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Treasure Treasure: Fortress Forage: Extra Edition

Craig — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:03:42 +0000

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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Zombie Flick (Full Fat Games)

Craig — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:13:10 +0000

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

Puzzle Bots (Wadjet Eye Games)

Craig — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:26:52 +0000

‘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

Johnny Platform Saves Christmas!

Craig — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:42:29 +0000

As usual Christmas needs saving, and only Johnny Platform can do it! Take on upgraded evil robots across 100 levels using Johnny’s new rolling skill, bombs, presents, flaming Christmas puddings and lots more coffee.

The follow up to Johnny Platform’s Biscuit Romp, for Xbox Live Indie Games.

Buy it on Xbox Live Marketplace – 240 MSP

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Johnny Platform’s Biscuit Romp

Craig — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:41:43 +0000

Play as Johnny Platform himself in this retro-styled platformer! Do death-defying double-jumps and solve puzzles in your quest to defeat the evil robot army… and don’t forget to drink plenty of coffee along the way.

JPBR started out as a DS homebrew game, and was later ported to Xbox Live Indie Games. Development time for both versions combined was around 2-3 weeks, so it’s a little rough around the edges but still plays nicely. The Xbox version comes with 5 extra levels, plus some re-ordering of the existing levels for difficulty balancing.

Buy it on Xbox Live Marketplace – 80 MSP

DS Version

DS Emulator-friendly Version

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Levels 11-20 (video made by solidsnate228)

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Treasure Treasure: Fortress Forage

Craig — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:40:48 +0000

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

This is a two player split-screen puzzle/platform game, with local co-op only. You can use two joypads if you have them, but snuggling together on one keyboard is just as fun. The castle is pretty maze-like so there’s plenty of exploration to be done too.

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Colour Mod

CosinusPW kindly made a Colour Mod for the game, replacing the original GameBoy style graphics with more of a GameBoy Color feel.

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An early Work In Progress video of the game

A video showcasing the Colour Mod. This video is also a walkthrough, so don’t watch it if you don’t want spoilers!

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Bite The Bullets

Craig — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:39:35 +0000

Dodge bullets until you die.

A quick game I put together to test a shoot-em-up bullet pattern system. Simply dodge the abstract yellow shape’s bullets for as long as possible whilst shooting back to score points. It’s fully mouse controlled, with no clicking required, so it’s suitable for use with a headtracker.

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Asteroids

Craig — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:38:43 +0000

Brave the darkest depths of space and time in this epic struggle between you and floating lumps of rock of various colours and sizes!

Well it’s certainly not original, but never mind, eh? This was done as a weekend project as a quick test for rotation using vectors and matrices.

It features a couple of two-player modes: a co-operative version of the main game and a Space Wars-style battle mode around a gravity-vortex-thing.

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Clockwiser

Craig — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:37:23 +0000

Make use of the different properties of blocks, bombs, diamonds, teleporters and antigravity machines as you try and match one side of the screen to the other.

This is a remake of another great Amiga game. It was created in three months for the Retro Remakes 2006 Competition, in which it won Second Place and also a Judge’s Spot Prize.

In Clockwiser you have to move the blocks on the left side of the screen around to match up with the right side of the screen. It starts off simple, but soon becomes a very challenging game. There are a few difficulty level options to help ease the pain, the best of which is a really handy undo feature. There’re around 125 puzzles included, as well as a level editor for you to play around with.

The competition was geared towards accessibility. The game is 100% playable without touching the keyboard, so it can be played using a headtracker device. There’s also an alternative graphics scheme designed for colour-blind people (see the fourth screenshot below).

Credit and thanks go to the creators of the original game. I also recommend www.playclockwiser.com, a free version of the game made by the original creators.

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Pushover

Craig — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:36:31 +0000

Travel across a variety of landscapes solving tricky domino-toppling puzzles in order to retrieve some packets of crisps!

A remake of one of my favourite Amiga games. It’s a puzzle game in which you basically have to arrange the dominoes on each screen so that you can knock them all over in one go. Dominoes that behave differently and varying environments spice things up nicely.

Many thanks and credit to the creators of the original game.

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Sequel

In the past I’ve mentioned a future sequel. I would still like to do it at some point, and do in fact have a full set of puzzle designs for it, but I’m currently focusing more on my own original game ideas.