Last Update: 8/15/07
A Tribute to the Rolling Boulder
You play the boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Your goal is to squash the archaeologists so as to keep them away from the idols you protect. If the archaeologists reach the idols your "honor" will go down, when this is depleted you lose.
Publisher: Kloonigames
| Developer | What I Did | Difficulty of Development | Anecdote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everything except the music | Harder than Planned | This game was made for the Assembly 2007 gamedev combo. I wasn't going to participate in the combo, but I was chatting with a friend of mine and he told me that he's going to participate and challenged me to come up with something. So I spend half of the day coming up with an idea that would fit the Assembly gamedev combo format and that would be doable in three days. I came up with an excellent idea (you played a Cupid with a machine gun or something) and I cranked out an early prototype of the game. And to much of my surprise that game totally sucked. The gameplay didn't work at all. So I was almost giving up on the whole thing. Luckily I decided to play around with the prototype a bit. There were these ragdolls and you controlled this ball and I found that it was really fun just to bash the ragdolls around. So I thought I could crank out some kind of a game around this. And then the rolling boulder and indiana jones idea hit me and I decided to go for that. It was insane two and half days of coding and doing art to get the game together, but I'm glad I did. I did spend one extra day (after the deadline) tweaking and fixing little things. The game came in fourth at the Assembly gamedev combo. And I'm really about that, since it could have easily been a total catastrophe. |
