We joined Construct 2030 Jam with the theme Future 2030 arranged by Construct 2 and hosted on Newgrounds. We made a game called Escape From Darkness“. In the game we try to escape a dark labyrinth before our light expires. We spent about a week for the game and there are 8 levels to play.

The jam had also the contest format and our game entered the 15 runner-ups sharing the 10th rank. We made the game together with Polish game designer Artur Roszczyk and Polish graphics artist Agata Kowalewicz, coordinated on Skype.

We used dynamic music approach. There are various filter effects on the music. Many events such as menu screen, win, loose, enemy in sight, energy level are tied to a sound effect. This way we acquired a dynamic and long lasting music backing the game feel. You can listen to the original music without in game effects below. To see the effects in action you need to play the game.

You can play our game here, the winners here, and all games that participated here. (You need a Chrome browser for the filter effects work right.)

Mind Mould 2 has an abstract industrial sci-fi atmosphere made of metalic creatures. Here is the psychedelic main music and the trailer video of the game below.

I celebrate May 31st, I. International Amiga Day with a free download of my electronic music project Analog Sheep’s Amiga tribute song “I Miss My Amiga 500”.

Free downloads are available on my SoundCloud and Bandcamp pages and open for the whole weekend until Monday June 2nd.

And here is its music video for YouTube users.

So, what is I. International Amiga Day?

Amiga Day is an idea put forward by a Facebook group called Amiga Day. Here is the manifesto of the International Amiga Day published in the group description.

Amiga Day (I. International Amiga Day)

We, Amiga users hereby declare the 31st of May as international day of the Amiga, the Home Computer that made us so much fun, that made us begin a career, that made us think differently about computers and games and made us a lot of friends with Amigas.

Amiga is Forever and We really want that to happen. Please share the idea with your Amigan friends to keep the Amiga flame forever!

How can you participate? It’s easy – On Amiga Day do any of the following Amigan activities:

– You must switch on at least 1 Amiga computer.
– You must run at least 1 Amiga game (emulator is accepted).
– You must „whiten” a yellowed Amiga.
– You must give your non-working Amiga to a technician, who can make a working machine out of the non-working ones. Lather on the reborn working Amiga must be donated.
– In case you are a technician you must make at least one Amiga working from non-working Amigas.
– If you have an Amiga T-Shirt, you must wear it.
– If none of the above you can make a photo of yourself with an Amiga and share it with your friends on any social networks.
– Or whatever Amiga related activity you like…

So, let’s make the first International Amiga Day on Jay Miner’s 82nd birthday a real celebration of the best ever home-computer – The Amiga!

Please Invite your fellow Amigans and SHARE the Amiga feeling to everybody!

See you on 31st of May of 2014, on the first Amiga Day!

Now go and enjoy your Amiga Day full of Amiga activities!

Original soundtrack of our projection mapping installation art Centrifugal was exhibited at MixerArts in Istanbul 2013 is released as a single.

Centrifugal original soundtrack is available on near 100 digital stores. Use the store links above or search “Centrifugal Original Soundtrack” on your favourite music app to reach the soundtrack single.

You can watch the full video captured at MixerArts exhibition and read more on the Centrifugal installation art on my blog post. The Behance page for Centrifugal also includes the full video footage and some images from the exhibition.

You can get the song in the video from:
iTunes, Bandcamp, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, SoundCloud.

In the game, the animals were terribly cursed and their bodies got mixed. We try to get together the body parts of the animals correctly. Doing this, we learn their names and what sound they make.

The main theme of the game is here:

You can download the game from iTunes:
iTunes: Minti Kids Animals

Game Mechanic Explorer
A collection of concrete examples for various game mechanics, algorithms, and effects.

Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots
List of useful visual programming languages with screenshots and links. The writer’s criteria of how they pick the entries is: “We just find their solutions interesting.”

Online Game Development Tools
List of free tools to create games online on browsers.

Centrifugal is an installation piece consisting of video mapped onto an extruded surface of four concentric circles. It’s a collaborative videoart project enhanced with original sound design that explores possibilities of circular motion and implications of centrifugal force.

Ismail Anil Guzelis – Animation & Conceptual Design
Ahmet Said Kaplan – Animation & Visualization
Ugur Engin Deniz – Animation & Visualization
Guney Ozsan – Original Sound Design

Premiered at Saltsoyut (Purely Abstract) exhibition at Mixerarts – Istanbul
(February 22th, 2013 – March 24th, 2013).

Finally! The first music video by my electronic music project Analog Sheep, “I Miss My Amiga 500” is out.

Cover-art-still-image versions and music videos of all future songs will be added to the Analog Sheep YouTube channel. So be sure to subscribe on YouTube.

If you like the song you can get it from:

The music video is produced by me. 3D animations and valuable creative and technical support are supplied by Ugur Engin Deniz.

The general composition of the music video consists some of characteristic Amiga elements.
Leading roles:
• Amiga opening screen asking for a floppy

• Orange Amiga cursor

• Guru Meditation error screen

Suporting roles:
• AmigaDos screen

• Workbench screen

In addition to those, scrolling text is placed in order to embrace Amiga cracktro culture. Ugur Engin Deniz, a friend of mine that I shared some early drafts, who is also a video artist suggested to place some Amiga-like animations in order to reflect the feeling of Amiga demos. Then he provided all the 3D animations in the music video.

Most of the elements in the music video is highly coordinated with the music. So some flicker effects and 2D animations are handled frame by frame using a technique similar to stop-motion.

In this 1080p full HD music video, some clips used needed to be resized to 640×480 or 320×240 and resized back to 1920×1440. But video editors were destroying the authentic pixel look because of the bicubic approzimation and smoothing algorithms used for resizing the video. Because of this reason the required clips are exported as individual PNG frames and resized to 640×480 or 320×240 and back to 1920×1440 using Photoshop’s nearest neightbourhood algorithm (1 pixel equals 3 pixels). Then the resulting images are brought back together as video sequences again.

Of course this music video is on a very different style then a video that might have been produced in Amiga. My main intention was to make feel the taste of the Amiga times and share my enthusiasm both with the ones that catch and miss that era.

I hope you watch it with pleasure. Share it, like it if you do so:)

“I Miss My Amiga 500” was first released on 14 January 2013 as a bonus track in Analog Sheep’s original soundtrack album for the video game Rad Skater Apocalypse. Rad Skater Apocalypse is developed by Muzboz Games.

Cosmoplan is a game about the obscurity of space and the human instinct of discovery. In the game, we control a space shuttle made of sub-modules and try to reach a target planet without crushing into any obstacles. In order to achieve this, we need to estimate our path in advance and arrange the angles between the modules . After the launch, we can only change direction by ejecting the modules that we’ve set different angles with right timing. During our voyage, we try to collect three stars spread around the space. The deeper we travel in the space we face asteroids, planets that we can make use of their orbits, worm holes that we can get through and plasma giants driving electricity through the space.

The idea behind the theme and the gameplay of Cosmoplan depends on the game “Atilgan (venturous, also USS Enterprise of Star Trek series in Turkish TV broadcast)” that we made during the jam with theme “Atilim (Breakthrough)” held within the National Informatics Congress 2012 (Ulusal Bilisim Kurultayi). Our team in this 48 hour jam was consisting of me, Emrah Ozer, Murat Kalkavan and Tarik Kaya. During the event we wanted to approach the politic breaktroughs of nations with humour. National space programs were very convenient for this approach. The core mechanics of the game were inspired from the space shuttles leaving the modules that gone out of fuel behind. The name Atilgan (venturous) was a pun in Turkish for the theme of the game jam Atilim (breakthrough). Plus, since the Turkish TV translated USS Enterprise of Star Trek series to Turkish as Atilgan, we also said hi to the famous science fiction series.

After the game jam we liked the idea much and we decided to push further the the 48 hour prototype by developing it into a complete game and publishing it. Although the idea of travelling in space still stays same, the background theme evolved from breakthrough to discovery and obscurity, leaving the humouristic part behind. Eventually the game art style evolved into pinup with references to what we can see in 60’s and 70’s as in Russian posters and sci-fi movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The game was developed by Emrah Ozer, one of the founding members of the group Game Developers Turkey (GDT). The visuals were designed by the experienced illustrator Murat Kalkavan. Tarik Kaya gave great support during the level design and concept development phase. And I composed original orchestral music fitting the style of the new artistic look and reproduced the orchestra completely artificially in computer.