Hourgame Saturday [8 games!] [Play them all and vote!]

[bicilotti]

8 games!  :o outstanding!  8) 

Now:

Download 'em all in 1 convenient package

and

VOTE

[Rex Mundane]

Voting begins then.

Questionable's Untitled Piece - No idea what to do in this one. Looks nice-ish but no direction.

Dataflashsabot's Paint - Like the drawing, music's nice, but no, um, well game there. Nothing to do. I can 'win' by just sitting and watching it.

fsi's Powerelephant - Considering how quickly it was done I think this one is pretty nice only the two things to do in it, but whatever, pretty cool.

kweepa's Painter - Whoa... well, cool 3D effect to be sure, but it seems kind of unnecessary considering every relevant thing is on the one side of the room, to say nothing of being disorienting, and it was all but impossible to find the click point on the brush.

Progz's Timmy's Day out & Wyz's The Painting - Both very nice, follow the same sort of puzzle, nice art, both leave me not sure why you picked the interfaces you did over the default, particularly with Progz which left the chalk all but unclickable,

Bulba's Museum Guard Nightmare - Simple, functional, fun. Honestly no complaints, other than why the piepan starts off unclickable, but you get it by interacting with the painting. bit unintuitive.

Toss up for me between Wyz and Bulba, can't decide, so I'll vote for which of the two of them comes closest to guessing the number I'm thinking of.

[Bulbapuck]

Toss up for me between Wyz and Bulba, can't decide, so I'll vote for which of the two of them comes closest to guessing the number I'm thinking of.

42?

[Questionable]

Questionable's Untitled Piece - No idea what to do in this one. Looks nice-ish but no direction.

I know... sorry! I had a much grander concept but I fell flat on time. I figured I would rather submit something rather than nothing though...

[Kweepa]

FSi's PowerElephant:
Very funny as usual! And great ending cutscene.

dataflashsabot's Paint:
Entertaining monologue.

Wyz's The Painting:
Animation, clean background, puzzles, interactions, and a screen recording. This one has it all! Shame there wasn't time for some inventory items...

Questionable's Compiled:
I couldn't finish this.

Bulba's Museum Guard Nightmare:
Good stuff, but a bit hard to interact with.

magma's Curse of the Painter:
Nice wormhole, entertaining monologues. But where's the nuclear footwear?

ProgZ's Timmy!:
Superb artwork, but not much of a game. Plus very late!

My vote goes to Wyz!

(Still rendering my screen capture. I had to restart it because the camera video was totally out of sync.)

[Rex Mundane]

42?

Was it that obvious? Ah well then, vote goes to Bulba.

magma's Curse of the Painter:
Nice wormhole, entertaining monologues. But where's the nuclear footwear?

The shoe and the Smiley are both supposed to be in the painting on the easel, in fact. God help me I don't know what I was trying for, kept trying to shoehorn in this billshut narrative I seem to have going about the shoes and the smileys and prophecies or something, theme o' the week didn't really fit with it that well. Originally the Timetraveler disappears, the wormhole evaporates, and behind it is a full wall mural of the first scene from my first hourgame with the stick figure and whatever...

You know what, I just read the last paragraph that I was just typing out, and have begun to fear for my sanity.

[Kweepa]

Heh.

Screencast here:
http://www.kweepa.com/step/ags/games/MakingAnHourGame.wmv
It's an hour long so it's probably best to right click, save as, then play with VLC at some ridiculous speed.
It's also 80Mb so go easy on my hosting. That and the hour long should be enough disincentive I guess.
[EDIT] I reduced the file size to 55Mb or so.

[Wyz]

I'm pretty pooped right know so I'll vote tomorrow. I also made a recoding of the making of my Hourgame entry. The quality is a bit harsh, sorry about that.

You tube link: 6 times the actual speed
This is still processing so in the mean time, folks with VLC installed can use this link.

Got round to check your screen recording SteveMcCrea, very nice. I could actually read the scripting there I've enjoyed watching it.

[Wyz]

FSi:
Yay! Power elephant! whatever that might be

Dataflashabot:
Nice entry but not really a game.

SteveMcCrea:
Accept for the hard to hit hotspot a very good entry.

Questionable:
I liked the background, but it seems that all there is

Bulbapuck:
Great gameplay as always!

magma42:
You had a great idea but then time happened, but still a nice entry!

ProgZmax:
Wow, the graphics are stunning!

Well this is a really hard decision. But in the end I think I go for Steve. Mainly because he had to to a lot of debugging in the end, and still managed to get it in on time!

[Dataflashsabot]

(I'm in a bit of a hurry so I don't have time to comment on all of them, sorry about that )
I'm going to vote for Steve, mostly because 3D panoramas are damn complicated things to set up so he was pretty ballsy going for it, and he managed it.

[edit][offtopic]Mine's is the second 'non-game' entry I've made for Hourgame Saturday. Maybe I should stop doing that   [/offtopic][/edit]

[Kweepa]

Mainly because he had to to a lot of debugging in the end, and still managed to get it in on time!

Glad you noticed! (I had to add functionality to the panorama module with minutes to go.)
Hooray for camwhoring!
Speaking of which, here's a slightly blurry 10x sped up making of my game on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLr2DN2KHdc

[Questionable]

FSi:
Never could get it to work, not sure why...

Dataflashabot:
Hilarious! Some of the silliest writing I've come across in a while. Not a really engaging game though... =D

SteveMcCrea:
Really cool project! I'm in awe that you were able to finish this on time!

Wyz:
Simple but effective! You were realistic and produced alot of components that made a pretty engaging game all in the span of an hour! Overall I feel like this is one of the most "polished" feeling games submitted.

Bulbapuck:
Witty, functional and a unique concept! I know there was only an hour but I just felt like there should have been more to it.

magma42:
I feel like you ha the same problem as me: time. Although you were quite a bit more finessed in your tie-off than I was.

ProgZmax:
I feel like it's tie between this game and Wyz. Very polished, simple but playable and very complete. There was some difficulty in clicking the chalk but it didn;t ruin my day.

All-in-all it is down to 3 people: Prog, Steve & Wyz. Steve had probably the most complex game but it almost feels like a bit of a gimmick that doesn't really offer any value. I feel like this could have been THE most polished game in the bunch, but instead it was 3D for the sake of being 3D and it made the Brush more difficult to click than ProgZ chalk. That said IT'S FREAKIN' 3D! Prog and Wyz did have similar games but between the two ProgZ looked better but Wyz had more elements and wasn't frustrating to me in the least...

Tough Call.  I gotta' vote Wyz at the end of the day, though.

[david]

the most enjoyable game for ME was the ProgZmax's, but the clicky chalky difficulty

but I go for  Wyz

[Bulbapuck]

FUUUCK!
I just spent 30 mins writing summaries of every entry, and my vote.. I had triple-checked it for spelling errors and had even put in a lot of unnecesary jokes. But my touchpad was over the "home" button so when I was taking the cursor to the "post" button I found myself on the AGS forums... And back didn't work.... :'(

So fuck it. It's 1AM here and I need sleep.. May edit this when I'm not tired and angry.

My vote goes to Kweepa for... Let's say 3d and boobies or something..

Fucking 30 minutes I could have been sleeping that time but noooo I was writing a nice message that was automatically deleted fucking anyway what the fuck and why the fuck doesn't back work as it's bloody supposed to and ARRRRRGGGHH I could have been fucking sleeping that tim gotta get up early tomorrow but I was gonna be good and post the vote which I had forgotten before fucking hell I really liked the games too they deserved a fucking praise but instead I'm writing this damn rant.
Why am I doing that again? Wasn't there something else? Ahhh.. sleep......

[bicilotti]

voting closes in, like, 24 hours.

[Kweepa]

So we're not playing tomorrow? :'(
I'd be up for it again.

[Dataflashsabot]

Yeah, I enjoy writing silly monologues and this is the only excuse I get

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

but the clicky chalky difficulty

An unfortunate side-effect of using the verb gui was that the top overlapped 50% of the chalk, something I didn't consider when I made the background because I had planned to make a gui (but ran out of time).

Steve- Not much of a game?  Which hourgame was?  They were all limited to repeat clicking on things for a result, including yours.  That comment just bothered me somewhat because it could and should be applied to all entries, not only mine.

[Kweepa]

Steve- Not much of a game?  Which hourgame was?

I thought Wyz'z waz. That's why I voted for it.

They were all limited to repeat clicking on things for a result, including yours.

Oh, I know. I wouldn't vote for my gimmicky piece of crap.

[david]

Steve- Not much of a game?  Which hourgame was?

I thought Wyz'z waz. That's why I voted for it.

...and that's why I ALSO voted for Wyz