Christian Schnellmann

Rapid game development: Metahotel

Christian Schnellmann — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:29:08 +0000

Metahotel was made in just two days for Ludum Dare 26.

Metahotel v0.2
Play online (requires Unity Web Player)
Download for Windows [14.51 MB]
Download for OS X [15.22 MB]
Changes in post-compo version: slightly improved AI, small bug-fixes

Metahotel v0.1 (compo)
Play online (requires Unity Web Player)
Download for Windows [14.41 MB]
Download for OS X [15.13 MB]

If you are not into trial and error, here are the rules:

Get all persons to the green exit to complete a floor
Use the left and right mouse buttons to rebuild the rooms
The next room color is shown in the top right corner
Avoid two persons seeing each other

New Road

Christian Schnellmann — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:52:41 +0000

It is like drawing. Except that what you draw, turns into a road. In “New Road” creating a 3D racing track is as simple as drawing some curves on your screen. But as soon as your engine starts, the actual challenge begins: try to reach the end of your track without crashing into anything. Not easy, as digital glitches are littered all over the road.

or play New Road in your browser

Would you like to write about New Road?
Have a loot at the press resources.

Human Aerobics for 2 Players

Christian Schnellmann — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:34:15 +0000

Nostalgia is the secret ingredient of many indie game titles. And this one is no exception. Except, this time it does not come in the form of chip tunes or pixel aesthetics, but as revival of the 80s pop culture.

Human Aerobics is a rhythm game for two players. One player is trying to fit in with a group of dancing robots by copying their moves. However, which dancer he or she controls is unknown, since the entire group is wearing paper bags over their heads. Only a wrong move gives the dancing player away. And that is where player two's laser gun comes in handy.

Pink pills fly through the air, offering some extra points. A mirror mode inverts all moves. And images loaded randomly from flickr are occasionally used as backgrounds. – These, and some more features have been implemented in Human Aerobic's short development time.

Human Aerobics for Windows (22.9 MB)

Human Aerobics for Mac (21.44 MB)

Flight Simulator 0

Christian Schnellmann — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:38:37 +0000

You are not supposed to play Flight Simulator 0. It is something to meditate with. This app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch lets you explore an abstract landscape without any goals or missions. Of course you can set your own goal and try to get a clean landing on all of the 12 runways. If you can find them, that is.

Download App (iPhone and iPad compatible)

version 1.0 features:

Retro graphics
7 destinations
5 secret destinations
if you wish: printable world map

Flight instructions:

Tilt your phone to steer
Touch and hold to turn
Double tap to pause
Landing requires a runway and a smooth touchdown

Miscellaneous Game Music

Christian Schnellmann — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:58:32 +0000

Misc. Games by Parallelaktion

Name a Color

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:36:22 +0000

I spent a week in Berlin. And since it is quite a boring place during the daytime*, I kept myself busy with a small project.

"Name a Color" is a a website and a database containing the 65536 possible colors that a 16-bit-palette offers. And with a little help from the web, they may all bear a name one day. A name like Cordon Bleu, Weird Banana, or Arabian Hardcore.

Submit now your own names:

Visit Name a Color

* not really

The Eye of Sisyphus

Christian Schnellmann — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:15:48 +0000

The Eye of Sisyphus is not only a unique torture device (hence its name), it is also a paper video game. Since the game's sole level is a real paper model.

The rules are simple: Hit all black spots with a bullet – and do not collide with the white obstacles.

Features

A video game made of paper.
100 years playtime. (Admittedly short years.)
Might cause sickness.
Unique torture device.

Play or Play at Kongregate

Spirit Explorer’s Rise

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:37:50 +0000

Created for a catholic youth work project, Spirit Explorer's RISE is a game about flying to heaven. As fast as possible.

Play on Facebook

Play without Facebook

Nature Strikes Back

Christian Schnellmann — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:46:20 +0000

In february 2012, the game "Nature Strikes Back" was showed during an event at Stattbad Wedding in Berlin. It was an entry for a competition of the Experimental Gameplay Project and is intended to be played with an “02L > Outside Standing Level’s Unita Zero”. Have one of these around? Me neither. (It's a set of pressure pads, by the way.) You may still try it using the number keys 1 to 5.

Download (Mac, 13.3 MB)

The Death of a Video Game

Christian Schnellmann — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:19:44 +0000

There are quite a few games on my hard disk which never made it out of prototype stage. With this, the gameplay never felt right. But I still like the basic concept: it's a real-time strategy game where you fight a cellular automata.

Compressed Series

Christian Schnellmann — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:17:38 +0000

Four animated GIFs.

Compressed Dust	Compressed Rainbows
Compressed Berries	Compressed Spiders

BlindDraw

Christian Schnellmann — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:31:09 +0000

What it is about:

BlindDraw is an experimental drawing application.
BlindDraw hides your mouse cursor and lets you draw without any visual feedback.
Use a mouse! A graphics tablet works even better, I imagine.
Forget about the screen borders. In BlindDraw your canvas is infinite.
If BlindDraw won't start, you probably have to install Java.

Download OS X (1.5 MB)

Download Windows (1.4 MB)

Source code: BlindDraw.pde, MouseCenter.pde, SaveImage.pde.

The Extinct Bird

Christian Schnellmann — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:20:29 +0000

The Story: They discovered a bizarre bird's egg, but it is empty when you arrive at the site. You start the search ...

Download "The Extinct Bird" and start the bird's hunt. You'll need Knytt Stories to play.

Alternatively, just listen to some of the level's music: MP3

Playthrough by ortosion:

Mousetrap

Christian Schnellmann — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:32:58 +0000

Some nerdy comments about faking a mouse cursor with ActionScript 3

This mouse trap wouldn't be fun, if the trapped cursor didn't match the cursor of the user. To make this possible, I included three well known cursors and let flash.system.Capabilities.os decide, which one to use.

Mac OS X:
Windows XP:
Windows 7:

Host left the Game

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:00:01 +0000

In "Host left the Game" you wander through an endless colony of houses. Sounds boring? It is! But it is also thrilling and kafkaesque, I hope. The game's features are:

An endless world.
No enemies, no power-ups, no nothing.
Social gaming experience, as you'll see at the end.
A true challenge: the game is hard.
If it isn't fun, you can still look at it as an art game.
Find the host!

Download for Windows (2.1 MB)

Download for Mac (2.8 MB)

The music and some other stuff is loaded from the server. Make sure, you keep your internet connection running. If the game runs too slowly, you can switch between three quality settings using the keys 1 2 and 3.

Mini-Abum: Sichtbeton

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:50:05 +0000

SFX Library

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:40:41 +0000

Feel free to use these sound effects in your own projects.

aggressive, mini, plastic	85 KB
aggressive, mini, whip	70 KB
bright, bell, clear	163 KB
bright, bells, thin	95 KB
bright, bells, thin, long	320 KB
bright, glass, metal, bottle	45 KB
bright, small, glass, root	27 KB
bright, small, nails	53 KB
cheap, button, down	69 KB
cheap, button, up	74 KB
cheap, key	60 KB
cheap, mechanic	66 KB
cheap, old, switch	71 KB
cheap, old, switch, alt	55 KB
cheap, plastic, switch	55 KB
cheap, plastic, switch, small	32 KB
cheap, plasticstriation	77 KB
cheap, put	18 KB
cheap, sticks	108 KB
cheap, switch	73 KB
crunchy, wood, operation	442 KB
digital, disappointment	69 KB
digital, neutral, information	74 KB
digital, running	131 KB
digital, short, no	26 KB
flush	448 KB
greasy	62 KB
greasy, deep, step	34 KB
greasy, high	20 KB
greasy, inside, blop	28 KB
greasy, kick	28 KB
greasy, slap	20 KB
greasy, slimy	59 KB
hollow, blop	67 KB
hollow, round, tone	60 KB
metal, grill	131 KB
metal, grill, light	84 KB
natural, crispy, dry	38 KB
natural, plant, dry	254 KB
speaker, turn, off	77 KB
speaker, turn, on	206 KB
spray, long	90 KB
spray, press	109 KB
unpleasant, swoosh	173 KB
unpleasant, swoosh, ends	278 KB
voiceless, mouth, a	12 KB
voiceless, mouth, breath	27 KB
voiceless, mouth, t	18 KB
wood, agressive	47 KB
wood, box	22 KB
wood, microevent	68 KB
wood, wide, click	21 KB

Advent Calendar 2009

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:30:39 +0000

Wiggle Stereoscopy

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:20:49 +0000

"Possibly the simplest stereogram viewing technique" as Wikipedia explains.

The Self Playing Keyboard

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:00:55 +0000

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This is technical: This minimalist music video is written in Processing/Java and shows how to access events from a midi file.

Packing list:
javax.sound.midi.*
java.io.File

How it works: A Sequencer object loads and plays a midi file and sends all midi messages to a MidiReceiver. (I muted the Sequencer and instead played an audio version of the midi file.) The MidiReceiver triggers some events depending on the status of the received message (note on/note off). In this case, the visualization of the keys.

Source code: MidiClip Keyboard MetaListener MidiReceiver

Contents of the data folder: data.zip

First things last.

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:00:41 +0000

You could easily remember this sentence if it didn't contain the number 10642993.

I guess your age.

Christian Schnellmann — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:30:32 +0000