Alpha Collexion
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| What happens when you take two months off from doing AGameAWeek? Welcome to my Advent Calendar!!  Alpha Collexion : Available for Windows/HTML5/OUYA Over the course of December 2014, a different game will unlock, until you have a crackin' little collection of 26 games, all lined up on the shelf, in alphabetical order! Keyboard or Gamepad controls are your friend. Although some of the games "kinda" work with mouse/touch, not all do, since I was ludicrously hard-pressed for time, trying to cram all of this in!! I hope you enjoy the games. I've certainly enjoyed creating them. |
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 Abstract Action Concept J-Walker reborn without a musical style. Guide the Walker through the level and avoid all the evil deadly stuffs. Controls Left and Right to move. Comments Quite a nice little game. Very much like "Sheep Goes Left/Right". I prefer the sheep, I think, but if I ever feel like doing things a little different, J-Walker's a handy character/style to have at the ready! Nothing too fancy, but reasonably nice, to kick things off. -=-=-  Bouncy Bobby Concept Bounce Bobby along the many floating blocks, as far as you can. Controls Left and Right to move. Comments Not a terrible game, but could be much better. Hoppy Bobby was a much more fun game, but I wanted to try out actual controls with Bobby instead of just having one-button controls. I think he actually works better with just the one button!! If in future I decide to create a "new" Hoppy Bobby, I'll no doubt stick to the single-button mechanic, instead. |
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 Caterpillar Chaos Concept A good old fashioned Centipede clone! Controls Left and Right to move. Fire to .. um.. fire! Comments Fast and furious. Missing the Spider, but there's oodles of deadly caterpillar bits to contend with. I did consider doing another edition of "Centipong", but I feel like I've written about 20-odd versions of that over the past year or so!! |
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 Destructive Detonation Concept Blow up the dots, in the best Chain Reaction that you can. Controls Move around, hit fire! Comments This was the first game I made where I realised that .. perhaps it might've been better to add levels into some of these games. Making this into something more like BoxSplodings, with lots of levels to complete, would've been better. Unfortunately, having selectable levels would've meant having a proper titlescreen for each of the games, and I hadn't implimented that into the menu system. Aw well.. Live and Learn! |
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 Exciting Encounter Concept Destroy as many of the enemy planes that you can. Controls Up, Down, Fire.. Comments This game was fairly bland and uninteresting for quite a while. In many ways, it's a generic "move to dodge" game, and there's not much point in fighting back. Adding the "fuel" thing switched this from a generic "SpikeDislike" thing, into a more shooty game. ... Powerups! They're handy things!! |
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 Flapping Fing Concept Flap and Collect Controls Push Button to Flap! Comments A Flappy-Clone at F seemed almost inevitable. I made it more of a collect-a-thon, and added that annoying "Looks collectable, but.. NO!!! It kills you!!" in a vague attempt to spice it up a bit. It's fairly generic, though. Nothing much to see, here. |
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| wow, you waste me a whole hour of my time =D gj =) some cool fun games in there, the best one is "Bouncy Bobby" to me =) |
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 Gone Golfin' Concept Hit the ball towards the hole! Controls Left and Right to turn around. Fire to hit. Comments Platdude Goes Golfing was a great little game that I made a few years ago, using the website PlayMyCode.com Since then, although I keep trying to remake it, it never quite comes out as well as the original. This time, I stripped it back to it's basics, and it's actually turned out much better than I thought it would. Given more time, I'd've liked to have added more obstacles into the mix, as the game goes on, but .. meh, time! |
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 Heli Hover Concept Avoid the Spikes! Controls Movement to Move! Comments Another simplistic "dodge the evil things" game, but this time with far more momentum to control. I also added ludicrously speedy obstacles to dodge, once you get past the opening bits of the level, so watch out for those! |
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| So. Many. Games... Great work. :) |
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 Ice Incident Concept Jump on the Couch... Controls Button to Jump Comments I initially wanted this game to be a lot like "Hen Hopping", but somewhere along the way, it went a bit wrong. I'm not a fan of this game. Out of all 26 games in this collection, this is the one I'd scrap, and replace with something entirely different. Time wasn't on my side. |
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 Junior Jumpjet Concept Float around and shoot the baddies Controls Left and right, Button A to shoot, Button B or Up to Jetpac! Comments A rather simplistic take on JetPac, but without any actual goal! Would it have been better if I'd gone the whole hog and made it level-based with rocket parts to collect? I'm not sure. I enjoyed the game enough, this far along, so left it as it was. |
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 Karate Kerfuffle Concept Hit the buttons as displayed o kick and punch your way through. Controls Z/X/C (or Joypad Buttons A,B,C) and up/down/left/right to direct. Comments BeMani without the Be! Fairly complex, and .. I'm not sure if it ends up going too fast for it's own good.. But it's a music game without music, and as far as those go, it does a pretty decent job. |
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 Leaping Lizard Concept Avoid leaping onto the same coloured tile twice, whilst making your way across the maze. Controls Up/Down/Left/Right Comments Another game that took a bit of a nose-dive in the last few minutes. Started off well enough, and had good intentions, but lazily dropped off towards the end. I tried my best to balance this game, but it's occasionally too tough for it's own good. A nice enough concept, but might be better if done with proper levels instead of being random. |
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 Money Maze Concept Collect all 8 coins from the maze without getting killed by the ominous blobs. Controls Movement for Movement! Comments This is "The other rubbish game" in the collection, I'm afraid. Another game that really could've done with better balancing. Once you hit level 3 or 4, the game starts to get trickier, but up until then it's quite a snoozefest. I could probably have also done with some decent AI! |
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 Numbing Numbers Concept Reduce the Total to meet the Target. Controls Up, Down and Fire. Comments I came up with this idea about 6 months ago, but never got around to trying it out. It's not a bad concept, and occasionally gets you thinking, but I feel like it still needs something a little extra, to get the brain-cells flowing a little faster. I may revisit this game, later. For what it's worth, I know a lot of people won't enjoy this game, but I like it :D |
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 Ooooooh, Octopus! Concept This ain't no Mummy! Run around each of the boxes in the grid, collecting the bubbles, to open each box. Escape using the ring! Controls Move to Move! Comments This game does exactly what it set out to do! Not sure the sudden appearance of a ring is obvious enough to the player, as the end-of-level thing... But otherwise the game works as expected. Not a whole lot you can do with Oh Mummy, really! |
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 Penguin Parade Concept Guide the Penguin Parade along the clouds Controls Left, Right and Jump Comments Oooooh!!! I LOVE this game!!! Out of all the games in the collexion, this is my favourite. (Well, this and another one, but that's for later!) Expect to see more of this, reamde, at a later date! |
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 Quriously Qubic Concept Light up the arena, by hopping on the Qubes. Controls Hopefully not too baffling.. Comments The engine worked out nicely, especially since I managed to code this entire game in just a few short hours. The "TNT" doesn't actually kill the player, at all. It looks and feels like it probably should, but it doesn't! Might play better with "proper" enemies, but for part of an advent calendar, yoou can't complain. |
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 Roller Runner Concept A semi-board-game type collect-em-up. Grab the gummies, and avoid the ants. Controls Button to roll, Move to Move. Comments It's a bit slow, and the dice-movement might've been better if I just gave the player 6-spaces per round, instead of leaving it up to the dice. But it kinda works. I generally have a rule of not making Board-Game style games, because they tend not to work very well. .. Case in point! If redone, I'd probably start it off on level 6, just so it starts off at a harder pace. FACT : This is a remake of the first game I ever coded! Except, way back on the Amstrad CPC it looked a lot less interesting! |
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 Soda Service Concept Keep the patrons happy, by serving them glasses of soda. (Generic Tapper Clone!) Controls Up, Down and Fire. Comments OUYACentral and OUYABrew (Of the OUYACast) were nagging me to make a Tapper clone, so I bundled this together in a fairly short amount of time. I'm pretty sure I got most of the elements in place, but if I'm honest, it's been a LONG time since I last played Tapper!! |
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 Tower Torment Concept Grab a log, and throw it at the oncoming blob-army. Controls Left, Right and Fire Comments A decent enough clone of Ork Attack. It does it's job. .. Nothing much more to say, really! Ork Attack!! |
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 Urgent Umberella Concept It's raining. Grab a bucket!! Controls Left and Right Comments Catch the drops as they fall. A concept you'll probably recognise from the classic Mad Bomber. I've not really changed all that much, really. A simple game, but if you're playing with a gamepad, be sure to use the d-pad. The game gets extra tricky when you're using the analogue stick!! |
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 Volatile Velocity Concept Leap over the bushes and collect the presents. Controls Button to Jump Comments This was initially intended to look more like the horse/train minigame from the 8-bit classic Kane. .. Then I remembered I can't draw. Now it's a circle instead of a wonderfully animated horse!! |
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 Warning : Waves Concept Grab the presents and avoid the asteroids. Controls Turn and Thrust Comments A simple enough dodge-em-up, with a ludicrously small amount of scoring! You're going to have to work really hard to score in the hundreds, in this game! It's not obvious, but the playfield is in fact a wraparound screen, so if you're ever in too much danger, simply hop around the border!! |
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 Xplosion Xperiment Concept An extreme dodging game. Controls Move and Fire together! Comments I occasionally start this game and die almost instantly. .. That makes it a GREAT game :D Simplistic weapons, and ridiculously fast "meteors" make this a neat little space shooter/avoidance game. Eagle eyed players might recognise the ship from the last game! |
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 YBox Yahtzee Concept Yahtzee meets Klax! Controls Left and Right to move, Button to Rotate Comments My second favourite game from the Collexion. Actually, a lot more playable than I thought it would be. I expect that a nicer frontend, with loads of options and things, might make this into something worthwhile. I have a lot of ideas in mind for this game. You'll be seeing it again! |
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 Platdude in Zone Zero Concept Game&Watch Mario Bros? Controls Left and Right, and Button to Jump Comments I wasn't sure that adding "real" movement to the classic Game&Watch Mario Bros game would work out, but it's actually not too bad. I probably wouldn't ever expand on this, but for what it is, it's ok! -=-=- I'd like to thank you all for joining me on this crazy journey of experimentation. I hope you've had a good Christmas, and that your new year will be just as good. Thanks to everyone who submitted art for the games, and apologies that they weren't particularly used very well! I'd like to send a special thanks to OtakuPunk who has been posting a video of every single game, daily, as part of his Booze'n'Games advent calendar. OtakuPunk Advent 2014 Playlist I've had a lot of fun making this, and I've enjoyed seeing other people get a kick out of it. Hopefully we'll get to do the same, next year, too! Meanwhile, stay tuned to AGameAWeek for more crazy oddities throughout the year. Every Single Week, Unless Exhausted! |
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| These are great, a real accomplishment. You've been doing exactly what indie game programmers should do: quick prototypes to explore interesting game mechanics. When you find a winner you then sit down and crank out a full game worthy of your time. This is inspiring. Keep up the awesome work ! |
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