Agrajag
13-12-2008, 03:27 AM
This is a puzzle game.
You are Dairy, a mutant cow with augmented intellegence and a hunger for bacon living on a hill. Your quest is to eat all of the delicious bacon on each level and then reach the exit. Gameplay is viewed from a top down perspective. Watch out for rocks, if they (or bacon) hit you while rolling downhill it causes you to explode (but I'm not sure why yet).
Here's a screenshot of what I have so far.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7IeuligT1L8/SUMNqdCSMDI/AAAAAAAAAEw/saDIy_ntbTo/s400/cow%20quest.JPG
I'll give a link to a download as soon as I deem it playable rather than just prototyping stuff. The gameplay may remind some of Supaplex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supaplex)
I'm quite proud of how it's looking so far since I drew the pictures myself and I'm terrible at art. I think the restriction on the size of each picture (24X24 pixels) means that I don't need to worry about the fine details since nobody is going to zoom in to see the fine details.
edit (18 December): I've got most of the groundwork in place and I'm crafting a nice level selection mechanism, complete with gates to stop you from playing the last level first and an autosave. I'm also coming up with a little story. My best idea for why you need to open all of these gates is that your mama cow has been taken away by the possibly evil farmers and so now you have nobody to MOOch off of. I just need to do some level design and I'll hand out a playable demo.
edit (2 January): Ok, i have a working product now http://www.box.net/shared/03ru6kt5k8
Enjoy. It's a bit short but apart from that, I think it has... oh dear, I've forgotten the word I wanted to use here. You win again, sleep deprivation!
Use the arrow keys on your keyboard for the cellphone's cursor keys, the numpad for the cellphone's numbers (assigned by position, not by number), Enter for the cellphone's enter button select key thingy and backspace for the cellphone's back button.
POTENTIAL! I think it has potential.
If you like the music, I have an mp3 version that I recorded as well here http://www.box.net/shared/z38es9k0jm As with the game, it was created from scratch by me so give it to all of your friends for free.
Oh, and finally, I know I said originally that Cow's Quest is a temporary name but now I've called it that myself so many times that it has stuck.
edit (3 January): If you like it, please show it some love on The Great Games Experiment. http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/game/cowsquest
edit (26 January):
Mirror 1, box.net http://www.box.net/shared/z38es9k0jm
Mirror 2, willhostforfood.com http://willhostforfood.com/files3/6564820/Cows%20Quest.zip
You are Dairy, a mutant cow with augmented intellegence and a hunger for bacon living on a hill. Your quest is to eat all of the delicious bacon on each level and then reach the exit. Gameplay is viewed from a top down perspective. Watch out for rocks, if they (or bacon) hit you while rolling downhill it causes you to explode (but I'm not sure why yet).
Here's a screenshot of what I have so far.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7IeuligT1L8/SUMNqdCSMDI/AAAAAAAAAEw/saDIy_ntbTo/s400/cow%20quest.JPG
I'll give a link to a download as soon as I deem it playable rather than just prototyping stuff. The gameplay may remind some of Supaplex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supaplex)
I'm quite proud of how it's looking so far since I drew the pictures myself and I'm terrible at art. I think the restriction on the size of each picture (24X24 pixels) means that I don't need to worry about the fine details since nobody is going to zoom in to see the fine details.
edit (18 December): I've got most of the groundwork in place and I'm crafting a nice level selection mechanism, complete with gates to stop you from playing the last level first and an autosave. I'm also coming up with a little story. My best idea for why you need to open all of these gates is that your mama cow has been taken away by the possibly evil farmers and so now you have nobody to MOOch off of. I just need to do some level design and I'll hand out a playable demo.
edit (2 January): Ok, i have a working product now http://www.box.net/shared/03ru6kt5k8
Enjoy. It's a bit short but apart from that, I think it has... oh dear, I've forgotten the word I wanted to use here. You win again, sleep deprivation!
Use the arrow keys on your keyboard for the cellphone's cursor keys, the numpad for the cellphone's numbers (assigned by position, not by number), Enter for the cellphone's enter button select key thingy and backspace for the cellphone's back button.
POTENTIAL! I think it has potential.
If you like the music, I have an mp3 version that I recorded as well here http://www.box.net/shared/z38es9k0jm As with the game, it was created from scratch by me so give it to all of your friends for free.
Oh, and finally, I know I said originally that Cow's Quest is a temporary name but now I've called it that myself so many times that it has stuck.
edit (3 January): If you like it, please show it some love on The Great Games Experiment. http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/game/cowsquest
edit (26 January):
Mirror 1, box.net http://www.box.net/shared/z38es9k0jm
Mirror 2, willhostforfood.com http://willhostforfood.com/files3/6564820/Cows%20Quest.zip