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Oilfish Game Gold

Nien — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:59:25 +0000

The gold version of Oilfish has arrived. The game tells you how to play, but just in case you can’t figure it out here the directions.

Objective:

Get to open water while staying alive.

Don’t forget to save your friends.

Controls:

Use the arrow keys to move around.

When next to a brown oil block, hit the space bar to push the block.

Black oil blocks are unmovable.

Screen shots

Oilfish Game Beta

Nien — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:26:48 +0000

Playable beta version of the game. We added enemies that chase you down.

Oilfish Game Alpha

Nien — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:31:39 +0000

The alpha version of Oilfish. This is a playable Level 1 of the game.
Two of your friends are hidden inside the maze and need rescuing.

Oilfish Level Editor

Nien — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:18:44 +0000

Our team used a level editor to generate the XML files used by Pushbutton Engine to setup the levels. This allowed the designer to quickly create the level by simply dragging and dropping tiles on the grid. The level editor was taken from this Basic level editor for a tile based game and revised to work for our game.

Oilfish Game Prototype v2

Nien — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:05:41 +0000

Latest prototype of our game. Oil block movement is more grid-like and the dolphin has some rough animation.

Oilfish Game Concept Art

Nien — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:27:47 +0000

Our Hero

Friends

Oilfish Game Source Code and Design Docs

Nien — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:54:40 +0000

We are using google code to host our svn repository.

Oilfish Game Prototype

Nien — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:15:43 +0000

OilFish is a flash-based, online maze game being developed at the NYU Game Center. The player navigates a dolphin through a maze of oil, pushing oil out of the way to create new pathways. The player will encounter other members of the oceanic animal kingdom who need rescuing from the oil maze. The ultimate goal for the player is to free the other animals and escape the maze into open water. We are using the open source PushButton Engine to develop our game.

The authors of this game are Katya Hott, Chad Bullard, Zach Ross and Nien Lam. The Game Design Workshop is taught by Greg Trefry and Mattia Romeo of Gigantic Mechanic. Updates to the game, including design documents and links to the source code, will be posted to this blog.