The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #298: Welcome Game Creators Paul Korman and Ric Highbury, of The Phantom Fellows
This week, Paul Korman and Ric Highbury from the Classic Gamers Guild Facebook Group and Classic Gamers Guild Podcast join my brother, Jeremy, and I to talk about a point and click pixelart adventure game they are making coming out next year. We had a great conversation about a number of wide reaching topics related to game design – story creation, influences, pixelart, art, music scores, and more. They sent me an advance version of the demo (which is coming out this week), and it was great fun – a throwback to some of the adventure games we played as a kid. Here are a few screenshots:
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Paul does the intro and outro music to the CGG podcast, by the way. Listen to more of Paul’s music on Bandcamp. Read more of Jeremy’s thoughts on games on Tumblr. And if you have a desire to experiment with game making and introduce game making to children, check out Pixicade.
The built in physics with it allow you to make some fun and surprisingly advanced games. I made a Thirteenth Hour archery game with it. The set has you make everything with makers (different colors for different game mechanics), though can also do it on the computer and print it out in color. I made the archery game with pixels. You can play it here.
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