Adventure Time Game Frenzy 48 hour DEATH MARCH!

Watch Jameson Wilkins’s Nifty Niche Contest Winner Gamejam! on Livestream.com.

ITS LIVE FOLKS! Get on in here and listen to my awkward voice say goofy things while I make a game about a Goblin with management issues! Stream should be going on most of today, July 28th 2013, so don’t hesitate to stop by, and please reblog as well!

I’ve been drawin’ some spaceships for that color matching/endless runner/shmup thingy I’ve been working on. I’ve been inspired by the awesome guys at Vlambeer and theire game Ridiculous Fishing to actually finish this title. I like how it’s coming along and I want to polish it to a fine sheen, because with any luck it’s the first game I want to actually charge for!

- ROSE THORN -

This shirt print is going to have a wrap around design that twirls her hair and thorns luxuriously around your neck. The thorns and rose will be printed in shiny metallic foil.

Prints available here

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Dimension by Alexander Lervik.

“Light art Made for the Bank Skandia in Sweden. It is an art piece but also a 3D screen. Built of 1728 heads. 35.000 parts. 24.000 LED lamps. The cube have a dimension of 3x3x3 meters. Inside its possible to show 3D movements, movies and texts.”

SO HERE’S THE DEAL.

I’d like some more more followers, cuz I got a lot of stuff coming on down the line, but I get that I don’t just deserve your attention, I need to give you back something in return (that isn’t awesome free games like A Nation of Wind). So that’s what this contest is all about.

LETS TALK ABOUT PRIZES.

First place is…you guessed it, a simple arcade game starring YOU. Or someone of your choosing (significant other, family member, avatar, OC, etc.) I’m not entirely %100 certain what the game will be beyond an arcade title, but I’m hoping you (the winner) can help me out with that!

Second and third place each get a pixel portrait! This is something I’ve done in the past for charity work, you can see some examples in the images above. Basic idea is you (or person of your choosing) mashed together with a video game character type of your choice. Like a caricature, but with pixel art!

“But Nifty Niche!”, you say “How can I partake in this amazing contest?”

I’m glad you asked! There are only 2 requirements. The first is that you need to reblog the very post you are reading right now! Then start following the Nifty Niche Blog! It’s that simple!

Four more Candy Cauldron gifs! This time we have three enemies and a potion, with legs!

-Background-

I’ll take a moment to explain what the edutainment title I am being commissioned to develop is about, since I haven’t yet done that!

In the 1800’s, Havana Cuba’s fisheries were basically depleted. However, the Florida Bay’s fisheries were densely populated, which resulted in a migrant fishermen population that would travel from Havana to the bay area and back again between Hurricane seasons. These fishermen were called Ranchos.

The journey usually took less than 48 hours, and upon arrival they would set up small communities that would house and feed the fishermen as well as their families. They primarily fished using seine nets, which are essentially long nets spread between two poles and weighted at the bottom. Fish would get caught in these nets and the fishermen would go out and collect them. They would then dry them, and salt them in some cases. They lived on these fish as well as local fruits and vegetables they would grow, and upon returning to Havana they would sell the dried/salted fish.

These ranchos actually existed well into the late 1800’s, but many were lost when the US gained control of Florida from Spain, and refused to honor the land claims these ranchos held over the area.

Not enough enemies on screen yet I think.

For those of you who haven’t seen any of the work I’ve been doing on the side for this particular project, allow me to introduce you to Candy Cauldron! You play a witch with candy magic, turning your foes into various cooking ingredients you then use to brew potions to power up your pet slime. It’s still VERRRRRY early on in its development cycle, but that’s because the edutainment game takes precedence!

Still, my tentative schedule for work on this devblog is to dedicate weekdays to the Edutainment game, and weekends to Candy Cauldron and other projects. Candy Cauldron is a bit of a big deal for me because I plan on actually selling it, or releasing it for free but funding it with kickstarter. Not really sure yet. We’ll see!

Welcome to the official development blog of Nifty Niche Games!

- ART IN THE PARK - Every Sunday 10am to 5pm - Riverwalk Amphitheater - Bradenton, FL -

If any of you guys are in the Suncoast area, St. Pete, Bradenton, Sarasota, Palmetto, Venice, Tampa, Ringling College, basically anywhere near Bradenton Riverwalk (452 3rd Avenue West, Bradenton FL 34205) come out to the Mosaic Amphitheater for a day of drawing, music, painting, workshops, portraits and general fun art jamming! Hosted by Me, Jameson Wilkins and Adam Whorley and many more local artists.

Come out to sketch, learn new art techniques (this weekend we did packing tape sculptures!) or just come to hang out have fun and meet fellow artists!

- FIONNA AND CAKE + NEW ENEMY -

It’s almost time!!! Fixes are coming along! And Fionna and Cake are on their way! Also a new enemy and some tweaks to gameplay!

Stay tuned!