UberGeek's Signature
I kept running out of space in my
signature, since I have several games released and in Playtest. I had a
lot of links and about 4 lines of text, which was a bit overwhelming.
So I created this webpage which
contains more detailed information about what I'm currently up to. I'm
going to try to keep it current, so check back often!
Now I can free up valuable
space in my signature for things like inspirational quotes from Dilbert. ;-)
Main Website - UberGeekGames.com - Now updated to work in IE, and with 90% less
programmer art! (yes, I did the background image using an XNA app and
Photoshop)
Blog -
UberGeekGames.com/Blog - not a "true" blog as it's a heavily modified
version of the main website, but it gets the job done. Now with RSS and Atom
feeds. Now I just need to use it more often...
Twitter -
twitter.com/ubergeekgames - I promise to keep it to the good stuff and not bore you with what I had for dinner!
Released
Games
A Game of Tennis - Classic paddle action, with Global
Scoreboards, local and online multiplayer, and advanced human
like AI!
Awesome Tank - One or two player 3D tank combat game,
with local and online co-op, two Global Scoreboards, plus Awardments
and a myriad of options for game customization!
GameFinder - Rate games,
sort games, and find the best games to play! A virtual store and ratings
platform, dedicated to helping you find the best games on Xbox LIVE Indie
Games.
Dungeon Adventure - Classic Roguelike action, right in your
living room! Features infinite random dungeons, Awardments, and Global
Scoreboards to prove you are the best Adventurer!
Super Avatar Hero Force
- Use your Avatar's slow-mo ninja kung-fu skills to take out an endless
horde of zombie Avatars, defeat giant robots, and save adorable kittens.
Prove your awesomeness on the Global Scoreboards and unlock a variety of Awardments!
The MANLY Game for MANLY Men - Hurl your Avatar down four scenic
mountains to collect ACME MAN BLAST and become the MANLIEST of MANLY MEN!
Coming Soon:
Avatar Land - Create
and share entire worlds to run and jump through in this platforming
adventure for your Avatar.
BulletAsylum - What
do you get if you take the classic "defend cities from meteors" genre,
increase the level of firepower from "wimpy" to "insane", boil the controls
down to "push thumbstick or touch screen to shoot", add crazy over the top
bosses and screenfuls of enemy ships blasting at you, and give it a thick
coat of HD graphics and advanced shaders? That's what we're attempting to
find out. Preliminary reports are "epicness".
Dungeon
Adventure WP7 - Why do you need to be tethered to your Xbox to enjoy the
addictive dungeon adventuring that is Dungeon Adventure? I couldn't come up
with a plausible reason either, so ported it to Windows Phone 7!
For Developers
AvatarWrapper
(latest version: 2.2 release) - this is a wrapper component I wrote for
the new XNA 3.1 Avatars. It greatly simplifies the creation of Avatar
based games by providing an easy to use API for controlling Avatars,
adding custom animations, and rendering them on the PC. Now includes the
skeleton rigs that somehow got left out in the 2.1 release.
AvatarDistributionComponent
- this was hacked together from Jon Watte's HighscoreComponent to prove
a theory. By adding the component to your project and sending a
SignedInGamer's Avatar to it, it will create network sessions in the
background and exchange AvatarDescriptions with whoever happens to be
playing at the same time. I still haven't come up with any ideas for
how it would be useful in an actual game, but it is pretty cool!
ScrollBar
Component - TG Viking's ScrollBar, but refactored into its own class for
ease of use.
EasyRotation - 3D Rotation simplified!
Sales Data Converter
- Think the My Business page could do with some extra features? Copy and
paste its content here, or load the raw CSV files to automatically get daily
details such as profit, conversion rate, and much more!
Battlestar Galactica text effects in XNA - because just fading in text
is so yester-millenium.
Thanks for reading this. See you on the
forums!
-UberGeek