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Porker, The Quest For Independence

A couple of months ago, I took a stab at indie game development, having released small game called, Porker: The Quest for Tastiness.  It’s a silly game with a ridiculous premise; become the tastiest pig possible!

It only met the barest definition of a game; it had objectives, levels, a scoring system, win and lose conditions. Nevertheless, those who played it really got a kick out of it, and I enjoyed watching other people enjoy it…sounds a bit voyeuristic, I know, but bare with me :)…

Encouraged by the positive feedback I’d gotten, I decided to beef (pork?) up the game into what I considered a more complete project:

  • Added more levels, additional enemies and power ups
  • Tripled the score system
  • Included several secrets including bonus stages and puzzles within them
  • Created a complex end boss with challenging AI
  • Setup a menu/pause system and volume controls
  • Made 4 possible endings depending on whether you beat the final boss, and what score you attained when doing so

You can buy a digital copy of the game on GameJolt for $0.99. I hope that this and other projects I will continue to crank out will allow me to earn a living doing this.

Try it yourself, and let me know what you think!

 

Hello World!

draft

c:\>helloworld.bat

@ECHO OFF
:10
COLOR 05
ECHO HelL0 World!!!
COLOR 04
ECHO He1lo World!!!
COLOR 06
ECHO h3llo World!!!
COLOR 07
ECHO hEllo ~ World!!!
COLOR 02
ECHO hello w0rld!!!
COLOR 03
ECHO Hell0 Wor1d!!!
COLOR 01
ECHO HelLo WorlD!!!
GOTO 10

SPAM, meet Lead!

It’s amazing how soon comment spammers start creeping in so soon after a fresh site’s creation! While I give them a ‘D’ for determination, I’ve setup enough of these to know how to handle them…

antispam

Disclaimer: No worthless spambots or their masters were harmed in the making of the this post. Instead, an anti-spam plugin was deployed, and has discarded a metric crap tonne of junk comments…still, the illustration above looks like a lot more fun :)…