Taylor's Tat

Yeah, there is a lot of Monty on the Run inspiration and I remembered one of the enemies in that is just a mug with an evil face on it. Amused me so I did the same... although they kind of look like cameras too. Game art is not my forte, unfortunately.

I deleted my site at the start of 2014 so it was just a portfolio and not some weird portfolio + blog hybrid that was never updated or visited, but I forgot I was using the wordpress images so I've kind of nuked half this page. Oops. But it does mean all my tat is now arranged nicely at: http://alexandertaylor.net.

Also, I've made a new game: Last Word

Reactions are mixed! I will do a video walkthrough in a bit and annotate it with explanations, but basically I've not really done a puzzle-focused game before, people are tripping up a lot, and it's probably my fault...

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Web Player | Game Jam Page

Also, First Hour Superpower did so badly in LD28 it didn't even place, so that's fun! Apparently you need to hit a minimum vote threshold and I didn't. This is mostly my own fault for not voting enough. Speaking of failure here's how MetritronHF did last year.

I'm thinking maybe I should move this thread over to Games Discussion if I'm going to keep prattling on. Is that vain? I mean they are, ostensibly, games. idk! Play Last Word!

Thanks! A lot of people get to the temple and think it's a lot more complicated than it actually is. Some of the solutions people are trying I wish I had thought of! I've put together a playthrough video and it's annotated with the answers to things. Obviously this also spoilers the puzzle side completely.

Music is not mine, it's by a guy named Spiff Tune who had dropped it on /r/gameassets.

Thanks peeps!

I also made another game today but it's kind of intentionally bad (this time, ZING). It's for the Candy Jam, which is for making games that infringe on King's trademark because fuck 'em. It's basically just match 3 only I forgot the grid.

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http://tayl1r.itch.io/saga-candy-hd-remix

For fucks sake Alex stop making rubbish games.

3D Horror Maze
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This game started as an entry for Arcasfifonscreeremminco (The RR Cassette 50 One Screen Remake Mini Competition), where the objective was to remake a retro title in a flawed way parodying compilations like the original Cassette 50. However the game massively deviated from this premise as it developed. I'm not going to enter it.

Instead I ended up remaking 3D Monster Maze as if it was a horror game Let's Play on Youtube. Complete with stylised static, an ending links screen, and even web-cam support so you can see yourself pretending to be scared.

Web Player | Download

Brick Force

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Brick Force is a bad clone of Breakout for The RR Cassette 50 One Screen Remake Mini Competition, where the objective is still to remake a retro title in a flawed way parodying compilations like the original Cassette 50. Unlike the above I didn't go off on a weird YouTube Slender Let's Play angle and it's my actual entry.

Brick Force is a rather terrible rendition of Breakout for many reasons, but mostly the fact that if any of your multi-balls exit the screen it's game over - making it basically impossible.

Web Player | Download

I promise the next thing I make will not be intentionally terrible.

Haha, I'm cool with it.This thread is weird thread anyway. It probably should be in games discussion as a more general jam thread.

Nice game action! I jumped on the things and read the signs and then landed in spikes. 10/10 would game again.