Posts from year 2015:
Nordic Game Jam 2015 Tags: Games, Small games, Nordic Game Jam, Happenings CWOUN 100% completion recorded by Kie! Tags: Games, Excavatorrr, Other A sudden surprise Masjin update Why Masjin’s server isn’t online anymore Learning Digital Painting
Posted on 2015-02-08 13:56
Greetings from Denmark! After missing the event last year it has been really great to meet all these cool people and make games with them in the Aalborg University. :) I don’t remember when I last slept 3 nights in a row on the floor, but here we are. The theme was Obvious, which I think to be kind of silly in the same way many Ludum Dare themes are in that almost anything can fit it.
My entry is Copenhagen 2030, a game where global warming has turned Denmark into a Wild West -esque wasteland. Four players combat against each other in a deadly standoff. The game doesn’t have instructions so I’ll list them here:
You can only shoot when not behind the crate, and you can only be shot at when no behind it. The dynamite can hit you even behind the crate. If you run out of bullets, you need to shoot 3 times to re-fill your bullets. Bullets deal 1 damage, dynamite 2, while all players have 2 health. The score is counted based on successful kills.
Keyboard controls:
Left/Right/A/D/F/H/J/L -> aim
Up/Down/W/S/T/G/I/K -> move behind the crate
Shift/E/Y/O -> shoot
Control/Q/R/U -> throw dynamite
Gamepad controls:
Left stick -> aim
Shoulder buttons -> move behind the crate
A -> shoot
B -> throw dynamite
Unfortunately the game is Windows-only.
DOWNLOAD THE GAME (ITCH.IO)
I also made another game with a similar concept, but it didn’t really work so I didn’t finalize it. I’ve played the boardgame Bang! quite a bit lately, which probably explains the Wild West setting.
Posted on 2015-02-07 12:13
Here’s a really cool video of Kie beating the game fully:
(Broken video)
Really cool! Thanks a lot for linking this :) I’ll try to get back to updating the game some more eventually but alas, life is hard and things take up time.
Posted on 2015-01-12 01:39
Huh, well, I ended up updating Masjin slightly. I added some stuff to the Server hoster; so now you can see the IP address players should connect to. I also enabled killstreaks and scoreboards again, because I initially removed them due to bugs with the public larger server.
We tested the server hoster today with some friends and it seemed to work perfectly. If you have problems with the hosting, contact me and we’ll try to figure out something. I’ll probably organize some Masjin nights next week if I have time. :)
DOWNLOAD THE GAME
DOWNLOAD THE SERVER HOSTER
I think I should make some more online games in the future, just for fun. :)
Posted on 2015-01-11 22:44
Masjin has been in a practically unplayable state for quite some time now. I’m really sorry about this, but unfortunately there isn’t much I can do to help the situation, for multiple reasons, the most important of which being
1) The public server the game originally ran on wasn’t mine, but rather a free-to-use test server made by the developers of the server plugin (Lacewing). Since the Lavewing plugin didn’t see all that much use over time, it’s understandable that the developers moved onward, but this also meant that the public server is now defunct as far as I know.
2) Related to that, I haven’t been able to contact the devs properly regarding this issue; before I could inform them when the server was down and thus affect the situation, but what with how things stand now I haven’t been able to inform them of this, nor do I know whether it could even be possible to set up the public server anymore.
I’m really terribly sorry about the situation, but right now it seems that it can’t be helped :(
EDIT: The server hosting tool works for me – what kind of problems have you had with it? Please inform me in the comment section! :)
Tested for a bit:
Posted on 2015-01-04 03:26
Making some ESA art in order to learn how to paint digitally. Using Krita and mouse for these. Interesting stuff. I’m thinking of maybe doing this kind of pictures of every boss in the game.