Today, I've released the incomplete Newgrounds Version of OviVixen; "Incomplete" meaning no API integation. It's puzzling, because I struggle to get a POST function to work on Atom despite the tutorial (Gateway) component working just fine. The weekend is the workend for me, so I might have to get back to this on Monday.

As for the game itself, it's fully playable: you just can't post your score or get any medals from it as of right now. I'll keep updating and fixing it, for the time being. So, I hope you guys enjoy what I have right now!

Ciao!

This game jam was my calling, man! Even if I was disqualified, I would still would’ve loved to be apart of this; however, it was never meant to be. This is my story:

I’m a Clickteam user and I’ve noticed for a while that Clickteam has its own HTML5 Exporter! I’m thinking, “Neat! I can make my games on Clickteam Fusion and export them to be able to run on websites! Might need to do a little homework on HTML5, but that’s fine!”. I thought exporting it was going to be the easy part while making the game compatible to Newgrounds was going to be hard part. So most of my week was invested on making the game “Newgrounds compatible” while the final stretch was converting the game to HTML5… I regret that decision…

Around Thursday morning (like Morning-morning, 2am or so), I bought and downloaded the *Clickteam HTML5 Export Module* and connected to my program. Tested it out in the afternoon, and the problems start here! Every time I try to build the game as an HTML file, the whole Clickteam program crashes: not the game, the program used to make said game! Why? Beats the hell outta me! Different things cause the whole program to crash, and adjusting them only offers one or two “successful” conversions every ten attempts.

Not like it matters though, the “successful” builds were only successful at being builds and nothing else. The HTML game skips codes, locks animations, frame rate’s borked, most objects won’t work, sound pops in and out, a lot of position instructions are inaccurate, and you can’t win or die during the first level. It was not a seamless transition: these issues don’t appear anywhere when the game is built as an .exe instead, but .exes can’t run on Newgrounds.

It was just a simple arcade game with a few pieces of necessary integrations exclusive for Newgrounds. Yes, it is OviVixen Arcade! You can download it here!

😲 https://ovimanic.itch.io/ovivixen 😲

Yeah, I know it’s not the same… But hopefully, I can someday bring something worthwhile for this community!

Now enough of that moping, I’m donating for this Jam instead! I just hope Tom will redirect the donation to it. It ain’t much, but I have to bring something out for a great jam theme such as this 🥚! I wish all you participants the best of luck, and I’ll be rooting for you over at the Newgrounds bleachers! Crack some eggs for God’s sake! 🍳

How odd that EGGS are the theme for this month’s game jam? I’m already working on another game meant to test the power of Newground’s API, but that’s going to be released until August. Well, I have to put something out even if it’s something that might not be qualified for the Jam. This is EGG WEEK, afterall: I can’t pass something like this up!

Now I have the duty to compose full tracks for my games: not just little win and lose ditties! Got me my Flstudio, some alright instruments, and once I made a full song from there, I’m going to manually transfer it to my preferred tracker. Will I upload an orchestration version here? Maybe. But first I have go hard with my first track!

Okay, I know scales, I know chords, I know the point of melody, bass melody, beat and rhythm, I know most songs follow a pattern of four and/or eight, and I have a whole library of songs to draw inspiration from; now all I need is to sit my ass down and compose.

Let’s see, where to start? The main melody, the bass melody, or the beat......🤨.....😠.....😡.....🤬.....🤯.....

This is going to be trouble... BUT I WILL PERSEVERE!!

Yesterday, I have made a 24x36 printable poster of my game.

I have updated the page to fix up a few flaws and make it more presentable after print.

• It's more exposed to make the colors pop out more during print
• There was a tiny graphical error next to the hatching egg that I've ironed out
• My company logo is smaller and positioned slightly closer to the center to prevent being obscured by bleed

Hope it looks better for you guys! Now I'm going back to game development for the time being!

Ech!!

So I’m giving my game a bit of an NES coat of paint, and one of the “brushes” needed to give it such a dated sheen is to tighten the hell out of the colors shown in the game! 3 (3-color) palettes for the objects and 3 (3-color) palettes for the background tiles. Finally, there’s the colors themselves: I don’t know how they did it, but the NES is the only system I can recall that displays the muddiest shades of yellow I have ever seen in my life.

Yeah, the NES is definitely not my favorite system; but after this, I get to make the game based on the Master System: a console I have much fonder memories of!

Today, OviVixen is now a year older! Despite being my first game ever released, it had nearly 200 downloads! Seem small, but I feel a sense of accomplishment nonetheless! I’m already in the process of making more titles for this little franchise I’m cooking up, so I’m more than excited to show you guys what I have to offer! All titles I’m working on so far will be bundled in as updates for the “OviManic Emulator”; so as long as you have a copy of OviVixen, you’ll get the other titles at no charge!

The first game is OviVixen Arcade: the baby steps for the series! If you want to see a demo of this game, I posted a video about it right here on Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/763172 . I even fixed the two links that were supposed to redirect you guys to OviVixen’s official download sites. But here they are for your convenience!

https://ovimanic.itch.io/ovivixen

https://gamejolt.com/games/OviVixen/437361

I’m open to any feedback about this game! If you want to compliment, suggest, criticize, or outright bash the game, I’m all ears! This is Newgrounds, I know you folks aren’t afraid to be honest!

Thank you for reading, and I hope I can provide more entertainment for you guys to enjoy!

Borti from OviManic!

Allow me to introduce myself more properly.

Who am I?

Simply call me Borti, I'm a solo game developer who's working on a growing project titled OviVixen!

OviVixen starts as just an old-school arcade game; however, more content is going to be developed, and it's all going to be bundled in as one "emulator".

Why dip my toes into Newgrounds?

Newgrounds was actually my go-to site before YouTube came to be, but more as a viewer than a participant. The Mario Babies series was my absolute first videos I've seen; followed by more Mario-related flash videos and games. I fell in love with crass, unpredictable humor because of Newgrounds and have been embracing that style of humor to this day! There's an art to it, and it shouldn't be thrown by the wayside like yesterday's garbage! It's been a decade since I've last seen a video exclusive to this site, and I can't wait to see the library it has now: especially, since Twitter and Youtube are grabbing people by the nads tighter and tighter!

Conclusion

I'm here to stretch my legs and see what this community has to offer!

(Also to see if anyone here has some interest in my game)

Content that I post on YouTube, I will post here as well; fortunately, It's here that I will post uncensored versions in case I get picked in YouTube's dreadful demonetization lottery...

I'm open to any criticism; so, feel free to ask, comment, or criticize anything related to my work!