EmptyCrate Software. Travel. Stuff.

I thought I would take a moment to mention that Pinheads: Everything You Need is now an award winning game. Pinheads was the first game created with the EmptyCrate Game Engine.

Pinheads Screenshot

The latest release of the EmptyCrate Game Engine was made last night. Changes include:

1. New Iconed pointers which use spacebar to toggle
2. Black background and tweaked modal dialogs settings
3. Moved inventory to left side to make it fit on an average screen better
4. Add mouse-over for item names
5. Disabled object glow effect

As always, check out game.emptycrate.com for examples.

The next release of the EmptyCrate Game Engine has been released.

Changes:

• Fixed minor game-item scripting problems.
• Added subtitle feature.

This release also notes the release of the 7th game written using the engine. All games that I'm aware of are available at game.emptycrate.com.

I recently released the EmptyCrate Game Engine and have since written 6 games for the engine. These 6 games represent the first adventure games I have ever worked on, so I thought I would take the time here to share some of what I have learned in the process.

EmptyCrate Game Engine Release_2 was just posted to the Google code project page.

This release includes enhancements to the inventory box and the ability for items to interact with each other inside of the inventory.

Also, this release includes a fixed size for the flash applet so that it works properly with smaller screens, such as the Maemo platform.

The game.emptycrate.com site now includes several playable adventure games which work on all know platforms that Flash supports, including MacOSX, Windows and Maemo.

The first release of the new EmptyCrate Game Engine was just released. It's name is confusingly similar to the Crate Game Engine of previous releases, but no one really noticed the old engine, so I'm not too concerned about that.

EmptyCrate Game Engine allows for the creation of 1st Person 2d Adventure games using a Drupal module. Once the game is written it is rendered using a Flash 9 application embedded in the Drupal page. Making the adventure game instantly available to virtually anyone with an internet enabled device.

The engine represents the culmination of several years of ideas which finally were able to come together with the right combination of technologies. The realized goal was to make adventure games so accessible and easy to write that it would be possible to create an episodic game which is updated several times a week. Similar to a webcomic.

The first game to be written using this technology is Pinheads: Everything You Need. This first "Pinheads" game is appropriate for young children and is an entry in this years Christian Developers Network Speedgame Event.