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Keep an eye out for goblins, ghouls, and candy-hungry zombies children in the upcoming week. Even though it is early, have a happy Halloween.

Looking for more frequent updates and community involvement? Check out the BYOND-related subreddits /r/BYOND and/r/dreammakers.

BYOND Games

The Feed Team has brought Feed back from the dead with a status update on what is currently in the chute. Darwinism has had its way with the zombies, so you'll need to find some of the new weapons to keep them down, and you'll only get three lives to make it work out.

Wolf-Pack Battalion is a smash-em-up action game where players select their favorite of 14 different characters and use punches and special abilities to knock each other off of the battle stage in order to come out as the last one standing. It's a large download, but worth the wait. Follow progress on the developer's website and devblog.

Flick has made progress on his turn based strategy game called Heximals with the addition of various terrains and ideas for new animal tiles with special effects.

Project T continues its development with patch v004 which highlights the addition of zombies, weapons, helmets, and a blue beanie. For more screenshots, check out FallenZtar's devlog.

The developers of Boundless updated three times this past two weeks, bringing Boundless to version 0.4. Clans and villagescan now be formed, the interface has seen improvements, and players can build their own structures, to name a few.

Last of the Living by Halloween14 is getting seasonal and beyond. With an update log that summarizing can't do justice for, there is a special Halloween mission that will only be available from the 25th to the 31st for special prizes. Not only that, but plans have been set for the game to get a stand alone launcher, website, and outside exposure.

The Game Boy-esque MicrORPG has seen interface updates recently and its creator, Mr_Goober offers some information on how he is going about working on the game. If you like his work, he may currently be available for hire.

IainPeregrine has announced a new open source project called Chapter 1: Sub Rosa. While still in the beginning phase, the game is an open world adventure game were players can dig around and find resources in order to craft items and create houses and buildings. Slay monsters to collect building points and watch out, Iain has a history of accidentally restarting the world without saving, just as you finish building your house.

BYOND Resources

  • Stacks of queues or queues of stacks. If your interested in either, Alex Peterson recently published Stacks and Queues.
  • Mr_Goober rolled out his Dice Module.
  • After setting this project aside, Multiverse has decided to dump some good old sequence procs.
  • Lugia319 has given coding gangstas an ability to control direction with part two.
  • Inuyashaisbest presents a code snippet to convert numbers between decimal, hex, and binary.
  • Need help getting your creations beyond BYOND? EmpirezTeam's write up will help you find your way around on the big scary Internet.
  • Bandock provides links to free external tools that make it easier for developers to create images, edit audio, and broadcast videos of their creations.