Jill

It will be almost 4 months since the release of the ever Meez game Stomp Tomato. And after garnering quite a handful number of plays from all over, there can only one who will get to be the Most Played Character for the game. Some players have commented that one is better, one jumps higher or one smashes more, well code-wise they’re all equal. But at some point maybe its a psychological effect when playing a certain character, like how can you do well if your character does not look good enough for you or heck the like.

Anyway the stats have rolled in and the people have voted (well not actually vote, just chose whom to play) who they like the most to use as their character when jumping over tomatoes. And the winner is no other than our lady Jill. So for those you chose to use her character, then lucky you choosing her.

Of course the tallying didn’t end up in a total landslide, in fact everyone was as close to each other just to prove how awesomely well everyone did. Just for that, here is a chart of how each of them did. Also the custom (3.07%) was for those players who used their own custom meez avatars or so the like to play.

Pie Chart

Well you might wonder, “what the heck is this?” Why don’t you play Stomp Tomato, see for yourself and select your fav character. More stats to come next time.

Stomp Tomato

After a quite long waiting, patience and negotiations it has been done, the game is finally released and will be getting viral to your favorite portals.  The game has been made initially available on the sponsor’s site and on meez.com, then will be uploaded to other major sites as well. Have a meez account? Load your meez avatars anywhere or play it on meez.com to gain some coins and rewards as this game has the Meez Inside API!

Everyone can now play, enjoy, relieve stress, or simply waste your time! So what are you waiting for, play Stomp Tomato now!

Webmasters: If you want this game on your sites, simply grab the goodies here (click at download game).

1st MeezInside Contest w/ FGL

Well, yeah! The results were revealed October 7 and this write up is actually 2 weeks due from it but posting this news is better than never posting it. So yes, I am really grateful that I won the 3rd position in the first MeezInside Contest. If you don’t know about this contest that’s pretty normal, you’re probably not around flashgamelicense.com, to mention that meez has partnered with FGL with this contest. The rules really

Meez

sound simple, make a game implementing the meez inside API and use the meez avatars. It is actually my first time using an API that actually dynamically loads images (meez avatars) while having security policies in mind and also having to make awesome “tricks” with the limited animation strips rendered. It was a great experience sharing and solving problems, questions and issues with other co-developers who joined the contest and used the API. Over all making the game gave a lot to my experience including my art skills, that is like me gaining a new level in flash game development both in code and art.

The results can be found at FGL’s MeezInside forum (you can still view the meezinside forum even if your not logged into FGL).

The ultimate stomping on tomatoes game.

Anyway the game is about to be published and will be released hopefully this week or the next, so watch out for it. Play and make waste of your time in this simple and quick yet very fun tomato stomping game.

the previous design

Basically the art from before was so simple: blue gradients background, a grey floor sidewalk and a couple of sign boards at the back. Just on the last day before deadline and after hours of continuous drawing and another for modifications on the game interface, I managed to make up a quite better background and menu interface. It was a real good experience to draw these since it is my first time to actually use this kind of style into game design. I don’t know what exactly it is call but it is drawn in vector with some good depth detailing and also looks like painting too. Anyway here are some screen shots.

Screen 1

Screen 2

Most of the things are still the same; only major graphical tweaks were made and the game is a lot better now I believe. And yay! my art skills are really improving. See this post for more info about this game.

I made this game for around 6 days and right now is up for sponsorship bidding at flashgameslicense.com. The game was not exactly with my plans but I kind of dig into the Meez Contest and plugged in a quick but fun game 2 weeks before the entry submission deadline (7th Sept). The game is actually playable and 100% done although a new extended polish deadline was made (28th Sept) so I have to hold it more and add some new features.

It was a lot of struggle getting to work with the Meez API, to mention that the meez avatars are rendered in 3D plus the limited animation available. Incorporating my own cell shading style with drawing doesn’t look any good with the avatars so I have to make something up that would look nice (see screenshots). Well it is still a good learning experience working with the Meez API and it taught me a lot of new things with regards to coding.

The main game play is very very simple and no need to read any instructions, simply jump and stomp on the tomatoes. Right now there are 2 modes available: classic and rip-raw-rot, both are set to a 60 second timer. Classic is the basic game play, jump on the tomato to stomp and each stomped tomato is 10 points plus if you stomp two or more tomatoes you get an +5 combo points for every 2nd or more tomato. Rip-Raw-Rot is a more challenging game play, now the tomatoes are aging, so green tomatoes first appear after a few while they start turning red then eventually starts becoming rotten. You get 25 points for green tomatoes which require stomping on twice, 10 points for the red and 5 points for the rotten ones. Sounds fun? There will be an additional game mode being worked on but due to it, I have to alter my classes a little bit to support them.

Wish me luck with my entry! so comments are greatly appreciated especially if you have something to suggest about the design.