Blitz game in Pc magazine!

Yes, we've done it again :-)

PC Advisor Magazine - March 2008...





http://www.boiledsweets.com/Stopple

Wait - isn't that a flash game?

NOPE!

Stopple is 100% Blitz 3D. You might be confusing Stopple with Bloxorz, a bad mistake ;-)

Or with Slorpz... :O)

Well done!. Congratulations!

Looks like a flash game I once played.

@Caff, as I said before, "You might be confusing Stopple with Bloxorz, a bad mistake ;-)"

Yes, Stopple is pretty much a clone of the flash game Bloxorz!

Yes, we did get permission to do a copy!

Yes, Stopple is free!

Yes, Stopple is better (at least think so)!

Yes, Stoople is Blitz 3D not flash!

Yes, we are working on Stopple 2!

Yes, Stopple 2 has loads more exciting stuff!

No, Stopple 2 is not ready yet!

Altogether now, Stopple, Stopple, Stopple.

well done mate. You're inspiration to us all, and the rest of humanity.

@andy_mc, oi, no need to be cheeky.

Congratulations, making it to the mainstream is hard, I hope it works out!

Darkheart

Actually, this makes me determined to finish my own small game now, just a few niggling features to add.

@andy_mc



There certainly does seem to be two distinct groups of developers here, those that finish projects and those that don't.

I really do NOT wish to judge or upset, so please don't anyone take the above statement in any negative way! I am just happy that I fall into the group that do finish projects :-)

Now where did I leave that qoob source....

Well done Mr Sweets!

I'm really good at not finishing projects. I've completed a couple but my motivation is solving the problem not creating a finished article. So once I've solved the problems of getting AI / Physics etc working I lose interest.

I've got so many games that only need that last 10% done just sitting gathering dust on my HDD.

That's exactly how Stopple came about! I wondered how to code the collision detection stuff in Bloxorz in Blitz 3D. I was just interested in that problem. I really didn't intend to make a full copy of the game. Once I had cracked the problem I just kinda carried on with it and sort of accidently finished it.

I know what you mean. Just started a thread on syntaxbomb.com about pretty much the same thing.

Got a feeling I won't be writing games for much longer. Don't even know if my current game will get finished as there's a way to go yet.

What I do is sit down determined to finish a project, then I see a blitz showcase entry by someone else or a question on how to make a platform game, so I quit my intended project, then write the barebones of a platform game, as I did last night, I've got about thirty folders with bits of code in them and some design documents that might one day become full games.

Let's keep this on thread please :-)

Sorry yes,

Great game Boiled! I'll try it tonight, I'm wetting myself in anticipation of it's greatness.

congrats boiled! me and my kids have played it - its a gooda game.

Okay, I've got home from work and played it now. It's really good! MY girlfriend likes it too. But we both do the stupid thing of rolling off the edge all the time and shouting doh!

Hey congrats! (again)

:-)

Cool man. How is that blobby-object screensaver coming?

Ok completely stuck on level 6 HALP!!!

edit: nevermind, got it ;)

@ImaginaryHuman - Alientrails. Finished and selling :-) http://www.boiledsweets.com/Alientrails

In fact there's been a couple of updates to it too, now has 51 horrid entrails!

Really nice game, Boiled. The only thing that puts me off is that the player strongly resembles a nasty block of kebab meat.

Nice one, boiled! Did you do anything to get it added? Or did they find it themselves?

I approached them....