After a struggle I've finally found a dedicated artist to work with me, Mr Ani-x. This means a new game will be coming out soon from me!

It's a classic arcade style game. You control a mining cart riding on a set of tracks. Your objective is to avoid incoming traffic and obstacles. Basically survive as long as possible. You get abilities to help you on your way and you can collect gold bags to increase your score. It's a fun highscore driven game that hopefully is addictive and will keep people coming back trying to get better scores.

I haven't decided on a name for this game yet, and frankly I'm hitting blank thinking what to call it. If a name popped into your head after reading the game description above, please comment here. If I'll use your name suggestion, I'll add you to the game credits.

Working on the power of three project right now. Got me a good team.

Snicp, the artist.
Shakyjake, the musician.
And yours truly, the coder.

We got a nice game idea, but I'm not going to spill it out yet. After we got the production in good order, I'll post in with something :).

Edit 21.5.2009: And this died thanks to Tom adding extra requirements :P. Shame, we had a good game idea.

Please do not submit a team application unless two of your team members have won awards on Newgrounds.

I'm sorry to have to limit this event, but if it gets too big, I feel that participating teams could suffer. I may be imposing a cut-off of 33 teams, so that we have a manageable number for the release schedule and ongoing publicity.

As I'm a programmer, the problem I always face when starting a game is that where am I going to find an artist to do all the graphics? Because when I vision the games in my head, they don't look shit :). Well, I've found me an artist! He's a rl friend and I see him almost daily (as we study in the same university) so I know he won't disappear on me (like this kid from USA did when I was working with him last year). It's been a bit busy with school projects lately so our projects are on hold atm, but we should pick them up soon, latest at the summer.

It's been a long time since Bouncy Bob was released, and I'm hoping to get at least one game released by the end of the year.

We'll see it how it goes, I'll keep you guys informed :).

(how many ppl actually read my newspost? I was a bit surprised to get so quickly responses to my last newspost :). Drop me a message even if you don't have anything to comment on this newspost. Just like to know who's out there :) )

Bouncy Bob has been released! Check it out here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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Please leave the game reviews in the game comments, but you are free to drop me a comment about the game here, thanks.

My first game is about finished. I should get it released soon. Finally I will get down to hunting a sponsor. Been busy and haven't gotten into that very carefully yet.

I know I said 'one week' several weeks ago :), but this time I will try to get the game sponsored&released within a week.

Edit 23.2.08: Game delayed, again :P. But on the brighter news, I GOT A SPONSOR! The deal is made, but I'll have to make some changes to the game first.

Edit 15.4.08: Yea, still not done :P. I can only comfort myself that the delay is not my fault. All the coding has been done long ago, with only few tweaks here&there left. Now I just have to wait for the artist to finish up the graphics. That is though taking longer than I expected... I'm not a happy camper :P.

Edit 18.4.08: The gods have heard my bleeds and the graphics have been shipped to me :). The ball is on my court now. I will devote the following weekend to get the game as ready as possible. With some luck the game will be out in a week (fingers crossed :P).

Edit 11.5.08: I'd say the game is ready. But there's some delay from the sponsor side. Hopefully it won't take too long :P.

Edit 24.5.08: Looks like we can forget the release in May... The sponsor is busy with other projects and I still haven't got the necessary info from him to set up the highscores and the sponsor stuff. With at least 5 release estimates gone wrong I'm going to make a realistic date this time...

Edit 26.6.08: Finally looking good. I've got pretty much everything done. Only thing left to do is to play the game and test that there isn't anything wrong. That and some very minor polishing. Though I don't expect there to be anything wrong. I've already play tested the game a lot while making it. I'm a trial&error kind of guy. I do something --> play to see that it works ----> fix it if it didn't, or move on if it did.

[updated] Release estimate at the moment: hopefully within 2 weeks of my previous edit-entry.