Cat Mario! (Syobon Action?)

November 24th, 2009

Nov24 Everyone loves Mario!  You do, don’t you?  You know Mario, the little Italian plumber from a series of games from Nintendo that goes back to the ancient Donkey Kong, and still 20-30 years later we’re still enjoying him.  You know, Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros, Super Mario World, and on and on.  Spin-offs of spin-offs, tv shows, and what have you, he’s become almost as recognized as Mickey Mouse the world over, and maybe even surpassed (I can’t remember but I might have read an article where he surpassed Mickey as the most famous fictional character), but I digress… There’s been a ton of fan games and rip offs.  Now let’s talk a little bit about cats.  Okay so they’re not as exciting.  But a lot of us love cats, take the characters in John Wizard Game’s Dawn’s Light for instance, or Cat Ladies.  So it makes some sense that someone, somewhere would create a game that has both CAT and MARIO elements.  It’s by some Japanese person, whom I don’t even know the name of because I can’t read Japanese.  This only makes sense though because Nintendo is a Japanese company.  What makes this game unique though (aside from the fact that you play a cat in what looks like a rip off of Super Mario Bros)?  You’re about to find out…

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Shameless Plug: My Game “Hypno-Joe” Part 4

November 23rd, 2009

Okay at this point I was doing walk animations. Hand drawn at first using paper, and then eventually using a program a friend had made. I’ve decided since they are nothing but short paragraphs each with animation, I would put all 4 previous posts here. They’re all walk cycles, and Joe doesn’t really look right in each one but still there’s some of my lame skill. A quick note, I don’t know what happened to animation number 2… I think I had done it but had not put up a post about it.

http://old.gamesafoot.com/?p=224
http://old.gamesafoot.com/?p=226
http://old.gamesafoot.com/?p=228
http://old.gamesafoot.com/?p=230

Enjoy.

10 interesting links time!

November 22nd, 2009

1) How to respond to a video game review, by Jim Sterling of Destructoid

2) Roomba + Pac-Man = interesting link via nizmlab.com

3) 100 years of movie SFX in 5 minutes! Sci-Fi artist Marty Dolan

4) A video about computer graphics in Star Wars (not what you think)

5) Making games faster, Sirlin.net’s take on a Flashbang Studios Presentation

6) Mafia Wars CEO brags about scamming users, via The Consumerist

7) Have your little rebel sleep in a Tauntaun sleeping bag from ThinkGeek

8) VBS.TV talks about the PAX Gaming Expo 2009 (warning: some language)

9) Video of a “4k” demo (Just click it, it’s cool)

10) Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter? in The New York Times online