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A Tribute to the Rolling Boulder

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

This is my 12th done-in-under-a-week game. It’s also my Assembly gamedev competition entry. Which means it was published on the Assembly website a bit earlier than it is published here. And thus it “leaked” to the internet and was blogged already by the2bears, indygamer and soldat movies.

The game is open to harsh critique and wish me good luck at the Assembly gamedev combo.

A Tribute to the Rolling Boulder (from Raiders of the Lost Ark)

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Download
Boulder_r2.zip (5,1 Mb) (Release 2)

Instructions
You play as the infamous rolling boulder. Roll over the archeologists and protect the honor of the golden idols of fertility.

If your honor drops to zero (honor is indicated by the bar in the bottom of the screen) the game is over. The honor will decrease if there are archeologists touching the golden idols.

Arrow keys will move the boulder.

Esc – will quit the game.
Alt + F4 – Will quit the game.
Alt + enter – Will toggle fullscreen.

Credits
Game Design, Code & Gfx: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )

Music: Der Plan – Jungle Village. The song is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 1.0 -license.

The graphics are under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

The intro background image was created by modifying the following images: Big Rock by buhny used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
Jungle by daveypea used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
Jungle by jamesfarnham used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
First letter from Madeleine by bryan campen used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 license.

The background image was created by modifying the following images: Batu Caves, 16 of 17 by kian esquire used under the Creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0.
guarding angkor by shapeshift used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0.
Jungle Temple by Ianz used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

Some modified textures from Image After were used.

Sound effects: Tire rolling.wav by Pfujimoto,
rockmisc.wav by mystiscool,
rustle.paper_3.aif by batchku,
Funky Screams -pack by Lithe-Fider,
neck_crack.wav by Halleck,
neck_crack_pure.aif by Halleck,
Bone Cracking.wav by DalomarGrimm,
bookslapthud2.aif by buzzbox,
whip,slap,belt,punch.wav by scarbelly25

All sound effects are used under Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

The game uses Erin Catto’s Box2D physics engine.

Inspiration source: Experimental Gameplay Project.

A Tribute to the Rolling Boulder (from Raiders of the Lost Ark) uses: SDL, SDL_Image, SDL_Mixer and SDL_RotoZoom

A Tribute to the Rolling Boulder (from Raiders of the Lost Ark) was created by a fan of the Indiana Jones films, and is in no way affiliated with Lucasfilm or Paramount Pictures.

Edit 01/08/2007: Sorry about the missing download link. Right now I’m in France and I had the blog post on automatic publish so I totally missed the missing download link.

The Amazing Flying Brothers

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

It’s hard for me to believe that this is already my eleventh experimental done-in-under-a-week game. This is a new take on the one button design challenge (previous one from me being Moo at the Moon).

And as usual the game is open to harsh critique.

The Amazing Flying Brothers

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Download
Tafb.zip (7,1 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions
You play as the infamous flying brothers as they try to perform the flying trapeze act.

Only left mouse button is needed.
Click it to release your grip. Try to aim for the other swing.

Hold left mouse button down to accelerate or to slow down. If you press down, when going down you’ll accelerate. If you press down when going up, you’ll slow down.

Esc – will quit the game.
Alt + F4 – Will quit the game.
Alt + enter – Will toggle fullscreen.

Credits
Game Design, Code & Gfx: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )

Music: Pride of the 48 Band – Thunderers March.

The game uses Erin Catto’s Box2D physics engine.

Graphics: The background image is composed of the following images: Ringmaster-clown by RebeccaMacK used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 license and of In the ring by Elsie esq used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.

Sound Effects: circus_short.mp3 by Harri,
drumroll.aif by Heigh-hoo,
cheer.wav by acclivity,
applause 1.mp3 by Charel Sytze,
applause2.mp3 by Charel Sytze,
applause3.mp3 by Charel Sytze,
bookslapthud2.aif by buzzbox,
whip,slap,belt,punch.wav by scarbelly25,
neck_crack.wav by Halleck,
neck_crack_pure.aif by Halleck,
Bone Cracking.wav by DalomarGrimm,
Applaudissement.wav by thesandro.

All sound effects are used under Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

Inspiration source: Experimental Gameplay Project.

The Amazing Flying Brothers uses: SDL, SDL_Image, SDL_Mixer and SDL_RotoZoom

Crayon Physics

Friday, June 1st, 2007
This isn’t the game in that YouTube video!

The YouTube game is called Crayon Physics Deluxe and this is just a quick and ugly prototype of that game. You can’t draw anything else than squares in this game. 

Sorry for the hostility, but subtle tactics didn’t seem to work.

Here’s my tenth done-in-under-a-week game. I would have liked to spend few more days with the game, but unfortunately I didn’t have the time. As usual the game is open to critique.

Crayon Physics

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Download
Crayon.zip (5,6 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions
You play with crayons and physics. The goal of the game is to move the red ball so that it collects the stars. You can cause the red ball to move by drawing physical objects.

With left mouse button you can draw and with right you can remove objects.

Space – Will reset the level.
Esc – Will open the menu.

Alt + enter – Will toggle fullscreen.
Alt + F4 – Will quit the game.

Credits
Game Design, Code & Gfx: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )

Music: _ghost – Lullaby. The song is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 -license.

The game uses Erin Catto’s Box2D physics engine.

The graphics of the game are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 -license.
The background texture is based on Felipe Skroski’s photo One for SXC. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 -license.
Some modified textures from Image After were also used.

Thanks
Inspiration source: Experimental Gameplay Project.

Crayon Physics uses: SDL, SDL_Image, SDL_Mixer and SDL_RotoZoom

Daydreaming in the Oval Office

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

It’s hard for me to believe that this is already my ninth (or tenth if you count the Divorce) done-in-under-week game. Well without further ado here’s the game.

Daydreaming in the Oval Office

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Download
Ovaloffice.zip (3,6 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions
You’re mr. Bush and you’re daydreaming in the oval office. Trying to collect imaginary pieces of evidence about the Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

Use arrow keys to move George around. Try to keep the beach ball off the floor and try to collect the pieces of evidence.

Esc – Will quit the game.
Alt + enter – Will toggle fullscreen.

Credits
Game Design, Code & Gfx: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )
Music: Grand Old Rag, performed by Billy Murray (recorded 06 February 1906). The song is in public domain.

Also the score screen background was based on this photo by Thomas Hawk. The photograp was under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 -license.
Also the following public domain photographs where used: 20061011-5 p101106pm-133jpg-772v.jpg by Paul Morse, OvalFloor.jpg and United_States_Bill_of_Rights.jpg.

Thanks
Physics model is based on Markus Ilmola’s tutorials.
Inspiration source: This youtube -video and Experimental Gameplay Project.
Dadreaming in the Oval Office uses: SDL, SDL_Image, SDL_Mixer and SDL_RotoZoom

Forbidden.exe

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

My April Fools’ joke worked like a charm. The Divorce managed to fool some of my regular readers, most notably Bill of the2bears.com, who actually blogged about it 🙂 And I also got an much needed extra day of development for the Forbidden.exe.

So here’s my real 8th done-in-under-7-days experimental game, which is a bit different from my usual style. It’s an experimental horror game. So be warned, there’s harsh language, violence and other fun forms of violation. One could say that it’s an experimental violation game.

The idea for the gameplay came from my talks with Daniel Benmergui at the GDC. After the Nuances of Design session, we talked about the idea creating a game (for the Eerie Horror Film Fest), where the gameplay would communicate that feeling that you get from watching a good suspense / horror movie. So here’s a elaborate prototype of that idea.

Forbidden.exe

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Download
Forbidden.zip (8,7 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions
I recommend you read the readme.html.

Credits
Game Design, Code & Gfx: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )

Music is from Brainsaw’s Music for the Paranoid Schizophrenic -album. The following tracks were used: 02. Gulag (Welcome to Hell – Part 1), 04. Gulag (Welcome to Hell – Part 2) and 06. Program Intermission. Big thanks to the guys for creating such a great and atmospheric music.

The songs are licensed under the: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.

The track level_01.ogg which is played in the background of the games first level is based on cymbal_lo05.wav by schluppipuppie. It was used under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

The shriek sound effects are from river otter or weasel 2006-09-17.mp3 by stackpool and are also used under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

Thanks
Thanks to Daniel Benmergui for helping me with the design and encouraging me to do the game in the first place.

Inspiration source: Experimental Gameplay Project.

Forbidden.exe uses: SDL, SDL_Image, SDL_Mixer and SDL_RotoZoom