No online demo yet. Cometburst should be bursting onto various platforms very shortly though. Like… really soon (honest!).

But the goal of the One Week/Game project never was to make a fully-functional polished game every week. Instead the goal was to explore different mechanics and systems for games on a regular basis and release those concepts or prototypes for others to play around with. I quickly strayed away from that goal, but now I think its time to get back to that.

So moving forward the focus of OW/G will shift accordingly. Instead of full-fledged games every week I’ll be working towards shells of games that explore some mechanic or system I happen to be interested in that week. Some of these “games” will be stupid simple and may not even have real win or lose states, but doing this will be more interesting for me and for everyone else.

Thanks for staying around everyone. I’m presenting this week at the Triangle Game Conference on rapid game prototyping and will be showing off a game there developed this week as an example. So stick around and welcome back!

Play the game now!

Don’t overthink this one. The game is exactly what the title tells you it is. It is probably the most honest game I’ve ever made.

So look forward to that this week. In the meantime here are some progress updates.

Week 5 Game – Farewell, My Leviathan: A game based around the hapless love life of a hideous monster and the consequences of rejecting his love.

Week 6 Game – That Monkey Game!: A simple recreation of a friend’s early game, collect bananas while fighting monkeys and lions!

Week 7 Game – Untitled Game Randomizer: This week’s project is vaguely based on an idea for game cliches and randomization.

Click here or on the image to play!

Monster Monster Monster Party Party Party was created for the Gamma4 competition. The main constraint for the competition was to create a game that utilized only a single button. Here spacebar is used to play the entire game. When holding down the spacebar monsters will turn invisible and be invulnerable to tanks and helicopters. Timing your invincibility right also gives you the power to destroy the military.

I really enjoyed the artwork I created for the game with the stark colors and angular designs. I had a real blast designing the monsters and one of the things I wished I had more time to play around with was the idea of changing scales for the game (going from a single monster on the screen to up to 20 monsters at its most zoomed out). It’s an game mechanic I think that has a lot of interest and something I would want to explore in a future title or iteration of MMMPPP.

• Towerfall: Polishing up for FGL submission. Will release shortly thereafter.
• Hypersmash: Release should be early next week after polish + SFX are added
• Monster Monster Monster Party Party Party: Submitted to Gamma 4. Will release after Gamma winners are announced (assuming I don’t get in)
• Kabacha & Friends: late next week

Thanks for the patience people. And remember you can see all the games completed so far at the brand-new Games page.

The fourth One Week/Game project is Kabacha & Friends.

Inspired by the “run forever” games like Canabalt, Kabacha & Friends follows three misfit characters as they forward forever with obstacles in their way.

Developed between Feb. 2nd to the Feb. 8th. Made in Flash using the flixel engine.

The third One Week/Game project is Monster Monster Monster Party Party Party.

Developed for the both the Global Game Jam using the theme of deception and the Gamma 4 competition by using a single button to play. In MMMPPP (the official abbreviation endorsed here!) monsters have decided to have a night out on the city. Unfortunately for us that means by the end of the night the city will be burned to the ground.

Developed between Jan. 30th to the Feb. 1st. Made in Flash using the flixel engine.

The second One Week/Game project is Hypersmash.

Crash! Boom! Break! Mysterious blocks appears in the middle of the screen and your mission is to remove all of them from the playfield. Protect the ball from leaving the playfield from all sides.

Conceived between Jan. 19th to the 25th. Made in Flash using the flixel engine.

A series of images from Towerfall. Part of the game is having different palette options available. They’re vaguely based off the 4 color palettes available on the Gameboy Color/Super Gameboy.