indie-ness
Wouldn’t it be awesome if I was more like a real developer and didn’t show you anything new until right before World 3 is released?
No? Good! In that case, update coming soon.
Comments indie-nessME2D -> World 3
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.
Comments ME2D -> World 3Bonus Post 8/7!
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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The Last Post! 7/7
Alrighty guys, the moment you’ve all been waiting for (at least that’s what I tell myself 😉 )
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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Current Events 6/7
Last post before the big reveal tomorrow! (Which, no, is not a beta / demo :P)
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
Comments Current Events 6/7Guilty Pleasure Games 5/7
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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Comments Guilty Pleasure Games 5/7A better late than never 4/7
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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Comments A better late than never 4/7Easter Weekend!
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.
Comments Easter Weekend!Post 3/7
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?
Comments Post 3/7Post 2/7
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?
post 1 / 7!
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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New posts!
Alright guys, I know I don’t update this thing as much as I should, to help remedy that, my fiancée has been making posts under ‘Fairly’s Corner,’ but now that the Flash Gaming Summit and Game Developer’s Conference are over, I want to try and do something special and post something new every day for a week.
That’s right, 7 updates in 7 days. Compared to my usual ‘whenever’ update schedule, that number is pretty mind boggling. On the last day, I’ll have some cool news and concept art for World 3 to finish the new post flood with.
So to start off the barrage, The Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2 won the indie game category at the Mochi award show! Most of you have probably read about it, but still, I think it’s way awesome, and just had to say it myself.
Sadly, there was some computer trouble, so there’s no video saved from the ‘what makes a game a hit’ panel that I was on 🙁
But wait, there’s more!!! Click below to read the reset of the post!
Comments New posts!Hey Guys
Sorry we haven’t updated recently, we’re painting a few rooms in Brad’s house so we haven’t had much time to just sit at our computers. Coming soon though will either be a post from Brad himself or me revealing my guilty pleasure game from my childhood days . . . we shall see . . .
Slán go fóill
Comments Hey GuysThe Bloodthirsty Gamer . . .
For those of you who did not watch the live Flash Gaming Summit feed, Brad WON Best Indie Game of 2008!! I’m sure he’ll post something when he gets back on Friday or Saturday. He’ll be at GDC until then. Here is something to tide you over though, I wrote this a while ago but had to wait to post it because of all of Brad’s news.
So here you go:
So let’s face it, the only reason any of us play video games is because we are all sick in the head. We look for blood. We try to find a way to let out the TRUE killer within us.
Whether this is by playing zombie gamers where are victims are already dead or its a war game where we have true live prey . . . we all know the true monster within us all . . .
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Comments The Bloodthirsty Gamer . . .Last minute…
So here’s an interesting last minute change of plans. Apparently I’ll be at the Flash Gaming Summit in a few days, as well as most of GDC.
Look Ma! I’m on teh interwebz!
Anyways, from what I hear, everything will be streamed live, once I get some details on that, I’ll update this post.
Anyone who’s going to be at GDC who wants to get in touch with me, shoot me an email. Sorry if I told you that I wasn’t going earlier, this is all super last minute…
Update: Ah, here’s the stream’s channel. Got a spiffy little chat there and everything.
And of course, here’s the programs. The award show and the panel that I’m on are the ones to watch 😉 Wish me luck!
Comments Last minute…An Original Title
Do I always have to come up with an original title? That could get old quick . . .
So I know I haven’t been putting up much game review, but seeing as Brad recently purchased Resident Evil 5 I guarantee I will be posting my review of that soon. Possibly next week if he doesn’t get sick of it before I get a chance to play co-op.
While browsing through titles of different areas that I might be interested in posting I ran across this. Yes this is quite an old post, dated November 2, 2008. Still, I felt some part of me cringe at this whole article.
First off, I do not distinguish between “gamer girls” and “female gamers”, I think the whole idea is simply preposterous. You either game and you are female, or you don’t. If you play games occasionally such as Guitar Hero or Mario Kart you are a social gamer. There are guys that are strictly “social gamers”. These types simply play with groups of people, they aren’t likely to play Metroid or Devil May Cry. They would probably fall more in the Halo or Super Smash Brothers category, strictly. Is that bad? No, it’s not. It’s the difference between a guy that would prefer to play tennis one on one and a guy that would prefer to play doubles. It’s a PREFERENCE.
Comments An Original TitleNewgrounds 2nd Annual Tank Awards
So, apparently my site’s been down for quite some time and I just now noticed because I don’t have internets at my house for the time being.
Also as a side note, I have a plugin for WordPress that’s half working, if anyone wants to get emailed every time there’s a new post on my site, just send an email to the address on the Contact Me page. If you want to keep it simple, just put ‘add me’ as the subject.
Anyways, figured I’d expand this post a bit, since Newgrounds is a huge part of my Flash games career, maybe even the only reason I ever got into Flash in the first place. So here’s a nice little story for anyone who really cares 😀
Click below to read it!
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Comments Newgrounds 2nd Annual Tank AwardsFinally…
Full Mirror’s Edge 2D Network Beta released!
We’re still calling it beta because there’s still a few bugs to iron out with the saving and loading, but that’s the full game there. Playing the game while logged in should be far more stable, so that’s the recommended way to go (plus your game will be saved no matter the computer, so I heavily recommend it anyway).
Of course, if you encounter any bugs, be sure to let me know, there’s a leave feedback button on the page. I’ll be trying to patch everything up throughout the week…
Comments Finally…Ah Valentine’s Day . . . sort of
Okay so I’m late, but give me a break haha.
So in honor of the passing of February 14th I will post about something near and dear to my heart.
Video games and relationships!
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Comments Ah Valentine’s Day . . . sort ofReturn of the Booth Babes . . .
Maybe?
I’ve been reading this, has anyone else seen this?
as opposed to this
Key word = Random
So I don’t know what everyone thinks about the whole booth babe thing . . . but honestly, it annoys the heck out of me. I know that many might think its because I’m a girl and I just can’t “handle” the competition.
Give me a Break . . .
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Comments Return of the Booth Babes . . .