Surf Shogun Released

THE TIME IS THE DISTANT FUTURE. THE PLACE IS NEO KALIFORNYO, A PEACEFUL CITY RULED BY THE LAW OF ZEN UNTIL GANGS OF SURF SAMURAI ARRIVED, BRINGING THEIR ANCIENT FEUDAL CONFLICTS TO THE BEACHFRONT. NOW THE CITY IS DESPERATE FOR A HERO…

YOU ARE A MASTERLESS RONIN WHO HAS SWORN TO PROBABLY NEVER TAKE ANOTHER LIFE BUT NOW YOU CAN NO LONGER CLOSE YOUR EYES TO THE SCREAMS OF YOUR CITY.

THE TIME HAS COME TO WAX YOUR BOARD AND DRAW YOUR SWORD ONCE MORE, TO FIGHT YOUR WAY TO THE EVIL OVERLORD KNOWN AS THE SURF SHOGUN!

The game can be played with between 1-4 players locally, with full controller support available. Defeat waves of rival samurai and perform stunts to increase your kill multiplier, rival for the top spot on the online score board to become the Surf Shogun.

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Made for Facepunch Studios Prototype Week.

Grab it HERE!

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A Fistful of Gun is released!

I have finally finished it! grab it HERE!

Under the Ocean Dev Stuff

Due to circumstances mentioned here I will be restarting Under the Ocean solo from the beginning.

Grab the latest files as I work on them HERE

Builds are usually daily/every second day.  If you want to support me consider buying a copy at www.underthegarden.com or donating to my paypal paul@underthegarden.com, every dollar is appreciated! If you have donated just shoot me an email and I will send you a steam key so that you can keep updated as the builds move over to a steam branch shortly.

If you can, please post your comments/questions on the builds on the  steam forums.

2014 and beyond

2013 was a pretty successful year, I managed to build quite a few smaller games in Undercolor Agents, Steven Seagal: Hard to SWAT, Fistful of Gun and Happy Little Murder Friends while working on my bigger project, Under the Ocean.  I am now officially doing this whole -making games thing- as a serious job so 2014 will be the year that I reign in my focus a little for the foreseeable future.

So what can you expect from me in 2014?  In short, two really great couch co-op games (though internet will be available for Under the Ocean also!)  The first on the list is the Under the Ocean rebuild...

So as priority, Mike and I have been rebuilding Under the Ocean for the last few months, to be much more refined and focused, adding much needed features and a lot of changes that will hopefully transform the game ( details here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/227720/discussions/0/846963710989952580/ ), and once that is sorted and back into the groove of regular updates/development, I will then put the final touches on a game that is long overdue for release...

Fistful of Gun: for a Few Gun More, the followup to my freeware game Fistful of Gun,  will be the next title to drop, though it has been in a state of completed for some time, a few finishing touches and play testing is all that really stands in the way of getting this title finished.   It will include 8 new playable characters, bringing the grand total to 11 uniquely controllable characters , each with there own unique weapons and abilities, a fully fledged story mode with missions and bosses and such, and a versus mode, in addition to loads of polish, piles of new enemies and arenas and all sorts of stuff that will take you straight back to the old west, including a full audio score by Surasshu.

5 hostages, 10 seconds, one man. Steven Seagal is Hard to SWAT.

I made this in 48 hours for the LudumDare 27, hope you guys like it. The game is called "Steven Seagal : Hard to SWAT",  Here is a trailer.

You can check out the competition build  Here!  Or play the latest build below:

Download STEVEN SEAGAL: HARD TO SWAT (Post Competition)

Wallpapers

Some of the trash I have painted over the last year for various games I made can now be your desktop wallpaper, all are 1920x1080, click the link below to get the full size one, enjoy.

FISTFUL 1920x1080

UNDER THE OCEAN 1920x1080

RAMBROS 1920x1080

Undercolor Agents

Well, what a crazy 48 hours of makin games, so this is what I made on the weekend for the Ludum Dare 26 competition, it's called Undercolor Agents.  It is a arena based multiplayer shooter, enjoy and don't forget to vote if you liked (or disliked!) it.  It is playable with 1-8 players, so grab some friends and check it out, proper Joypad support and bugs and maybe feature additions coming as an update, details below.  I have uploaded a post competition build of the game with lots of mini-fixes to the controls and difficulty and a whole new Audio score by Surasshu!  Enjoy!

(LATEST VERSION) Play the Post Competition Version with Audio by Surasshu!

(OLD VERSION) Play the Competition Version and Vote at Ludum Dare!

STORY

Undercolor Agents is an arena shooter about an elite group of super secret Agents, dealing with a Hue invasion that is going to threaten their little desaturated world. They remove unauthorized colors with force, extreme force.

HOW TO PLAY

The game can be played up to 8 players, you each control a colored agent who is strong against enemies of his own color (agent red destroys red enemies easily for example) - you must cleanse the hue infection spreading across town and destroy the pylons that act as portals for the colored undesirables. Agents away!

MULTIPLAYER

When playing with 2 or more players and one gets hit by the enemies, you can "save" him by shooting the enemy off him, making multiplayer games a little easier, though I have included a hardcore difficulty mode if you manage to finish it easily.

CONTROLS

Each characters controls can be customized on the main menu by clicking the text across his portrait, if a key is not being used it will have "unused" as the binding. The keys are as follows as they appear in game:

   UP - up movement
   DOWN - down movement
   LEFT - left movement
   RIGHT - right movement
   SHOOT - shoots current weapon
   WEAPON SWAP - cycles to next available weapon

   F2 will restart the game.

   ALT + ENTER will go fullscreen  

FUTURE UPDATES?

If you want to play the updated version in a few days upto a week or so, signup to the email subscription on the side, or follow me on twitter @farmergnome.  Depending on how much interest there is in Undercolor Agents will reflect how much after competition work I put into it, I may end up bundling it up with Fistful of Gun full release as a polished up mini game, we shall see...

Under the Ocean is now on Steam!

This has been a long time in the works, but Under the Ocean is now steam approved, so if you are considering purchasing an alpha, you will be happy to know that a steam key is now included in the deal (or if you previously supported us, you should have a steam key email!).  This marks my first ever game on steam, so pretty awesome news all around.  As far as updates, we have spent the few weeks of the new year doing usability updates to fix up a few of the rough edges in the game currently, next step will be kickstarting multiplayer and some of the bigger features, the time I get away from that will be spent adding rafting into the game, which is slowly chugging along in the background.  As usual, play it here:

www.underthegarden.com

So how do I do pixel art?

Well, in short, I don't pixel the traditional method much anymore, since I have found a way that works quicker for me, so as a second tutorial series I thought I would cover the methods I use to make pixel art quickly, this time for Fistful of Gun, and I use the term "pixel art" loosely, most pixel purists should probably avoid this tutorial.  This builds on tutorial series one which covered concept art in Photoshop ( you can find it here ). The first part in the series I will be covering character portraits, video two will be game sprites and animating them, post below if you have anything you would like me to cover and I will include it in video three, I will post the videos here as they become available, enjoy.

My first tutorial

So this week has been pretty crazy all round, Ludum Dare finished up and Happy Little Murder Friends scored 3rd overall, which is pretty good, and I have been hard at work at a improved version of Fistful of Gun and Rambros.... I also made a tutorial, this is one of the most common questions I have been getting lately is "how do I draw stuff in photoshop" - so here it is, we will be drawing a bit of Under the Ocean art below in a 5 part video tutorial, enjoy! (I am currently uploading the psd files, they might be some time at this rate.)

a Fistful of Gun playable builds.

This is my little homage to shooters such as Gun.Smoke that I played as a kid.  Enjoy!

Download a Fistful of Gun 0.42 



To remap your controls, just edit config.ini in the root directory, use this table to find the ASCII codes.  If you would like a steam key for the future builds, hit me up at @farmergnome on twitter, I will do some giveaways shortly!

Edit:  Here is a Wallpaper I painted for the game, the link below is  to the 1920x1080 version.  I have been hard at work on a follow up version whenever I find the time, more details shortly!

Wallpaper 1920x1080

Under the Ocean: random generation released!

This has been a bit over  a month in the making, but with random generation and a whole pile of new gameplay changes, visual and audio additions, it seems to have come together rather nicely, just check the devlog above for all the details about what is included in the patch.   As always, check it out at here!

Happy Little Murder Friends

This week I am tidying up my Ludum Dare 25 - 48 Hour entry "Happy Little Murder Friends" - the theme was "You are the Villain" ( Original Ludum Dare Thread ) If you are interested in checking out the builds as they progress, sign up to the right.

This will be my new way to distribute builds for smallish games I am working on, as hosting them on forums and such takes a lot of overhead, and now this system is setup it is really quite painless to share what I am working on with you guys.  Each game also has a auto update feature that will check if a new version is available, and a few other bells and whistles...  I will post the first build below to get your blood flowing - though the link will only be active a few days until the next version is up, so signup via email if you want more updates - happy shooting!

EDIT:  HLMF snagged 3rd overall, thanks everyone!

Ludum Dare Post Competition Entry "Happy Little Murder Friends"

DOWNLOAD Post Competition Build!

Controls:  Left Mouse to shoot - Right Mouse to use fetish - WASD to move. 

Goal:  Kill your quota of targets on your hit list to progress to the next city.

  

Ludum Dare 25

Here is a new game I made in 48 hours, called "Happy Little Murder Friends", jump over to the Ludum Dare thread and have a play, drop a comment and vote!  Hope you guys like it.  Play it HERE!

If you would like to play post competition builds, sign up to the email updates on the top right of this page for a steady stream of updates to the game, not to mention other games I am currently working on but haven't released publicly.

a Fistful of Gun

Have a play of a new little game I am working called "a Fistful of Gun".  I am working on online multiplayer at the moment and a storymode, jump over  HERE to play the early builds (Though it is still very much work in progress)  Drop some comments on the forums if you have suggestions for features!

Follow me on twitter here  if you would like early access to the online multiplayer I am currently working on and some of the new other features going to be added, enjoy!

SO MANY UPDATES!

So I haven't updated much as usual, have been kind of busy with so many different projects on the go, as well as some family problems, so here is a pile of updates to catch up.  First up, Under the Ocean, not much to say that a video can't check it out, play it over HERE!

Also Soul Jar got 6th in the Ludum Dare 48 hour compo, which is good news, could have been better but I am really happy with how it turned out, thanks for everyone who voted on my entry!

Rambros is getting a bit of an overhaul in between doing Under the Ocean updates lately, more on that shortly.  In other news I will be releasing some of my unreleased mini-games (Already Dead is first up) to my twitter followers pretty shortly for testing, so follow me @farmergnome 

Ludum Dare 48 hour Compo

So I decided to enter the Ludum Dare 24, the theme was Evolution, I wanted to try something with AI so I knocked this out in 48 hours (I didn't sleep a whole lot...), this also marks my first attempt at doing sound and music, this game is called "Soul Jar".

Go play and vote here!

Direct Download Link

Epic Slackness

So I have been busy, real busy.  I haven't updated much lately but here is a double one for you all. 

Under the Ocean

RamBros

RamBros Updates

A quick update on RamBros, 2 new levels, Russia and China, with a pile of screenshots and a video of progress, enjoy!  Back the project Here!