Jono's game dev blog

They Bleed Pixels is a rather brutal platformer with a heavy combat aspect, it was released on the 29th of August 2012, I ended up buying it during the Halloween sale because I'd heard good things about it and I wanted a challenging shortish game. It can be bought through Steam . The story's about a girl who goes to the "Lafcadio Academy for Troubled Young Ladies" where she finds a mysterious book which transforms her and causes nightmares, it's told through short pixel art cutscenes which are like an animated comic book. It's not particularly important but it does influence the levels, each dream and the chapters within progress through a nightmare and where the book has been placed in an attempt to destroy it and the journey of ascendancy through that nightmare.

I was meaning to record the 2nd level of R-Type Delta but something is causing that level to have recording problems. Last weekend I got a pair of Logitech G35s which means I have better audio quality and games sound a lot better as well. I also set up a twitch.tv account for streaming which works well and you can see level 2 there http://www.twitch.tv/jondogtv/videos

Formatted and cleared space on my external computer so now I can start recording videos. Need to replace my microphone quickly though because the audio quality is horrible

Blasted through these on the weekend, I'm surprised I managed to beat them after having a hard time getting anywhere in Mega Man ages ago, I think something about timing must have clicked recently.   Mega Man Mega Man is a game I've been meaning to beat ever since I played it a few years ago, I think I got to a boss once but I was so low on health and lives that I died shortly after. The story line is a pretty basic "Beat the bad guys to save the world" kind of thing but it gets the job done because it's much more about the gameplay.

Haven't really finished any games lately apart from Castlevania so I'll just list a bunch that I've played recently. Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale This was actually a pretty cool game to come across after lamenting the lack of current generation JRPGs, I've only played through the demo so far but that gives you a considerable amount of content. The main premise of the game is to run a typical RPG shop selling all sorts of items like armour, weapons and food. How you get the items is up to you but I think the best way is dungeon runs as long as you don't die. Torchlight II The sequel to Torchlight which improves upon everything by giving you a much more open world, multiplayer mode, new classes, new weapons and a great difficulty system. I haven't managed to play this too much because the multiplayer kept dropping out on my but I did play the beta earlier in the year and that was good fun.

Alright finally got a bunch of games written down, have a lot more to sort through but this is a good start. You can check it out here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgZyuEix3FbvdE5Xdmd4bUtybGJVRGJidUR4WTB0WGc#gid=0

Alright time for a review of the story based RPG To The Moon made by Freebird Games . It was originally released through various digital stores for the PC on the 1st of November 2011 but was recently released on Steam . I really recommend going in to this game not knowing much about the story beyond the short description on Steam or the main website. I believe that's the best way to experience it, so I'll try keep this review spoiler free as possible.  The basic premise is you play as two scientists (Dr. Eva Rosalene and Dr. Neil Watts) who work for Sigmund Corp. who use technology to change memories so people can get their dying wish. Your assignment is Johnny Wyles, he wants to go to the moon but he doesn't know why.