M.U.D. TV is out now. Currently in Germany only but soon in UK and USA too.
It is an economic simulation game where you lead a TV Station. Buy shows, series or movies and schedule them well to satisfy the audiences needs. You also can employ wage-slaves to produce the telecasts by yourself. Watch the funny comic people doing their work.
Play with friends over LAN or internet or play against them and sabotate them! You can enjoy the campaign or custom singleplayer games against the AI as well.

This was the first commercial game I was involved in. And it was the second commercial game of the company who developed it: Realmforge Studios.

The whole Team did their job pretty well. If we wouldn’t were such a great Team the game wouldnt have become that good and that bugfree (here is the best place to remind you of the patch )

UK Trailer:

Finally I did it. I compiled a new version of the shapes Library! The two new main features are: Transformation (Scale, Rotation, Translation) of any Shape and usage of shapes as a path. There are binaries for PC, Xbox 360 and the Zune.

And the best of all: It is Open Source now.

You are very welcome if you would like to extend the library

Try it. It’s worth it.

kind of software	Library for XNA
language	english
used software	Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft XNA 3.0
License	BSD
Team	Salomon Zwecker (everything)
Time schedule	~ 9 Weeks
Date	September 2009

]]> http://liquidfirearts.com/there/?feed=rss2&p=300 http://liquidfirearts.com/there/?p=293 http://liquidfirearts.com/there/?p=293#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:42:37 +0000 JeReT http://liquidfirearts.com/there/?p=293 Realmforge Studios - the company where I work at the moment - published first infos about the Game we are currently working on: Mud TV.

for more information read one of these articles:

GameStar Article (German)
Gameswelt Article (German)

Game Pad Article (English)

Shapes is a library for the XNA Framework 3.0. It provides several kinds of geometry (Dot, Line, Linestrip, Rectangle, Ellipse / Circle, Triangle, Polygon, Shape of a Sprite). They can be rendered into a texture and used for collision detection.

There is also a special kind of shape called “ShapeComposition” which allows to combine shapes in different ways. The library comes with many samples and the “Sampler” library which makes it easy to switch between several XNA-applications inside a single assembly.

Here you can view the original webpage created for these libraries.

Bubblebreak has been created for a contest at XNAMag.de. With this game I won the first price of the contest: A Microsoft Zune MP3-Player.
The challenge was to create a game for the Zune. I made a mixture of “Bubbles” and “Breakout” with a round playfield.

You can move your bar along a circle around the playfield and shoot balls out of it. Everytime you shoot a ball, the bar (which is made of balls) will shrink. The shot ball will get a color defined by the color fields behind. If a ball collides with the bunch it will become part of the bunch. If it builds a chain of three or more balls with the same color, those balls will pop of the bunch (like in “Bubbles”). Popped Balls are flying around. If they collide with your bar they bounce and get colored again (a bit like “Breakout”).

go to game description »

Handball Revolution was the working title of the Handball simulation game which has been developed by my ex-company Liquid Fire Arts. It has been presented on some events like “Deutsche Handball Länderspiele 2008″ (in cooperation with Hamburg Mannheimer).

7 Meter Shoot Out is a mini game where you can throw balls from the seven meter point into the goal (like 11-meters in soccer). After every throw the teams switch. So you play one time the thrower and the next time the goalkeeper. You can play versus a friend on the same mashine or versus the computer. A gamepad is recommended.

Play one of the legendary handball players Carlos Lima, Markus Baur or Daniel Sauer (thanks for their cooperation).

Thanks to Metric Minds for the motion capturing.

Thanks to Dynamedion for the creation of the sound effects.

This game doesn’t work if the .Net 4.0 Beta is installed.

Avoid the balls had the function to test the animation system of the handball simulation game.
You play a character in a handball stadium. From time to time balls are thrown at you. You must avoid those balls as long as you can. The game is over when you are hit five times.
A special feature ist the sound of the game: With every shot you will hear a thud sound. And every time a ball disappeares it makes a clean sound. If you are able to play the game long enough, you can hear a melody.

Thanks to Metric Minds for the Motion Capturing.

download source code ↓

Play my version of Area!

(inside the browser with the Flash Player Plug-in)

Colorize every dot to the same color.

Your field is connected to the right upper corner (in single player mode). If you click on a color, all neighbors of your field with this color will become part of your field.

You win, when you have covored the whole area with one color until you have no turns left (single player) or if your field is the biggest at the end (multi player).

Stax is a card game for two players.
It is inspired by the solitair game “pyramids”.
The balance between tactic and luck is very well.
I created it after playing billard with my friend Jonas Häutle. He said that there is almost no card game for two players and he wanted to create one. So we sat down and thought about the kind of game.

In the same night I sat at home and defined some rules and played it against myself. In the early morning i finished it. After playing and balancing it with some friends I wrote the rules down. And here it is!