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Junkboy – Advanced Animation Final
After taking a ten week course with the very knowledgeable and award-winning professor, Chris Redmann, my advanced animation group was able to a create a 2 minute short telling the story of a boy hoping to bring his junk creation to life. The team consisted of 5 Drexel University Students: Dan Fornace – Modeling, Rigging, [...]
Super Smash Land [Demo 1] Released
It is with great excitement that I can tell you the first Demo for Super Smash Land has been released. The demo and an interview featuring me and inversephase can be found over at Piki Geek, who is the official host of Super Smash Land! The demo is a PC-only release, with the final hopefully a [...]
Super Smash Land – Demo Coming Friday
Hello Everyone! I am very excited to announce that the first demo for Super Smash Land will be released on Friday, December 17th at http://blog.pikimal.com/geek/ A correction to news posted everywhere, the game is actually being made in Game Maker 8, as i updated mid-development after running out of Softwrap keys! The Demo will feature [...]
Blackfoot Links and Holiday Cheer!
After recently being entered into IGF. Blackfoot was rewarded a great review over at the Polish Site, Victory Games. The game received 3 out 5 stars and was complimented on its graphics and unique gameplay. And for us English Speakers, here is the Google Translate of the review. Along with these review, I would like to [...]
Blackfoot IGF Entry
Hey everyone. Blackfoot has been accepted into the 13th Annual Independent Games Festival as a Student Contest Entrant. It joins 280 independently made games representing universities from across the globe. Check out the site to see my entry representing Drexel University.
Advanced Animaion Progress
Finally starting to make some progress on the Junk Dog for our Advanced Animation Project. Working on getting the model finished and then hopefully rigged next week. Gonna be fun to get all his modeling done as even after the head and tail are done, I still have to model props on his back for [...]
Super Smash Land – Kirby Progress
Finally starting to get some progress done on Kirby. Hope to get all his non attack animations done early this week and get him in the engine. Here are some gifs of what I have done so far. Let me know what you think!
Super Smash Land – Color Test
Trying to rework the colors a bit in Super Smash Land and made some palettes of what I am currently playing with. The current in-game is 1 and I am leaning towards 2. Let me know which you like best!
Super Smash Land – Mario Sprites
Here are some of the sprites for the character Mario for Super Smash Land. The ones I did not add are either 1 Frame or I just never saved them as a gif.
SSL – Engine Test
I have been working on the engine for Super Smash Land recently. I still haven’t gotten the enemies to work off screen the way I would like, but I have the attacks working fairly well. It’s pretty fun to play currently, and I hope to have a demo online very soon. Check out the video [...]