Jun

PCG in my Games

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories Alone in the Park, Atomic+, CleanEm Up, DivCircle, Match A Number, Pace Maker FP, PCG

Hello everybody,
Long time with no posts or updates here. It seems like desert, sorry for that but I am sure people who follow me on twitter knows I was busy with my Master’s Thesis in Procedural Content Generation (PCG). I have always used PCG in my games as an excuse for being lazy and not designing levels (as I am not amazing level designer). In this post I will wrap up quickly some of the PCGs I used in my games. In the next post will talk about PCG in my Master’s Thesis.

As most of people noticed lots of my arcade games used PCG especially top down shooters (Clean’Em Up and Alone in the Park). All these games don’t have levels designed in advance, but instead they have enemy numbers and types to be generated. The system afterwards choose the most suitable location (away from the player position) and insert them. Pace Maker was a little different where the system generates the types and numbers based on the level of difficulty so as difficulty increase the number of enemies and variety of types increased.

May

Game Development BootCamp Talk

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories Atomic+, CleanEm Up, Match A Number, Presentation

Hello Everyone,
Sorry for being away still trying to get out of depression but at same time I made a talk for an event called Game Development BootCamp in Egypt in Alexandria (a city on the north coast) I went there with my game developers / designers friends and I enjoyed it because it was really good time to get away from everything and try to get out of depression it helped somehow but I keep going back and back to depression but don’t worry I am getting out from that.

Here a recorded video about the talk (The talk is in Arabic so I will post the slides with English explanation to everything in here as I done with A Maze talk)

Jun

Clean’Em Up Anniversary

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories CleanEm Up, GameJolt

Hi All,
Long time since I post last time here but I was mainly suffering from depression and being busy and other mental issues and some family problems (Problem Cocktail :D).

Yesterday was 1 year anniversary for the release of Clean’Em Up (as it was released on 22/6/2012) since there is no more sales or downloads for demo and my intention is always to have more people playing my games so I figure out to make Clean’Em Up Free to Play so more people can play it yaaaaay 🙂

You can download it directly from

Nov

Alone in the Park is looking for sponsorship

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories Alone in the Park, CleanEm Up, FGL

Hey All,
Sorry for not posting here the past few days but I was very busy the past few days. If any of you was following me on Twitter(@amidos2006) I am sure that news is old for him.

Alone in the Park (the collaboration game between me and Vartagh) is finished and it’s now on FGL for bidding and also we sent direct emails to the sponsors in order to sponsor our game.

I wish this game is sponsored by Newgrounds or ArmorGames or Kongregate or AdultSwimGames as I love these sites a lot and want my game to be for them 🙂

Oct

News…Dreams…Experiments…Competitions…Results

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories All my Balls, Alone in the Park, Balls, CleanEm Up, Collect, Connect, Don't Push the Button, Find It, IGF, Omidos, Robotic Arm, Robotic Arm Plus, The Power FP

Hi All,
I didn’t write here long time and I only wrote when it is a new game announcement 🙂 but there was lots of things happening before that silence and I didn’t have time to tell you about its results or what happened (because I am a bit busy and lazy :S) so I decided today to write about all missing things here.

First thing is about my collaboration game “Alone in the Park” that has been in-development since ever (even before starting on Clean’Em Up) but its now 99% finished just small polishing stuff and will be ready for beta testing and after 2 weeks in testing in that time we will seek for sponsorship for the game (Hope to get a cool deal as the game is nice and we put a lot of work in it) and then the release 🙂 Since we didn’t say a lot of details about the game so I made a trailer (it is intended to be funny and don’t show anything about the story) Hope you like it 🙂

Jul

Quick Review from the death

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories Alone in the Park, CleanEm Up, Crappy Dreams, GameJam, Games, GameTako, Hamada X, Kabba, Omidos, Robotic Arm

Hey All,
Long time since the last update about 2 or 3 weeks I think :S I am sorry about that but I was so busy organizing the first Arabic GameJam held in Egypt where the main host of the event is GameTako (Arabic online game portal where it host arabic games) so I am sorry for that.

I am sure you are asking did I make a game in the jam? since I was handling some organization stuff so I had only 1 day and half to create the game so I cooperated with Ahmed Saker (a fellow indie developer here in Egypt) and Ahmed Mounir (an amazing artist and he is behind all the game art) to try to finish the game but he couldn’t do that as we were using Unity3D and I am somehow not familiar with it so I was not speedy in working so we only finished a prototype of the engine and submit it.

Jul

Connect Results and Clean’Em Up Review

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories CleanEm Up, Connect, MochiMedia

Hey,
Just some small news 🙂 First thing about the MochiMedia Competition as usual I didn’t win 🙁 but the new thing this time I got a honorable mention 🙂 which is nice and at same time won a MochiMedia T-shirt (I didn’t receive it yet still waiting to send it ;))

About the winners:

And those are the Honorable mention:

Here is the link forum with the results if you wanna check it out 🙂 btw the next month theme is announced which is Summer Games with One Button and here is the link if you wanna join (same prizes) I will see if I have time to participate 🙂

Jul

Clean’Em Up OST

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories BauAir Studios, CleanEm Up, OST

Hey All,
Just wanted to announce here that Clean’Em Up OST by talented Mikael Bauer is online on Bandcamp its for pay what you want 🙂 so Consider paying some money as its an amazing album 🙂

That’s everything for now 🙂 Just check the album and I am sure you won’t regret 🙂 (Bandcamp Link)

Bye Bye

Jun

Clean’Em Up released on Desura

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories CleanEm Up, Desura

Hey All,
Today is the launch day of Clean’Em Up and its now on Desura (there is a demo their you can try before buy :D).

The Game as you know contain lots of content (which is fun) and features:

DRM Free
Twin Stick Shooter with nice candy effects
Shooting from both direction (Back2Back Engine)
70+ Levels with 5 different Gameplay modes
3 Survival modes
5 Boss fights
Customizable Character (Consisting from 4 pieces)
18 Weapons
6 Characters with Overclocking ability
20+ Achievements

Hope you give it a shot and you won’t regret that you tried it 🙂
The game got featured recently on

RockPaperShotgun

Final Boss Fight

Jun

Clean’Em Up Release

Posted by amidos2006 | Categories CleanEm Up, Desura, Omidos

Hey All,
Clean’Em Up is finished and will be released on Desura in 3 days (22/6/2012) 🙂 Keep tuned to @OmidosGames twitter account on launch day for competitions and gifts for the game launch.

Also the game got a nice review by Final Boss Fight website you should check that 🙂

Here is the game website (http://www.cleanemup-game.com) and for all people how are interested in Omidos next game stay tuned with Omidos website (http://www.omidos.com) 😉