Hole - Pro 4

Help take the game out of judgement

Play it over at NEWGROUNDS!
Play it over at KONGREGATE!

Spoiler and a could be contest after…

Hole 18 - under par score! Guess how many shots it took?

Also, create, share and post your custom levels here or here, who knows I might put a small contest for submitted custom levels.

For sponsors/publishers, the game is available for site-locked non-exclusive licenses, contact me.

Jayc on Fb

Did I mention there are already existing exclusive updates there?

from the old (left) to the newer (right) designs

Just sharing a couple of renewed designs for the success and select level screen. Also the success screen now has fancy animations upon popping up.

What do you think, an improvement or not? Its not final-final either way.

main menu - yes, its interactive!

Only a few more hard levels to be designed for 99% completion – the remaining 1% is not to be questioned.

Come2Play with LinkedIn Flash Game Developers Group has launched the 2nd multiplayer flash game contest, and this time with prizes totaling $10,000! Last years contest had only a handful of entries, so chances of winning the $5,000 pot for first prize this time is very high. Check out the winners games and other entries of the 1st ‘Games that Challenge the World Contest‘.

• 1st place – $5,000
• 2nd place – $3,000
• 3rd place – $1,250
• 4th place – $750

Flash games developers are welcome to join and take the pot. Create awesome head-to-head turned based multiplayer games, use come2play’s multiplayer API, submit and win! Prizes will be given out to the game which will have the best replayability both for new and return players, game design, concept and execution.

Developers keep all rights to the submitted games and even previously published games can be retrofitted to enter. Game entries does not have to be exclusive, so pre-released games are also welcome.

“So I’m interested, but only have a single player game” – Not a problem, see the developer tips on how to evolve your single player game into an interactive multiplayer game.

For complete contest info check out the official contest page.

Edit: Deadline has been extended to April 15th!

I feel that my game development progress lately is not deserving a complete article, hence I’ll just write something up that would be much longer for a tweet.

The 2010 Game

The good news is that there is a new game being made, it is still untitled (which I call project 2010 game) but the concepts and plans are quite solid to consider -a keyboard ‘mashing jump-hack-and-slash arena style platform game- which should be all entertainment!

Prototype Engine

With AI

On the left are some (really) early screen shots some months ago while I was testing the concept as a prototype with some proto-art. It had worked out quite well and currently being worked into the full game. Its too early to finalize but what I can say with the graphics is that it would be in silhouette style and be inspired with some famous similar art style commercial games.

I’m now working on my own game framework (to apply for all my future games hopefully) and so far it has been doing well. I’m applying this for this game so expansion should be smoother once the main engine is made. I’ll try to write something up as soon as it progress would be an article worthy.

By the way, if you have been or is currently at FGL, I’ve updated my avatar, no longer is the “old man” look. I’ll see to make some community contributions in some time as I drop to visit back.

The face behind the curtain

PRODUCT/SERVICE DISCOUNTINUED

Announcing the sale of the super script, well not really super but awesome, JCustom Mod System as named! It’s actually been out with some peeps that are already experiencing it’s greatness also together helping with the tests and possible glitches. The latest build is 0.3.10200 which features most, if not all, of arcadem’s default features and some great additionals.

The Manual

Read the Manual!

Also putting out for public is the proper but incomplete developer’s documentation. It’s basically just a syntax docs explaining which methods are available and how to use them. So basically if your looking for usage manual for the mod, in time maybe, these are only for php developers interested in making something out for an arcade site. Find the incomplete but soon to be finished docs here.

Trigger on Events

Basically, developing for the mod system shall use new functions, methods and better data flow. The system’s main data flow is backed by using action hooks, and all used data are managed well through filters. The system’s flow can even be altered greatly if desired just be modifying how and when the hooks are triggered. Samely as far as data can be screened, modified or removed by filtering through them.

The most important and significant events have their own hooks to be triggered respectively, so each event can have a corresponding customization behind or after it.

How I wish that all other arcade scripts already have these in them.

More about the mod and it’s sale after cut…

Theme Templates Whatever

The main problem with other arcade scripts is the limit for customization. Most have pre-defined sub templates for certain sections that a develop would certainly have to have customized for, like comments, ratings, etc. Some don’t even allow script level of changing template layout, most common is number of columns and it’s layout.

The good news is that with this mod, all is custom! There are no defined templates that can’t be molded to your liking. From specifying html dimensions, practical contents to even ajax requests.

Certainly, would you not prefer that?

Loving AJAX

Obviously, not this kind of AJAX

As mentioned about asynchronous JavaScript and XML or simply AJAX requests, our script loves it that it supports it all the way! Not only can it improve and save bandwidth costs, it really is awesome!

Sleek effects and content transitions can easily be made with ajax and the help of jquery, which we also love. We love it so much that merely most plugins provide ajax behaviors to present it’s features.

For Sale

Well, that’s enough talk for now, lets go to business. I’ve been considering how to market these efficiently for any party and it goes as…

All these for the amazing price of $40!

But wait, ask for my services to develop a theme for you and the mod goes free! (well it’s included for the custom theme price)

And wait! Include all the ready plugins ($142) and get them all at an incredible $182 $165! (that’s Ajax Favorite, Ajax Login, Game Ratings, Game Meta, Game Publish Scheduler, User Meta, More Comment & More Points)

So what are you waiting for, that’s being able to improve your arcadem pro into awesomeness for $165! Or instantly make your arcade site into awesomeness and unique, ask for a quote now!