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Mac users rejoice!

Rikard — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:03:29 +0000

I’ve been working on the engine that powers (among other great games) Frasse and the Peas of Kejick (and will power its sequel). Tim Furnish, who made the engine, opened up its source code almost a year ago (how time flies!) and I immediately downloaded it and started looking at it with the intent of porting it to Mac OS X. As you might imagine, that’s not a completely straightforward process. It took me a while simply to get it to compile and run in Windows (using another compiler than the one Tim used).

Progress was made for a while, but then I was hit by serious lack of time somewhere around August, and didn’t resume work on this project until this week. Before this long break, most stuff except the graphics were more or less working. (I say “more or less” partly because there are some things that I know that doesn’t work, and partly because it’s not easy to test things without any graphics.) Today I made a bit of a breakthrough on the graphics front: While there’s still a lot to be done, I can now see the backgrounds of Frasse (at least the non-scrolling ones) on my MacBook. Yay! This gives me new confidence – I now know I’ll be able to make it run properly eventually. It’s just a matter of time.

Then we will be able to play Frasse and the other good SLUDGE games on our Macs. Maybe even Bad Timing, eventually. Erwin is also slow with his game making, but I’m looking forward to seeing if the game will be able to match my (high) expectations for it.

That’s it for now, but I hope it won’t be quite long until next time I have news to share.

Tuba! (and other game music)

Rikard — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:41:07 +0000

The game I talked about earlier, where Deirdra Kiai was collecting graphics in different styles to put together, has been released. It’s called Des Rêves Élastiques Avec Mille Insectes Nommés George, and I recommend that you take a look at it. I was only slightly disappointed that there are no insects named George (I love the title!), but I enjoyed it. This is another dialogue thingy from Deirdra, and contains some things well said. I’ve only played it through once, but I intend to return to it.

My contribution is a badly animated tuba player (me) on a beach, and some tuba playing. (I’ll update the Other Games page eventually.)

Another released game that I’ve done a little work on is 8 Squares in the Garden. I’ve made the soundtrack for this game, based on Lewis Carrol’s Through the Looking Glass. The game doesn’t have a web page for me to link to, so I’ll point you to a forum thread at Adventure Developers instead. (The thread is labeled “open beta…”, but you’ll find the download for the finished game there too.) I’m generally happy about how the music turned out – I wrote it as a wind quartet – but there are some things I’d do differently if I get asked to write music for the sequel. (I hope the planned sequel will get made. “Ad7venture” is currently working on another project.)

Making art for others

Rikard — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:58:52 +0000

I’ve been too busy lately to get much done on either my new game or my porting of SLUDGE to the Mac (neither project is abandoned), but I have been making some quick art for others.

First is the Cover Art Drive for interactive fiction run by Emily Short. I made a cover for one of my favourite games of all categories: Augmented Fourth. It got accepted by the author and is now the official cover art for the game. How cool is that!

Another game I’m currently making some graphics for is Deirdra Kiai’s new project. She’s collecting graphics in different styles that she are going to put together into a game. It may sound crazy, but I think she can pull it off so I’m halfway through making a contribution.

Both projects have deadlines of last April (more or less).

Pigeons are great

Rikard — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Deirdra Kiai has released yet another game you should take a look at: Pigeons in the Park. (Yours truly is featured on the soundtrack, so I added it to the list of “other games“.) I have also added a new review of Frasse to the list on the game’s page.

Nick is back!

Rikard — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0000

A new “other game” is released: The Goat in the Grey Fedora. It’s the second adventure game featuring the detective Nick Bounty, and it’s at least as good as the first one. I’m the voice of Mike, one of the minor characters.