 2.
It’s not a very ‘pretty’ game, but I decided to take this opportunity to not only take part in this month’s theme (the game features *inanimate* dolls as its main gameplay point), but also to say something about what ‘retro’ means.
For more information (It’s worthy of an entire blog post, to be honest), please check out either the full description on Gamejolt, where the game is hosted, or on the game’s page on my site, which I’ve linked above.
Thanks guys,
Zed.
January 6th, 2011
I don’t exactly understand the theme, all I got was “Lazy” so I’m going with that.
I’ve got 3 ideas, all which I intend to do at some point.
My first has something to do with approving papers, simple, lazy and somewhat arty and quirky.
Good luck everyone!
January 11th, 2011
I’m totally going to enter this one. I got an idea straight away so I should have a good direction to go in.
Awesome.
January 11th, 2011
here’s my prototype for this month: http://awkwardgames.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/explod-o-mover/
January 12th, 2011
Hey, I’ve been developing games on my own for months now, but the music part was compose by my pal… Does that still count as done by one person?
January 13th, 2011
Got a few more days of work but I’m keeping a dev blog. It’s real short blurbs.
http://gamejolt.com/profile/ykeeg-entertainment/blog/5385/
January 13th, 2011
Here’s mine for the month: http://www.calebleak.com/?p=54
The Worst Adventure Ever. It’s a short text based adventure game. It will auto-complete anything you type or you can press Ctrl to bring up a list of possible commands. Both the plot and the graphics are inanimate.
January 14th, 2011
here’s my game for this month : http://www.multiupload.com/FL4VPCXCQN
if you don’t undrestand the game you can watch this video from the game : http://www.vimeo.com/18867240
i forgot to count how many days i worked on this game but i don’t think i worked on it more than 7 days.
January 17th, 2011
For inanimate I built this little game ‘Ripple’. I’ve spent about four days on it now.
http://creativepony.com/games/ripple/
You’ll need to be using Firefox 4.0 beta (3.x wont work), or Safari 5, to play it properly. It does not run well in Chrome, as it has major issues with media playback. Yes, prototyping games in javascript/html5 has it’s downsides for sure. Oh well!
If you happen to be using a browser not supported, here’s a video of it in action: http://vimeo.com/19018754 – also a walkthrough.
I think it’d pretty cool so I’ll be inclined to add some more levels over time, and I’m playing with the idea of an iPad port. :)
January 20th, 2011
My game is Danse Macabre, a little game in which you soothe the travelling bones of a skeleton using the left mouse button. It took me a couple of evenings, probably four or five hours in all.
Available at: http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/arcade/danse-macabre/4349/
January 21st, 2011
Here’s my game:
The World of Inanimate
http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/puzzle/the-world-of-inanimate-experimental-gameplay-project-january-2011/4367/
Website: http://lovepeacestudios.blogspot
Description:
The World of Inanimate is a game which is designed around the theme “Inanimate” which is from Experimental Gameplay Project January 2011.
The game takes place at a planet far, far away – The planet called Inanimate. You’re trapped within it. You find out that nothing in that world moves, including yourself. However, you also find out that you have this power called ‘Animation Power’ which gives you an ability to make things around you move, including yourself. However, you don’t have much time left because you know things from that world is going to hunt you down and kill you or you’re going to die soon if you don’t hurry to find a portal back to Earth. Beware, you have a limited amout of Animation Power.
Enjoy the game!
January 22nd, 2011
Hi all,
My game for this month is Deckchair Invaders!! a one button take on Space Invaders.
“When aliens attack on a Sunday afternoon and you just can’t be bothered to get out of your chair, the only thing to do is to grab your shotgun and fire wildly in to the sky. Using only the SPACEBAR take down the aliens as quickly as possible for the most amount of points. The game features 3 stages all with a boss battles at the end”.
http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/arcade/deckchair-invaders/4371/
January 22nd, 2011
Margatroid is a shooter about dolls that come to life. They’re less dangerous while inanimate.
http://touhou.nfshost.com/margatroid/
The game runs in your browser. Best played in Chrome; also works in Firefox and Opera. Internet Explorer will not work.
If you have trouble running it, try it without sound.
http://touhou.nfshost.com/margatroid/mute.html
Source:
https://github.com/touhou/margatroid/
January 22nd, 2011
And a second submission. All My Base is an experimental tactical arcade game (ie, you might want to think a little as you twitch). In this case you are unable to move or protect your bases, but can use the mouse to drag the formations of enemy ships on to their own fire.
You control and drag all the alien ships on screen as one formation, and it can be tricky, but hey, it is supposed to be an experiment.
http://gamejolt.com/profile/shushgame/2905/
January 23rd, 2011
“Any platformers will be shot on sight.” Indeed.
http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/puzzle/with-rpg-elements/4391/
January 24th, 2011
Serious Immobilities: http://pinothefrog.blogspot.com/2011/01/serious-immobilities.html
January 25th, 2011
“Any platformers will be shot on sight.”
Heh, that’s too bad, because shooting is an integral part of movement in my…not platform game.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7186565/GuidedByRockets.swf
January 27th, 2011
For those that downloaded my game, I spend my remaining days to create a few more…better levels that you can now play, completing my goal of seven.
The main download, link same as the one I posted before. Just new content.
http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/with-rpg-elements/download/4391/
Quick Play it on gamejolt.com.
http://gamejolt.com/games/quick-play/4391/
Read my dev blog, about puking and deperession.
http://gamejolt.com/profile/ykeeg-entertainment/blog/5385/
I need feed back people, I can make this lil thing more fun. If anyone youtubes a Lets Play of it, I’d be much appreciated. MisfitBYTE@yahoo.com
January 30th, 2011
LAZE THE LIZARD is a game made in 2 hrs.
Idea is not to let the Lizard move in for the flies. Kill them before the lizard gets it.
http://rapidshare.com/files/445348289/LazeLizard.exe
January 30th, 2011
Awaiting moderation? I guess I had too many links and it looks like spam. Sorry
January 30th, 2011
@ MISFITBYTE
Whoops, WordPress is a little nutty like that. Should be good now!
January 30th, 2011
Thanks, was that the issue though? Too many links, too long a comment?
January 30th, 2011
Here is my entry for this month! I hope you’ll enjoy shouting at people to wake them up.
http://alexisandre.com/2011/01/31/wakup-experimental-gameplay-project-entry
January 30th, 2011
@ MISFITBYTE
My guess would be the number of links, I don’t think the comment length has too much of an effect. A lot of the comments I see in the spam folder are mostly links with obscenities.
January 31st, 2011
woo, just got finished. Didn’t get to finish up the graphics and such as I would like, but here you go:
http://yaygames.yiay.org/index.php/2011/01/january-egp-inanimate/
January 31st, 2011
I couldn’t decide whether to post this or not – the mechanics are in place but no gameplay yet – but maybe I’ll get some feedback anyway as I intend to work on it some more.
http://www.davidc.net/blog/201102/experimental-gameplay-inanimate
You’re a ball of energy or fluid – you can’t move yourself, but you can exert your will to affect the gravity around you.
January 31st, 2011
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