I’m gonna be gone for the weekend, but something came up in the comments of the last post that I thought deserved it’s own topic.
What features from Mirror’s Edge 2D do you think should be carried over to World 3? Any of the new moves? Time Trials? Replays?
On a completely unrelated note, the new Doves CD is out and it’s quite awesome.
Check it out here.
There’s been some terrible accusations that Cutie Pants might just be a reskinning of Fancy Pants Man!
In fact, they won’t control a thing alike. She won’t run nearly as fast, she might not even be able to run up half pipes like FPM can!
So to make up for that slight shortcoming…
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Alrighty guys, the moment you’ve all been waiting for (at least that’s what I tell myself 
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I’ve gotten tons of emails about this one. Will I ever add a ‘girl Fancy Pants Man’ to the series. I always said that I would if it worked, I wouldn’t just add one for the sake of equality.
Well, I’ve got good news. Click below for more 
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Last post before the big reveal tomorrow! (Which, no, is not a beta / demo 
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Just a warning, this post might be a bit out of my specialty, and I hate listening to celebrities force their misguided and uninformed political sway as much as the next guy, but since getting into the games business, I’ve begun to keep an eye more and more on things like psychological studies on video game violence, and my ears perk up when politicians run their mouths off about censorship or any other attempts at controlling the markets out there.
So before I really get to it, if this is your first time on the site, you might want to check out the rest of the site, especially the last few posts in my 7 posts in 7 (business) days stunt. Also, I wouldn’t recommend this post for the younger viewers of the site, nothing obscene, but the content is fairly mature.
Game Developer’s Radio Podcast interview / Character reveal – 1/7
Jenna / ‘Fairly Obvious’ reviews de Blob – 2/7
If there’s going to be pirates… – 3/7
Music that I listen to when I’m working, music vs gameplay musings – 4/7
Fairly’s ‘Guilty Pleasure’ game – 5/7
Continue reading ‘Current Events 6/7′
So who has been waiting for this post hm?
Well here it is, and I don’t care what anyone says this game is still AMAZING . . .
*drum roll*
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Sorry about the last minute weekend blackout there. Still haven’t gotten back home yet, so this post is quite late, heh.
Anyways, music is a big part of The Fancy Pants Adventures, not just the in game music, but the background music that I listen to while working on it. See, I do a whole lot of sitting and working at the computer (makes up a good majority of my work, really), so to keep sane, I usually have a constant stream of music in the background.
Very gameplay focused animation is extremely rhythm centric, so having something with a solid rhythm in the background helps get my mind into a good state for animating. So in a way, you could consider a good deal of these songs as alternate background music for whatever games I was working on when I listened to them the most.
Gameplay is an art, music is an art. Both can create emotions that can’t be easily conveyed in words, so during production, I usually run into a few songs that I dig that seem to help convey the intangible qualities of gameplay that I’m going for.
Click on for a big ol list of musics!
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Sorry guys, Easter weekend and all that, just wanted to make a quick post to let you guys know that the official seven posts will continue Monday. Might make a quick post of I get a chance, but it/they won’t count as one of the seven.
Yep! Still posting! A bit late today, but this one was a bit less than planned.
Before I start, there might have been a problem with an anti-bot plugin that I installed yesterday, but that’s fixed now, so if anyone wasn’t able to log in yesterday or earlier today to comment on Fairly’s post below, have at it!
Moving on…
So in the podcast I mention some tiny ninjas or something like that. But I wasn’t really serious. But apparently everyone wants ninjas in World 3, so let me introduce, the Toothpick Ninja Clan!
Let’s face it, all games are made better by tiny, jumping ninjas, and World 3 needs more baddies (and I’ve been wanting to make some that jump), so why not?
Yes! Devoted and numerous *cough*sarcasm*cough* Fairly readers I have managed to confiscate one of Brad’s 7 posts. Brad admitted he must do so to avoid the rioting in the streets and possible burning of FPM in effigy . . . annnnnnnnnd yeah okay I’m done.
So, De Blob anyone?
Big long podcast interview on Game Developer’s Radio!
This could be good for anyone who missed the Flash Gaming Summit panel, though it’s much longer, but I talk a bit about World 3.
Download the mp3, load it up on your iPod, then come back here and tell me how much of an old man I am ranting about the game industry!
I would recommend clicking the more button after listening to the end of the podcast…
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Not much else to say that hasn’t been said better elsewhere.
I really started creating digital content once I got my first Mac, a now ancient PowerBook G4 (clocked slower than my current phone, imagine that). I first got into Flash games by creating stopmotion animation, and I got into that because I enjoyed video editing, thanks to in no small part by Apple’s focus on media creation with iLife and FireWire (an utter God-sent during the time of DV cameras).
So here’s to (as The Onion playfully puts it) the last American who knew what the heck he was doing.
…Windows. And Flash?
The iPad is epic win. Maybe I’ll finally answer my massive backlog of emails (sorry everyone who’s emailed me recently!).
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Don’t try this at home!
(Oh and click the pic for a larger version)
Sorry for the utter lack of updates on World 3 (though that seems to be the norm nowadays, eh?), keep a heads up, though, Ill be posting some new footage sometime tonight or tomorrow
Good stuff, I promise.
I’ve been adding all the engine refinements from ME2D back into FPA. Crazy how much better the game looks with character rotational smoothing. No more jitters, yay!
Fancy Pants Man now has 3 separate run cycles, want to add a whole bunch of different jumps too. I’m nuts. Got a lot of animating ahead of me. Good thing I love animating.
Here’s something that bugs me to no end. I am not Justin Long, you are not John Hodgeman.
Apple uses actors to represent their products, Mircrosoft defines their users by what products they buy. Huge difference there.
- Brad
So when I’m not doing concept work for World 3, I’ve been playig Super Metroid. Never beat it before, so I figured I should buy it from the Wii VC and do just that. Amazing game. So, I’ve gotten a few emails and such asking about puzzle elements in FPA, nothing overpowering, but what would you guys think of some sort of level or character progression in World 3?
Hey guys, so I’m trying out a new sidebar thingy, something that would allow me to make smaller posts that don’t push down more important posts (like pictures of various pets on my shoulders).
What do you think of the idea? Is the site too thick now? Should I just sell my soul and finally get a twitter to place up here?
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