Category: Wave Shine!

A New Year Already? Where have we been!?

12/31/2016

Phew! This Devlog is extremely outdated! What a mess! Sure we have been updated elsewhere, but I never actually get to log anything here throughout the whole semester. Anyways, this is Chair, and let's begin with some unfortunate news. Lots of things happened since the previous post.

Mr. Prez is no longer part of Lame Dimension

The man who leads everything Lame Dimension is no longer part of the team. This is really depressing because he's the one who started everything, and now he just left what he had created. I respect his decision though, and it's partially my fault that led him into making this decision. It's some personal matters, but I do not think it should be discussed here. In conclusion, Mr. Prez has given the leadership role to me, because there's literally nobody else left in this team. As 2017 begins, Lame Dimension will be a one man army. If Mr. Prez ever decides to come back, I will welcome him with open arms. He's very special to me, but sometimes, people gotta part paths. Mr. Prez will still be developing games but it will be apart from Lame Dimension. Well, let's go smoke weed. (I don't smoke though lol)

New Game Released! It's The Nutshack!

Actually, this game has been released since November! This was actually intended as a 24 hour project for Extra Life. Extra Life is a charity event in which people can play games for over 24 hours and get donations to their local hospital. This year, I decided to develop a game instead! At the end of 24 hours, however, only the bosses were completed. I extended the project to a week, and the game was complete with four stages. What really impressed me though is that I'm actually getting downloads for once. But more than that, there's a small speedrunning community for this game! It's pretty cool that some people actually dedicated their time into this. I feel like this is a meme game that went above and beyond the meme game standards. But that might be just me. There's most likely tons of other meme games better than this. I'm just somewhat proud of this Megaman X clone I made. In addition to that, the creator of the Nutshack and the rapper of the theme song even made a Tweet about this game and how they thought it was cool. I could talk on forever about this game but let's move forward. I think this meme game is what finally pushed Lame Dimension's existence to the Internet. Some people actually now know that Lame Dimension exists.

Final Flames 2 is almost complete!

We've said it so many times over and over again. But this time, it's certain! We had enough debugging sessions for this game. We tested this enough. We're about to close the development for this. Every stage on the game is complete. We're just missing so many things, graphic-wise. So do please stay put. This is quite a decent game put together in my opinion. Definitely not a great game to a higher standard of Beat em ups, but I genuinely enjoy this game. Because the game's development has been going on for so long, I'm currently debating whether or not to still continue to extra ending arc. It's a really nice way to conclude the story of this game though. I know the story is not the main point of the game, but I think having some back story might make the game more interesting. Naira best girl.

Wave Shine's development will start soon!

I finally got the guts to begin this game! The only thing left that's preventing me from starting is Final Flames 2. What's different about this game is that I'm actually willing to throw in money to hire people. I want to make this a legit game. I think this game has potential and I won't let this go to waste with my crappy skills in other areas other than programming. I'm currently working very hard to accumulate some funds in order to get some talented people on board. Wave Shine will now be a collaboration with another small game development team. I agreed to help them with the mobile game they are currently making because they said they will fund Wave Shine and help develop it if I contribute to their project. I genuinely cannot wait to begin this game! It's long, and difficult, but I'm ready.

Global Game Jam 2017

Yup! I'll be attending my first game jam at San Jose! I can't wait to see how others develop their game. I'm really taking game development seriously now so I need to know how other people do it. I'm only a small fry in the game development community so I think participating will help me out! I'll definitely leave a link in this site to whatever game I develop with others on that event.

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Updates, Updates, Updates! Final Flames 2 Demo v0.2.0, Wave Shine!, and new website stuff

7/29/2016

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Hi, this is Chair. After disappearing for a bit to attend random events such as Anime Expo and Evolution Chamionship Series, I decided to get back to working on the games. But before we head to those, let's talk about a new addition to the website, which is the Developer's Voice. I thought that this website needed more personality and I thought that it would obtain that personality if the developers could add their honest thoughts and feelings about each game they made.

Final Flames 2

First of all, here's a change log to the Demo v0.2.0 of Final Flames 2:

ADDED A PAUSE FEATURE! WOW! We really needed that! More importantly, this pause menu has a character switching system, which allows you to switch characters whenever you want. In addition to this, the lives system was omitted. You are able to collect Reviving items throughout the game. This means that the game is over when all of your characters are dead.
Slight changes to graphics. Smoother transitions between stages. New portraits for characters. Small animation updates. Every cutscene has scrolling text now. Better backgrounds.
Slight changes to sound. Most notable is that we abandoned MIDI format for background music
Many bug fixes. We believe that this game can now be played in Windows 8. There's a better chance that it will work. The slowdown at the title screen no longer exists for weaker computers. Enemies will no longer walk on the air. Lots of other junk has been fixed.
Added D-pad functionality. This is so that the game is compatible with all Xinput controllers and not just the Xbox 360 controller.

drawn by Nashira

This is most likely the last update for the demo. Everything else will be in the full game unless I have another urge to fix something. Early in development, there was planned to be an extra stage. Well, that's scrapped for something else bigger. A hidden pseudo RPG Maker horror portion that extends the game's silly plot into something else.

Wave Shine!

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Wave Shine! is the new title for FGC Simulator. Why? First of all, the game utilizes a feature from Smash Bros. Melee called Waveshining. It's done by using the reflector's one frame hitbox and following up with a powerful attack. A similar function would be present in the game, which allows you to have better mobility and combo potential. Second, think about how waves shine in the sun. However, that can be transcient, as the waves disappear as they travel further into the shore. This reflects the feeling of the game as happiness fades away as the game progresses. Well, that's really it. I haven't done anything with this game. Legit, I just need to finish Final Flames 2.

Finally, Mr. Prez, since you actually put updates in the website, I have a feeling that you're actually reading this. if you are, please stop blocking communication between us. I'm genuinely concerned now and this is really not making anything better.

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