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Philippe is here

olle — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:44:56 +0000

During this summer Philippe will be working with us here at Spelgrim. His first project is a parkour kind of game where you play as a man made out of ink running, jumping, rolling and sliding through the levels.

Death Hockey, the beginning

olle — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:37:58 +0000

Today it’s crunch time again and today we are taking on something hard, once again we are teaming up with Falukorvarna and this time it’s Robert from Falukorvarna that has come up with the idea for the game.

We are entering the world of sports… and gore! We are going to build Death Hockey! It will be the first sports game we have ever made so it will be interesting, and in addition to this Robert have been thinking of the this game for a couple of years and in his mind it is awesome, I hope we don’t let him or you down.

Them Coconuts music by Falukorvarna

olle — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:53:17 +0000

The name of the band that made the music to Them Coconuts is Falukorvarna. Falukorvarna was founded in september 2009 by it’s two core members Niklas aka Salkinitzor who make all the music and sounds to our games and Robert who has a braided beard.

If you want to download the theme song to Them Coconuts go to http://www.finurligaljud.se/coconuts/ and you can become their fan on Facebook.

Get down with Rawrbots

olle — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:53:18 +0000

Get down is a meme that has it’s origin in a glitch in GoldenEye for the N64 and we had something similar in Rawrbots. If you want a lesson in what Get Down is visit http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-down-????.

The problem occurs in Box2D when you have multiple revolute joints attached to a single body. The torque on that single body becomes so large that Box2D and it’s constraint solver don’t know what to do so it takes a vacation.

The result of the absence of the one in charge over physics can be seen here.

Browsing the web and asking our good friends Google and the Box2D forum we found three solutions.

1. Don’t let the players build their own physics, since that is what Rawrbots is all about this wasn’t possible.

2. Increase the weight of the body that have all joints attached to it. This sounded like the solution we were looking for, the only problem is that you can’t increase the weight of all bodies, only the “hubs”. So if we would have gone with this solution we would need to check which bodies had many joints attached to them and then increase their weight and that would lead to some odd mechanics.

3 . Increase the number of iterations that is sent to Box2D’s step-method (@param iterations, the number of iterations to be used by the constraint solver). By increasing the number of iterations you suffer some performance loss but you get a much better simulation.

The third solution is the one we went with and we cranked up the iterations so much the creators of Box2D must be crying but the performance didn’t suffer that much. You can still build Get Down Rawrbots if you play the game as it’s not intended to be played but we had to draw the line somewhere otherwise we would end up with a game that is running at 2 fps.

Leave a comment with your best Get Down Rawrbots!

Last 10% is 90% of the work

olle — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:29:11 +0000

Last Friday we went from 0 to 85 percent in the making of Them Coconuts. We have continued working on it since then and boy are those last 10 percent the most work.

We have made a new GUI, more waves, removed temp graphics, implemented GamerSafe with highscores, achievements and more.

We wont upload a new version here since we are going to look for a sponsor first. And if we seal a deal with a sponsor the new version will be up here =)

In the game you can also buy a very fancy supporter hat to support us!

You didn’t find what you were looking for.

olle — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:34:54 +0000

David Hasselhof was looking for freedom but I don’t think he has found it yet, if you are looking for something on our site that isn’t there at least you will get a cute visualizer with dancing trees.

www.spelgrim.com/looking_for_freedom

Them Coconuts lyrics.

olle — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:07:54 +0000

we are the peasants in the field

we eat grass and mud and blood and beer

we have come to fight your castle made of wood

I am the brown old man

my clothes are made of wood

Im not a very good neighbour

i forgot to pay the rent

They want to walk against my pretty castle wall

i throw my goats at them in self defence

oh. i wish that the king could come and save me

i hope that he´s not tied up at the moment

im am the king and i have a horse

i also have a car that i cannot drive

my sword is sharp but i cannot shave

i have no foam, only mud.

Posting the lyrics to the medival theme song of Them Coconuts. Now all of us can sing along!

We are the peasants in the field
We eat grass and mud and blood and beer
We have come to fight your castle made of wood

I am the brown old man
My clothes are made of wood
I’m not a very good neighbour
I forgot to pay the rent

They want to walk against my pretty castle wall
I throw my goats at them in self defence

Oh. I wish that the king could come and save me
I hope that he´s not tied up

I am the king and I have a horse
I also have a car that I cannot drive
My sword is sharp but I cannot shave
I have no foam, only mud.

17 hours and 85% complete

olle — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:29:19 +0000

We gave it a shot and the result is quite pleasing, as it says we only came 85% of the way to completing the game but that is enough for one day.

Now try the game! Play Them Coconuts!

13 hours of project Them Coconuts

olle — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:50:48 +0000

We’ve been working for 13 hours now and and everything goes quite smooth. 6/11 enemies are in the game now and Liselotte is working on a swallow, the question is, is it African or European?

Dan is working with Stardust to get to get the particles running and at the moment we’re going with the more the better! Maybe a little to much :P

The theme music for the game is going to be made by Salkin and his partner in music Robert. Together they form the unstoppable duo called Falukorvarna.

Falukorvarnas greatest hit is “Den stora hemligheten” in english that is “The big secret” here is a link to the music video on youtube.

10 hour update

olle — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:20:27 +0000

10 hours have passed since we began and it’s coming along nicely.

The biggest problem has been that the internet at our office went down at around 1300-1400 and was down until right about now.

Because of that it was a bit hard to implement Stardust without any documentation. But we managed to get a fire-breathing dragon!

Ammunition and weapons are working and we have graphics to 4 enemies.

The upgrade menu is under construction and it’s quite boring to make tons of buttons, both coding them and making the graphics.

We got some really nice sound effects for the chicken canon and the goat launcher =)

Also Liselottes wacom stopped working properly, no preasure sensitivity, that would have been quite a large problem but it agreed to start working again =)