New Game: Footie Pinball!

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 my football theme.

I replaced the background sound with a public domain recording of crowd sounds from a real football stadium and I replaced the sound for the skillshot with a public domain sound of a guy shouting "Goal!".

This is the first pinball game I've made, and this is not an area of gaming I'm familiar with, so I will be interested to see how it is received.

Play Footie Pinball!

New Game: Colourific!

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 to make them disappear. To add to the challenge I have set the game to only give points for groups of three or more, though strategically it can be good to clear groups of only two.

I drew the graphics myself in Fireworks and created the sounds effects using a very useful utility called Sfxr. I used a public domain recording of a ragtime piano piece by Scott Joplin for the background music.

The Game Creator code for finding groups of blocks of the same colour is quite interesting. Hopefully I'll get around to writing about it soon but in the meantime you can download the game and look at it yourself in Game Creator.

Play Colourific now!