Intermediaware http://intermediaware.com/blog indie video game developer blgo Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:33:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Hack Of The Day: C++ Class Method Pointers http://intermediaware.com/blog/hack-of-the-day-c-class-method-pointers http://intermediaware.com/blog/hack-of-the-day-c-class-method-pointers#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:13:48 +0000 Joe http://intermediaware.com/blog/?p=247
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You will get instant access to the Windows & Mac version. And you will get the Linux port as soon as I finished it!]]> http://intermediaware.com/blog/captain-backwater-for-linux/feed 4 Captain Backwater Trailer http://intermediaware.com/blog/captain-backwater-trailer http://intermediaware.com/blog/captain-backwater-trailer#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:13:35 +0000 Joe http://intermediaware.com/blog/?p=228 I used FRAPS to recrod the gameplay and iMovie and the blockbuster template to cut it. As I'm very unexperienced with video-stuff I'm very satisfied with the result. I hope you like it: ]]> http://intermediaware.com/blog/captain-backwater-trailer/feed 2 Hoist up the Jolly Roger http://intermediaware.com/blog/hoist-up-the-jolly-roger http://intermediaware.com/blog/hoist-up-the-jolly-roger#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:53:52 +0000 Joe http://intermediaware.com/blog/?p=217 Captain Backwater is released. This is one of the most exciting parts of developing his own games. The day of the release. The day when you find out if the players love or hate your game. This is especially true for Captain Backwater. Believe it or not: The first email I got from Emmanuel (artist of Backwater) with the idea for pirate themed puzzle game was in April 2005 (!!!). Emmanuel attached some cheesy scribbles, here is the original scan: We had tried out some early gameplay mechanics in two or three prototypes. But nothing seemed to work out. Our game design was poor. Back then, Emmanuel worked with different looks and cel-shaders. After a few weeks (or probably one or two months - can't remember) we stopped working on Backwater. In 2007 I had a new idea for an interesting puzzle gameplay. I started to work on it with the "old" graphics from Emmanuel. This time for Nintendo DS, but progress was slowly as I started my new job at Gameforge. When I finished the game in December 2010 JoWood was interested in publishing it, but one month later they went bankrupt. What a great timing! This was the point when I decided to restart the project for Win, Mac and Linux. I've done it using BlitzMax and my own Horizon-Framework. Everyone I showed the game in the early stages loved the gameplay. Towards the end of the project I stumbled over a blog post from Andra Dogaru. She did an amazing pirate ship, so I asked her if I could use her graphics in the menu section of my game. Andra was excited and even overhauled her work. The result is fantastic I think: So, what's next...? I'm currently very busy with finishing the Linux version of the game. After that, I need to do a free, playable demo version - which is my most important marketing instrument for my direct sales. I also try to get the game into the big casual and indie portals. I also have already received some feedback from customers. They love it, but they also found some small issues I should fix in an update. I also want to add more languages to Captain Backwater. At the moment, the game is available in german and english. If someone of you is interested in translate it to your native language, please contact me.]]> http://intermediaware.com/blog/hoist-up-the-jolly-roger/feed 0 The final steps http://intermediaware.com/blog/the-final-steps http://intermediaware.com/blog/the-final-steps#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:31:26 +0000 Joe http://intermediaware.com/blog/?p=187 Captain Backwater is more near to completion than ever before. So, what happend during the last two months? First of all I was in holidays in Mallorca with some good friends for 10 days. It was planned to stay there for 7 days but we missed our plane back home (note to myself: never book a return flight again that starts off early in the morning). Here is a picture we took in the Megapark: Mallorca 2011 - I'm the one with Dennis' hand on my face. Back home I first analysed and organized the feedback of the nearly 200 beta-testers. The feedback was great, but it was also a lot of work to put every bug report and every feature idea into my issue tracker. Then I worked on a lot of minor and major bugfixes and thought about which features and ideas I wanted to implement into the final game. On the map screen the player now has two paths he can select from. The main path contains the path to treasure and fame. During game progression the player can collect hidden coins and catch some bananas. With those the player can buy/unlock levels on the second path, where he can rescue Captain Backwaters big love Mary'o'Malley. I also worked many, many hours on level design. The final game will contain 100 levels (80 + 20), but I will hopefully release level-packs later on and I also hope that the players will create lots of cool user-generated-levels using the easy-to-use level editor. Whats left is that I have to design the 20 bonus levels, then re-balance some of them and whats left after that is some polishing. Last but not least Emmanuel from Graveyard Dogs is working right now on the last missing graphics.]]> http://intermediaware.com/blog/the-final-steps/feed 0 Get a free beta key for the upcoming indie hit game Captain Backwater http://intermediaware.com/blog/get-a-free-beta-key-for-the-upcoming-indie-hit-game-captain-backwater http://intermediaware.com/blog/get-a-free-beta-key-for-the-upcoming-indie-hit-game-captain-backwater#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:07:32 +0000 Joe http://intermediaware.com/blog/?p=3 Captain Backwater, the new indie hit puzzle game, is near completion. This sunday evening I will start a closed beta test. For this I need you to have a look at the game and provide some useful feedback (if you'd like to). If you are interested to be one of the first one's to have fun with our little gem Captain Backwater (Mac OS X, PC Windows - Linux will follow soon) please follow those steps:
  1. Follow Captain Backwater on twitter or become a fan of his facebook group.
  2. All followers/fans will get a personal message at sunday evening (CET).
  3. You play the game and you will have a lot of fun being a mighty pirate on treasure hunting.
  4. If you have suggestions, ideas or problems you send me a message. (I will take every single reported issue or idea very serious!!!)
Oh, and by the way: Did I mention that ALL beta testers will get their name in the credits section of the final game? Imagine for a few seconds: YOUR name in a damn COOL game! True story! To be honest: This will be the best game I've ever made and I'm already very proud of it. But I really need your help to make it even better. Now it's your turn: ]]> http://intermediaware.com/blog/get-a-free-beta-key-for-the-upcoming-indie-hit-game-captain-backwater/feed 10 I hate Match-3 Games, but… http://intermediaware.com/blog/i-hate-match-3-games-but http://intermediaware.com/blog/i-hate-match-3-games-but#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:07:44 +0000 Joe http://intermediaware.com/blog/?p=5
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Jake Birkett from Grey Alien Games asked me a few weeks ago if I want to beta-test his latest game Spring Bonus. I told him, that I will have a look at it, but that I don't like Match-3-Games very much. When I started playing it I was very impressed by the quality and style of the art. The main-menu music is so lovely that I got stuck on the main menu just to listen to it. I started playing and it felt like many other Match-3-Games out there, but as I progressed there were lots of interesting things introduced. There are a lot of special items (some even inspired me for new items for Captain Backwater). I also liked it that it got very challenging during the game. I was so impressed by the game, that I decided to ask Jake if I'm allowed to offer it through my own website and was very happy when he gave me the permission. If you love Match-3-Games this one is a must-have. If you don't like them, you should give Spring Bonus a try anyway. Jake, you did an awesome job on this one! ]]> http://intermediaware.com/blog/i-hate-match-3-games-but/feed 1 Hack of the day: Hello World in Paint http://intermediaware.com/blog/hack-of-the-day-hello-world-in-paint http://intermediaware.com/blog/hack-of-the-day-hello-world-in-paint#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:29:32 +0000 Joe http://intermediaware.com/blog/?p=6 ]]> http://intermediaware.com/blog/hack-of-the-day-hello-world-in-paint/feed 6 First Person Tetris http://intermediaware.com/blog/first-person-tetris http://intermediaware.com/blog/first-person-tetris#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:04:06 +0000 Joe http://intermediaware.com/blog/?p=7 It's very similar to tetris except that if you rotate a tile, the screen around will rotate and not the tile itself.
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