SpriteHoe 2.0

SpriteHoe has been upgraded. Now it does "intelligent de-resizing", a term I've invented for marketing reasons. There's also been a few minor fixes and... well, that's it really. You can now feed it a sprite sheet that's been poorly resized and it will attempt to reverse the stupidity. It loosely fits in with the grand scheme of fixing the world's sprite sheet problems.

Note, of course, that it's difficult to get perfect results with simple games. Mario's limbs will be removed from Super Mario Bros. thanks to the lack of detail, but if you've got an image that's reasonably complicated there should be no troubles. Either way, I needed this feature once so someone else is bound to.

SpriteHoe

I'm two thirds into a computer games programming course. Perhaps it's time to release some of my work to the general public...

Introducing "SpriteHoe", sprite sheet trimmer for the modern age. Built in Java to prove I can do something a bit more meaningful with my life, it takes a bad sprite sheet and guts out what it deems is wasted space. I'm sure it'll be useful for something.

More details here. You'll need the Java Runtime Environment in order to get it to work, but I would hazard a guess 95% of the people reading this are already equipped.

The SHPDMBGWL4 Christmas Special, 2010

Because everyone's Christmas needs to be spoiled

Look, it's another SHPMDBGWL4 Christmas special which you can download. It's an unfinished mess of a game built within about five days with very little gameplay value at all, but it's something.... I think.

Anyway, Merry Christmas. Might not be wise to spend it reading this blog though.

SHPDMBGWL4 3 EX

SHPDMBGWL4 GET

It's here. Enjoy it. Visit this topic for more info.

Unfortunately Sitesled decided to delete all my stuff without notifying me, so it's on Sendspace for now.

Downloads update

Took some healthy advice and stored all my little gems on a domain a little bit nicer than Sendspace. Sitesled isn't perfect but it'll save me from having to re-upload everything all the time.

Player Adventure DX
SHPDMBGWL4 1
SHPDMBGWL4 2
SHPDMBGWL4 3
SHPDMBGWL4 Christmas Special

Note that there's bandwidth restrictions, so if thousands of you people decide to have a download fest overnight chances are these might not work. I doubt it'll be much of an issue though.

A Christmas Gift

http://www.sendspace.com/file/glxglg

Since there's no chance in hell that I'll waste Christmas day blogging this thing, Merry Christmas in advance. Took the Christmas level off my heavily delayed SHPDMBGWL4 3 Expansion and released it to the public. Enjoy!

Here's one I made earlier

Two updates in one day? Wow.

Due to the Player Adventure games being untested and impossible I've released them in one half-tested possible package. Yeah I sorta did that before, but this time it's all in one executable rather than five, and comes with some handy dandy extras. The errors addressed a couple of updates ago have been fixed, but it's likely that I may have made a couple more mistakes while porting (You can blame TGF for that one). I've damaged my eyes enough with this series, so I haven't checked through each game to the end, so feel free to report more probs.

This'll be compatible with the SHPDMBGWL4 3 Expansion pack I'm making.

EDIT: Now with fixed buttons and sound in PA5.

Command & Conquer: Now Freeware!

The Technology of Peace

That's right, the first Command & Conquer just got released as Freeware. If you've not played this in some form, you've already lost a great chunk of your life. It single handedly brought me into the world of RTS games, and if you're not an RTS fan, it could do the same to you. It's two mighty huge ISOs so it could take a while to download, but it's worth it. Kane is quite possibly one of the best video game villians ever.

You could argue it's the weakest game in the series other than some of those expansions, but by weak that means "1995's best game of the year".

Fangames of pure perfection

Since this blog's kicked out my Player Adventure MFGG signature link probably would be wise to have it listed here. And hey, while I'm at it, lets list ALL the crappy games I've helped make over the last couple of years:

The First Five Player Adventure Games

Super Hyper Paper Deluxe Mario Bros. Galaxy World Land 4: Partners In Sunshine Superstar Island & Saga of Time Advance 64 DS

SHPDMBGWL4:PISSI&SOTA64DS 2

Super Paper Mario Hyper Combo Finish 2

Super MFGG War (Alright this one isn't by any means bad but I better list it anyway. Also it's not like I really did anything here, just put skins and maps into a pack).

And to think, there's people nearly half my age creating perfect Super Mario clones.