8-bit the cheap way

Posted by Taizen Chisou on July 26, 2012, 12:13 a.m.

So instead of learning some complicated tracker BS to make 8-bit soundy songs and tiring of how obvious GXSCC use is, I just loaded up some waveform samples into FL Studio and tried writing songs using that.

Here's an old song that's been converted: http://soundcloud.com/taizenchisou/what

And now here's an attempt …

Random Blog # 140

Posted by Taizen Chisou on July 24, 2012, 12:13 a.m.

I'm tired? Hell yeah!

QUESTION FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WORK AT JOBS THAT REQUIRE HATTAGE:

Do you ever take off your hat at the end of your shift and then realize an hour later that you're not wearing your hat, but didn't tell because your hair still feels pressed …

Level Design, and Why I'm Bad At It

Posted by Taizen Chisou on July 22, 2012, 2:54 a.m.

Being someone who ordinarily designs bullet shooters and RPGs, I find I'm pretty ass at level design- design that doesn't require horrendous amounts of backtracking and "oh god gotta check EVERY GAP in case there's something back there" moments

This is a picture of Dungeon Quest Man's Primary Sector.

Simple …

Dungeon Quest Man (2) + boss vid

Posted by Taizen Chisou on July 20, 2012, 2:02 a.m.

oh lord I should stop before this becomes an actual game

Anyway, have a video of the last downloadable if you didn't play it:

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Why didn't you play it, anyway? Here!

Edit: Boss video.

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Anyway, this will be some really linear thing where you go from …

Dungeon Quest Man

Posted by Taizen Chisou on July 19, 2012, 5:26 a.m.

long story short I was going through development withdrawl so I made a game in six hours while going "fuck that" to not having a registered Game Maker so now it is GM LITE PLATFORMER RPG TIME.

parents took away my card so I can't buy dis shit >_>

Oh, …

Taizen Chisou Versus FL Studio

Posted by Taizen Chisou on July 14, 2012, 10:09 p.m.

I cannot for the life of me come up with original songs anymore.

So I've taken to remixing old ones.

Lunacy Star's menu music

Lunacy Star's Stage 1 music

Remixed version of menu music

Remixed version of Stage 1 music

If you'd like to listen to the remainder of the …

Status Report from the Depths of Hell

Posted by Taizen Chisou on July 9, 2012, 3:40 p.m.

AKA McDonalds.

It's official; I have a license.

I'd post a picture, but my phone is dumb.

But didn't you say that you already had one?

That was me passing the test.

Anyway, work.

I'm on break right now, of course, because I couldn't imagine how long it would to …

Sure, let's try this too

Posted by Taizen Chisou on July 7, 2012, 12:55 p.m.

The end result of what happens when I forget about how bad I usually am at spriting.

I've not researched color theory, proportions, shading, nothing (at least not applied to pixel graphics)

I'd entertain with more, but I have to go to work soon and this image alone took me …

Taizen Chisou on Being Alive

Posted by Taizen Chisou on July 4, 2012, 6:15 a.m.

…it's pretty cool, i guess

Taizen Chisou vs. Progress

Posted by Taizen Chisou on May 14, 2012, 8:56 p.m.

Edit:

Screenshots!

It seems as though as much as I enjoy adding things to my game, the more spiteful I get to the individual pieces of code because I'm constantly leaving them unfinished to start on something else.

So far, I have the following:

A basic cutscene handler (The …