Dr. Oetker game

PLAY THE GAME HERE

I have worked on the Dr. Oetker game at the company where I'm doing my internship. This game went live today. The game is about making food for your friends. The faster you do it the more points you get and of course making the right food for your friends will give you extra points.
I programmed, coded almost the entire gameplay: the steps that should be done to make all different foods, the actions that a player can do, the movement of the friends and their actions etc.
This game is a casual game. Not really my type of game (I prefer gamers games), but it's always nice to see a game go live, which I have worked on.
The game can be played at the Dutch Dr. Oetker site
There are prices to win, Dr. Oetker will give away a Dr. Oetker prize package to the player with the best score every week (only for Dutch people tho -_-).



Make delicious food for your friends and gain points.

O yeah, my voice is in this game. If you hear a guy say "chow" when he leaves, that's my voice of course it's edited a little ^_^

New private game project

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My plan was to update this blog as much as possible, but free time is hard to find lately. Last week I heard from my university that I was missing a few ECTS (credit transfers) points and I need those if I want to graduate in June. To get those points I can follow a course of my choice or do some other projects. Since I'm on internship at the moment, so I don't have time to follow course and I don't want to. I have chosen to do a project of my own. I going to make my own game. The reason is because with the game I can get the ECTS points and I can put the game in my CV as work of my own.

I always wanted to make a game of my own, but to do it in my free time.... Now i have forced myself to make a game in my free time. Till now I've always created games in a small team, so it's going to be a new experience to create the game on my own.
The game is going to be made in flash, actionscript 2.0 and it's going to be a 2d top down shooter for 2 players.

I've been working on the project for a week now and it's going well. Spending my free time on this game was worth it so far. I learned a lot of new stuff about flash. I already have my 2 players, some fire animations, most of them are sprites ripped from other games (it would be nice if I had the skills to draw my own graphics, but my drawing skills aren't good enough, so I found some cool sprites at the Sprite Database), advanced collision detection (I have to thank gskinner for that) and displacement filter to add some cool graphics (I found this nice tutorial).

I'm gonna try to make it a 1 of a kind game. I have some nice ideas that I have never seen in other games before. This game will definitely be different from any other 2d top down shooter if I can work out those ideas.

The game doesn't have a name yet (I haven't thought about it yet and won't until the game is almost finished).

Some screenshots


Players can load up there weapon like Megaman/Rockman


Using the T shaped object to test the advanced collision detection


A special borrowed from another game. If you are a real gamer you know who uses this special.

My gaming experience

My gaming experience goes way back to the early 90's.

Atari 2600
The first game console that I have played is the atari 2600. One of my best friends had the console. At that time the atari 2600 was already at it's end, but as a kid playing your first video games, it's an awesome experience. I played classic games like pong, pacman, space invaders etc. They aren't interesting for gamers these days, but for me, I'm glad that I have played them. The experience might come in handy later on in the game developers world.












Image of the atari 2600

NES
After the atari 2600, the next game console I played was the Nintendo Entertainment System, the NES. With it's 8 bit graphics and more advanced games, it was a major difference compared to the atari 2600. At that time a lot of friends of mine had the NES and to play as much new NES games as possible we all (our parents) bought different games, played them and lend them out to eachother. I played games like Mario, double dragon, duck hunt, megaman, castlevania, battle toads, kirby etc. Great fun and unique experience.

















Image of the Nintendo Entertainment System


Gameboy
I got the Nintendo Gameboy from my uncle and aunty. One of the best gift you can get when you are a kid. The games weren't that much different than the games on the NES, but it was nice that you could keep on playing when you were not at home.













Image of the Nintendo Gameboy


SNES
A few years later I (and my 2 brothers and my mam) went to Hong Kong to visit my family. My older cousin had a SNES with a lot of games. The SNES was the new console, better graphics, more advanced games. My brothers and I spend days with my cousin to play on the SNES. My mam bought the SNES in HK and we toke it back to the Netherlands. Without knowing that the SNES game cartridge was different for each region. Europe, Asia and US had their own cartridges and SNES console. The European and Asian SNES look the same except for their cartridge, but the US SNES looks completely different and we had the US SNES -_-. Back than I learned a valuable lesson about consoles and regions. In the Netherlands I could only get new games at stores that would sell import games.
I still have played a lot of games on the SNES. The game genres that were new to me then were 1 on 1 fighting and role playing games. I played games like Street Fighter, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat, Dragonball Z, Zelda, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger (still one of the best games ever made) etc. The experience I got from the new
gameplay really was superb.

Image the US SNES

Image the European / Asian SNES


PC
While I had the SNES some friends of mine had a pc at home. On the pc, friends of mine had games like Duke Nukem, Worms, Wolfenstein, Wacky Wheels etc. It was on the pc where I saw nice 3D graphics for the first time. The SNES has Star Fox which is in 3D, but it didn't look as good as the first virtua fighter or Panzer Dragoon. I also played Real Time Strategy games like Warcraft and Command and Conquer. Racing games like Need for Speed and Test drive. 1st person shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, Quake. One of the best gaming experience I've had was playing games on your own local network with friends. Games like, C&C Red Alert, Diablo, Quake, Need for speed etc your own lan party.
The graphics on the PC were amazing, especially with the first 3D graphic VooDoo cards. From regular pc rendered to 3D graphics is still the biggest visual jump forward I have ever seen. The PC was the reason why I didn't want a N64 or playstation. There were just so many great games on the PC. And some of the populair games of the playstation were also released on the PC, Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid.
In all those years I played a lot of PC games. Some friends stayed with consoles, so when I was at their place, I could always play on the N64, dreamcast or playstation.

Gamecube
It was early 2002 when my brother and I bought the gamecube. We pre-orderd the cube to have it on the first day of release. The first game we bought was the new Sonic. Only playing it for a few houres, we toke the game back to the shop switched it with the 1 on1 fighting game Bloody Roar. In 2002 my brother and I bought like 10 games for the cube, but most of them weren't interesting enough for me. Looking back at it now, 20 cube games later, I still don't like the cube that much except for a few games, the resident evil series, Smash Brothers. The cube just missed the action genre that other consoles did have.


Playstation 2
In 2003, I went back to Hong Kong to visit my family again. It was in HK where I knew that I should have bought a playstation 2 instead of a cube. The playstation 2 had the games that were not on the pc nor on the cube. Games like Devil May Cry, Tekken, pro evolution soccer series, God of War, Metal Gear Solid series, lots of rpg's. Knowing that I own a cube I just had to get that PS2. Up till now I still haven't regret it. It's one of the best buy's I have done. 4 years later and the PS2 is still going strong. In all these years great games were released for the PS2.

1st post! Fun and Business

Image from the popular sports anime Slam Dunk

Lately a blog is almost a must have for someone who wants to do something in the ICT. Especially for someone like me who tries to be successful in the game developers world.

A blog is perfect to put your own experience and work online and it can easily supplement your CV.
It combines fun and business at one spot.

The main reasons for me to make a blog of my own.

I'll try to update it as much as possible.

Kar Ching