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Trixie and Troy need to combine their talents, think carefully and blow things up to find all the treasures – then another treasure – hidden in an abandoned castle.

Treasure Treasure: FFEE is a two player co-operative puzzle platformer for Xbox Live Indie Games. Trixie can jump higher but Troy is stronger, so working together is important if all 21 treasures are to be found!

Single-player mode is also included – but co-op is more fun! It’s a game about love and teamwork.

It’s an improved version of the original PC game. Featuring dynamic split-screen, improved music, retro-style LCD graphics, and an extra treasure to find!

Buy it on the Xbox Live Marketplace – 80MSP

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Dealspwn – Xbox Live Indie Game of the Week

Treasure Treasure: FFEE is now available on the Xbox Live marketplace, in the Indie Games section!

Here is a link.

There’s also a trailer:

With any luck Treasure Treasure: FFEE will be out on Xbox Live Indie Games pretty soon. To celebrate here are some more screenies, you lucky people!

Using nothing but useless everyday objects, you must use your flicking skills to dismember and decapitate all that come at you if you want to survive!

Here’s a game I programmed at work! It’s a zombie-killing iPhone game featuring lots of unusual weaponry, dismemberment, decapitation, and a wicked slow-motion powerup that helps you really appreciate all my cool blood effects!

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Website

The website with leaderboards, videos, and more screenshots is here: zombie-flick.com.

App Store

Or have a look at it on the App Store: Zombie Flick on the App Store

It’s like fan art, but better, because it’s friend art!

This was kindly drawn by my friend Matt, talented animator but more importantly the creator of the Animal on Animal blog. Trixie has all the important Trixie details, and Troy has his beard and grumpiness – perfect!

Ta Matt.

As promised here’s a screenshot for the upcoming TTFFEE, an Xbox port of this.

So UpBot will be finished at some point in the future – but in the meantime I’m making an Xbox Live Indie Games version of Treasure Treasure!

It’s a fairly straightforward port, no fancy colours or HD remix or anything, but as the name suggests there will be one or two extra bits.

Here’s the slightly work-in-progress boxart:

Check back for a screenshot over the weekend! (or look at the screenshots of the PC version and imagine it on your TV.)

Having not done much recently I thought this little project would be fun. I got the old images and data from Treasure Treasure and created a massive map of the whole game.

Well it turns out it’s not that massive – 1280 by 800 which is only slightly bigger than 720p HD.

Click for full size!

‘Puzzle Bots’ is a light-hearted adventure game guaranteed to put a smile on your face. It’s got quirky characters, laugh-out-loud dialog, and brain-tickling puzzles.

This is a brilliant adventure game by Erin Robinson and Wadjet Eye Games, which I did some pixel art for! The dialogue is genuinely funny, and the gameplay is enjoyable for both you and your mother. What more could you ask for? Go buy it!

Screenshots and a free demo at the Puzzle Bots page on Wadjet Eye Games

Problem:

My upcoming game UpBot Goes Up relies a lot on colour to distinguish the different robots from each other. This can present a big problem to colour-blind gamers, something that is overlooked far too often by developers.

Here’s an example screenshot from UpBot, with the normal version first followed by simulations of three types of colour-blindness (created using this filter):

UpBot and DownBot (yellow and green) become especially difficult to tell apart.

Solution!

To solve this UpBot features a colour-blindness option, that ends up looking like this:

The colours have been altered so that they are easier to tell apart. Each bot also has its own logo (the same shape as their eyes) to provide a definite difference. This logo is also used on the bots’ target zones.

An afternoon well spent I think – hopefully it’ll make a difference for a few people!

Also.

Check out BlindGiRl too. An Xbox Live Indie Game with built-in colour-blind filters.