(updated - 4th of July 2010) Hi! It's been awhile. I finally finished Magnetic Shaving Derby and submitted it yesterday. It's quite a bit more frantic than it was when I first made this thread Magnetic Shaving Derby is a simple little arcade game about shaving a guy’s face by attracting a razor with a magnet. It started off as a homebrew game for the Nintendo DS (which can be downloaded from here) which I made for a friendly little coding competition. Now it's an iPhone game. The iPhone version is pretty much the same, but with more. As well as the classic time trial mode, it has a 3-minute score attack mode which has powerups, fruit, hazards and other stuff thrown into the mix. The scoring system rewards skillful shaving. Each powerup will both help and hinder you in different ways, and each hazard is an opportunity to score more points. The effects of different combinations of powerups can be useful.. or disastrous! It has tilt and touch controls, an original chiptune mini-soundtrack of 6 songs, 8-bit style sound effects & pixelly graphics. It's OpenFeint enabled.. separate leaderboards for tilt and touch mode (tilt mode is hard!), and achievements.
Thanks dudes Sorry I didn't reply for months. Figured I'd wait till I had something to show before bumping the thread.. Finally submitted my game to Apple yesterday. Yay! I've updated the first post with details.
Thanks! The tiny little MSD soundtrack can now be downloaded from my site.. 6 songs in 6.5 minutes, haha. Enjoy! Direct link to file
This ... is bizarre. Yet strangely somewhat compelling. Like Hover Bovver, only on a face ... and if it was designed by Japanese game show creators. Who were drunk. And then ate an entire bowl of shrooms fried in lysergic diethylmide. In a pan made of crack. Naked. But in a good way.
hahaha, excellent. Also.. yay Hover Bovver! The shaving/mowing similarity didn't occur to me til after I made the original MSD. <3 Llamasoft.
Jeff Minter is awesome. He never failed to make the quirkiest, yet most entertaining games. This game kind of reminded me of that, except for the fact that "quirky" is a vast understatement.
That's a massive compliment. Thanks!! Jeff Minter has pretty much been my biggest inspiration in my game making adventures.. loved his games since I was a kid with a C64, though I haven't played his newest couple yet. Original and interesting game mechanics and enemy behaviours..attention to detail..lots of particles & things exploding and such.. and FUN I can't claim to be able to achieve anywhere near that level of awesomeness, but I hope I can at least learn from it and start working towards it in my own way..... MSD is only a small game and I'm only a noob at game making, but if anyone finds it even a fraction as fun as I've found most of Llamasoft's games I'll be mega happy.
ohh I love it.. this is what the iPhone needs more of, seriously. Just weird crazy apps that sound amazing. can't wait to pick it up!
headcaseGames, cool If by "apps that sound amazing" you mean the audio (rather than the description?).. thanks!! Music and sound are my favourite parts of games, after gameplay. I had lots of fun trying to make 8-bit style sfx that fit with the action. The music is Commodore 64 SID tunes I made with Goattracker. Always loved that bouncy, twinkly, crunchy chiptune sound. <3
Nope, that isn't enough! I need a magnet, a straight edge razor, a BUCKET of hallucinogenic drugs, and to have the following record playing off in the background:
Hooray! App status: In review. *crosses fingers* Meanwhile I'm working on a minor update before it's even out... just noticed one of the achievements is actually impossible. It's because of a last minute addition I made to the scoring system. Oops. I'm also trying to optimise it a bit more and will be making a few small cosmetic changes, whilst fighting with my beard. Hoping to submit the update asap.