tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15444964990317411832011-04-21T18:01:15.941-07:00A attempt to revive an old favorite.Stéphane Demersnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544496499031741183.post-12887651469862442912009-04-07T19:12:00.000-07:002009-04-07T19:15:58.928-07:00<a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/2/1985128/Plok.zip" title="Download the engine test crap"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">Download the engine test crap</span></span><br /></a><br />Nothing new, but if you wanted to test the engine, here's your chance.<br />Keep in mind that it is very very early in development, so it's not a game at all at this point, but you can mess arround with it if you want.<br /><br />-----<br />Controls<br />-----<br />Arrows - Move Plok<br />Z - Throw limbs<br />X - Jump<br /><br />ENTER - Change the controls (which you should if you have an AZERTY keyboard)<br /><br />You can mess arround with the engine with these "debug" keys.<br /><br />1,2,3,4 will remove or add the corresponding limb.<br />5 will show a bunch numbers you will not care about.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1544496499031741183-1288765146986244291?l=plok-fangame.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stéphane Demersnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544496499031741183.post-78183002138244403572008-05-19T13:35:00.000-07:002009-04-07T18:53:20.486-07:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GSaPdDJxIuw&hl=fr&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GSaPdDJxIuw&hl=fr&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />Here is a video I made that shows how the project evolved since 2006, from the old crappy engine to the smooth one.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1544496499031741183-7818300213824440357?l=plok-fangame.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stéphane Demersnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1544496499031741183.post-18006315637710878402008-05-18T21:53:00.000-07:002009-04-07T18:44:22.277-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATED APRIL 2009<br /><br />What is "Plok!"?</span><br /><br />Plok! is a SNES platform game created by the <a href="http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros">Pickford Brothers</a> and published by Tradewest in 1993.<br />More info on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plok">Wikipedia</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is a fangame?</span><br /><br />A fangame is a game created by people like you and me that uses characters and series that already exists. More info on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fangame">Wikipedia</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why Plok?</span><br /><br />The original "Plok!" game is one of my favorite game of all time. It has awesome music, great gameplay mixed with very interesting graphics and offers a great challenge (the game is pretty darn hard -_-,). I think that Plok deserves another game.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How did this project start?</span><br /><br />It started in June 2006, I was trying things with <span style="font-style: italic;">The Games Factory</span> and I somewhat found how to make a character throw his limbs like "Plok" did in his game, then I tried to recreate a Plok engine.<br /><br />This engine sucked, it was not smooth at all, it played like crap and it was buggy. It was replaced by a much better engine later the next year.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How is this made?</span><br /><br />I'm using <span style="font-style: italic;">Multimedia Fusion 2</span>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">When will this be finished?</span><br /><br />I don't know, it started in June 2006 and it's still VERY VERY far from complete, I'm still creating Plok's movements, so there is no enemies, no levels, no things to collect, no music and nothing to do. This may never get finished.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Will it plays, looks and sounds like Plok?</span><br /><br />Yup, I'm trying to recreate the original Plok engine as much as I can. I'm still not sure how the game will look, but I will use the soundtrack from the original game, because it's amazing.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What have you done so far?</span><br /><br />Plok moves, throws is limbs and slide on slopes... that's pretty much it. Plok can't do his somersault -_-<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is this a remake?</span><br /><br />Nope, I plan to create new levels. I may recreate some old levels, but I don't know. I don't want to remake the game, that would be pointless, you can download the game and play it on emulator anyway.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you plan to add new enemies or bosses?</span><br /><br />Not sure, I don't want to make it too different from the original, creating new enemies could break the "magic", and anyway I don't have that "Ste Pickford style". I once thought about taking enemies from other Pickford games, like Zub, and convert them to fit in Plok's world though<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This blog is empty...</span><br /><br />Yep, it can stay like this for a long time... but IF I make some progress it will be posted here. I'll post screens and stuff someday.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1544496499031741183-1800631563771087840?l=plok-fangame.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stéphane Demersnoreply@blogger.com0