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Something glorious and ludicrous is going down this weekend.

You may be aware that indie games blog TIGSource is having a B-game Competition. You may also be aware that I run a website dedicated to celebrating and creating more of that sort of thing.

The Glorious Trainwrecks Dot Com entry into the competition will be called "The 100-In-1 Klik & Play Pirate Kart", and it will consist of 100 small, terrible games made in two hours using Klik & Play. (You don't actually have to use Klik and Play, but the two hour time limit is firm.) Furthermore, as time is short and it will never happen without an even more insane deadline, all 100 games will be made this weekend. As further incentive, I am even offering prizes (in the form of terrible videogames in the mail) for those who contribute most greatly to our glorious cause.

Join us! If you're not up to cranking out lots of random-ass games this weekend, then consider at least doing one or two. It's great fun.

Further details are available on our website.

You know you want to be in on this! IT IS YOUR DESTINY.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

i kinda want to do this

surely i can put together a shitty game together in two hours
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ApM · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:

Everyone should want to do this!

Once you know your way around the tool, you can easily throw together two or three one-screen games in two hours. Have a look at this nice archive of previous two-hour Klik & Play efforts for inspiration.

Though I might end up doing a couple of games in MegaZeux or something, just to mix things up a bit.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

but then how are you going to combine them into one cart!

also is there like a basic tutorial somewhere? i already have a basic idea for i totally terrible game
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Yeah. . . I'm in, but I'll have to spend all of tomorrow figuring out how to use Klik & Play. This sounds amazing.
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ApM · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject:

Basically my plan is to whip up a separate menu app after this weekend that launches the executables and maybe shows off screenshots. So it won't really matter what you choose to write the games in; I recommend Klik & Play because it's straightforward to use, delightfully broken, and filled to the brim with ludicrous clipart. (Though the backgrounds run out of mileage pretty quickly.)

As far as tutorials go, this one doesn't look half bad. Lots of tutorials there with useful videos.

PROTIP: Question objects don't fucking work at all and can inexplicably freeze K&P solid if placed offscreen, causing you to lose all your work. Don't ever bother trying to use 'em -- it will only end in tears.

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

I'm hoping to use some of my own horrible art for a more trainwreck feel. And my own sound. Are these things easily imported? If so, I'll mess with it all and bang some quick "fighting" games out. Then, you know, whatever from there.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject:

i am trying to crank out a random-ass game this weekend, but i want to make one for you too!
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ApM · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:03 am Post subject:

Sound is easy -- you just say "Play sound" in the event editor and point it at a WAV file (or "Play music" and point it at a MIDI file). Importing graphics is hard to figure out how to do because there's no menu item -- you have to use the disk icon in a given graphic editor. (Search for "import".)

PROTIP: If you try to import a bitmap straight from the animation editor, it seems to expect a grid or something -- import each frame individually. Also, save your work! It seems to choke on some files. And pasting from the clipboard.

Just remember that there is a two hour time limit to your ambition! Agonize over nothing. Go with your instincts and don't look back.

dessgeega, I do hope you take some time to join us. Two hours of completely reckless game design could potentially serve you well as a break from this other mystery project of yours.

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:53 am Post subject:

it's not that mysterious. i'm working on another of those knytt stories. i will try to join you this weekend though.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I liked your knytt level by the way, although I didn't play it, I just watched the video.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Is friday night included as "this weekend"?

I may try to learn this program and create a game in 2 hours... but I would have to do it tonight!
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ApM · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:34 am Post subject:

For you, Shaper? Of course.

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Well, I finished my first game in 5 minutes short of 2 hours. The next game should take five minutes as it will be a mod. Where should I send this? Should I hold off making any more games until Saturday? I wanted to get the hang of it beforehand.

My game is called "Fight a Chicken."
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ApM · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:25 am Post subject:

IT BEGINS!

Having them all done within 48 hours is part of the mystique, but so is blatant cheating, so if you feel like making more games, I won't stop you. 100 is a lot.

Theoretically you can upload stuff to my website, but in practice it doesn't seem to work that well. Upload it someplace and post a link in a comment here.

(Swimmy are you going to put your cock in a videogame)

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Ah, geez, you know that was my first idea. There will be a fair warning in the title.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Is your site dead man? Also, like, is there a link to the exe for this program anywhere else?
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ApM · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

Yeah, my hosting appears to be down right now for some reason. Hopefully not related to me.

Klik & Play is downloadable here! Wikipedia has the download link.

captaincabinets · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

Swimmy I love your game. Fighting chickens with love is the only thing that makes a lick of sense these days.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I have the greatest game ever, but this damn program won't work.

I tell it to start a certain animation after a delay. It works when I go to the Step Through Editor, but when I save it as a standalone game it doesn't start the animation.

What the hell? The game hinges on this! It would have been done in under an hour but now I'm going to wait for a response before going back into it. I've spent 1.5 hours on this, which is .5 too many!

EDIT: It's actually a movement path, not an animation
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Ok, I had to do some trickery, but here it is:

MY GAME FOR THIS PROJECT

Total build time: 1.75 hours

;_;

EDIT: what's missing? I grabbed the .exe and put it on the internet, but what else did I need for a standalone game? It won't run Sad

EDIT2: Link is fixed!
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SuperWes · Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

I'm making one of these and it will be amazing. Just one question though. When you're playing a 2 player PC game where both players use the keyboard and the controls are movement and action, which keys do you use for each player?

-Wes
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ApM · Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:10 pm Post subject:

No idea! Does that even work?

Wes you should join us on IRC. Swimmy and I are getting lonely ;_;

SuperWes · Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:17 pm Post subject:

I don't know how to IRC ;(

And I'm not using Klik N' Play. I'm using XNA. And I might be spending more than two hours per game Sad

I don't think I'll be done for a while, but when I get done my game will be the most glorious trainwreck imaginable.

-Wes
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Step 1) Download mIRC or ChatZilla.
Step 2) When it's open, type "/server irc.freenode.net" (without quotes of course)
Step 3) When that loads, type "/join #glorioustrainwrecks"
Step 4) Discuss the creation of terrible games with us!

That goes for the rest of you too.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

got it with a negative minute to spare:
http://kirkjerk.com/temp/nudge.zip

less one of those middle school clipart wrecks and more one of those artsy, physics model = game no matter how dumb and abstract

made in processing.org (java variant)
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

http://kirkjerk.com/temp/blockvaders.zip
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

http://kirkjerk.com/temp/preggers.zip
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captaincabinets · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:

Once this is finished it should be the cover cd for TGQ #9. I would be more than happy to pay a premium.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Sorry for being such a dork and posting everything here. I started doing it by misreading a suggestion on the irc channel and now the completist in me wants to keep doing it.
cosmic ark (2600) meets katamari damacy (ps2): http://kirkjerk.com/temp/cosmicarkatamari.zip
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

http://kirkjerk.com/temp/breastpong.zip
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

kirkjerk accept my friend request already.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

http://kirkjerk.com/temp/javaknp/ = online versions of all those games
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

We did it, holy shit, we're going over.

Celebrate!
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:01 am Post subject:

This experience truly brought us all closer together.
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:06 am Post subject:

woohoo

when is the official pirate kart released?
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

i, uh, is it too late to contribute?
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

so many people have made so much stuff
i finally made klik n play games:
http://kirkjerk.com/temp/ALIENFIGHTER2000.zip
http://kirkjerk.com/temp/homeworlddefense.zip
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Yeah, I ended up making 5 games for this, here are the other 4:

-Sad Old Man
-Kick the Habbit (you addict!)
-Outrun the Ball
-Collect 100 Jems
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ApM · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:16 am Post subject:

Cycle, unfortunately it is too late to contribute to the 48-hour Pirate Kart Meltdown. But it's never too late to join the Klik of the Month Klub!

Everyone who made games, THANK YOU. And also please post in this thread.

sediment · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject:

Sadly I worked all weekend and was too tired afters to try my hand at KnP, but I'll try and churn some Trainwrecks out later--

but I'm downloading the .7z now, and from illustrated concept alone I'd like to second the nomination for the DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR award for Haze.

also: ONE OH THREE MOST EXCELLENT WORK CHAPS PIP PIP
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

The Voting is up!
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

captaincabinets · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:48 am Post subject:

Everyone with a heart, pulse and/or soul should vote for us! Take a minute to sign up to tigsource and do it!

PS. People who made games for the kart should not vote for us. There is an honour-enforced rule that only up to 3 team members can vote for their own creation - and apm/spindleyQ, six and I have already done so
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captaincabinets · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject:

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject:

I am bringing this back on to the first page because Klik of the Month Klub the 5 - Never Forget Me... is up this weekend! Also because I have done a new game and can't be arsed making a new thread for it. Besides, it's more traffic for the site if you go and get it there.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject:

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

there's a calander for a reason, you know!
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captaincabinets · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: