Thank goodness I built an editor for this thing. I should probably put a “turn off sound” button in here… shouldn’t be too hard… maybe for part 3. I’ll release it into the wild in a day or two.
Dev Tidbit: The percentages you see in the second picture are loot table drops. What this means for this game is that when the board generates a new layout, it’s not simply “random blocks”. It will actually pull from a table based on percentages. The reason is that you wouldn’t want a randomized table where getting “treasure blocks” has has the same possibility of getting “quest point blocks” or “wood resource blocks”. Allows for level balance.
Also trying a simple Flash games portal experiment with it as well. Will post results in a few weeks.
Go Play the Game: Corn Dog Soliatire
Lol.
Play the Game: Fat Knight
It’s free! It’s free! It’s free!
I worked on this Nexus 7 (yes, I understand it’s technically “Android”, but I don’t have any other Android enabled devices to test against) application this weekend called “Hex Grid Toolkit”. It’s part of a, hopefully, long series of tabletop applications I’m making for the device to bring some convenience to tabletop game players as well as bring to attention my other site Board Game Toolkit.
The idea behind the app is that while I often like to play hex grid wargames with my friends during lunch and have developed a few rulesets to take advantage of relatively small boards, I’m not the biggest fan of carrying around the game board and having game pieces fall all over a diner table. This applications virtually creates the board as well as allows the ability to manipulate player tokens. This means only dice and player cards are required and you’re not worried about spilling salt over the game board only to wipe it off and lose track of all the pieces.
Current Features:
Future Plans: Some features I’m hoping to add down the line would be the ability to save and load maps. This will at least help folks save some time. I’d also like to create a few more graphic sets to change the available hexes to players.
How do I get it? Access this Download Link with your Nexus 7. The app will work with non-Nexus 7 devices, but I can’t guarantee it will look right.
My coworker brings up an interesting (and valid) point. I decided to turn off all in-game advertising when playing on the Shen Games site. I mean seriously, the vast majority of clicks really don’t happen there. Might as well make it as player friendly as possible.
Why are you still here? Go play!
Go Play: Tomato Engine 02 – Fat Knight
Galactic Bombers released today! Please check back on this post for more information on the Advanced Version. Plans include powerups, obstacles and additional skins.
Interested in playing on your Nexus 7 Tablet? You can download the APK file here! It will also work on any Android device, but its screen resolution is optimized for the Nexus 7.
Play the Game: Play Galactic Bombers on Newgrounds
More details about the game to come, but know that a free Flash version will be available and a higher res Android version as well. The latter will include other wonderful bonus items like all of the artwork exported (for avatar icons, of course) as well as the soundtrack.
I like to make tabletop games too. You can take a look by accessing it via the menu up top.