BUFO; Production Story

Production of Bufo;

I sat outside, I was in a wooded area in my backyard. I knew everything there was to what I was looking for. Off not too far from my right I hear a few crunching noises of the crisp leaves. My feet froze as I listend over the dew on the grass, I could see it. The creature was nowhere near an escape route and was too slow for me, I ran up and caught it. I slowly calmed down the toad and looked at it.

3 years later…

I sit outside, with another toad… but my last toad. I have not seen a toad since I caught this guy… or girl. Either way, it was beautiful. Each marking was different from another toad, more facinating than any finger print of human also. It was late afternoon, I sat outside in a new backyard, a new city, a new life. Our grass was like liquid gold as the evening sun shined on the damp grass. I put my toad down on the ground, and looked down at it… I saw the way it crawled, hopped, and even eat… something so fascinating in the afternoon's silence, maybe the most fascinating thing I have seen. And I wondered about making another world, virtual world, and made for the toad. Make my forest, my own creatures, my own life… and so it began.

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Later this night,

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I was originally using the digital cammera to take pictures of my pets to hang up in my new room. Then I also did another thing, a commitment to my idea earlier, of making a game about my toad.

I took 2 picture (Top Down Shooter perspective) of my toad on a sheet of plastic, then I took 2 videos; crawling and jumping. I spent hours trying to perfect it, from the markings to movement. I then looked at the clock after I finished, 3 AM… I then limped off to my bed. All of the next 2 weeks I programmed the trees, ground, MDEN, and AI. Any chance I had of being on that computer, I took it. Then after awhile I did nothing, not programming, not spriting, nothing.

A few months later

I recently redesigned my toads aquarium which he shares with a turtle.

It looked like a forest… it was a forest. All that week I saw my toad and turtle active, happy, and living the life. Which made me remember, Bufo, I darted across my room to 'MY' computer. I popped in a CD and opened Bufo. And I fixed a few things, added a moth, redid the enviroment… Then I went on 64 Digits.

*Now for the Game*

Bufo (Bufonidae)

BUFO is derived from the latin word "Bufonidae" or "toad." The toad is a marveolous creature, it lives with what it has wisely. But can you keep generation of toads surviving in a forest of all sorts of creatures, now that is where you see challenge, and Bufo brings delivers that to you. This game represents a forest, a growing forest for that matter. In fact the forest may seem to 'never end.' Now you have 1 life, 1 toad (per generation), and you have to keep it alive. Bufo is a creative blend of programming, art, and nature all wrapped up in a MB or two.

You can see this fusion of art, programming, and nature here:

http://64digits.com/games/index.php?cmd=view_game&id=3777