Danik's Game Development Blog - Latest Comments

Re: Aether

Danik — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:16:08 -0000

Thanks, that's what I was going for!

Re: Aether

Woody Fentress — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:27:03 -0000

This game is really nerve racking. I mean that as a compliment! Awesome!

Re: PyxelEdit LD version

Danik — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:40:20 -0000

Hi Peter, glad you found it useful!

Good suggestions, thanks! I will definitely work on those things. Later on there should be a native save format so that you can load a project with all the settings, keeping the tileset, palette etc.
Sadly AIR limits the program to one instance, so I'm thinking of maybe adding tabs for different projects later.

Re: PyxelEdit LD version

Peter Backx — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:31:19 -0000

Hey Danik, thanks for the editor. I've used it extensively during LD23 and was a very happy user. I liked how you can easily draw tiles and test out tile maps. Loading a color palet from pretty much any picture was also a favorite.

Of course, I wouldn't be a developer if I didn't see room for improvement :)
* Could you make it so the editor remembers the last path used? If I was loading and saving a few items, I always had to navigate back to my game asset folder
* A load option for tilemaps would also be a godsend. I worked around this by loading the tilemap as an image and redefining it every time, but that became annoying pretty quickly.

Great work!

Re: Floral Particles 0.3

Pencilnev — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:20:40 -0000

is there a downloadable version

Re: Spot The Odd One running on Blackberry Playbook

Danik — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:20:44 -0000

Thanks! Yes, the leaderboard doesn't work sometimes. It saves your highscore locally though, so you can try again to submit it later.

Re: Unnamed pixel editor

AsselinPaul — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:25:49 -0000

If you can, yeah Open Source it.
Great work, i really like coming back to this blog.

Re: Spot The Odd One running on Blackberry Playbook

Keith Weatherby II — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:58:34 -0000

I have a blackberry playbook! Rock it!

ps. I couldn't submit my scores or check the leader boards, it said to check my internet connection. And that is working, but it's still cool.

Re: Unnamed pixel editor

Danik — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:23:41 -0000

I recorded a short preview video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Re: Unnamed pixel editor

Danik — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:21:13 -0000

It's hard to say. The basic drawing, tile referencing and so on is pretty much done, so that part is already useful. The big next step is adding animation support.

Re: Unnamed pixel editor

Eric — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:44:56 -0000

Looks sweet. How far is it from being done? It looks like it can boost my productivity pretty significantly.

Re: Unnamed pixel editor

Danik — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:04:17 -0000

Thanks! I will make a video soon to show it in action.
I'm definitely considering open-sourcing it, but I haven't decided yet. It would be nice to make some money off it too (gotta make a living :) ), donations maybe?

Re: Unnamed pixel editor

Diego Machado — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:54:47 -0000

Man, that's awesome. Looks like a Pixothello in a more solid state, at least I hope! Good job! :)
Looking forward to see it working. Hope you open-source it so we can help you.

Re: Spot The Odd One running on Blackberry Playbook

Danik — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:51:17 -0000

Sorry, it's over for this time. They did it last year aswell, so maybe they will do it again next year. Follow @BlackBerryDev if you don't want to miss it.

Re: Spot The Odd One running on Blackberry Playbook

AsselinPaul — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:08:36 -0000

Is this still valid? Do you have a link or something. Thanks a lot and well done with your LDM entry. It was great.

Re: LD48 Ravenwood

Danik — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:05:49 -0000

Thanks Pete!
I'm planning to work some more on this game for sure, to make it more complete and probably a bit longer. It will have to wait though due to work and christmas. Probably sometime in January.

Re: LD48 Ravenwood

Danik — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:01:14 -0000

Hi Gen, thanks for commenting!
I'm glad you enjoyed the game. You are right, it would be cool to have a secret place there, I should add that!

Re: LD48 Ravenwood

Proform Pete — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:55:22 -0000

I really liked your game. My only complaints are pretty much the ones you pointed out yourself. Haha. Do you plan to flesh this game out a bit for the sake of truly "finishing" it? Or are you just going to drop it and move on to other projects?

Re: LD48 Ravenwood

Gen — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:53:21 -0000

Hi Danik,

I quite enjoyed this entry to LD, there's some good ideas that would deserve to be carried further. The ability to heal from taking shelter is nice, I also liked the scrolling you experimented there. The simple design and fluidity of the whole sure adds to the mood. The music and sound setting are well achieved too. I haven't much to add as you judge well your own work, but I easily could see some improvements, like, I don't know, having only nine lives and a game over that would reinitialize the level and orbs.

Looking at your world.png, I just noticed I died countless times trying to reach a secret place that never existed to begin with :

http://uppix.net/7/f/f/56f23b5...

D'oh !

Re: Floral Particles 0.4

Danik — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:49:57 -0000

Thanks Marco!
You have some good ideas. I have been thinking about making the variables have more general settings such as randomness for all of them, but I have to rewrite a lot then. Maybe for a sequel.

Re: Floral Particles 0.4

Marco Penndorf — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:21:15 -0000

thats pretty awesome! the variety of the output is really amazing, thanks for sharing that!

you probably had something similar in mind, but here are some ideas i had while playing:

- a randomize-factor for most of the properties might add even more variety and liveness
- some kind of quantizer that does the opposite of the 1st
- using multiply-blendmode for drawing

keep up your great work!

Re: Ludum Dare 21: Coin Runner

Danik — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:11:16 -0000

Awesome! I'm working on the game right now, thanks for the motivation boost!

Re: Ludum Dare 21: Coin Runner

Josh — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:31:47 -0000

Finally, I found your web site so that I could tell you. Dude...this game should win. I played it yesterday thinking I would just do a quick run-through and then move on to others. An hour and a half later I was frantically still trying to level myself up to get one...more...power-up and laughing my ass off at the stupid blocks that couldn't catch me. Well done, sir. GG, WP. Coin Runner FTW.

Re: Color picking in as3

Danik — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:30:02 -0000

Yes

Re: Color picking in as3

Felipe Rodrigues — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:53:40 -0000

it returns RGB?