GameMaker Pet-tastic Game Jam

For all the budding GameMaker users to the seasoned veterans, there is a game jam being held over on the Yoyo games forums this weekend starting Saturday, and running till Monday (72 hours).

The hype object is "Pets", with the theme and handicap revealed/finalised on Saturday.
Find out more in the forum post below:
The Pet-tastic GMC Jam 20

As the custodian of two furry female felines, expect my entry to be cat themed :3 Although, my god, how cute are stoats!?!
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  • I entered the game jam and here is my game:
    PRESENTING

    DRAGONMEN
    Inspired by Qbasic Gorillas

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    2Player PvP battle to see who is the best Dragon Tamer by destroying the other Caveman with exploding Bananas!
    Beware of the hidden Dragon Boss!
    Your pet dragon is helpful, but not invincible.

    Featuring destructible random generated terrain levels.

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    Dev. Log:
    Worked whole of Saturday and Sunday until 4pm, so basically 1.6days.
    Features I could not get to do:
    1. Single Player against PC, currently you need to player turn by turn on same mouse with another player, like original qbasic gorillas it is local co-op
    2. More polish for environment, grass, falling rocks, water, etc.
    3. Random events
    4. More pet uses
    5. More art polish (well I'm a programmer)
    6. Improve performance of deforming of terrain.


    Hope you enjoy this, please let me know what you think? I use to play the original QBASIC Gorillas a lot with my brother,
    this is why I remade it, since it was one of the first games which inspired me to become a games developer...
    happy memories.
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    @Boysano LOL, you even got the smiley sun in there! Cool shout-out.

    This also reminded me a lot of Scorched Earth AKA "The Mother of all Games" which came about in 1991, same year as Gorillas.

    Mmmh, I wonder who cloned who back then? Alas it is too long ago for most people here to recognize... ;-P

    I would change the monotonous music though, as it can be used as a weapon to extort information out of someone locked in a small room... :D
  • @konman haha ok thanks, yeah didn't have much time to be picky.
    Just a game type I wanted to try and make for a while, but the surface updates on the terrain deforming or destructing was really performance hungry. I wonder how they dealt with this in the 80ties!
    Did you see what happens when you hit the sun?

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    @Boysano Spoiler here: The dragon boss!!! LOL :)
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