Zack won a very small contest I set up at gamejolt a while back, so gets his site banner up there and his site in the affilates. The banner will last up there for a month. Congrats Zack, and Ground Zero Gaming!
(also be sure to check the post below and get your vote in! only one person has, so far.)
Also, remember that our third competition is still underway! You still have plenty of time to make an entry for it.
Bugaham Games
I’m caught between two games right now- awhile back I announced a 3d game with secrecy. Nobody one the little challenge, so here’s what the game is about:
You are the happytown citizens, cursed into always advancing forward and trapped in an alternate dimension. You must travel through the worlds (Dimension, Underwater, Space, etc.) to make it back to Happytown. You can only turn, and you accelerate forward automatically. There are different citizens you can turn into, you start out yellow, but when getting power ups you can turn into other things such as blue citizen, which goes faster, and is harder to control, but can break down certain walls.
That’s the happytown spin-off.
This next game is pretty unique (I think..) a 3D Puzzle Shooter Role Playing Game. Somewhat like zelda. You move around the overworld, solving puzzles and going through mazes, and battling enemies. The battle system is somewhat unique, a shooter. You move left and right, and shoot at an ai that shoots back (and can dodge pretty good.) and have to advance through many different levels fighting the end boss at each one.
I really don’t know which one to do, the trouble I have with happytown is that Its kind of straightforward and repetitive… Please vote in this poll.
Thanks!
Bugaham
There’s no more GMU favorite game polls. I didn’t think this would happen, but I guess some of my readers cheated the polls. I check the most recent poll once every day or so, here’s what happened.
Day 1: Pokemon- 1 (me)
Day 2: Pokemon- 2
Day 3: Pokemon- 3
Day 4: Mario- 21
Pokemon- 3
Its pretty obvious someone cheated, by doing stuff with cookies. Nobody votes that much here anyways, and I haven’t really experienced a surge of readers, so someone cheated. I can make it more enforeced, but then a few people won’t get to vote. Let’s try this poll:
Please report any problems you have with the once-per ip vote system enabled on Poll Daddy.
GameCog, indie game site, where you can upload, play, and give feedback on indie games, has announced their third competition. There are 40$ in prizes, and the theme is explosions. Please don’t enter though. I really want to win.. Just kidding, I am entering, and I do want to win, but I’m going to win by making a good game, not by telling everyone else not to. You have about 7 weeks to make your game, and as said earlier, the theme is ‘explosions’. For more info head on over to gamecog.
Here’s a bit more unrelated stuff:
I got donkey konga today! Expect a review.
Its round 3! Somehow, Ocariana of Time lost the previous round… I say someone cheated, but nobody here would do that now would they? We’re doing nintendo handheld games. Lots of nintendo handheld games come in series, so that will clear some things up for you.
Biiiggg poll.
My vote: Pokemon. The best handheld game series EVER if you play it. Maybe my favorite game of all time. Not quite sure, metroid, mario, etc. Are pretty high up there too.
Bugaham
Randomly Generated Insanity is a small 2d shooter created by QOG for Zack’s create a really hard game contest over at GameJolt.
Randomly Generated Insanity was my pick for ‘Bugaham’s Favorite’ a game that gets reviewed here on the GMU.
Graphics:
The graphics are very simple and retro- but a little too retro. The graphics are just black and white. This works nicely SOMETIMES, but here, I think a retro yet not TOO retro (like nes style) and some nicer animations. Also, the screen shakes instead of having an effect when you destroy a ship component. This is a little unfair, since sometimes you die when the screen shakes. A simple bang would have been better. Also, the bullets are a little small to see. 6.7/10
Sound:
The sound is very good but does NOT fit in with the game’s retro feel. A way retro feeling music would be much better, but the music is good none the less. As for sound effects, the only sound efects are when something is destroyed, you hear a blow-up type noise (see the graphics section above for why that is not ok.) and that is not ok. If the graphics problem is fixed, fine. Also, there should be more sound effects, eg. for when you hit the boss or fire. 7/10
Gameplay:
The game is a shooter where the goal is to defeat bosses. The bosses have many cannons and other weapons on them to shoot at you. You must take all the cannons out to defeat the boss and advance to the next level. Its a very good and fun concept. The game is also REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY HARD! (because its made for a contest..) But since it is so hard, they added something cool to it: you can put the game in slow motion! Everything goes slow, making it much easier to see and dodge the bullets. This was a really really nice addition to the game, and was very enjoyable. A few problems with this though, was that there seemed to be no difficulty curve. I beat boss 2 on my first try. It took me 5 tries to beat boss 1. I’ve never gotten halfway to beating boss 3. A better order, would maybe be 2, 1, The one after 3 (if its any easier), and 3. Overall, the game is very fun to play despite the few issues with it. (mostly my graphics/gameplay issue that I put under graphics.). 7.8/10
Replay:
The game is very fun, and will keep you playing for a while (if you’re one who doesn’t get frustrated REALLY REALLY easy). You probably won’t get frustrated, but its difficulty will make you try a few times. The game does, however, get a bit repetitive sometimes, if you are stuck on a boss. It really is pretty fun and will keep you entertained (probably..) 7/10
Overall:
The game is very good and fun to play. Randomly Generated Insanity may be insane, but thats only because its supposed to be. Overall, this is a great game, and you probably should download it like you can HERE. 7.1/10
Hope you liked this review, more is to come in the future!
Bugaham Games
I decided not to make an fps. They’re overdone, and in game maker, not that great (usually). So I decided to do a bit more with one of my existing games. I am creating a sequel to my best rated game on yyg (had a 4.3 til a down-rater rated it a 1 for no apparent reason)
So, I’m just going to post a small screenshot of the game. Whoever can guess the following information closest by the end of this month (maybe extended a tad bit as I am going on vacation for a while near the end of this month) will get their website/link to their game/game review (your choice) on the front page here:
Series of mine I’m adding to:
Main Gameplay:
If you guess those, then you win! Also, this is my first sequel to any game, so I hope it turns out good, I may be able to have a long series of games. Now, to help you out with your quest, I have a screenshot:
A beta level
So, there you go. LET IT BEGINZ!!
I found a program that lets me take videos of my computer screen for free (CamStudio)! This means that I can take videos of all the games I review! I still don’t have a microphone, so no commentary, but I can show gameplay footage, trailers, and more. From now on, unless everyone hates them, I will make a video of every PC game I review (starting with Chex Quest that I reviewed a few days ago)
Also, if you live in America I want to say Happy Fourth of July. This was the exact day 200some years ago that America got its independence.
If you live in Canada, sorry I missed it by a few days, but Happy Canada Day!
I’ll upload the Chex Quest video later today, so look forward to that.
Bugaham Games
Earlier today, Mark announced the GM8 BETA! Like said on a previous glog post, GM8 has TONS of new features, lots of features are added that weren’t in the list of new features. I really don’t want to spoil it for you, so check it out for yourself. Click the link above to go there, sign up, and beta test for yoyo. Mark asked to report bugs on their system Mantis. Already over 50 reports have been filed. Mark and yoyo are going to be very busy today…
Please help Mark and Yoyogames make the beta better.
Also, sorry to BKsonic- GMRacers3d is cancelled. We only have 4 characters and I really wanted more replay value than that- it would seem really incomplete.
I started a design on a new game- it will be an fps, with electricity-based weapons- the goal being to zap the monsters into a dark void. That’s all I’m going to reveal about it now-
Bugaham Games
First of all, the results are out for the best game poll round one. The winner is Legend of Zelda, close behind was Super Mario Bros 3, then Super Mario Bros, and finally Metriod, Kirby’s Adventure and Megaman 3 tied for last. Today we are doing Nintendo 64 games. Of course, we know who’s going to win..
Super Mario 64: 3d mario. I’m gona fly around to celebrate, with my new wings.
Legend Of Zelda Ocarina of Time: 3d zelda. Yayz!
Kirby and the Crystal Shards: I’m half rock kirby, half electric kirby. Pwzop!
Mario Kart 64: I’m racing.. I’m racing… TURTLE SHELL!!!
Lylat Wings/Star Fox 64: Slippy, on your left!
So those are your choices.. I really wonder who’s gona win. Its going to be a huge surprise. *cough*
Also, I am working on a game called GM Racers 3d, but it won’t get finished unless it has at least 8 characters (currently have 4..) please visit all the other posts here about this for more info, such as THIS ONE.
Also, if you are new to this blog and a game developer check out THIS game creating contest. You may want to enter. Also, you see that banner? The one that fades from black to white? Flankattack, second place in our first competition, made that for the blog. I decided to throw in a prize for the competition; first place gets 6 words there (or a less than 40 character URL) second gets 4 and third gets 3. This was completely Flankattack’s idea, so thank you Flankattack.
Bugaham Games
Chex is a breakfast cereal. And let’s face it, its rather boring. No mascot, and the cereal itself is a bunch of small cubes with holes in them. No commerical will get customers to buy it. Or will it? In 1996, Chex was brave- they made a video game based off of doom (yes, an FPS) put it in the cereal and advertised. Then their sales went WAY up. I mean WAY WAY up, not under 100%, but OVER 100%. The boring cereal was taking off!
Graphics:
The graphics aren’t great, they really need some work (like my graphics would be in a 3d fps, only much better). The game’s graphics are fairly similar to doom 1 and doom 2, known to be some of the first FPS games on the computer. Now, you have to remember here, its 1996.. Graphics power isn’t that high for FPS games until later.. The graphics don’t hurt your eyes and they are nice to look at, but they need improvement (wait, they can’t be improved, can they?) So what am I going to do about graphics? 7/10, I guess.
Sound:
Music in Chex Quest varies depending on which level you are on. Each track is very good and matches the feel of the level and the game overall. Here’s the bad part though- there weren’t any sound effects, or at least for me (sound with old dos games is weird on my computer sometimes). Its ok though, because that means the game can’t be ruined by them being too loud. Also, there are many options for how to play the music, and if you want to turn it off or not, etc.. But the music is turned off if you don’t turn it on beforehand in a setup exe, if you ever download it. 8/10
Gameplay:
You are a piece of Chex Cereal, only you aren’t boring! You happen to be able to run, walk, climb, and shoot. Why do you need to? All your friends (doughnuts and other cereal pieces like you) are trapped by an evil alien race- so what are you going to do? No, not kill them, its a kid friendly game. You blast them back to their own dimension. That’s better.. So anyways, you run around the level sending the aliens back to their own dimension (which, for the sake of this review I will abbreviate as STABTTOD) ,finding keys to open doors, opening doors, finding secrets, and of course, more STABTTOD. So its somewhat exploration based, and somewhat like a maze, but mostly a FPS. The game is probably not good for the age group, because of the whole maze part, and they might get stuck and lost, or even frustrated. The par time is pretty hard to beat (you get nothing if you beat it, lose nothing if you don’t) even for me, and this is supposed to be for small children (but funner for everyone else). It doesn’t really matter about the whole age group thing, and the game is very fun to play. 8.8/10
Replay Value:
The game is very fun to play, and doesn’t get boring fast. If you start to improve on your playing, there are 5 difficulty levels to keep you going. These make up for the fact that there are only 5 levels.. But they are long levels. Each one will take you 5-15 minutes to complete, so there’s a good 50 minutes, and plus, you will spend more minutes if you want to find every last item, secret and STABTTOD (every last one; since a few are hidden). Plus, there are 5 more levels you can also get as an addon (called Chex Quest 2) which I haven’t played yet personally. Overall, the game has a lot of replay for a little cereal box game in 1996. 8/10
Overall:
The game is a very good FPS, that will probably keep you entertained for a long time, and you probably should download it. I’m not going to link to the download though, because there are many downloads and it depends on which ones you trust or not.
8/10.
I was going to get a screen shot, but the game won’t let me. Oh well..
If you liked this review, I will also review the addon, Chex Quest 2.
Bugaham Games
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