A challenger appears: the eagle with the knife. Also, a new feature: team play. Also Havana! Also I tweaked everyone’s controls and the pollute-cycle might be a little too powerful now.
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A challenger appears: the eagle with the knife. Also, a new feature: team play. Also Havana! Also I tweaked everyone’s controls and the pollute-cycle might be a little too powerful now.
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I took my four-player, one-button murder simulator, rounded it up to five players — one gets the mouse — and added three character classes and a class-selection interface. I didn’t spend much time balancing the classes, but I did ensure that they’re all very effective at murdering. Music by Alan Smithee.
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I built this with a four-man team at the May 5th MADE game jam, in 8 hours. It was a surprise to me, too! I was just going to work on Frog Fractions, until we introduced ourselves and Luther kind of just… took charge of the table. It’s an asymmetrical co-op arena shooter in which one player gets the mouse and one player gets the keyboard, like The Kid and the Kid. Credits below.
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This is a four-player, one-button racing/murder sim. Play as a racecar that can only turn clockwise, and your goal is to make laps. Or, play as a pogo grapple murderer, and your goal is to pogo grapple murder the racecars by crashing into them. Music by Alan Smithee.
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The final word — hopefully — in Pogo Grapple Racecars.
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The long awaited sequel!
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For Klik of the Month 58 I took the Clockwise Carburetors assets and built another one-button racing game, this time with a considerably more complicated control scheme. The intention here is for you to get four friends playing the game at once and figuring the controls out together, but if you want me to spell it out, I’ll explain below.
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Louis Gorenfeld and the Pixie Engine guys and I took a break from Rich Vreeland’s Fez soundtrack release party for an hour to have a game jam on the patio. Here’s what I made:
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So about a month ago, Doublefine programmer Anna Kipnis asked offhandedly on Twitter whether anyone would be interested in attending a Peter Molydeux-themed game jam. If you understood that sentence, feel free to skim the next few paragraphs:
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