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Comment on MONACO nominated in the IGF by Chris Pelling

Chris Pelling — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:55:04 +0000

IGF GRAND PRIZE WOOOOO!!!

That’s massive! Congrats! I so wish I was at GDC this year to congratulate you in person. :)

Comment on Monaco on Facebook and Twitter by MrPhil

MrPhil — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:57:09 +0000

YEEH HAAW! Way to go!

Comment on Monaco on Facebook and Twitter by MrPhil

MrPhil — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:18:19 +0000

Hey Andy! I was wondering what middle-ware or game engine you used to build Monaco?

Comment on What colors were dinosaurs? by lola

lola — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:16:16 +0000

will there be volocorapters and spinasaurases and brackeasourases

Comment on Announcing Dinosauria by Ryn

Ryn — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:14:12 +0000

I would be Great if you could include the protoceratops or the diceatops! ( I love ceratops )

Comment on The Indie Infrastructure: Game Engines by Free Xbox Live Gold

Free Xbox Live Gold — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:30:22 +0000

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Comment on Monaco on Facebook and Twitter by Andy

Andy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:05:32 +0000

These are actually great ideas. I realize it’s hard to come up with ideas when you don’t REALLY know the engine and the game, but random stuff like this actually helps me to think outside the box.

I do currently have “fog” rendered as clouds in a particle system, but I actually think tile based fog might be interesting too. I also like the idea of traps with electricity and water… which also makes me think it would be interesting to have running water. Thanks!

Comment on Monaco on Facebook and Twitter by UsF

UsF — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:52:51 +0000

No problem, I can wait. :D

On your Twitter question, I’d also prefer to play an early build (to see if I like it, to suggest changes/additions early). Unique stealable items can surely be modded in later and might even be a fun little thing people could design in a pixel-editor.
I don’t use Facebook, so make something that even I can enjoy (when reaching that Facebook milestone).
3D Techniques in a 2D setting:
Do you have fog? Can a fog overlay be put on a title below lighting effects? Fog could be exchanged for smoke or fire for additional effects and environmental hazards. Also it could include water and other liquids, which can have different effects on the person within, depending on specific items in the objects layer (some electric gadget in a watertitle nearby creates an electronic hazard for all water titles connected to each other). I don’t know if those do make sense for the game, but you could create some things like spreading fire for every title that has either a wood floor, item or wall in it.

Comment on Monaco on Facebook and Twitter by Andy

Andy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:15:15 +0000

Ha, these are all questions you’ll have to wait for me to answer another time :)

Comment on Monaco on Facebook and Twitter by UsF

UsF — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:16:57 +0000

Okay then, some more questions :x

If there are multiple players and one player looses, gets caught whatever, is the game over or does it continue for the others?
If it continues, can the other person do something while he is still in? How long do rounds last?
Are there fixed map sizes? Can events be scripted on maps?
Since you don’t know the release date, will it be this year or might it take longer?