Did some pixel art again in a long time and the result turned out just great (if I say so myself). These are actually my first finished pixel scenes ever…
owl on branch – pixel – fireworks | download
fishtank – pixel – fireworks | download
(Click download for a better view)
This week I made some designs for my Mahjong game (read more) and the game is gonna be just great! Here is a little preview of the tiles and the style of the game (I’ll upload more designs later on):
Besides the designs I also needed a nice transition between the background and a map that will be shown somewhere during the game (as some sort of level selection). Because the style is kind of “old” I thought it would be a good idea to make some sort of dissolve transition.
Whaddayaknow; I managed to get a decent result in just a couple of hours.
Despite the fact that I used a perlinNoise and a copyChannel the result runs pretty smooth. Check it out:
http://labs.justgreat.nl/exp080201.htm
To accomplish the dissolve effect I used an alpha mask on the top image (in this case the “map”-image). The mask itself is created by combining a perlinNoise and copyChannel. The perlinNoise creates the randomness and the copyChannel transforms the randomness into a transparent layer.
The size of the mask is half the size of the image and stretched to match the size of the image. This way only a small perlin noise has to be created which increases performance.
Just great; a new week and I have only one spare evening do a little experimenting 
Since my goal was to put up at least one decent experiment a week and since I have little time this week, I decided to upload an experiment that’s almost a year old. It’s an engine for a Mahjong game:
http://labs.justgreat.nl/exp061203.htm
At the time I made the engine I didn’t feel like creating nice graphics so the experiment still looks a bit boring.
Because the engine works fine I thought it would be a wast not to use it, so tonight I created some graphics for the tiles (check them here).
The symbols are taken from a photo of real Mahjong stones. so they should be quite accurate.
The tileset is not 100% complete yet and the current tiles still need a little work on the coloring as well, but I’m sure I’ll finish it somewhere next year 
Today I made the first steps towards my own game… and it’s just gonna be fuckin’ GREAT!
It is gonna be a game based on the classic (but not really well-known) game “Qix”:
As a kid I played this game for days on my old GameBoy (the original) so I know it’s going to be a very addictive game.
The eventual goal is to create a complete game which I’m going to distribute across the web (ofcourse not before placing some adds in it ).
For now I started off with the design and decided it’s going to have a futuristic, electric and hi-tech theme. Here is a little preview:
I named the game “spark” for the time being, but as I’m not fully satisfied by it I’ll probably rename it later on.
Since I have a little spare time this week I hope to have a little demo ready by the end of this week. (did I really say that … omg … well we shall see about that)
Just great how easy it is to make simple animations in Flash. Check out these cute fellas…
cute frog cartoon – vector animation | download
