tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75562460656236663422009-10-21T20:50:22.845+01:00This is a blog about my life as an amateur creator of games. I have made games using various versions of BASIC for more than 15 years. I am now focused on game development within the Sims Carnival website.hisnameisrobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047649122695298115noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556246065623666342.post-51988989437486581192008-12-20T16:53:00.001Z2008-12-20T16:53:54.680Z

I’ve just finished writing an article about one of my favourite games -  Transport Tycoon, a 1994 game from Chris Sawyer. The article can be read over at Squidoo – an excellent site which allows anyone to start writing articles, movie reviews, tutorials and lots more. Check it out.

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I've just uploaded a new game to Carnival called Footie Pinball!To create the game I first used the Wizard tool to create a fairly basic pinball table. I then downloaded this game and added to it using the Game Creator. Some graphics I drew using Macromedia Fireworks while others I modified by taking screenshots of the Wizard pinball graphics and changing the hue and saturation to make them fit

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Sorry for the late post - I published a new colour matching puzzle game two weeks ago. It has currently been featured on the home page of http://www.simscarnival.com/ for about a week and has already been played over 1100 times!In this game coloured blocks fall from the top of the screen and stack up at the bottom. The player must click on blocks which have blocks of the same colour next to them

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Today I released my second entry for the $1000 Galactic Game Challenge which ends on 1st August.It is another space shooter entitled AXOL. I drew all the graphics myself and recorded the sound effects. The music came from a free source online.In this game the enemy aliens come in four colours. Your ship is in the centre of the screen and fires bullets at the aliens when you press space, and

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This was the first game I published using Simscarnival.com from EA. The game is based loosely on Sudoku but with arrows in place of the numbers. I got the name Sotuya from the Japanese words for Arrow and Sort.This game is in the top 500 on Simscarnival which I'm quite pleased with.Future improvements: at some stage I have it in mind to add a feature to this game whereby the game starts with some

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