[win/mac/lin] Cute Physics Platformer "Nikki and the Robots" | Level Contest

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Started by qubodup June 13, 2011 11:08 AM

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June 13, 2011 11:08 AM

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[color="#000000"][font="Arial"]Nikki and the Robots[/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"] is a cute physics platformer. It is in development and mostly open source. Alpha versions are available for public consumption.[/font]

[color="#000000"][font="Arial"]Currently the game is LGPL code, CC-BY-SA assets. There will be a for-pay story mode that will contain proprietary assets and data.[/font]

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[color="#bbbbbb"][color="#000000"][color="#000000"][font="Arial"]A [/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"]level contest[/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"] was started (win full version once it's finished + one t-shirt, ends 7. July 2011).[/font]
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[color="#000000"][font="Arial"]Please test-ride this release [[/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"]get it here[/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"]] as hard as you can and make awesome levels for the [/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"]contest[/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"]! (Or spread the word if you know somebody who makes awesome levels.) Bugs are kindly asked to go to [/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"]Launchpad,[/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"] our [/font][color="#000000"][font="Arial"]IndieDB forum or just this thread

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qubodup

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June 15, 2011 07:03 PM

[color="#000000"][font="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][color="black"][font="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Tahoma"][color="black"][font="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Tahoma"][color="#000000"][font="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][color="black"][font="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Tahoma"][font="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"]On June 6th we started a level design contest. It runs until July 7th and everybody is welcome to submit as many levels as they like. Text and video tutorials are available.

We received ten levels so far via email, webchat and forum:

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To test them, you have to unzip the archive [mirror 1 | mirror 2] to the following directory:

WINDOWS: %APPDATA%\nikki-free-levels\userLevels\

LINUX/MAC OS X: ~/.nikki-free-levels/userLevels/

Just copy the path into Explorer's (CTRL + L) or Filer's (CMD + SHIFT + G) location bar to enter that directory.

Read the full announcement here.

Looking forward to more submissions![/font]

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qubodup

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June 24, 2011 04:50 PM

[font="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"]On June 6th we started a level design contest. July 7th is the deadline and everybody is welcome to submit as many levels as they like via email, webchat or forum. Text and video tutorials are available.

Since releasing the first batch, we received nine levels (one of them in two versions):

To test them, you have to unzip the archive [mirror 1 | mirror 2] to the following directory:

WINDOWS: %APPDATA%\nikki-free-levels\userLevels\

LINUX/MAC OS X: ~/.nikki-free-levels/userLevels/

Just copy the path into Explorer's (CTRL + L) or Filer's (CMD + SHIFT + G) location bar to enter that directory.

You're welcome to submit levels here in this forum as well![/font]

wildpins

June 25, 2011 04:58 PM

your game is soo awesome i cant compete with it.

Failure is simply denying the truth and refusing to adapt for success. Failure is synthetic, invented by man to justify his laziness and lack of moral conduct. What truely lies within failure is neither primative or genetic. What failure is at the heart, is man's inability to rise and meet the challenge. Success is natural, only happening when man stops trying to imitate a synthetic or imaginable object. Once man starts acting outside his emotional standpoints, he will stop trying to imitate synthetic or imaginable objects called forth by the replication of his emptiness inside his mind. Man's mind is forever idle and therefore shall call forth through the primitives of such subconscious thoughts and behaviors that Success is unnatural and that failure is natural. Success is simply doing something at man's full natural abilities and power, failure is the inability to act on what man wants, dreams, wishes, invisions, or thinks himself to do. ~ RED (concluded when I was 5 years old looking at the world with wide eyes)

qubodup

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July 03, 2011 05:23 PM

@RedPin: that's all right, in return I cannot compete with your signature ;)

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The levels we received so far made us want to give a little more in return, so we'll throw in two more shirts for the best level designers.

So submit cool levels before July 7th is over and win one of three shirts and one of ten pre-order copies of Nikki and the Robots.

Check out the previous entries hereand here.

For rules, check out this announcement.

We only have two shirt styles, so if anybody has ideas for new stuff to print, let us know.

qubodup

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July 11, 2011 11:38 PM

[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif][size=2]Soon after the end of the first level contest we released Nikki and the Robots 0.3.2, which you can download here or via the update menu option of your copy.

[video links: Vimeo | YouTube]

The new features are:

New Patrol Robots, which will make Nikki fail the level when touched
Jetpack Robots are more forgiving and easier to control
No more editor crashes when Nikki has not been added
Signature checks for updates (heightened updater security - not gameplay-relevant)

A few words about the contest judging: we will announce the winners in approximately ten days. We received some last-minute levels and are very thankful to all level builders who shared their works.

Patrol Robot

We hope that the Patrol Robot is fun to work with. You can get in touch with players and builders on IRC and the forums.[/font]

qubodup

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July 25, 2011 08:26 PM

The contest results are in! And a new update, which you can download or get using the in-game updater.

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[video links: Vimeo | YouTube]

The winners are

Julian (for Greed) [Shirt + Game]
sauer2/C. Hackenberg (for lootninja, hanoi, powergrid and obstacles [Shirt + 4xGame]
Jukkeri (for Trick Series 02) [Shirt + Game]
pixma (for robopractice) [Game]
2048 Terrabit (for Robot Race) [Game]
Marius Ghita/mhitza (for stairway to heaven)[Game]
3sdras (for Geronimo) [Game]

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who submitted levels!

New in 0.3.3:

Added 30 levels from the first level design contest (in standard levels/03-contest1)
Jetpack robot physics tweaked again
Level names are now sorted correctly

qubodup

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September 20, 2011 10:21 PM

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Video: 0.4 changes [Vimeo | YouTube][/font]

[font="inherit"]We released Nikki and the Robots 0.4.0 (0.4.1.1 actually), which you can download here or via in-game updater.[/font]

[font="inherit"]The new features are:[/font]

New robot: Cannon! It shoots cannon balls that disappear after 10 seconds
Players can download and upload levels in the main/editor menus
Author name and license agreement added for saving/uploading levels
Sounds added for menu, jumping, buttons and batteries
Last level switch to be pressed now blinks green
Added "transient" switches (won't stay pressed)

[font="inherit"]Some news not directly related to the release:[/font]

There now is a Joyride Labs Reddit, a discussion forum with a social web touch
The compile instructions on our wiki have been updated, let us know if you run into trouble!

qubodup

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December 18, 2011 07:04 PM

We want to allow to preorder the storymode very soon but before talking about business plans, let's take a look at the levels in the story mode first!

We used some of the level contest entries as a basis to create story levels. Lootninja by sauer2 for example:

Original Lootninja Level, as included with the latest release

"Upgraded" Lootninja Level

Some of the steps when "upgrading" a level are the addition of...

background, skyline and info/data terminals...

shadows and characters...

hidden areas...

... and new content in general. Most "upgrade levels" are larger and require more time to do a 100% run than the originals.

Here is a big screen of a different, jetpack robot-heavy level, which is not based on a contest entry:

Codename "Jetpack Intro" (1920x1200)

We're nearly done with all the levels for episode 1 but some bugs, the preorder website and paypal integration will probably not allow us to release before January...

Original blog post here.

qubodup

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January 21, 2012 09:42 PM

Episode 1 of the story mode is ready to be released and we are very excited! This will also mark the first public beta version.

We will start selling the story mode using a pay-what-you-want model, which is strongly inspired by the Humble Indie Bundle (which on the other hand was inspired by a World of Goo sale). After one week we will then set a fixed minimum price.

When you buy the game, you pay for the game as it is, but will also get all further episodes and updates for free. With each further episode, however, the minimum price will increase for new buyers of the game. The sooner you buy, the less you pay, hooray! This is similar to the Alpha-Beta-1.0 price increments of Minecraft.

Right now we are working hard on the presale website and we hope to be able to release Nikki and the Robots' story mode until mid February.

In the next post we will tell you some more details about episode 1, in which Nikki's great adventure begins to unfold.

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