There were four great entries from Knoxville Game Design for Summer ’17. The theme for this competition was Running Out of Power. The entries by our group are listed below in no specific order. Let us know if we missed your game!
Multiple US cities have been hit with simultaneous power grid failures. We are RUNNING OUT OF POWER.
The government has tasked YOU—a PowerTransformer—to put as many windmills as you can back in operation in a limited amount of time in order to get power restored to a maximum number of households.
Away Team is a resource and squad management simulation game where your goal is to get home. Your ship is stranded 4 jumps from home and each jump takes a certain amount of power and time to charge. You can send an away team on resource gathering missions to nearby asteroids, abandoned ships, and more. You can convert supplies into power and once the jump is charged, make your way home!
Help Slowbot activate the three lights in each level. Slowbot’s power will gradually decrease over time. Slowbot will become slower and headlight will dim as power decreases. Moving makes Slowbot’s power decrease more rapidly. Picking up a battery will restore some of Slowbot’s power. Touching a mine will drastically lower Slowbot’s power.
Spin Widgetz is the ultimate collectible Fidget Spinner experience with true Augmented Reality mode. Spin your spinners to earn gold, then use gold to get new spinners!
If I missed your game, please send the URL to me (levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org) so I can include it on the front page of the knoxgamedesign.org website!
Knoxville Game Design invites you to attend the online hangout for Sunday August 13, 2017 at 2pm Eastern Time.
This month we will be showing off the games that we developed since last time, including our experiences with recent game jams.
Be sure your microphone or webcam is working prior to the meeting. We suggest using the mic button at the bottom of the window to mute yourself when not talking to reduce the amount of background noise on the recorded podcast. Firefox no longer works with Hangouts, so please use a browser such as Internet Explorer or Chrome.
Last month’s podcast had the most listens since the podcast started in January 2016, and the video is on pace to become the most watched episode. Thanks for everyone’s support!
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Please direct any questions to levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org
Come join members of Knoxville Game Design for the Summer ’17 kickoff meeting. We will be meeting at Panera Bread on North Peters Rd at 7pm Eastern Time on July 28, 2017 prior to the game jam theme announcement.
Discussion of games currently being developed by game developers in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area, as well as an analysis of current topics in the gaming industry.
Discussion of games currently being developed by game developers in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area, as well as an analysis of current topics in the gaming industry.
Learn how to customize your RPG Maker VX Ace game using Ruby scripting. This presentation will cover RPG Maker’s (not always well-documented) scripting feature, assuming some basic knowledge of RPG Maker itself.
We’ll talk about what scripting can do, when it should be used instead of Events and other features, and some general strategies for skimming through and diving into the default project’s large code base.
Discussion of games currently being developed by game developers in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area, as well as an analysis of current topics in the gaming industry.
There were three great entries from Knoxville Game Design for Spring ’17. The theme for this competition was “A Small World”. The entries by our group are listed below in no specific order. Let us know if we missed your game!
Long ago the race of Hoppers populated the galaxy. Now all thats left is a few Hopperbots still trying to complete thier exploration of the planets they are left behind on. Can you help the Hopperbots complete their mission of collecting data on their small worlds?
Classic beat ‘em up action. You must guide the planet and defeat the evil planets to save the universe!
Time Lapse Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cRNJdBPkF8
Gameplay Video
May 2017 Meeting Announcement
We will meet online using Google Hangouts on Sunday May 14, 2017 at 2pm Eastern Time. No agenda this month. We will be showing off our Spring ’17 game jam games and other games that we have been developing.
Be sure your mic is working prior to the meeting. Also, please mute your mic when not speaking, especially if you are in a place with a lot of background noise. There is a little mic icon in the Hangout window that will allow you to mute yourself.
We are still exploring other options for holding our online meetings. We may move to Skype or some other service, but Hangouts is nice since it doesn’t require invitations to be sent. Any other suggestions are welcome!
Members of Knoxville Game Design created entries for the GM48 22nd game jam. The theme was “Descend”. The games had to be completely created in 48 hours using GameMaker.
Welcome to Drone Delver! The cave exploration drones have gone haywire, and we need your help! They’re only responding to switching positions, but they are able to send signals that effect each other. See if you can figure out how to get to the bottom!
Help the miner escape the caves by avoiding the deadly bats and collecting gems!
Time Lapse videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmZLqHp_gM0
Spring ’17 Game Jam Kickoff
Some of us will be getting together at Panera Bread on North Peters Rd. at 7pm Eastern Time on Friday April 21, 2017 for a game jam Kickoff. We are planning to show off our games at the May 2017 online meeting.
Upcoming Events
Members of Knoxville Game Design will be at Momocon in Atlanta, Georgia May 25-28, 2017.
