Puzzle Poker - New Music/Mac- Minigolf Mania
by Kevin Ryan · 07/07/2006 (9:53 pm) · 8 comments
New Music
Puzzle Poker now has new songs thanks to the work of Matt Sayre. I was never very happy with the music in the original release of PP and you may have noticed that I had the default music volume turned down low in the first release. Matt did a great job and came up with music that completely fits the theme. Go ahead and download it and take a listen. It is really cool and catchy - the default music volume is now turned up to full.
Mac Build
The Mac version of Puzzle Poker went live yesterday. Thanks to Paul Scott for getting the port done.
Top Scores
I noticed that the Gargage Games Guys (like Jay Moore who gave great design feedback) have been knocked out of the top spot and the only GG person I still see in the top ten list is Eric "Secret Sauce" Fritz. One person tried to hack scores into the top ten list and actually found a vulnerability that I fixed. They were not able to get new scores in the top scores list, but were able to submit the same score more than once.
Minigolf Mania
Minigolf Mania is now almost complete - just a few tweaks here and there still need to be done. It uses the Torque Game Engine (TGE) with a few modifications to handle rotating platforms and some custom rendering here and there. The art direction and most of the artwork was done by Alex Swanson. Here are a few screen shots...
("Hug the Wall" hole)
("Lavaplow Madness" hole)
("Lavafalls" hole)
(Booster Beam - derived from class Item with special rendering code)
(Three Golf Balls - not DTS shapes - created on the fly with DOT3 bump map rendering stuff)
(Super Grow super power - several super power types can be found)
(Collect animals to open the cup in the Safari game)
Aidan
Almost forgot to mention my little guy Aidan. He had his 7th birthday, had surgery to have his feeding tube removed, and is doing great. Here he is the day after surgery:
"My g-tube is gone forever." - Aidan
Puzzle Poker now has new songs thanks to the work of Matt Sayre. I was never very happy with the music in the original release of PP and you may have noticed that I had the default music volume turned down low in the first release. Matt did a great job and came up with music that completely fits the theme. Go ahead and download it and take a listen. It is really cool and catchy - the default music volume is now turned up to full.
Mac Build
The Mac version of Puzzle Poker went live yesterday. Thanks to Paul Scott for getting the port done.
Top Scores
I noticed that the Gargage Games Guys (like Jay Moore who gave great design feedback) have been knocked out of the top spot and the only GG person I still see in the top ten list is Eric "Secret Sauce" Fritz. One person tried to hack scores into the top ten list and actually found a vulnerability that I fixed. They were not able to get new scores in the top scores list, but were able to submit the same score more than once.
Minigolf Mania
Minigolf Mania is now almost complete - just a few tweaks here and there still need to be done. It uses the Torque Game Engine (TGE) with a few modifications to handle rotating platforms and some custom rendering here and there. The art direction and most of the artwork was done by Alex Swanson. Here are a few screen shots...
("Hug the Wall" hole)("Lavaplow Madness" hole)("Lavafalls" hole)(Booster Beam - derived from class Item with special rendering code)(Three Golf Balls - not DTS shapes - created on the fly with DOT3 bump map rendering stuff)(Super Grow super power - several super power types can be found)(Collect animals to open the cup in the Safari game)Aidan
Almost forgot to mention my little guy Aidan. He had his 7th birthday, had surgery to have his feeding tube removed, and is doing great. Here he is the day after surgery:"My g-tube is gone forever." - Aidan
#2
07/08/2006 (12:25 am)
Mini golf game looks great! 
#3
I cant believe he's so old!!! man, I'm feeling my age now :)
I'm glad everything is going so well for you, PP and now MM almost ready to fly! and Aidan doing really well, you must be on a huge high.
Congratulations and all the best with it!
07/08/2006 (1:05 am)
Hey Kevin!I cant believe he's so old!!! man, I'm feeling my age now :)
I'm glad everything is going so well for you, PP and now MM almost ready to fly! and Aidan doing really well, you must be on a huge high.
Congratulations and all the best with it!
#4
Minigolf Mania looks very promising!
Christophe
07/08/2006 (3:29 am)
Nice to hear good news about your son Kevin!Minigolf Mania looks very promising!
Christophe
#5
07/08/2006 (12:55 pm)
Looks Great! What kind of issues did you run into while porting Puzzle Poker to Mac OS?
#6
Thanks for the comments.
@Phil
Sometime in the last couple of years my eyes decided to stop being able to read small type very well and my 13 year old son beat me in a race. This age stuff sneaks up on you. I going to really try to make it up to the Indie Games Con this year - only a 10 hour drive for me - much easier than the trip you have to take.
@Canon
Thanks. I really love your artwork! I remember the first time a sample was posted and I went wow! I think it was the mini car racing game.
@John
The initial Mac port had to be done on very short notice over a weekend to get it in Apple's booth at E3.
Paul Scott did the port and from what I heard he did not have many problems. In fact he had in running in just a couple of hours and his biggest problem had to do with some encryption code. I think the bug fixes he did find were rolled back into TGB. Hope your Solitaire game goes well.
07/10/2006 (10:50 am)
@EveryoneThanks for the comments.
@Phil
Sometime in the last couple of years my eyes decided to stop being able to read small type very well and my 13 year old son beat me in a race. This age stuff sneaks up on you. I going to really try to make it up to the Indie Games Con this year - only a 10 hour drive for me - much easier than the trip you have to take.
@Canon
Thanks. I really love your artwork! I remember the first time a sample was posted and I went wow! I think it was the mini car racing game.
@John
The initial Mac port had to be done on very short notice over a weekend to get it in Apple's booth at E3.
Paul Scott did the port and from what I heard he did not have many problems. In fact he had in running in just a couple of hours and his biggest problem had to do with some encryption code. I think the bug fixes he did find were rolled back into TGB. Hope your Solitaire game goes well.
#7
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One person tried to hack scores into the top ten list and actually found a vulnerability that I fixed. They were not able to get new scores in the top scores list, but were able to submit the same score more than once.
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Ha you have seen through my stealthy score spamming ninja skill! Njar - I guess using the JororHaxx0r nick kinda gave it away... ;)
(thought you fixed that one ages ago as I wasn't able to reproduce it after one day)
The Minigolf mania game looks like it will be another fun product, good luck with the last - but oh so important - touches!
PS. the PuzzlePoker music is a definite improvement, aye
07/17/2006 (1:30 pm)
@Ryan"
One person tried to hack scores into the top ten list and actually found a vulnerability that I fixed. They were not able to get new scores in the top scores list, but were able to submit the same score more than once.
"
Ha you have seen through my stealthy score spamming ninja skill! Njar - I guess using the JororHaxx0r nick kinda gave it away... ;)
(thought you fixed that one ages ago as I wasn't able to reproduce it after one day)
The Minigolf mania game looks like it will be another fun product, good luck with the last - but oh so important - touches!
PS. the PuzzlePoker music is a definite improvement, aye
#8
07/17/2006 (2:00 pm)
Yeah, when I got up that morning and booted up my computer I saw your score hacking attempts. From the different things you tried, I saw a way that duplicate scores could be submitted and fixed it right away, but not before you succeeded in getting some of them submitted. It was fun to watch you try different things.
Torque 3D Owner Rubes