Introduction to The Suicidal Jumpman Ruby game aka ROFLBALT

Hi folks, the last 3 days were MADLY fun for me @ Railscamp X (Adelaide). I was blown away with beers, whiskey, Werewolfs, foods, geeks, hackers and their SUPERCOOL hacks. Dennis Hotson (@dennishotson) and Paul Annesley (@pda) decided to join force to create a game that if was released before Mario, it would probably take on the world. (Unfortunately it was 25 years later). The game goal is to sustain alive by jumping on the top of the building as long as possible.

It is interesting to see the progress that Paul and Dennis made, from such few characters to draw the man (not knowing jumping yet) and build blocks to animated jumpman chasing the helicopter which blasted to pieces if bumped into buildings (/w blood trails on the building). Paul and Dennis called the game ROLFBALT, for me I would call it the Suicidal Jumpan for its bloody ending scene. I rank this game 2nd after the Wolf3D clone Rubystein. Give it a try now at https://github.com/pda/roflbalt

Google loves Pacman

PACMAN turns 30th today. Everybody loves Pacman, so does Google. To celebrate the 30th birthday, Google upload a fully playable Javascript Pacman game on google.com. If you click on Insert Coin button, you could play Ms.Pacman too.

The game is made with pure Javascript with Flash for Sound, which is a bit sux. There are few efforts to port the Flash to HTML5 audio, I will keep you up-to-date if there’s new progress.

UPDATE: The game went off from google.com today, if you missed out, you can play it at:

Official Google Pacman game

OR

Macek’s extracted version

If you want to play the game locally on your PC, please use GIT to clone the source at http://github.com/macek/google_pacman.

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