“Pulse of the Samurai” wins Juror’s Prize for Best Overall Game at the NYU Game Center 2013 Global Game Site
Posted by Robert Meyer in Design on January 28, 2013
The game I worked on in collaboration with artist Shiho Pate, and with background music by Nathaniel Chambers, was lucky enough to win not only the Juror’s Prize for Best Game, but also 2nd Place in the Audience Choice Award at this years Global Game Jam at NYU.
I had a lot of fun making the game and am really proud of it. Check out more info here.
Thawed in HTML via Twine
Posted by Robert Meyer in Design on January 19, 2013
A Beginner’s Guide to 2D Games in Flixel (ver 2.55)
Posted by Robert Meyer in Misc. on September 3, 2012
Hello, there.
Recently, as requested by a few students and alums of the NYU Game Center, I created a sample project based off of a 2D platformer I made so that other students could work and learn from it. Beyond just creating and distributing the code, I wanted to make a brief Beginner’s Guide for anyone looking to start making games – specifically, 2D games using Flixel. This requires almost no programming knowledge really, rather just an interest to open up some code and poke around in it.
What is Flixel, you ask? Well the Flixel site answers it like this:
“Flixel is an open source game-making library that is completely free for personal or commercial use. Written entirely in Actionscript 3, and designed to be used with free development tools, Flixel is easy to learn, extend and customize.”
Basically, it’s a library of classes you include in your ActionScript3 project to make a lot of things easier for you. To get started, try to follow this guide to get setup with FlashDevelop or FlashBuilder (hint: you can get a free license of FlashBuilder from Adobe if you’re a student). Once installed, try to follow parts of this Hello, World guide here. However, with that one, about halfway down a ton of the images are currently missing due to some problems with FlashGameDojo. Read the rest of this entry »
Chip – Conception to The Public Release
Posted by Robert Meyer in Design, Reflections on July 8, 2012
Sometime in 2010 a professor recommended I look into the Flixel library for Flash when I expressed to him both my interest in making a game and my complete lack of technical skills. I had almost no programming experience whatsoever.
However, given that piece of advice I decided to dive in. Below is a quick overview of the process that ensued before I ended up with this game Chip that I recently “released.”
After installing FlashBuilder (as I work on a Mac this was my only option), I started with the Flixel Hello World tutorial. This great resource talks you through setting up your Flixel Project for the first time, which can be overly intimidating due to small annoyances such as the need for a blank Default.css file and the additional compiler arguments you need to go with it in order to get the Flixel Preloader to run. (This may be fixed in a new version, but I still use flixel 2.34).
Global Game Jam 2012: Pursuing the Infinite
Posted by Robert Meyer in Design on January 30, 2012
This past weekend I participated in the 2012 Global Game Jam. I worked for ~36 hours in Flash/Flixel to come up with this prototype I named “Pursuing the Infinite,” after a talk by Flixel-creator Adam Saltsman at this past year’s Indiecade. The theme of the jam was the Ouroboros, and I wanted to encapsulate that through a sense of infinity, inevitability and a blurring of the lines between helping and hurting.
I think the system of the game is fairly interesting: blue gives you points, but speeds you out of control, while red slows you down, but takes away a big chunk of life. It definitely needs something further – some overarching goal or strategy on top of this. Yet as a 2-day work, it’s not a terrible arcade-style game. Anyways, enjoy!
Click the picture to play!
Now working as a Game Designer for Large Animal Games
Posted by Robert Meyer in Misc. on January 25, 2012
Very excited to announce that as of this week I’ll be working as a Game Designer at Large Animal Games!
Best logo in the Games industry.
Some of my favorite games from 2011
Posted by Robert Meyer in Reflections on December 31, 2011
by Bennett Foddy
Girp is simply one of the most interesting physics games I’ve ever played. The controls and use of the keyboard are innovative and personally inspiring. I played this game side-by-side with a friend who had never seen it before this week, and we both laughed and gasped as we finally were able to reach that next letter, which seemed utterly impossible only seconds before. A game that’s both rewarding, silly, and will cause you to exert a tremendous amount of force onto your keyboard is well worth this spot at the top of my list.
