Sky Puppy

Post by **G.Silver** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:19 pm

A friend and I made this game for that 1-button game competition you may have heard about if you follow independent game development at all.

http://www.starquail.com

More info detailing its progress as we worked on it can be found in my <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/helldr ... journal</a>.

Protodude · Post by **Protodude** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:57 pm

That...rules. I'm assuming you made the title screen art?

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:37 pm

Wow, that looks pretty neat from the screenshots I saw. I'd play it now, but it's late and I need to sleep for work tomorrow, so I'll try it out on the weekends (want to, it has puppies!). I LOVE the title screen though.
~Neo

Post by **G.Silver** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:26 pm

Yep, I did the title screen and pretty much every other visual element except for some of the fonts and those nifty transparent arrows. :)

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Thu May 12, 2005 12:23 am

So the competition is for a website that sells shit for retarded kids? That's kind of funny. Is that why it has to be one button?

Post by **G.Silver** » Thu May 12, 2005 12:47 am

That's the gist of it, though it's for geniuses confined to wheelchairs too.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Thu May 12, 2005 1:16 am

We used to get some weird handicapped people at GameStop, a couple of which we couldn't figure out how they played at all. One guy in a wheelchair with something wrong with his hands mentioned that he played only with arcade sticks by mashing the buttons with his knuckles. Which sounds pretty painful, I don't know if I'd be that devoted. There was another guy who looked like he'd had a really bad burn, a whole half of his body was all scarred, and one of his hands was just a hook. He was a regular customer and bought stuff all the time, and we never did figure out exactly how he plays games with that hook. There was also this retarded boy who'd come in and play the demo units, and we'd get a kick out of it because he'd twitch like he was having a seizure every time he'd play. I also saw him a couple of times at Best Buy.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Thu May 12, 2005 1:20 am

Man, I'm starting to sound like a grandpa with all these old "I remember when" GameStop stories. I need a fucking job.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu May 12, 2005 1:29 am

Those are all kinds of sweet, by the way.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:52 am

My friends little brother was born with some defect caused by the doctoers where he can't really control his left hand. It's just bent at the wrist and he kind of uses it as a stump. He got 80 grand out of the doctors, but the point of the story is he can play Halo better than his brother.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:19 am

There was another guy who looked like he'd had a really bad burn, a whole half of his body was all scarred, and one of his hands was just a hook. He was a regular customer and bought stuff all the time, and we never did figure out exactly how he plays games with that hook.

If he weren't a regular customer I'd suggest that he only played pirate games.

Post by **Esrever** » Thu May 12, 2005 12:31 pm

Arrrr!

Samface · Post by **Samface** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:23 pm

Light Speed wrote:My friends little brother was born with some defect caused by the doctoers where he can't really control his left hand. It's just bent at the wrist and he kind of uses it as a stump. He got 80 grand out of the doctors, but the point of the story is he can play Halo better than his brother.

Superb. That makes me feel warm inside.

Ancient · Post by **Ancient** » Thu May 12, 2005 6:49 pm

Ahh Halo... The true measure of a man

That and raw meat

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:00 pm

I hear you like to chew on raw "meat" Ancient.

Ancient · Post by **Ancient** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:19 pm

If by "meat" you mean... Meat... Then you would've heard correct

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:40 am

...You can use elipses, but you can't end sentences with periods?
DOES NOT COMPUTE.

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:49 pm

Yeah. Those things are amazing. A friend of mine has a disfuncional hand due to some problem at birth, but he kicks ass at volleyball.

Anyway, I can't seem to get the game to work. It gives the error message "Failed to Load Audio Resource 'ingame.mp3'". It looks very cute though.

Post by **G.Silver** » Sat May 14, 2005 1:55 am

That's a new one! First, run the game again and see if the error doesn't actually say the file is "ingame.wav," (because it should be!) then check the data/sound directory and see if the file is there or maybe corrupted somehow, it should be 3,408KB in size. If it's actually missing or not the right size (seems unlikely that the download could have screwed up, the install wouldn't have worked!), then download it again. Otherwise, we'll hafta put you through our rigorous debug procedure! :D

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:55 pm

Nope. I have the ingame.wav file, but he asks for the ingame.mp3. I renamed it but it still doesn't work. Here's the error log:

" 2.992 seconds - Failed to Load Audio Resource 'ingame.mp3' "

I'm downloading it again, I really hope it works this time.

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:57 pm

Nope. Same stuff. Bummer.

Post by **G.Silver** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:31 am

<a href="http://www.starquail.com/">Sky Puppy</a> is finished! There's a new demo up which has 3D accelerator support, among other things, which should make it run better for anyone who was having problems.

I guess we aren't supposed to make new posts that are about self adulation and just "here go check this out" but this thread was already here... :D

Ritz · Post by **Ritz** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:56 pm

Ancient wrote:Ahh Halo... The true measure of a man

lol no

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:46 pm

Sky Puppy is not about self adulation. Sky Puppy is about flyin' puppies. And nobody doesn't like flyin' puppies.

Protodude · Post by **Protodude** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:46 pm

His name is....Wilford? He sounds like one preppy puppy.