Game Release - Tilly's Rose Garden, New Version! [Still in development!]

Tilly's Rose Garden!

Introducing a brand new game! 

Fun for all ages, “Tilly's Rose Garden” is an enjoyable overhead 2D platform game, similar to pac man in game play, lovely graphics all made in GIMP 2.8 and sounds made in Sony Acid (Demo version). This game is fun for all (even if it is a bit girly!).

Enjoy picking the flowers and avoiding point drainers and enemies, both moving and idle!

Note: This is still in development so there are still bugs and inconveniences!

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Trailer:

Creator's Notes:

Edit: I noticed that the menu has a typo! That will be fixed next version.

• Things seem to stick a bit because of the grid and transparency, if your player won't move in to each area smoothly try and lightly tap the movement key you are trying to use, if you don't budge at all then try to go another way, it's a bug I'm trying to see how to fix, but I think it's always going to do that because of the images it gets stuck on.
• If you push on moving blocks they'll go out of alignment be sure not to do that!
   
• I haven't been able to get the cursor to windows to go away even with "Display Cursor" unchecked, I'll figure out how to fix this eventually! - And to add to this, I'm still yet to learn how to make the cursor only appear in menus.
  
  
• This Edition of "Tilly's Rose Garden" has no music, I might change this within the next fixed up version but for now it just has basic sounds.

• All artwork is created in GIMP and all sounds are made in Sony Acid (Free Version).

• To see how many points you have, you have to play in window mode, or full screen; If you press "f4" you will play in a total full screen (No user bar on the bottom or start menu will be visable) and can't see the points. - The points are visable on the upper left hand corner of the window border of the program.

• Saved Games go in to a .sav file, be sure not to delete that when you see it, that's where your saved game is!
• Going in the diagonal directions can cause the player to go out of alignment although not always, just a warning!

Copyright:

© 12/2013 - All Rights Reserved to Mokonafan/The Factoid Firefly, All Reproductions of This Game Without Previous Permission is Expressly Prohibided.

Permissions:

1. Linking to my game - Yes
   
2. If already downloaded, giving to a friend - Yes, but I'd rather you link them.
   
3. Selling it - No
   
4. Claiming it as your own - No
   
5. Modifying or changing, no matter how extreamly unrecognizable in the end - No!
   

If you download, please give me a comment, good or bad, just please, if you have consturctive critique say it nicely, don't say I'm stupid or anything like that (people do things like that!).

May God Bless You, Your Family, Friends; Along with the health of you, your family and all who know you. ~ Amen


~ Firefly

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Tip of the Week; Week 7 and 8 - Art Supplies don't matter; Sketching in a process

I totally forgot to post this las weekend the tip of the week! I meant to but I forgot, I'm sorry people!
Forgiveness, please! *puppy eye'd plead*

Okey here it goes:

Week 7; Art Supplies don't matter!

Okay, you are starting to draw, and don't know where to start, right?
Let me tell you where not to start, or even need to end (although graduation from things is benificial!), art supplies! As long as your eraser works and you're having fun it doesn't matter what kind of things you use! Even a pro doesn't need good art supplies.

Mark Crilley did a whole Q&A video drawing with a piece of cooking charcoal and the back of a brown paper bag on a wobbling serface! Not even a table! Don't think you have to have the best of everything to do well!

Source: http://instagram.com/markcrilleyreal

Now when Mark Crilley says, you don't need the best drawing pieces, then I think my point is proven! It's not the tool as much as the artist. I'll paraphrase this art master: "If you have to fight with your tools then they aren't good for you...Use whatever you are comfortable with!" - "Use whatever kind of brand you want, crayola, copic, whatever!" - Yes I heard him say even Crayola, it's not the supplies, it's the artist!

If you're comfortable, having fun, and making nice things in your eyes (puft to critics unless you want the help to be better!) then use whatever you want! Even a piece of cooking charcoal.

If you want to watch Mark draw this picture go here.


Note:  Mr. Mark Crilley is in no way associated with me, I'm using him purely as a reference, all my opinions don't necessarily agree with his or vice-versa.  

Week 8; Sketching In a Process:

When you are trying to sketch, don't get too detailed right from the start! Try doing your basic guidelines, your basic pose (if it's a figure of any kind), your basic rough sketch,* then polish it up later, if you ink you can tweak even yet again in that stage.

* When sketching it helps a lot to have 2 pencils, a normal/sketching pencil for the rough and semi polishing stage, and a mechanical for hardening and darkening the lines you know you want to keep.
But again, do it how you feel comfortable! 

Also if you have a knead-able eraser after you have your perfect sketch you know you like, if you don't want to ink but want the lines lighter now so you can color w/o seeing as many sketchy lines use your knead-able eraser and push it against the sketch, it will pick up the graphite w/o fully erasing the sketch and keeping the inital sketch in place.

I did this on the computer but it applies to any media:

Bigger Version

If you want to see the finished drawing to this sketch/line art, click here.


I hope these 2 tips helped you!


 

May God Bless You, Your Family, Friend; Along With The Health Of Yourself, Family, Friends, And All Who Know You. ~ Amen

~ Firefly

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Edit: OLD DEMO - Tilly's Rose Garden [DEMO!]

This is a demo of a game I'm working on (Not promising a finish!), for now the object is to get all of the flowers then go to the circle to get to the next level! But don't touch the scarecrows or you'll have to pick them up all over again!

Creator's Notes:
The things are sensitive to touch in this game, if you touch the circle or scarecrows at all the level will be stopped and he next action will happen (restart or next level).

The player gets stuck on the mazes when it's a tight fit, I'm not sure why but I think it's how the program's room-grid works.

The "X" button to close the program for some reason doesn't work, use Escape (Esc) to close.

The Game Goes in to full screen mode and it's size adjustable  if you wish to make it bigger.

You can go to the next level whenever you want, you'll just not get all the points if you don't pick them up.

How To play:
You use the arrow keys for movement, the name of the key it the direction you go (up = up etc.)

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Programs Used:
GIMP - Art
Sony Acid (Free Version) - Sounds
Gamemaker 8.0 lite (Free Version of Gamemaker) - Putting it together and making it playable.


Enjoy!

Comments on what you think, how it could be improved, or other like bugs or the like are all welcomed!

May God Bless You, Your Family, Friend; Along With The Health Of Yourself, Family, Friends, And All Who Know You. ~ Amen

~ Firefly

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