Blog - Boston Game Jam

Max · January 2007

I just posted a new <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/blog/2007/01/boston_game_jam_1.html" target="_blank">blog entry</a> on the recent Boston Gam Jam. This isn't directly related to Unknown Worlds, but hopefully someone will find it interesting.

Max

KungFuDiscoMonkey · January 2007

Sounds interesting.
/me goes to try it out.

Bloo · January 2007

Great Success!

<img src="http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4834/greatsuccessmc6.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

20 seconds after i posted that image

<img src="http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4512/notsogreatsuccesszf6.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

"We are the evil Spaceships, we come to stay!"

Dirtie · January 2007

Trees refuse to grow on my "City of Earth"

Edit: IRC log reveals all.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><Dirtie> my "city of earth" has 0.00 reproduction :(
<Dirtie> but like 10 spaceships
<Dirtie> TIME FOR WAR
<Dirtie> DIVIDE THE MASSES
<Dirtie> MUAHAHAHA
<anon> no reproduction and you're going to war?
<anon> hope you win
<Dirtie> EXCELLENT
<Dirtie> but theyre reproducting now
<Dirtie> cos theyre not spread so far out
<anon> :D
<Dirtie> technology war between green and yellow
<Dirtie> uh oh pink is getting jealous
<Dirtie> yup it happened
<Dirtie> green attacked yellow
<Dirtie> uh oh
<Dirtie> a faction of green split up
<Dirtie> into greenish-yellow
<Dirtie> goodbye berlin wall
<Dirtie> lol
<Dirtie> i have two guys
<Dirtie> sitting in a tiny country
<Dirtie> with negative 15 knowledge
<Dirtie> yet they have a spaceship :(
<Dirtie> DUN LET DEM HICKS NEAR DAT SPACESHIP
<Dirtie> time for them all to die methinks
<anon> drowning time?
<Dirtie> HAHAHAHA GREEN
<Dirtie> YOUR ARROGANCE HAS COST YOU
<Dirtie> i have 3 surviving people on the face of the earth
<Dirtie> AND ONLY 94% COOPERATION
<Dirtie> YOU DO NOT DESERVE LIFE
<Dirtie> :O
<Dirtie> now only one
<Dirtie> hes not even 100%
<Dirtie> only 99
<Dirtie> i have lost faith in humanity
<Dirtie> WTH
<Dirtie> HE REPRODUCED SOMEHOW
<Dirtie> how does 1 become 7 :/
<Dirtie> HOORAY
<Dirtie> THE WORLD IS DEAD
<Dirtie> i think i might just try and grow trees now
<anon> damn
<anon> spinning the earth doesnt kill them all :[</div>

Parse_Error · January 2007

Wow, that was quite fun. Great job on Shift. I think it'd be something interesting to expand upon for sure.

Flayra · January 2007

Very cool Max. I am always impressed by how efficient and quick you are and Shift is no exception. I think the look is quite interesting as well and testament to what you can do without any artists! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

When we get more free time (when is that going to happen?) I think it would be great to do ultra-small games like this frequently to keep us on our toes and trying new things. I also like the idea of switching roles on small titles like this, so I could do art, you could do design (or music?), etc. I think we would gain a lot of appreciation for the work of others as well as insight into how the different elements contribute to the overall experience.

Congrats to Max and everyone else at the Indie Game Jam (many old friends/bosses/coworkers were there!). Nice job!

Femme_Fatale · January 2007

that little game is ace lol!

douchebagatron · January 2007

very awesome, but i dont fully understand it. what causes the dudes to reproduce or not reproduce, build buildings, space ships, gain intelligence, fight and whatnot? and what do the exclamation points above their heads mean?

HBNayr · January 2007

"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."

Sounds interesting, though!

-Ryan!

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire

Iced_Eagle · January 2007

Nice work Max! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Speed coding ftw.

glimmerman · January 2007

Max is the evil code monkey genius <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />

Awsome little game <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/asrifle.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::asrifle::" border="0" alt="asrifle.gif" />

NEX9 · January 2007

Awsome, well done we do 45 minute challenge's after works done at tafe, in maya around a central theam, cartoon car, 15 minute design on paper then build, castle, instrument, rather vague but you can see plenty of styles and it hons rapid building when raceing against a clock, you learn to pace your self and assosiate time appropriately, then we all go around the room and half a55ed vote the best peices, question how others achived said effect and just really apreasiate the work rapidly constructed in a sparce window of time.

teacher even gets in on it

Merkaba · February 2007

Very interesting and more so impressive <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> I managed to get one building...and that's all : ( Time to try again I guess...but really I was more interested in trying to see what happens when there was land at max height everywhere (everyone just bounces around a giant 1 faction planet) and if there were >10 factions.

In the end I left it and came back to find every 'country' completely littered with meteroites <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Comprox · February 2007

I cheated <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
I had 3 nations with tons of ships and 2 who just kept shooting at stuff. I I marged them into 2 nations, but that caused even more shooting. So I just merged the whole word, right to the edge. Winnar!

Femme_Fatale · February 2007

Hax!!!!!!1111

Chocolate · February 2007

Fun game! I jsut wasted an hour of my life staring at a computer screen trying to get them to be smart, reproduce and not blow eachother up (i can get 1 or <b>maybe</b> 2 of the 3 in general). My nations just end up being purple or blue destroying all other colours.

Back on track: Addictive game, maybe not as much as NS, but very fun none the less. Like Flayra said, you guys should make more of these mini games (maybe sell them too or put them on Xbox Live Arcade <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> to help with funds).

<b>Some maybe useful tips:</b>
- More people together = More knowledge = More reproduction = Less cooperation
- Less people together = Less knowledge = Less reproduction = More cooperation
- More knowledge for 1 nation = More bombs to other nations
More to come?

*Goes back to playing to discover there are 2 dudes left*

Sheepe · February 2007

It won't work for me <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

I wish I could play...

-Sheepe

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