Hello once again everyone. I have been posting a lot of news since I first released my latest game
"Hide-n-Seek Winter" a couple days ago (on March 6th). In my previous post I released a webplayer version of the game so that you could play it directly in your web browser. I decided to take my webplayer version further and make it available to play for free on other sites as well.
Three major third party sites for online web games. You could play it now by going to one of the above links. Or next time you visit one of those sites be sure to check out "Hide-n-Seek Winter", rate and comment what you thought about it.
For further info about the game check out its release page over here: Release page
Hey everybody. Four days ago (March 6th) I released my latest game "Hide-n-Seek Winter". A unique toon adventure game I created about a boy who ventures off to the world of infinite snow in search of his little sister who has been kidnapped by a demon known as "The King of Hide and Seek".
I released the game for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Today, "Hide-n-Seek Winter" is available for a fourth platform. I just released a webplayer version of the game. Now you can play "Hide-n-Seek Winter" directly in your web browser, no download required at all. This version of the game is the best because it plays in the same resolution for everyone which fixes a GUI problem that was in the standalone versions of the game.
Just like the Windows, Mac and Linux versions, this version is also 100% free to play, no ads or in game purchases or anything like that.
Anyway, I hope you check out my new game and give it a try. I would love to hear feedback on what you thought of it!
If you are looking for a downloadable version of the game for Windows, Mac or Linux platforms you can grab it here from the "Hide-n-Seek Winter" release page: Release Page
The release page has also been updated with this webplayer version of the game as well for future reference.
It's finally here everyone! After over three months of work I finally finished my newest game project, "Hide-n-Seek Winter". A unique toon/cel-shaded adventure,action,puzzle game that takes place in a world that never stops snowing. Today is a special release day because it is also my 21st birthday (woooooo!).
I started this project almost immediately after I released "Forest Soup" (my short Halloween game release of 2013) and since then I have been posting updates about it. I had originally planned on finishing and releasing this game before the end of 2013 but then I started to make many changes to the game as I developed it and that led it to take even longer to make. If you have seen my very early updates of this game you can see the difference. I have scrapped levels, re-textured all of my game models and just changed a lot of things. It was frustrating at times but for the most part it was a smooth development process. Out of all my games so far, I have to say that this one was my biggest and most serious one yet. It was definitely a challenge to create this one especially since I created all the assets from scratch, but its finally complete. I am very proud of this specific game project. I believe that this is a major step up compared to my other games and is my most polished game yet. Gameplay mechanics, graphics and overall gamedesign have all improved with this game project. It took a lot of hard work and time to create this but it was well worth it and I feel like I have become a better game developer for it. This is my first game release of 2014 and I can't wait to start working on my next game projects! Ok that's enough bragging for now. Lets just get to the game! :)
To get you a bit more interested in this game if your not already here is the newest trailer I created for it. Enjoy! Download links to game down below.
Hide-n-Seek Winter Release Trailer:
Story: (for those of you who want to know what this game is even about)
After playing a game of hide and seek, little sister Frosty compliments
her big brother Choco by telling him that he is the greatest hide and
seek player ever. After saying this, the "Hiding Demon" suddenly appears
and refuses to believe that choco is the greatest hide and seek player
ever. The hiding demon then kidnaps Choco's little sister and
disappears. The hiding demon tells Choco to meet him at the frozen pond
in the "Infinite Snow World", a strange alternate dimension world where
it snows forever. In order for Choco to rescue his little sister, he
must defeat the hiding demon in a game of hide and seek. Q&A:
-Is it Free?
Of course it is silly! Like all my previous games, this game, "Hide-n-Seek Winter" is 100% free to download and play. No ads, no in game purchases or anything. Just my awsome toon game :) -What can I play your game on?
The game is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. (It may become available for other platforms such as webplayer and android devices if I decide to port it sometime. I will most likely release a webplayer later on for sure though. As for android, I am interested in porting to that device. If I see enough people are interested in it then I will probably also port it to android to)
-I encountered a problem or found a bug in your game while playing
No matter how polished a game is a bug is bound to pop up somewhere. Even though I tested this game many times with no problem you might run into a bug on rare occasions. If you do please let me know. Leave a comment or send me a message telling me about it so I can work on patching it up.
Downloads Section:
-Download Instructions:
(1) Select the download link for your platform (Windows, Mac, Linux)
(2) Save the .Rar file and let the game download
(3) Extract the .rar file you just downloaded
(4) Click the game icon to start the game up and play.
-Game Download Links: (Direct Download links from me)
I will keep this section of the blog updated for any future updates about this game like new platform releases, bug fixes, releases to third party websites, etc.
Ok thats all for now everyone. I hope you enjoy my newest game and look forward to my next games coming soon. I am really looking forward to my future game projects that I have planned!
UPDATE: March 10th, 2014 Now available to play directly in your web browser!
"Hide-n-Seek Winter" now available on Webplayer.
Now you can play the game directly in your web browser online, no download required!
UPDATE: March 13th, 2014 Now Available on Wooglie, Gamejolt and Kongregate!
"Hide-n-Seek Winter" is now available to play on Wooglie, Gamejolt and Kongregate. Three major third party sites for online web games. Play here: Wooglie.com Gamejolt.com Kongregate.com Veiw full post about third party site support here: now on multiple sites!
UPDATE: March 23rd, 2014 Hide-n-Seek Winter now available on IndieDB + New Artwork
"Hide-n-Seek Winter" is now available on the IndieDB website to download, play, review and comment on. This is the fourth site Hide-n-Seek winter has been published on. Check it out over here:
View the full original blog post about this update over here
UPDATE: April 11th, 2014 Hide-n-Seek Winter Available on Desura!
As of today "Hide-n-Seek Winter" is now published on Desura's website and available for all Desura users to play! Check it out here: Hide-n-Seek Winter on Desura (Link) This is my very first game ever accepted and published on Desura. View the orignal blog post for this update over here
Wow, I can't believe we are already in March! Sorry for the lack of updates here. There was nothing really else for me to show, or I guess I didn't really want to show any more screens or anything because I have been spending the rest of time since my last post finishing up the game, adding a little extra polish, working out some features I forgot to add like a save system, etc.
So I haven't updated in a couple days but I have been working on it non-stop. Or whenever I had a chance to.
As you might know from my previous updates, I originally planned on releasing this game early February and then that eventually led to releasing it at the end of February, and I promised to release it before the end of February. But as usual, things never go as planned. I had run into some issues, I needed to add some extra features and I needed to work on the final game. Also, I haven't had as much free time to work on this project for the past couple days because of life and other non game dev stuff. So I decided I needed a little extra time, just a little, to really finalize my game because there is no point in releasing a broken or unfinished game right?
Anyway, I have good news. Finally, after taking the extra time I needed, I finally finished the game. It feels great! This has been probably my biggest and most serious game project yet and I ran into a lot of frustration while building it, for the most part it was smooth though. But finally, its done and I feel really good about it.
you see? Preparing the final builds as we speak. :)
So its done, when are you going to release it? Actually in a couple of hours. I will release the game March 6th (Tomorrow) sometime in the afternoon or so. Like my previous projects, I am releasing this 100% free. It will be available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Why don't you just release it now if its done?
I'm going to do some final test to make sure everything is working right, (even though I know it is since I tested so many times in frustration) but I have to double check. Also, the main reason I decided to release it tomorrow is because tomorrow is also my birthday (going to be 21, starting to feel old mold). So I want to give you guys a present on my birthday. :)
Ok thats all I have for now. I am really excited and looking forward to finally releasing my new toon game. I will probably post a couple of updates frequently with other stuff up until I release it tomorrow. So stay tuned!
(In case you are wondering, yes this is the update I just posted in my works in progress thread on the unity forums here: Link) So I copied and pasted my own update. But this is an important update for my game so I decided to post here on the blog as well.
I am really looking forward to releasing my game tomorrow! see you soon!
So last week I posted an update here on the blog for my short upcoming toon game project "Hide-n-Seek Winter". I said that I was wrapping up the game and that was going to be the final week of development for it. Now here we are the week after and I am not finished like I planned I was going to be. Last week I was literally working on the final level of the game and I should of been done by now. So why it the game not finished you ask? Well, while working on the final level I had some new ideas pop up in my head for this game and I really liked them so I decided that I want to make changes to "Hide-n-Seek Winter". Im going with a different direction with the storyline, actually I have come up with an entirely new storyline for this project and I think it fits better with this game project and my game design style than the original storyline I had come up with. For my new storyline I needed to incorporate a third character. (Originally I only had two in the game)
My new original character that will be appearing in "Hide-n-Seek Winter", the "Hiding Demon"
Character info:
The hiding demon is a very toony, stylized demon type character with a lot of personality. He is known as the king of the game hide and seek because he cleverly hides in various areas when playing. He doesn't like fish because he had a bad childhood experience while on a fishing trip with his father. He can perform various tricks such as grow or shrink his body parts such as his head or hands.The hiding demon lives in the "Infinite snow world" (where the game takes place) and is the main villain of "Hide-n-Seek Winter".
As I was about to finish up developing the game there was something bothering me. I think it turned out great and everything and felt it was a major step up for me compared to my previous games but also I felt like the game was missing something. Something to make it feel more alive, something to give it personality. So I came up with the idea for this character "The hiding demon". I wanted to make a character that is a villain of the story but at the same time a villain that players will like and find enjoyable.To make this character feel really alive I wanted to make his face always have a very exaggerated silly expression on it. I also focused a lot on this characters body expressions and created a ton animations for him that express his personality which you will see in the final game.
I recently finished setting him up in the unity engine with playmaker. Here is how his FSM looks which acts like an animation graph for this character model.
I took a screenshot of this because of how crazy it looked when I finished it. Although it looks like a lot, messy and complex, this was actually very easy to set up with playmaker and is very organized. It is much simpler than it looks. All I am doing here is controlling his different animation states.
Storyline stuff:
I also felt like the original storyline I had come up with for this game project didn't really fit too well after I was about to finish up the game. Originally, Choco and Frosty (the characters of the game) where going to hit by a car. Choco then would wake up in this mysterious place and begin searching for his sister. That is what the storyline was going to be. Kind of dark with a little bit of mystery. Then I decided, since I am making a toon game, I want to make the storyline a little more light hearted and kind of more funny than serious. I wanted it to be kind of like how an episode of a cartoon show is like.
The new storyline of the game:
After playing a game of hide and seek, little sister Frosty compliments her big brother Choco by telling him that he is the greatest hide and seek player ever. After saying this, the "Hiding Demon" suddenly appears and refuses to believe that choco is the greatest hide and seek player ever. The hiding demon then kidnaps Choco's little sister and disappears. The hiding demon tells Choco to meet him at the frozen pond in the "Infinite Snow World", a strange alternate dimension world where it snows forever. In order for Choco to rescue his little sister, he must defeat the hiding demon in a game of hide and seek.
Its a silly game but I really like where I am going with it and the storyline and am having a lot of fun developing it. Although it needs a bit more time I am glad I decided to make changes to this game.
This is a short delay, I still plan on finishing and releasing this game before the end of Feburary (this month). I am looking forward to finishing it. Expect it to be out soon!
Thats all for now.
Be sure to also check out my work in progress thread over at the unity forums right here Unity community
Hey everyone. Just wanted to post a quick update for my upcoming game "Hide-n-Seek Winter". I just want to say that the game is almost finished and this is the final week of development for it. I mentioned a post or two back that this is a short game and I was planning on releasing it sometime early February. So, the plan is to finish and release this game maybe around the end of this week. I'm looking forward to finishing it and sharing it with all you to play.
Frozen pond screenshot:
Sidenote: Check out the works in progress thread I have been posting on almost daily with small updates for this game on the unity forums here: Hide-n-Seek Winter WIP thread
So, here is what I have been working on since mid November 2013:
As you see by the above title and teaser trailer, I would like to announce "Hide-n-Seek Winter". A toon game project I have been creating for a good period of time. Also known as the "secret game" I kept posting screenshots of on the unity forums and on my twitter.
I have been wanting to reveal this project for a while now and today I finally will. So lets get into the details of "Hide-n-Seek Winter"!
Story: Choco and his little sister Frosty are playing outside in the snow when suddenly an approaching car looses control of its breaks and crashes into the two kids. After being run over by the speeding vehicle, Choco suddenly finds himself standing in front of his house. Choco then receives a letter from his little sister Frosty. The letter asks Choco to search for his little sister because they are now playing "Hide and Seek", Frosty's favorite game.
This will be a short game that tells the story about a brother and his sister.
Genre: Action/Adventure/Puzzle/Platformer
(with a mystery)
Style: Toon/Cel-shaded
Characters:
Choco: Main character of the game. Frosty's big brother.
Frosty: Choco's younger sister. Hide and seek is her favorite game to play.
In-game Screenshots:
Platforms: Windows, Mac, and Linux. (I might consider porting it to Android down the road, probably sometime after I originally release it on the mentioned platforms above.)
Dev:
As always, I am working on this game solo. I am making it with the Unity game engine, Unity Playmaker, and Blender3d just like all my previous projects. (my favorite tools of course).
So there you go. "Hide-n-Seek Winter" is my next game release coming real soon. It will be my first release of 2014. I'll admit I have been working on it on and off. However, I am very motivated to finish it. Im very close to finishing it. As you could tell, I worked on it a lot before even revealing it. I plan on finishing and releasing it sometime in early February (which is sometime during this coming month. We are already near the end of January!)
My goal when I first started this project was to create an appealing
"toon" graphic styled game. So far I think I have done a great job (of course I am biased towards my own work but hey, what indie dev isn't? :). Also, I am trying to tell a unique story through this game with very little dialog from the beginning of the game to the end. So that is another goal I am trying to achieve with this project.
As always, this will be another major step up in my games compared to my previous projects. I am working hard on this project and definitely working on it with a more serious approach, a more planned out approach then my past projects. I am aiming to deliver a well polished and good quality game. I am really excited about this one and hope you are too. I look forward to finishing it and releasing it and adding it to my list of completed game projects.
Stay tuned because more updates are coming down the road!
SideNote: I will probably start my own dev thread in the work in progress section of the unity forums real soon where I will post smaller updates more frequently than here on my blog. So you will also be able to check out my progress over there.
