Mechagami is a Flixel-based Metroidvania style indie game being developed by Scarybug Games. Here I’m showing off the gameplay from the first world and talking about the development process and inspiration.
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Chronotron for iOS Progress Video!
Hey guys! We’ve got a video up on my YouTube channel of the progress so far on Chronotron for iOS. The big new feature will be the level editor, which is featured prominently in the video, along with the in-game…
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TwitStorm’s Story
I’m about to release a game that’s been “done” for over 2 years. It was initially delayed due to the difficulty in finding a sponsor willing to back a game that requires a connection to a PHP proxy of a…
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Chronotron for iPhone Coming
The very talented Craig Hinrichs and I have begun working together on a sequel to Chronotron for the iPhone (and possibly other devices later on). We’re still in the early stages of prototyping and designing, but we’re both very excited…
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Chronotron Nominated for Award by Nickelodeon/AddictingGames
“First-of-Its-Kind Convergent Prime-time TV, Web Event Honors Best Online Games” Read the Full Press Release Chronotron was nominated in the category “Best Performance by a Robot”. Winning games will be shown on the TV machine on June 27th.
Chronotron nominated for Best of Casual Gameplay 2008 Award!
Chronotron was nominated for a Best of Casual Gameplay 2008 award in the category of Browser-based Puzzle game! You can vote once a day, if you like. I’m working very hard behind the scenes to bring you something awesome. Winning…
Chronotron in the Wall Street Journal and around the Web!
Chronotron was featured heavily in a recent Wall Street Journal article about the rise of Indie games. They mentioned fellow PAX 10 alum Schizoid as well! Speaking of PAX 10 alum, congrats to The Maw for winning the audience prize,…
X-Play Interview!
X-Play interviewed all of the PAX 10. Here’s their Chronotron interview! I have no idea why I look so unenthusiastic! Pointing a camera at me makes my face do weird things, I guess. Thanks X-Play!
Gamester Interview
I was recently interviewed by Gamester about being included in the PAX-10. They have interviews with the other winners too!
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Ironically, being poly increases your chances of getting mono.
@Chronotron And I have yet to see my vision of "Coke Vs. Pepsi: A Space Opera" come to life, how many more e-mails do I have to send you?!?! Retweeted by Joe Rheaume..otron
Pretty sure I had this same conversation years ago when Escapist ran a "contest" where you could "win" making them a game for free.
People ask me to make free video games for them all the time, but usually they are seven years old.
Easy test to see if someone is legitimately helping you and folk like you: did they take your work and not pay you? No? Probably not ok. Retweeted by Joe Rheaume..otron
That was really their answer? I was kidding when I predicted that. D:
@ZoeQuinnzel To stop men from lying about their sexual identity to gain access while being inclusive to people what don't have documention Retweeted by Joe Rheaume..otron
MRAs gettin' mad over Broken Age i.imgur.com/8hLZBaZ.png Retweeted by Joe Rheaume..otron
I wonder if @Newgrounds has ever considered buying mewgrounds.com and make it so it only shows cat-related games and animations.
I might actually be able to go to the @Newgrounds party this year!
Next I need to fix the issue that jumps are too "floaty" which I guess means cranking up the gravity and increasing jump power.
I did complete rerereredoing the tileset for world 1 of Mechagami last week. So it now has some tiles that only collide from above.
Got exactly nothing done this week so far, thanks to getting the cold everyone in Wisconsin has.
It's like seeing a decent person help a little old lady across the street, and screaming "dude she's not gonna FUCK you bro" at both of them Retweeted by Joe Rheaume..otron
Space Invaders cartouche on the walls of the pyramids of a red desert planet. That's a thing going into my video game.
