Puzzle Poker - New Music/Mac - Minigolf Mania July 7, 2006
New Music
Puzzle Poker now has new songs
thanks to the work of Matt Sayre. I
was never very happy with the music in the original release of PP and you may have noticed that
I had the default music volume turned down low in the first release. Matt did a great job and came
up with music that completely fits the theme. Go ahead and download it and take a listen. It is
really cool and catchy - the default music volume is now turned up to full.
Mac Build
The Mac version of Puzzle Poker went
live yesterday. Thanks to Paul Scott for getting the port done.
Top Scores
I noticed that the Gargage Games Guys (like Jay Moore who gave great design feedback) have been knocked out
of the top spot and the only GG person I still see in the top ten list is Eric "Secret Sauce" Fritz. One
person tried to hack scores into the top ten list and actually found a vulnerability that I fixed. They
were not able to get new scores in the top scores list, but were able to submit the same score more
than once.
Minigolf Mania
Minigolf Mania is now almost complete - just a few tweaks here and there still need to be done. It uses
the Torque Game Engine (TGE) with a few modifications to handle rotating platforms and some custom
rendering here and there. The art direction and most of the artwork was done by Alex Swanson. Here are
a few screen shots...
Hug the Wall
Lavaplow Madness
Lavafalls
Booster Beam - derived from class Item with special rendering code
(Three Golf Balls - not DTS shapes - created on the fly
with DOT3 bump map rendering stuff)
(Super Grow super power - several super power types can be found)
(Collect animals to open the cup in the Safari game)
Aidan
Almost forgot to mention my little guy Aidan. He had his 7th birthday, had surgery to have his
feeding tube removed, and is doing great. Here he is the day after surgery:
"My g-tube is gone forever." - Aidan
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