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I know it's late: this game is meant to fit in the "10 seconds" theme of the Experimental Gameplay Project - the March one - but I got the idea on March 30, add a bunch of other stuff to do and everything and here we are. April 15th.

It's your classical platform game in 10 seconds. Each stage is very short but you cannot take your time to look around: it seems our hero took too much mushrooms this morning and he cannot stop growing.

This leads to interesting changes in the gameplay since the interactions with the environment change accordingly. Bigger legs means bigger steps but watch out as the ceiling appears a bit too close all the time.

Only ten levels (well if you send me a gif file of ***x24 px I can add it to the next version of the game). My best score is around 5423. And I think I know the best way around each level. It's up to you now.

AWD to move (W/space to jump), R to restart a level and ESC to quit.

Made in processing this time, so here are stand-alone versions.

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久々の更新になってしまいました。AFO大和田です。

「三人の研究者」展ですが、来場下さった方には本当にご好評いただいてます！
こういうのははじめてで、そりゃあもうがんばったので、いい反応を頂くと本当にうれしいです。
直前まで直し直しやっていて、昨夜はカプセルホテルに泊まってまで準備しました（しかも機器の調整で
時間がかかり、実際に寝れたのは２時間くらいだった）。

明日あさっては天気が悪いらしくて不安もありますが、ぜひたくさんの人に遊びにきてほしいです。

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渡邉英徳さま（渡邉さんとは、３月に共同で展示会を開催します。場所は桜木町の野毛Hana*Hanaというところです。詳細は追ってお知らせします。

私はあんまり寝不足なので、これから寝ます。。。

さて、満を持して、というか、宣伝が遅いというか、ともかくも私たちの初めての展示会が金曜日から渋谷のLe Decoというギャラリーで開催されます！ぜひお越しください！内容は以下のようになってます。

After submitting Earth to reddit (/r/indieGaming and /r/gaming), I got some very interesting feedback. The most dominant one was that once you understand the twist, the game was pretty boring.

So I got an idea over the week-end and here is the new version of Earth with improved gameplay, less spelling mistakes, and more endings! And still in time for the competition.

Enjoy.

You still need a recent version of Java to play the game and there is a sound effect when Earth communicates (the "roger beep" if you want to know).

Earth has been updated! New version here.

I know it's only been a few hours between the teaser and the release but I cannot wait any longer.

I present EARTH, my entry for the Experimental Gameplay Project competition. This month's theme was the so controversial "Art Game".

You can grab it here and give it a try before reading the following. It should be a runnable jar file, so if you have a recent version of Java, it should start when opened. You control the ship with WASD/arrows and you can shoot with space.

With Earth I wanted to explore the concept of Space Invaders. The rationale behind this game is that given a ship that fires bullets and waves of extraterrestrials beings coming to Earth, what would a human do? What are your options? Can you even think of options when it looks like the fate of the entire planet lies in your hands? What happens when you do not shoot?

Art is supposed to convey a message whatever the medium. With this entry, I hope to show that not only games can be used to convey messages but also that games are a very powerful medium to create emotions: after all, the player is in charge. Their actions decide the fate of the game. And what could be more powerful than interactive art?

For the people that also tried "$TRADE$", my previous game, you might notice that the music is the same. I started coding the game with the same framework and the music felt right from the beginning (and the timing is perfect, you'll see by playing). I could not find a better music to suit this game. And of course there are no sound effects: it's space after all.

Just a small teaser.

先日某学会で産総研の後藤さんにお会いしたところ、研究でも何でもビデオをニコニコ動画に投稿するとものすごくたくさんフィードバックをもらえるので、絶対やったほうがいいと言われたので、萌え木のビデオを昨日投稿してみました。そしたらたった一日で100件以上ものフィードバックをもらえました。ほとんどほめてもらっていない気がするのですが、学会に投稿してReviewをもらうよりもはるかにリアルなコメントで意義深いです。最初の方しかコメントをもらっていないのは、ビデオが退屈で途中で見るのをやめた人がほとんどだということなのでしょうね。 ちょっとー、今後はニコニコにほめてもらえるようにがんばらないと、と思ったのでしたw ちなみに後藤さんは来年のWissの委員長です。私が最も尊敬する方の一人であります。

我々の企画する展示会「視展」の日程と場所が決まりました。

Hi folks,

This time I decided to take part in the Experimental Gameplay Project, where the goal is to make a game in less than seven days on a specific topic every month.

This month's theme was Numbers, so I made a trading simulation where the only enemy is your greed! Try to stay healthy enough to enjoy your money before the time runs out.

The gameplay is pretty basic: you can buy or sell stock but for every trade you make, you need to spend a little energy. Sleeping recharges you a little bit and be aware of potential trading dramas!

The game is packed as a .jar file that you can get here. You should be able to run that by double-clicking on the file if you have a recent version of Java around.

Have fun! If you get more than 30K, you are pretty good!

The music is taken from the Open Source Audio section of the internet Archive. Direct link.
The font comes from dafont.com and it is called "Digital-7". Sound effects made with the speech synthesizer of Mac OS (I have some issues regarding the licensing of those effects, if anyone can point me in the right direction). I used JavaLayer to read the MP3 in java.