I’m currently working on Mega Merc, a game that started as a charity jam weekend game! In case it wasn’t obvious by the name, it’s heavily inspired by Mega Man. Platforming and shooting mechanics! Killing bosses and taking their weapons! Heavily inspired might be an understatement; however, I’m having fun with it!
To end the post, here’s a moving screenshot from the game.
Play the game on:
http://www.freeonlinegames.com/game/assembots
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/618270
http://www.kongregate.com/games/freeonlinegames/assembots
My major inspiration for the game is Lemmings. It deviates a bit with a few of the commands, but any veteran of lemmings will feel right at home with most of the core gameplay. The game started as a weekend game jam, and I was originally was going to do all of the artwork myself, but the artist that I worked on Orbits with decided to help me out by revamping the character design and helping with a few other assets, as well as another friend helping out with a title screen image. Everything else was done by myself.
I implemented an in game level editor as well that can be accessed by press L + E at the title screen. The levels are saved as single strings that were designed to be implemented into a level sharing system, but was sadly a dropped feature. I spent a lot of time constructing and optimizing the water system for this game, but did not end up using a lot of it. Be careful of unneeded feature creep when designing games!
Assembots is the game I’ve been working on since my last blog update! It was meant to be a quick little project to try and make some money on while still making a game that I would like to play. My major inspiration for the game is Lemmings. It deviates a bit with a few of the commands, but any veteran of lemmings will feel right at home with most of the core gameplay. The game started as a weekend game jam, and I was originally was going to do all of the artwork myself, but the artist that I worked on Orbits with decided to help me out by revamping the character design and helping with a few other assets, as well as another friend helping out with a title screen image. Everything else was done by myself and was a lot of work to try to get all of the features I wanted in and try to keep to a short deadline. I’ve just put the game on flashgamelicense a week ago and am hoping for a decent sponsorship, wish me luck!
