The game is pretty basic. You run around collecting mushrooms and bonus stars while killing monsters and then finish the level. Don’t fall onto things like spikes or fall down pits or get hit by monsters or you’ll die. At the end of level 3 is a bonus boss that you don’t have to kill but you get bonus points for doing so.

Here’s the controls for the game:
Use [Left] and [Right] to move on the platforms.
Use [Up] to jump.
Use [Up] and [Down] when on vines.
Use [Space] to fire a bullet if you have a gun.
Use [Z] to give you a speed boost to the RIGHT. (no speed boost for other directions)

Finally you can download the full game here.

A special task force goes back in time and grabs these people and brings them to the future to help take care of the problem and destroy Hitler’s generals and eventually Hitler himself and save humanity. I know, it’s a really goofy concept actually but I thought it sounded like a lot of fun.

This semester we are being split into groups and making a game (really more of a concept of a game given the amount of time). As a team we present the design document we created last semester and then choose what game we’ll make. My group decided on creating my game

So this week we’ve had various discussions on the game play, rules we’ll be creating, monsters and their stats and behaviors, what the differences of the player characters will be (strengths and weaknesses), and just a whole lot of talk about game balance.

Also this week we’ve start messing around with ideas for the User Interface Design – here’s my idea – not sure we’ll use it yet or not though:

I’ll make sure to keep this updated a bit as we go through our game design/production process. Needless to say this is really exciting to me and I can’t wait to see what we eventually come up with.

My first portfolio I’ve started to put together is my current projects I’ve been working on – Game Design. I’ve been working with a program called Game Maker Pro to learn the ins and outs of putting a game together and plan on moving soon to XNA with my C# knowledge. Right now my knowledge in this are mostly deals with design and programming more so than art and sound. I’ll also be posting my game design documents I have put together like proof of concept documents, concept design documents, and simple design documents for games I have thought about. These are games I have no intention of ever putting together and was merely put together solely for exercise purposes.

You can view my portfolio in it’s current state now – I will be adding more soon.