John Conway's Game Of Life

Recently I watched this awesome talk of John Blow:

Jon Blow on "The Truth in Game Design"

So I felt like I should give a chance to implement John Conway's Game Of Life that is explained in the talk.

If you're asking WTF is John Conway's Game Of Life, then just click on it. It's a simulation with very basic rules, but the outcomes are amazing. You set an initial state and simulate it to see what crazy pattern forms up.

So I did it. It's so much fun trying to find nice patterns.

MOUSE to make cells alive or dead. SPACE to start and stop simulation.

Look up and try patterns from this Wikipedia page for more fun!

     

GGJ13 Entry

Our Global Game Jam 13 Entry.

Graphics: Murat Kalkavan

Programming: Talha Kaya

Sound & Music: Doğaç Yavuz

Play it here:

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Ode To Pixel Days Soundtrack

It's on! You can listen to and download it here:

http://talhakaya.bandcamp.com/

I'll just go on and embed it here, too:

Ode To Pixel Days Wallpapers

Today I got bored and made some wallpapers, imitating this image of Fez right here. It was fun. I made it with FlashDevelop which is a weird choice to make wallpapers, right? I also used Paint.NET. All these free tools, what did I do to deserve this awesomeness? Anyway, here are the wallpapers:

The resolutions are especially 1366x768 so I could use them on my own laptop! Feel free to use them as desktop backgrounds or wipe your asses with them I don't care.

Music Award For Zipzip:Secret Dimension

My soundtrack on my brother Tarık Kaya's game has recently won a Turkish award called "Kristal Piksel Ödülü" claiming that it is the best Turkish game soundtrack of the last 5 years. It's one of the two games that got this award, the other being "İstanbul: Kıyamet Vakti". I was surprised because the nominees were generally very strong and professional productions, while my soundtrack is, well, just my classical guitar, both rhythm and solo.

If you haven't heard the soundtrack yet, or would like to download it, here it is:

How To Select Good Game Mechanics

I was just watching this video, and I decided to use this as my guide through designing my next game. I have a few mechanics flowing in my mind, so I might not be able to sleep tonight. Let's find out!..

Our GDTJam2 Entry

Nazire and I made a game for the second game jam by Game Developers @Turkey Facebook group. 13 games were made in the jam and we really had fun making ours. It was overall a great time, chatting with people and playing their games. It's also Nazire's first released game. It's not fully finished, and it's very short but some people enjoyed it, so it made me happy. It's all programmed by my dear Nazire. We designed the game together, and I made the graphics. Doğaç Yavuz made a song for our game and we love it. Thanks again! Our game is here with the explanation. And all the jam games are here. There are some really awesome games, so I hope you don't miss.