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Bloby Rolls On…

Well Blobyrinth is still rolling… slowly as usual but gunning for completion.  Pretty much all that’s left is menus, map screen, and cutscenes.

A spooky haunted house

 

The minigames that’ll be included in the game’s in-game arcade (and playable on the website) will be (similar to) PacMan, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Frogger, and Spy Hunter.  Hopefully there’ll be some reasonable competition for high score in these classic remakes (free games = good). 

 In other news, I added midi support (for windows) to T2D, which was quite easy and fun.  If anyone knows a good cross-platform midi file player library let me know, because as it stands I’m going to have to redo that when I get to the Mac port.  Also, if anyone knows how to change the volume level with hardware midi (when using DirectSound) in a robust way that supports different hardware, let me know that too, because that part is confusing the bajeesus outta me.

Bloby’s almost done… I just gotta get back to work and do it.  GTD don’t fail me now!  Tune in next time (I’ll be blogging more often I swear)…

 -Tim

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5 Responses to “Bloby Rolls On…”

  1. GBGames says:
    June 11, 2006 at 8:06 pm

    Congrats on the progress! I’m making slow and steady progress on my own project, but I can safely say that I will not have a lot of functionality if any by the 15th like I wanted.

  2. Tim says:
    June 12, 2006 at 9:01 am

    Thanks! Well you may recall my original claims for when this puppy would be ready… so don’t feel bad about the missed deadlines… there’s thousands of us here with ya.

  3. Sharpfish says:
    July 7, 2006 at 3:12 pm

    Yeah there really are plenty of us out there who find it hard to hit deadlines even when we purposely overestimate the time it will take. So.. just gotta keep plugging away ;)

    Nice looking gfx there Tim, very interesting looking… good luck with it! :)

  4. Tim says:
    July 10, 2006 at 12:04 pm

    Thanks, Sharpfish. I’ll pass that sentiment on to the artist on the Ghost Ship. Plugging is indeed what we’re doing, and the release of Bloby is now very near methinks. Perhaps in time to make our Chicago Indie Meetup something of a launch party… woo! Anyway thanks for reading and leaving comments… it’s a bit of a Ghost Town around here… :)

  5. Anders Linder-Norén says:
    June 3, 2007 at 12:57 am

    Nice work you’ve got going there, kinda looks like Chip’s Challenge… Will be interesting to try it out :)

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