{"id":55,"date":"2012-05-01T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amidos-games.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-05-01T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:27:00","slug":"cleanem-up-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/cleanem-up-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean&#8217;Em Up News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey All,<br \/>If you are following me on twitter(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Amidos2006\">@amidos2006<\/a>) you should know by now that <a href=\"http:\/\/amidos-games.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/CleanEm%20Up\">Clean&#8217;Em Up<\/a> passed Round 2 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginecup.com\/\">Imagine Cup 2012<\/a> and we have submitted it to Round 3 and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiecade.com\/\">IndieCade 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is some of Judges feedback on Round 2<br \/>First Judge &#8220;<i>This is a very polished game. It feels like something that you might download and play from live arcade. A nice arcade shooter with upgradable.<\/i>&#8220;<br \/>Second Judge &#8220;<i>This is a fun game and I enjoyed playing it.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>There is some drawbacks from judges but it just something with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginecup.com\/\">Imagine Cup<\/a> Theme.<\/p>\n<p>We had a month to work on the game and improve it and improve all its drawbacks that beta testers told us about and that what we have done.<\/p>\n<p>First thing the game contains now 75 levels containing boss fights and different modes of gameplay also 18 weapons, different characters with different super abilities, survival modes, achievements &#8230;etc.<\/p>\n<p>we added lots of content in the game \ud83d\ude42 and tuned the engine so the game become now run much smoother and nicer than previous, Also the game features 7 tracks or more from the talented musician and my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bauair.se\/\">Mikael BauAir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About this game, It will be my first Commercial Game trying to make a living from game making \ud83d\ude42 I will try to publish it on <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\">Steam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desura.com\/\">Desura<\/a> &#8230;etc [PC only which is bad as linux and mac user won&#8217;t be able to play it :(]<\/p>\n<p>By the way I think I will make new mode in the game after selling the game and is successful (reach certain number of sales) which will enable DLC for the game \ud83d\ude42 (new levels)<\/p>\n<p>If the game get good attention I will consider making a Xbox port and publish it over <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Games\/XboxIndieGames\">XBLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This month and next months will finalize most of my games <a href=\"http:\/\/amidos-games.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Alone%20in%20the%20Park\">Alone in the Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametako.com\/game\/%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%B7%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9\">Ta&#8217;mya<\/a> English Version, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-23\/?action=preview&#038;uid=2510\">Don&#8217;t Push the Button<\/a> Enhanced version, <a href=\"http:\/\/amidos-games.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Teddy\">Teddy<\/a> (arabic story game for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametako.com\/\">GameTako<\/a> won&#8217;t be an English version for it which is bad too), and Hopefully launching <a href=\"http:\/\/amidos-games.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/CleanEm%20Up\">Clean&#8217;Em Up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For now I will try to make press release and send review version of the game and trying to get feedback from user to improve and tune parameters in <a href=\"http:\/\/amidos-games.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/CleanEm%20Up\">Clean&#8217;Em Up<\/a>. (So if anyone is interested to help in testing send me an e-mail (amidos2002 (at) hotmail.com)<\/p>\n<p>As a final here is some screens from the game \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bYcH01djEnc\/T6AwVgMYKtI\/AAAAAAAAAuM\/X8e5nvfUE1I\/s1600\/CleanEmUp%2BScreenShot%2B2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"244\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bYcH01djEnc\/T6AwVgMYKtI\/AAAAAAAAAuM\/X8e5nvfUE1I\/s400\/CleanEmUp%2BScreenShot%2B2.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-C4RpvShL2dU\/T6AwWDu7oBI\/AAAAAAAAAuY\/NrPHQphDrI8\/s1600\/CleanEmUp%2BScreenShot%2B4.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"220\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-C4RpvShL2dU\/T6AwWDu7oBI\/AAAAAAAAAuY\/NrPHQphDrI8\/s400\/CleanEmUp%2BScreenShot%2B4.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zWScH8gfp4k\/T6AwWhH_sXI\/AAAAAAAAAuk\/yd4e2jjKMGw\/s1600\/CleanEmUp%2BScreenShot%2B5.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"223\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zWScH8gfp4k\/T6AwWhH_sXI\/AAAAAAAAAuk\/yd4e2jjKMGw\/s400\/CleanEmUp%2BScreenShot%2B5.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Final thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioevil.com\/\">StudioEvil<\/a> (very nice talented helpful people) have launched their new game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioevil.com\/portfolio\/syder-arcade\/\">Syder Arcade<\/a> on Desura and soon on Mac Store so check it (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioevil.com\/portfolio\/syder-arcade\/\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This is everything now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Bye Bye<\/p>\n<p>Note: following me on Twitter(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Amidos2006\">@amidos2006<\/a>) has its advantage as you get updates very quickly \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey All,If you are following me on twitter(@amidos2006) you should know by now that Clean&#8217;Em Up passed Round 2 in Imagine Cup 2012 and we have submitted it to Round 3 and also IndieCade 2012. This is some of Judges feedback on Round 2First Judge &#8220;This is a very polished game. It feels like something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,23,8,31,17,58,60,65,64,62,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/akhalifa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}