Whoops, this kinda died. I'm jumping around like crazy these ideas. My apologies, but I wouldn't expect to see a finished project from me any time soon.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm thinking. I can't reveal a lot of details, partly because I haven't give that a whole lot of thought, but partly because the ideas I do have, I want to be good and well thought out before I present them. So more details to come, maybe in a week or so.


It has to do with the main character. That's pretty much all I can tell you. The tiles are gradiented rects, but they're saved in an image - my tiling engine extracts tiles from a like 400x400 png spritesheet. Basically, I got a big spritesheet of gradiented rounded rectangles, and screwed around with a TON of bucket fill settings in the GIMP.

I just started a new computer game project. I'm writing it in Processing, which is basically Java with an extra layer to get you up and running quickly, and a few tools (color picker, font creator, blah blah blah) and a compiler thing for porting to pretty much any OS, which is nice.

Anyways, I have simple game mechanics set up - a character who can move around and jump - and right now I'm working on tilemap design. This whole thing is basically an exercise in visual design for me, something that's not really my strength. I spent a couple hours the other day setting up a tile editor and like twenty different tiles.

Here's a picture showcasing the tiles I have so far.



As you can see they're all basically glassy, somewhat generic, rounded rectangles. I may or may not get rid of some of them later but I'm being careful to avoid abusing my rounded rectangle privileges.

The working tile is Something With Text, definitely subject to change in the relatively near future, depending on how soon I can think of a better name (or someone suggests a better name to me).

Very nice, as usual.

Hey, if we want to talk about Mega Man, let's make a new thread. This thread is about Blastlabs.

Hm, like what I saw in Portal X. Me gusta.

Dynamic tile mapping? Tell me more.

Dude, that looks sweet.

What do you mean it doesn't look nice? I think it looks great.

hahahaha the ceme screenie totally looks like urine.

It's got a nice look and feel. Can't wait to see some game elements.

Very clever. Is there any kind of buoyancy involved?

very impressive - how are you dealing with water particles? don't tell me you're doing that much cellular automata at 6mhz

Any AI planned, or will all the hazards be static?

It's got kind of a business angle too - Google Apps caters to large businesses, and they can get bulk deals on specialty computers for your business. Think of it as a glorified iPad with a keyboard. And no touchscreen.