Gruedorf: The Legend Continues
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mcgrue

It's that time again, kiddos! Tim to see how the gruedorf challengers are holding up!

We have two new Johnny-come-latelys: Toen and Erayman. Everyone give them a round of applause for the stones to join an unwinnable battle, and condolences for their imminent demise at the hands of their betters!

We also have one Johnny-go-awayey: the indominatble John "Ustor" Weng has joined us in our little band of dysfunctional brothers. His new wundermint.com not only features an umlauted minty 'U', but a dire assortment of completed games only comparable to SD Hawk's... and on the whole prettier than those.

The competition stiffens like undersexed freshmen at Mardi Gras. I'm not too worried, though... I'm sure to vanquish you all, etc., etc...

The Motley Roster

COMPETITOR TEAM/SITE GAME URL
Code (Eponymous) Zodiac Cogency http://codesgame.3host.biz/wordpress/
Erayman Armor Factory (zomg ditto) http://armorfactory.hextudio.com/
Falthorn GameOn Cafe Scroll-a-tron 9k? http://gameoncafe.com/
Kildorf (himself) Geas http://speveril.northknight.com/
McGrue Egometry Saga of the Stars http://egometry.com/
Overkill Bananattack! Signal http://bananattack.com/blog/
Rysen RysenSoft Amethyst http://rysen.seanoyler.com/
SDHawk Contrivia ? http://stellarx.org/sdhawk/contrivia/
Syn The Finishers Soul of the Machine http://soulofthemachine.3host.biz/
Thrasher Implode, Explode Vulture http://imploexplo.blogspot.com/
Toen (zumpiez, lol?) Stick Ninja <-- http://stickninja-gruedorf.blogspot.com/
Ustor Teh Ruster Himself lul "Tactical Action RPG" for now http://www.wundermint.com/posts

The Progress Report

Code: The Zodiac Cogency

The Zodiac Cogency has been in good upkeep, with Code making good on the "7 days or else" ultimatum. Not only has he been a sport with making some neat strides in his battle system, he currently holds first place in regards to nicest display of boobies in a gruedorf game (...even if they are potentially ripped boobies). Code is totally not a loser. Yet.

Code, having posted today, has until the 11/25 to make his next update as of this writing.

Erayman: Armor Factory

Erayman's a long time lurker, first time demo poster! Ha-ha, gruedorf is WORKING!

Ahem.

Erayman's first effort is a nice one. He's got a little map workout out of a very nice tileset (made for the public by age-old VERGEr and artist extraordinaire Hyptosis.

The demo also features the beginnings of a battle system and a map system, and Erayman shows some amount of dedication here. We shall have to keep our eyes on him, fellow fiends and villains.

Unfortunatly, Erayman is tip-toeing preposterously close to the edge of the 7-day-limit-of-losing as of this update. Will he manage to escape the pains of loss? Tune in next time! (how dramatic!)

Falthorn: The (absent) Sidescroller

Speaking of loss... Notice the lack of an update picture? This isn't due to a text-only update. This is due to no updates.

At all.

On his whole blog!

For over two weeks!

I'd suspect both Falthorn and the enigmatic "Thunderpudd" had died, but for the fact that I talked to Falthorn on the telephone but last night.

Falthorn is a loser and has been in a constant state of disgrace since 11/5. I hear his family has disowned him and sold all of his meager belongings.

Kildorf: Geas

My arch-nemesis saw that in the post previous to the current one I claimed to've done a light amount of work. Whereas I did several hours of map editing, here's, in his own words, what he added for this update.

"Basically, this version adds a frames-per-second counter, and has the neat feature that if you hit "A" then it crashes."
-Seamus Peveril, Neo-Renaissance Man

With competition like this, it's truly a wonder I don't slit my wrists out of shame from merely drawing comparison.

If one considers this "post" legitimate, Mister Kildorf has until 11/21 as of this writing to stop sucking, lest he be branded with the firey iron of loserdom.

McGrue: The Astrad

While boasting earlier this week that I'd be making an amazing, mindblowing, panty-disintegratingly-cool post any day now, I blatantly defied myself in.... not doing so!

Instead I spent time cleaning up the map that I am going to demonstrate the nigh-disgusting amounts of awesome upon. No, really. You have been warned.

If someone else ever cared to take the time to work up a news post like this, this here would be a great opportunity to mock me to little pieces. However, since I'm the one spending a few hours of my precious time writing this summary, I'm declaring myself super-awesome and quite handsome to boot. Take that!

McGrue has not lost to date, and will continue to never lose... as long as he posts again before or on 11/25.

Overkill: Signal

After being mercilessly taunted, teased, poked, prodded, and mocked by all the other reindeer in #verge about his Sucktastic Loser status from earlier, Mr. Crowell decided to dust off, get back on the horse and attempt to stop sucking.

Unfortunatly, Andrew's idea of "stop sucking" is "do as little work as possible in a week", as his entire update consisted of loading pre-existing artwork and displaying it. No, really, that's it!

I mean, at least Kildorf had the good sense to bind the 'A' key to application armegeddon.

Overkill has lost once before, and is currently Technically Not Losing until 11/25 as of this writing.

Rysen: Amethyst

Rysen's update is yet another unimpressive, sad sack of a post. Here, hear the man himself describe his doings:

"So Greg’s sleep is now in, there’s a fancy attack animation for it, and it will prevent an enemy from attacking for such amount of time. It’ll also break after you use a regular attack….I meant to add this for magic attacks as well, but forgot. :D"

"Still no visual representation of it, as I’m still trying to figure out how I’m gonna do that."

Really, guys, come on. Pics or it didn't happen. Shameful.

Rysen apparently hasn't lost yet, but I'm sure he doesn't sleep well at night with work like this. Also his mother told me she doesn't actually love him. Honest. Rysen has until 11/23 to make a post before he enters the Hall of Losedom.

SDHawk: Contrivia

Crikes. SDHawk continues to "design" his "game" and pretends that these "words" constitute "work". The nerve.

Read his many new words here in google docs. Or don't. Because TL;DR.

I'm not going to bring up any irony in citing "tl;dr" in this post if you don't... <_<

SDHawk has until 11/21 to cough up more work before he's considered a big fat loser.

Syn: Soul of the Machine

Clearly misinterpreting the cheers of his enemies that he was about to fail, Syn decided to rally and post... a new technicolor sink!

Frankly, I should interpret this as an act of war.

Syn hasn't lost yet, but he *is* french canadian. So that's funny. Syn has until 11/21 to make another brightly colored appliance or face terrible mocking at the hands of the Loser Notification Execution Squad.

Thrasher: Vulture

In a mind-boggling attempt to use some deranged reverse-psychology on me, Thrasher is attempting to claim he's lost when my google reader says he hasn't. He was close, though. If he really wanted to lose he should've waited a few more hours.

Anyways, he's made a 3d thing using a 3d lib and default 3d parts. Apparently it's gonna be a tactical RPG involving ROBITS! Isn't that EXCITING?

Thrasher may or may not have lost before, and he may or may not be a loser now. He's bewildered me to my very core. Either way, he has until 11/19 to break his silence on his blog before he's definitly, definitly a loser again (or maybe not again).

Toen: Stick Ninja

Long time verger and indie posterboy Toen has decided to come out of a retirement to kick it with a new game and a new alcoholic binge! I'll let him use his own words here.

"A NEW KIND OF HERO. FOR A NEW KIND OF BITTER ARCH-NEMESIS RIVALRY.

"Featuring a KILLER SOUNDTRACK by whoever I feel like sticking into it with a flagrant disregard for copyright law, MINDBLOWING graphics by me and the size 9 Photoshop brush, and STUPEFYING rendering speeds brought to you by Master Gambrell's CAROT ENGINE.

So, we're finally getting the gun-toting, hookshot-firing stick-figure action gamers have cried out to the heavens for ages to recieve. Where a cold, unfeeling god did not deliver, Jeff "Toen" Hutchins will.

This one will truly test the Tychoian gameplay-over-pretty hypothesis. Assuming, that is, that there's good gameplay.

Toen has until 11/21 to pull more sticks out of his ass before he is branded He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Win'd.

Ustor: ???

And finally, our new dark horse candidate. I actually know a bit about this entry and am excited to see it. And that's not just because it may or may not involve more boobs than The Zodiac Cogency.

The hypothetical boobs don't hurt, though.

Apart from coding his website from scratch using cakePHP (and the first time he's used PHP), he's done little but declare his intent to rock our collective socks off. Fiend, Fearmonger, or Fraud: You be the judge.

Ustor has until 11/23 to produce something of sustance before he will be baked. And then there will be Loser Cake.

And that's it!

Falthorn's currently the only loser! HEY FALTHORN STOP LOSING!

Well done everyone... and less well done to those of you who barely did anything. We'll meet again in a week or two with a new report. Until then, let's see some more noise on those forums, people. ;)

Posted on 2007-11-18 22:46:52

Hyptosis

Erayman: Hey dude, thanks so much for using my art. Pretty wicked seeing my stuff float around the net now and I hope you get in there before the deadline, regardless you’ve got my vote! =P Just get it done man.=P

Zodiac Cogency does seem to have the most boobies, which is always win win I think. It’s been a long time since I’ve been a part of the hobby game making, I gotta say boobs are a good reason to return. =P

Falthorn, well, he has the longest cartoon penis I’ve ever seen. =\

McGrue’s SotS huh.. I dunno.. I think I’ve played this game before… Let me think.. there were hicks.. and a crazy mage who kept all of his books on the floor for some reason… and a very clever puzzle in a library…. And hicks.. I dunno about this one. =]

I don’t have a clue what is going on in Signal there, but uh, raining women is always awesome if you can find cover. Little green dude looks like one of my old heman figures from my youth.

Thrasher, yeah… hey, hope you get hit by a lawnmower.

Toen… I remember when Toen was 12. You know he got his named form typoing ‘town’ right? In any event, I think his game has the best art of all for sure, short of Erayman’s of course.

I’d post about the rest of you but uh, I’m kinda coming in on the middle of this mess and don’t have a clue about what’s going on. I just need a glass of water and I’ll go back to my room.

Posted on 2007-11-18 23:40:04

ustor

Grue: stop leaking my secrets. This is highly unprofessional of you. I'm not sure we can be lovers friends frenemies anymore. The only official source for leaked information about ustor's game is wundermint.com.

Posted on 2007-11-19 01:13:07

Hyptosis

That might be the freshest page I've ever seen. O_o

Posted on 2007-11-19 09:33:38

Syn

Wow, the Gruedorf challenge is becoming big. I am going to have to add some more links soon.

Btw, thanks Grue for these really interesting and witty updates. Also, I was thinking we could do at 6 months intervals a vote where each person chooses their top 3 best updated blogs.

Posted on 2007-11-19 13:30:23

mcgrue

Hey. I only postulated that there might be boobies. Official sources will not confirm nor deny this at this time.

...

...I just get excited. You know. About boobtacular matters.

Posted on 2007-11-19 16:34:52

mcgrue

Quote:Originally posted by ustor

Grue: stop leaking my secrets. This is highly unprofessional of you. I'm not sure we can be lovers friends frenemies anymore. The only official source for leaked information about ustor's game is wundermint.com.


So, are you declaring internets war on me? I already have an arch nemesis. You'll have to settle for comic-relief midboss or something.

Posted on 2007-11-19 16:36:53

ustor

Quote:Originally posted by mcgrueSo, are you declaring internets war on me? I already have an arch nemesis. You'll have to settle for comic-relief midboss or something.

I do not believe I was given fair consideration for your "arch nemesis" position. Further, I am deeply offended that you would attempt to placate me by extending a lowly "comic-relief midboss" opportunity. I have already filed a complaint with the EEOC and have contacted the NAACP. You will also be hearing from my lawyer.

That said, no, I'm not declaring internets war on you. If we can't fight with tanks then it's just not worth it. So I'm just calling you a jerk. Because you are.

Posted on 2007-11-19 20:12:43

Kildorf

Quote:Originally posted by ustor

So I'm just calling you a jerk. Because you are.


It's true. :D

Posted on 2007-11-19 20:17:33

mcgrue

I'll kill you in a tank if it means I can not be a jerk.

...wait...

...only a jerk would kill another person to not be called a jerk!

Ah well. I guess I'll just be a jerk. A jerk who WINS this competition.

...

...

...and since it doesn't matter one way or another I'll kill you with a tank too! :D

Posted on 2007-11-20 03:11:15

ErayMan

Hey Hyptosis! The fact that you're a long-time verger is just awesome.
I found your site in a totally random way, doing google searches. Somehow I ended up there:
http://www.rpgmmag.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4853&start=20

I found your tiles amazing and with a little bit of work I managed to use them in verge.
It's very hard to find 32/32 tiles, let alone nice ones ;)
I'm your #1 fan!
I hope you like the layout I did with my map :)

Do you have a current project you are working on?

Posted on 2007-11-23 15:31:00

Exasperation

I thought someone should point out that, on the front page, the links for Erayman and Falthorn in the roster are switched around.

That sort of thing could cause confusion.

Posted on 2007-11-25 06:57:05

Syn

Grue, are you going to lose? Go update quick!

Posted on 2007-11-25 19:13:00

mcgrue

Ha, as if I am capable of such a disgraceful thing as "losing".

Posted on 2007-11-26 22:42:53

Hyptosis

Hey, yeah, the map rocks. I know my tiles aren't the easiest to use though. You did a fine job! =] I need to get some time and finish the interior set that matches the outside set. Been real busy.

As for my own project, not so much, I find game making to be depressing for the most part, since I can't stand it when things don't get completed, so I'm staying out of hobby game craft it from now on. =]

Posted on 2007-11-27 10:58:01

Hyptosis

Hey, yeah, the map rocks. I know my tiles aren't the easiest to use though. You did a fine job! =] I need to get some time and finish the interior set that matches the outside set. Been real busy.

As for my own project, not so much, I find game making to be depressing for the most part, since I can't stand it when things don't get completed, so I'm staying out of hobby game craft it from now on. =]

Posted on 2007-11-27 10:58:54

Syn

@Grue: Lol, you can't really afford to lose considering you have been playing the devil's advocate in this competition. Imagine the backlash! =D


@Hyptosis: I totally know what you mean. I think most project have either low ambition(crap project) or non realistic expectations.

Posted on 2007-11-27 11:21:55 (last edited on 2007-11-27 11:22:34)

Glenshope

Is it time for another update to the Gruedorf challenge on the main page, I keep visiting expecting to see lovely updates!

Posted on 2007-12-11 10:41:34

mcgrue

The lack of updates has everything to do with the fact that I just started a new job, and nothing at all to do with the fact that my previous two updates aren't very impressive.

>_>

Honest. ;)

Posted on 2007-12-12 10:47:27

CrazyAznGamer

*sniff*
You know, the only reason I'm missing Windows is VERGE. Seriously.

...
(Though I'm considering joining in this madness of indie game-dev explosion. We'll see...)
...
(Another side note: I've been lurking for a while? Interesting. Lurking sure is strange.)

Posted on 2007-12-17 01:30:09


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