Angels of Bayonetta

I'm playing Bayonetta on the 360 at the moment.

What grabbed me from the beginning was how cool and well designed the angel enemies are. Unfortunately, in the game you can't get a good look at them because they come at you really fast. I didn't even realise they had faces and I thought the pointy bits were beaks! They're actually beards.

Anyway, here they are in all their glory (click on the picture for a full view):

Game Prototype: Fall On Me

Here is the prototype of a game I'm working on: Fall On Me.

The premise is basically that it is a platform game where the platforms fall into place as you go along. They are generated randomly.

Keep in mind that it is far from finished. So far, the basic game mechanic is done, but the game basically needs more 'stuff'.

Give it a try at: www.flashbynight.com/fallonme

Spelling Bee Game

I thought I might just post this link:

http://berzerker.com/spelling.html

It's a spelling game someone made using my word scramble tutorial, which can be found here:

http://www.flashbynight.com/tutes/scramble/

Mass Effect 2: New Best Game

I've just finished Mass Effect 2 and my verdict is that is the best game ever for the 360.

Here is my personal Top 5:

1 Mass Effect 2

2 Mass Effect

3 Ninja Gaiden 2

4 Gears of War 2

5 Gears of War

Unlike Hollywood movies, in the gaming world, sequels are actually better!

Drifting Afternoon

I have to mention this game that I discovered today: Drifting Afternoon.

I've always been a fan of Ferry Halim's work; he does flash games like no one else. Anyway, I won't ramble on; here's the link below. Enjoy.

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/drift.htm

AS3 class for finding four-letter words

When I created the game Merge (flashbynight.com/merge), I created an AS3 class that can be used to:

1 Check the validity of a four letter word
2 Choose a four letter word at random

This could come in useful for anyone interested in creating word games. It weighs in at 22k, but contains all the four-letter words in English.

The class is FourLetterList.as and to get a four-letter word, use the function return_random_word(); To check if a word exists, use check_validity("word"); and it will return TRUE or FALSE.

The class and a sample .fla can be downloaded here: http://www.esnips.com/doc/0eeae33e-a79e-4dcd-884a-a6f09c0ef687/4word



Hope it comes in useful.

Merge

I had the idea for a fun little word game. It only took a short time to make and it turned out pretty well, IMHO.





www.flashbynight.com/merge