Slime Salad

Way I see it, what are the chances someone's working on a Halloweeny game prior to this? If they are, then might as well allow the game. The more games in the contest the better. Think of it more as a 13 day release window I suppose.

And as for signs and stuff, you don't -need- to use NPCs for that. Have an on keypress thing that checks the coordinates, looks it up, and based on those coordinates, does what you want.

No, that should be fine. (The limit on NPC instances is still only 300) Hm...I don't know if AR-PUH-GUH! will be liking that in the end... The limit is 300 NPC instances on a single map Although if you use some really cunning and clever script magic, I'm pretty sure you could find a neat little wor...

http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r552/ld2i/jack-o-lantern-slime_zpsb9ecdcec.png The 2013 Slime Salad Halloween Contest Welcome to the 2013 Halloween Contest! It's the season for all things spooky and scary, so let's celebrate it with some game-making! Rules Your game should be Halloween-themed I...

I've had around 250 npcs on a map at a time, no real slowdown seen. It might slow down if you're scripting something for each of them though, but that would depend on your script.

Come to the dark side, Meow...

Site works perfectly fine for me. *shrug*

Welcome to Slime Salad, jamjamin! Now you are one of us, and you can never leave! <insert>

imaginegaming wrote:What's the "Yellow" element do?

It's for use against green lanterns.



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Though I suppose that's not actually the case in this game, heh.

Out of curiosity, how much do you charge?

Mostly going over tsugumo's again, definitely one of the better tutorials out there. Going over the stuff he's talked about after gaining some experience is actually still helpful. Particularly the stuff about sel-out and shading.

New barrels:




Been reading up on a bunch of pixel art tutorials, and am improving the weaker parts of my tilemaps. Basically bringing everything up to the same level of quality that I want.

Been practicing with trees:




The trunk was mostly slapped together, as I was focusing on getting leaves to look good with this exercise.

Not sure if I'll actually use this style in Legacy. Still, it's good practice.

Neat!

Meowskivich wrote:I finally have a job. It will be scaring people.

Kidnapper? Cultist? Chainsaw massacer-er?