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! 🍳
elweyquecomenta
If it serves as a consolation, i think your game was a rather fun and entertaining experience. I liked the fun simplicity of it and i think it lives up to the name of an old arcade game. I sincerely had a blast with the concept of defending and creating eggs to win and i can't wait to see what the future holds for you, my fellow artist. In the mean time i can only imagine what kind of fun and silly adventures will you prepare for your audience. Remember that it doesn't matter how much does a game cost or how well does it exports to html5; as long as you're as happy making as we are of playing it you will always be the true winner. I wish you the best in your future shenanigans and honestly hope that you keep creating awesome content. Best wishes -J