There’s also a Facebook event for it.

There are a few programmers speaking (5:30-6:30pm) then general socialising (6:30-8pm). If you’re in Perth and interested in game development come down and meet some likeminded people. If you’re not interested in programming just come for the later portion.

Last year I ground my hands to a pulp producing ~30hrs worth of art, which equated to not much sleep! This year I cut my participation back to about 16hrs (and went to the Big Day Out).

My main focus this year was a game we titled Bored Room. You can download the game install here and play it yourself! It has some very amusing dialogue.

I only had Saturday to make all the art, so kept it simple; but charming! Here are the characters:

And a room! Complete with a hulking security guy.

I was gonna add text (taglines) but decided to keep it visual.

I also submitted a version with this logo at the top:

Beware: game talk ahead. If you don’t play TF2 tune out now.

Regarding the class war in general -it feels like a lot more people are playing soldier! I find myself trying to dodge up to 4 rockets at a time on payload and capture maps. At least when attacking. And these are the regular 24 player games. Obviously demos are meant for defense, so the likelihood of demos winning this war is further diminished by the deficiency in certain maps/scenarios. Add to that, the learning curve for demo is steeper. Any noob can aim a rocket so it explodes near someone. Aiming grenades to do any damage (either full on or splash) is not as easy, and their close range game is a lot weaker.

Demos need the numbers to prey on soldiers’ main downfall. Soldier is perfect for taking on one enemy at a time, but as soon as they need to reload there’s a lot of downtime in their offense. Their other weakness is shooting enemies above them. However, this isn’t easily exploited by demos since they’re not the most mobile of classes, and is once again map dependent.

Anyway, I don’t really mind who wins. I mainly sided with demos because I usually play scout, and demos are easier to kill than soldiers. ha

Here’s hoping the new weapon will replace the shotty! lawl

All in all a very refreshing day.

Bring on Semi-Permanent tomorrow!

The Space Crash banner:

And an explosion!

It’s all cardboard themed, and that’s a meteor exploding, but the effect will be applied to all space debris when it gets destroyed.

I’ll point everyone in the right direction when the game’s released.

Kanye’s sure opened himself up to a world of memes.

This video is a classic example of something going viral. I first saw this on Monday night, linked by the same guy who linked the picture above (Jonesy’s on the pulse). At the time it had just under 5000 views. By 8am Tuesday morning it had ~350,000 views, and another 24hrs later it’s sitting at ~1.9million views! Bam!

*May or may not be Space Ribena.

Time to squeeze in some work. I’m doing 3 sketches for Black Lab Games. Paul will be adding a bunch of Operation: Star Hammer content to the website including a back story about the game. These sketches will be used to illustrate the story.

This is a crashed Nautilid probe. It’s design was influenced by sea creatures. I think I prefer the image without the ~laser fencing~… especially since it’s not immediately obvious humans raised the fence.