War against the Hangels

Since the beginning of time,
Before the Earth was mine,
Before Heaven was thorn apart
and the angels fell in to the Great Dark,
Another Race was here to rule.

Their name was written in stone and legend,
For they descended from Heaven,
And they resided from Hell,
Seeking to cover the humanity in a dark veil…
Forever lost.

The Hangels as they called themselves,
Bringers of sickness and wealth,
Of darkness and light,
Those made from the mystic might,
Found in the middle of darkness night.
Powerful they where.

But written has been,
A legend as it seems,
That humanity shall prevail,
In a clash of epic proportions,
Putting the wold forever in motion.
Never to stop.

“You, my son, are nothing but a mere descendent,
A powerful one, nonetheless” – said the Human lieutenant,
Known as Rag, the all mighty slasher,
He who defeated the Abolisher…
In an epic fight, in glory, strength and might.

“Those of us who survived the battle,
Those brave enough to withstand the hassle,
Now fight together and honor our lost,
For together we are, and forever we shall be,
The army from the dusk”
An army like never before seen…

“So come with us, let us fight together,
to defeat those blasted Hangels forever.
Pick up your weapon boy, become a man,
It’s time you feel worthy of being in our clan.”
And so the boy fought.

edit: What ever ‘m3xican’ says, don’t listen to him. Hangels actually mean Hell Angels!

End of part I.

[Bash Script]Updating twitter via cURL

While reading some articles on LAMP [dot] ro, I came across an article on how to update your twitter status using cURL. Needless to say I could not stop myself from having some fun with BASH, cURL and Twitter. After about 15-20 minutes of playing around I made the following script:

Retro gaming weekend

My summer holiday is about to end, and my last year in highschool is about to start. So, I decided to put an end to my holiday by turning the weekend into something special. So, I guess that tomorrow I’ll be off at a friends house playing all those beautiful SNES games, searching for inspiration for future projects, have fun and extend my horizon regarding games. Here’s a list of games that I’m dying to play:

Negative Space – 2D Top-Down Shmup

Negative Space is a topdown, 2D, SHMUP made for the GDRo Contest
(Romanian Game Development community contest). I have worked
on it for several days. Total time spent developing it: Around 30 hours.
It only features 3 levels, including an Ending Boss fight. The gameplay
is overall simple.

Contrast Survival – A game in 10 hours [ bare minimum game]

I initially started this game as a challenge, to develop a game in 8 hours. Everything went extremely well in the first half of the production, as you can see here. But, when I almost finished it, I decided to improve my timer based movement function, and broke the bullet shooting code. When I saw that almost 9 hours of dev passed, I decided to drop the shooting idea, and just changed everything to a shield that recharges when you are not using it.

Download: Click here

:: Grandpa told me to go and play with my tiles ::

Seems that I managed to ‘almost’ finish one of my games. Almost, because it’s not yet polished, but I’m releasing it hence I do not want to spoil it by trying to improve some things. It’s barely a game, it has minimum graphics and gameplay, thus it’s perfect, I think, for this months, August, experimental gameplay project’s theme: Bare Minimum.

Grandpa told me to go and play with my tiles

The idea of the game is to lower or raise the tiles in order to reach the exit. You can do that by eighter pressing left or right mouse button. You can move your character using W A S D and rotate and zoom the camera with the arrow keys. Press SPACE to make your character jump.

Screenshots:

• Screenshot 1
• Screenshot 2

Download:

• First Link
• Second Link

Fresh start

Prologue:
Well, I did it! I deleted all my old blog posts, and decided to re-start my blog, this time focusing on indie game development, showcasing projects and prototypes.
About me:
For those who don’t know me, I’m Zapa, an 18-year old Romanian student who happens to love game developing, and french fries. I love working on games, implementing lots of neat concepts and pretending to know what I’m doing(where I am indeed an expert). I can’t say I have a big background, hence almost everything I started till now has yet to be finished.