UberGamerMonkey

Duo Platformer Barrage, Other side of the Story...

UberMonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:03:00 GMT

Been slacking in updating but I have some news! My friend Zedox and I are doing a 2D platformer contest against each other. Our due date for this contest is around Jan 31st, 2010. He has a few videos posted on his game already called, "Tears"... just like slicin onions I think... ;) I do have one video up right now, and will be having another one up here shortly. The working title of my platformer is called "Mischievous Adventures of Tricky." MAoT will pay homage to one of the best platformers I have ever played, "Conker's Bad Fur Day." The current video I have is using a temporary character I rip'd from James Silva's book. More will come when I get the time to post.

Ledge Faller, a new app in the works

UberMonkey — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:32:47 GMT

Since my first iPhone app, I have learned a lot, and started to get better at working with Xcode and Obj-C. I have been working on a new simple 2d game, that I have named "Ledge Faller." Ledge Faller will have at least 2 gameplay modes, and have access to a global high scores table. At the time of this post, I have 1 gameplay mode finished, and working on the global highscores table. I'm not going to go into more detail on the gameplay just yet, but I can give you this nice juicey screen of the current menu!

I also haven't forgotten about my first app, iWin. I will be optimizing, and tweaking the UI with what I have learned since creating it, as well as add new buttons and even new sounds!

Don't forget to check back here for any new updates!

iWin iPhone app

UberMonkey — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:18:00 GMT

Have you ever wished you had a button that would make you defeat your enemies at any game? Well look no further, the iWin app for your iPhone/Ipod Touch is here! Each time you press this button you will be overwhelmed with it's power and allow you to pwn your opponents.

The button can be customized with 4 different colorful designs.

Get it from iTunes here!

Screen shot(s):

Back in the XNA Saddle...

UberMonkey — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:42:46 GMT

A new year, a new fire under the kettle. I haven't really been working on XNA since I posted my submission to DreamBuildPlay of '08. I took a nice vacation to Japan for 2.5 weeks, and caught up on some gaming that has been stacking up on me. Since the turn of this new year, I have been getting the itch back into XNA, and have been working on my 2d game engine.

I have refactored my tile engine a bit, and converted everything over to XNA 3.0. Also, I have been working on some 2d animation classes that would resemble in a skeletal system, and use key frames. Right now it is in a very basic form, and is based on what James Silva used for Dishwasher. Along with the character animation classes, I have worked on a mapping system for a platformer that doesn't use tiles. This will allow me to use this engine for both top down and side scrollers, with basic tile engine, and a more complex "platformer" engine. I don't have any screens for this yet, but I will post some updates as I progress.

Circuinator - DBP Entry

UberMonkey — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:12:56 GMT

Ok, so I came up with this crazy idea during lunch at work on Friday... It was to try and create a game over the weekend and submit it for the Dream Build Play competition. The game is rather simple in nature, and I think it turned out pretty well. The play area has 4 colored bars that run right to left, a single bar in the middle that runs top to bottom. The left hand side, there is a turrent that shoots out bullets down the colored bars when the corresponding button of the same color is pressed. Enemies start from the right, and progress towards the left. You must kill the enemies before they hit the bar in the middle. If the enemy hits the bar that is in the middle, it progresses towards the left. If it reaches the turrent, it is game over. As the game progresses, the bars change colors, and the enemies spawn faster and faster.

Here are some Screen Shots of Circuinator:

And here is a vid from YouTube:

Tweaks to GameDevKicks

UberMonkey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:50:00 GMT

I wasn't quite satisfied with the design I started with for GameDevKicks.com. When I first started I was thinking of trying to keep it nice and small, but the more data I threw at it, the more I thought it should be a bit bigger. So I updated the theme and made it wider, instead of fitting a 800x600 screen, I updated it to a 1024x760 resolution. I have also fixed a few bugs that happen in certain browsers, mainly IE 6.

Besides the UI changes, I also did a lot of tweaks on the back-end for SEO purposes. This will make the pages much easier to navigate via search engines and bookmarks, etc.

I am open to any tweaks/suggestions that you would like to see on GameDevKicks.com, just drop me an email to info AT gamedevkicks.com.

Updated Site to Graffiti!

UberMonkey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:05:00 GMT

I finally got around in moving this site over to asp.net and a different hosting provider. I am still looking for or going to learn how to create a custom theme for graffiti. I think I have most of all my posts and everything moved over. If not, email me and I can fix it.

GameDevKicks - WordPress Plugin

UberMonkey — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:33:00 GMT

I just finished creating a nice and simple little plugin for WordPress that replaces any instances of “” into a GameDevKick “Kick It” image and link. I haven't tested it on anything lower than 2.5.1, but should work with 2.x. If not, please drop me a line and I will look into fixing it. You can find more info about it here.

GameDevKicks Kick It WordPress Plugin

UberMonkey — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:33:00 GMT

This is a very simple WordPress plugin that replaces any instances of "" into a GameDevKick "Kick It" image and link. This is to reduce the amount of steps to get a post to GameDevKicks.com. Normally, one would:

Write a post
Submit it to GameDevKicks.com.
Get Kick It code after submission.
Edit original post to add code.

This seems like too many steps. Now with this plugin, the steps decrease dramatically:

Write a post, and at the end of the post, put .

This cuts the steps down to just 1. How cool is that?! Also, I have created an Edit screen so you can customize the colors of teh Kick It image, just like if you would have gone to GameDevKicks.com and did it there.

Version History

1.0 - Initial Release

To download the most current version, click here.

Redoing TileMap Engine in XNA 2.0

UberMonkey — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:08:00 GMT

Wow, it's sure has been a while. I have started a few different side projects other than XNA. I finally have got back to my TileMap Engine, and have made great progress to what I before in the first version. I have fixed my 2d RenderTarget issues, and added a few new features. I have even started to refactor my code into it's own dll so I can develop a nice little utility to make my maps with. I am posting 2 screen shots of my new tilemap. The first shows rotation, and just has 1 layer because I was testing at the time, and the 2nd shows 2 layers, and a shader applied to the map to change the color.