Mechana2412's site

Starting Anew

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:46:00 +0000

It's been a long time since I last posted here; just renewed my membership so time to make my announcement post for a few of my projects.

First of all, the biggest announcement; my most popular game, Pokemon Aurora, is back in my own hands now. And for the past few months, I've been working on a complete recode: not a single line of code from the old game has been kept.

The game has been redesigned from the ground up with a new focus on economy, player content, higher production values, widescreen format, and an emphasis on the ability to play as both a Trainer and Pokemon with a split save file. There's more changes than I could ever possibly explain in one blog post--it's a completely new game basically--but you won't have to wait long to see for yourself.

The open beta for PAU Borealis will start within the next week! The beta will include a portion of the final map, along with most of the final features. Keep an eye out, and make sure to stop by to get some exclusive Beta Tester bonuses, like a unique account-bound Deoxys Statue to put up in your house!

PAU Borealis full release is being aimed for mid December, right in time for Christmas break for a good few of you.

In other news, I also have another game coming close to an initial release--in between bouts of programming the new PAU, I've been working on a team-base digging game called MineKingdoms. It's kind of a mix of Cow RP and my old game 30MinMiner; choose your class as a Miner or Warrior, and invade islands to capture control points and valuable above-ground resources. A King chosen for each team directs which projects to be worked on, as the team's castle grows bigger with better fixtures for refining and using resources.

Miners go underground, in a side-scroller perspective, digging up resources and placing conveyors/pulleys/machinery to help lift it back to the surface. Don't like mining? Grab a sword, bow, or staff made by your crafting teammates and use material-unique powers to tear apart ranks of opponents in squad-based combat.

The first release of MineKingdoms will come within a few weeks, so keep an eye out. No special beta rewards here, but hopefully you'll all have some fun while helping me refine the game mechanics and iron out any bugs.

So yeah. Lots of stuff going on. Will be working on a new CSS for here, based on the new grey/white motif. Expect that soon as well.

Until next time,

~M

The Most Important Post in BYOND's History

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:28:04 +0000

..Not really.
Click here, and follow the instructions, so we may all defeat the evil overlord of BYOND at his own game of failing. For great justice!

Lab Notes II - Another Slow Week

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:08:21 +0000

Yet another slow week. Bare with me- the guild will soon have more to show for itself.

Supremacy Force Productions have submitted their primary game, Dragonball Z: Supremacy. I have no clue about the true amount of experimental content in the game, being that I've never played a DBZ game before, but I accepted it anyway, on the logic that it's higher rated than Tomb Explorer and thus has to have something different to it. Can anyone confirm that they meet the guidelines for me? A friendly member in the comments confirmed that it isn't a guild-worthy game. I have removed it from the games list.
The new Featured Game of the Week is Vermolius' highly innovative PvP Tower Defence RTS, Efencea.
I changed the CSS a bit a few days ago. I think it's alot better, personally, and it should clear up most problems. If you have any problems with it, feel free to comment.
Nothing else much has happened. Submit games or make news, people! If you have any suggestions for events or anything else, post them in the comments!

And that's about it. This is the shortest week yet, and the guild's only been up since last Sunday! I'm not sure what to say, other then bugging you to submit games. ;)

CSS

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:21:47 +0000

Just edited the CSS as so that it has a bit more contrast, and also changed the primary colors. Is this any better for you all?

Lab Notes I - Welcome to the Lab

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:12:25 +0000

Welcome to the Lab. If you're a new member, I'd recommend checking out our Opening Statement post to catch up on what this guild is about.

This is the first of a series of Guild News posts called Lab Notes. No, I did not steal the idea from BYOND Strategy, I stole it from.. uh.. Big Download. Yeah.

D4RK3 54B3R has submitted his game Snow Fortress to the guild. It's also our Featured Game for this week.(See: Top right corner)
Tiberath has mentioned that he will hopefully submit something in the future. I'll be waiting. ;)
D4RK3 54B3R has posted a blog entry about his strategy game, Conquest. Knowing his previous mention that alot of his upcoming games will have experimental elements, I'm going to be following this one in Lab Notes.
Foomer has submitted his game Tomb Explorer to the guild. It's a very fun single-player game with a map editor. Map makers always make games more fun, don't they? Check out my Review for it at BYOND Casual. (Shameless self-advertising)
My good friend ACWraith has submitted his game GrimTunnel to the guild. It's a very experimental game- to the extent that I've barely seen anything like it before, ever. :)
We need a new CSS. One that doesn't mess up the forums like the current one does. I'd like to keep the color scheme and space theme, but be a bit more unique than the current self-edited one.

Yeah, it's a short post. However, I just started this guild yesterday, so there's not much news to report from this tiny period of time. Hopefully next week's will be packed with lots of juicy news about BYOND's growing amount of experimental games.

BYOND Experimental Gaming

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:43:20 +0000

I've decided to turn my BYOND Member page into something actually useful: A guild.

This guild is for games that take the unbeaten path. Games that try new ideas done few times or never before. Games that try to be different, as to discover a new kind of gameplay experience that could change gaming forever.

This is BYOND Experimental Gaming. Welcome to the lab.

Submit any and all games that try out new concepts in one way or another. Doesn't have to be a new concept for all of gaming, just a new concept for BYOND. It can be a fan-game, but only if it's very revolutionary when compared to the original content and other fan-games of the same material.

Join, and you can submit games. You can also submit posts for review, which are likely to be posted to the site. The top members will be given Game and Post Submission Auto-approve if they stay active and helpful.

In Response to All of the Below

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:26:41 +0000

Let's do this. LEEROOYYYY JEENNNKKIIIINNNNS.

In response to Vexonater's comment:

All of my Mini-Projects

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:42:21 +0000

In no particular order,

-ALExIS-
Personal AI assistant that I've been coding on occasion.

-Caduceus-
A tiny Trauma Center clone.

-EccoChat-
A game I made just because I wanted to icon some Ecco sheets for no particular reason.

-Noir-
My old GIAD 2008 project. May be finished.. eventually.

-Infinitus-
Spore-like game I haven't done much for.

-Inventi0n-
Fringe Science-based RP game similar to Cow RP and SS13.

-KARB-
Kirby Air Ride BYOND. Probably won't finish this anytime soon.

-KelvinGenetics-
Tiny genetics game I made to test out a text-parsing genetics system.

-MageGuild-
A fangame of a Roguelike I'm pretty fond of.

-Mario and the Block Dimension-
Platformer game whose gravity code was messed up by a recent BYOND version. D:

-MegamanGame-
Megaman game I've done a tiny bit of work on.

-NUVA-KR-
Resource-gathering/survival/citybuilding game set in the space between dimensions. (Which ends up being inside a supercomputer)

-oOS-
Omega Operating System. A BYOND-based operating system that will eventually be able to interact with BYOND games and be a viable hub for finding, rating, and creating BYOND games.

-PGCards-
Procedural Card Game.

-PGCha-
AI test.

-PGCity-
Procedurally generated city.

-PGRPG-
Procedurally generated RPG. Will eventually let you play the RPG it generates.

-TownGen-
Procedural people/town generator.

-Shoop Da RPG-
Turn-based RPG based off popular culture.

-SocialNetworkingTest-
Social Network thingy I've been working on.

-TestGame-
A test of a multi-story gravity system for a top-down RPG.

..Yeah. I'll make a list of my regular games soon, which will most likely be 24 times as long.

7D7G Update, and New Strategy Game

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:07:55 +0000

I have decided to push my 7 Days 7 Games self-competition back a bit for me to work on my new strategy project.

I'm not sure what the exact date will be, but it will most likely be a month or so until I can get time to do the competition. I'm potentially looking at doing it over Spring Break or Summer.

In the meantime, I will be getting together a small team for my new strategy project. All I need is a Pixel Artist and a SFX Artist.

I have big plans for the game, and I'm going to make sure that I don't stop this project anytime soon, even if I do get bored of it.

I may start a weekly article.. I guess you can look forward to it.

As for what my project is named.. I'll leave you with a hint for each word of its name.

Get Ye Flask

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:46:16 +0000

Get it. Now.