Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1

Tales of Monkey Island is a new adventure told in five parts that picks up where the Monkey Island adventure game series left off. A ton of LucasArts alumni who worked on the original games evidently wound up at Telltale and convinced LucasArts to let them develop a fifth game in a five-part episodic format typical of other Telltale games.

Game Size 168MB

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Slingo Mystery: Who's Gold FINAL

Maggie Gold was left with nothing after a messy divorce with casino mogul Freddy Gold. Freddy kept his money, the attorneys got Maggie's share, and she was left with nothing. But now, Freddy just showed up dead and his new wife is gearing up to inherit the casino. Can Maggie get back in to the casino one more time before it is too late and discover all of the secrets Freddy left behind?

Game Size 240MB

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Hero's Tale: Enhanced Edition

Elrik is a young boy who must go on an epic journey in the search of the seven elemental keys of the goddess Aeria. During his adventure, Elrik meets some new friends, including an elemental mage, a dragon hunter and a nature mage. Together they'll have to overcome various obstacles, traverse many locations and defeat lots of dangerous enemies.

Game Size 52MB

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The Conjurer : A Magical Mystery

The world's greatest magician has decided to retire but has one final performance up his sleeve. He has invited the remaining top ten illusionists of the era to his castle for a night of incredible feats. Each will perform their finest routine for the conjurer and who ever impresses him the most wins all of his coveted secrets. That's what they all believe but little do they know that hidden motives swirl throughout the castle walls. Someone is out to kill the master magician and he's about to find and expose the guilty party!
Investigate each of the ten illusionists by helping them perform their amazing feats. Use your powers of perception to locate props in beautiful Victorian-era locations. Slip past fiendish puzzles and hide from shadowy figures. Find the culprit before it's too late!

Game Size 174MB

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Freelance work for Comfy Chair Games

I recently had the opportunity to work with Bob over at Comfy Chair Games. He is expanding his miniature line for W.I.L.D. fire, a 6mm mech combat game, and he needed a digital sculptor to flesh out his designs. Normally this is handled by the skilled hands of John Bear Ross (see my feed area to the right), as JBR’s plate is full at the moment he opened up a couple of accounts that were in need of some immediate work.

Here are a couple of examples of the work I completed for Bob at Comfy Chair; I cannot take credit for the designs, only the CAD execution of his vision. You can see the sketches Bob provided and the final CAD models built to his specifications. The building is one of four designs he wanted to produce; they are a clean lined and modern structure of the near future. The mech is the first flying creation in his current line. The other mech designs can be seen over at JBR’s blog page.

Treasures of The Serengeti

Join Asha, a young tribal shaman, on a unique musical quest where match-3 & jigsaw collide. Collect colored gems to rebuild her once-thriving village, deserted & destroyed by the curse of the Spirits. Find the lost musical relics to lift the curse and bring the sounds of the Serengeti back to the “Sacred Groove”.

Game Size 74MB

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Lost City of Z - Special Edition

Explore the exotic rainforest to find valuable clues and follow the trail of a missing National Geographic researcher! Using the tools you discover along the way, trace the paths of past explorers who searched for an ancient civilization and find the missing adventurers. Use your Hidden Object skills to decipher mysterious messages and uncover the trails of generations of explorers in Lost City of Z: Special Edition!

Game Size 153MB

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Save Our Spirit

Lord Longstep has set off on a grand adventure across the globe to save the love of his life, Mary. After a whirlwind honeymoon, a mysterious secret society has kidnapped Mary Longstep for her mystical powers. The DARK society will use these mystical treasures for evil purposes unless stopped! Embark on a turn of the century Hidden Object adventure across the globe in a tale of intrigue and mystery to reunite the star crossed lovers in, Save Our Spirit!

Game Size 167MB

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Kitchen Brigade

Congratulations, you have been selected as a contestant for the TV show Kitchen Brigade! Over the next 66 days, you must successfully open and manage 7 different restaurants. Manage your 3 chefs and, when the orders start piling up, give your chefs a hand by playing cooking mini-games! Serve enchiladas, clam chowder, chicken satay, and over 50 other recipes in kitchens you build and upgrade. It's up to you to win the Kitchen Brigade TV Competition!

Game Size 68MB

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Wild Life Tycoon Venture Africa

Build ecosystems of lions, elephants, and more in Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa. You have complete control of the types of animals you create, as you try to create a balanced ecosystem. Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa is a great educational game that is also fun to play!

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Sushi To Go Express

Grab some tasty waves with Tommy Tortuga in Sushi to Go Express, a fast-paced and fun time-management game beneath the sea!

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Kitchen Brigade

Congratulations, you have been selected as a contestant for the TV show Kitchen Brigade! Over the next 66 days, you must successfully open and manage 6 different restaurants. Manage your 3 chefs and, when the orders start piling up, give your chefs a hand by playing cooking mini-games! Serve enchiladas, clam chowder, chicken satay, and over 50 other recipes in kitchens you build and upgrade. It's up to you to win the Kitchen Brigade TV Competition!

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Sallys Quick Clips

Join everyone's favorite esthetician for a trip down memory lane in Sally's Quick Clips, an exciting new challenge featuring gameplay never before seen in any previous Sally games. Sally's come a long way in her efforts to beautify the world. From her first salon to her latest spa, Sally's made each of her clients more beautiful and confident than ever. While reflecting on her years of success, Sally's mind drifts back to her humble beginnings when, fresh out of beauty school, she jumped at the chance to appear on the hit TV Show "Styling America" and a chance to win $100,000! Arrange scissors, dryers, hair color and more into matching groups of three or more to gather resources for the special services you'll provide to your choosy clients. Match your customers' tastes and make them look sharp in fun mini-games.

Game Size 84MB

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Joe’s Garden

It is a complete Time Management game comprising of 30 levels (with hidden object puzzles) plus 4 attractive Bonus levels. Joe's Garden; is built with Mind-blowing graphics; Challenging puzzles, Unique and fantastical levels.It can be played on all versions of Windows...
New Version Added: November 08, 2012

Game Size 51  MB

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Age Of Oracles: Tara`s Journey

Pulled from her own world into a foreign and mysterious realm, Tara must meet the difficult challenges set before her by a magical talking peacock! Discover a wonderful and hilarious cast of characters that will bring Tara closer to her destiny in this fun and exciting Hidden Object Adventure game. Explore the lush and gorgeous landscape as you journey back to your home in Age Of Oracles: Tara`s Journey.

Game Size 58MB

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Parallax trix

Since many seemed to enjoy the parallax mapping showed off in the material editor, I just wanted to show off the more advanced way of doing it and also giving some explanations.

No Parallax
This is when no parallax effect is added, just boring and flat. What happens is that the engine simple interpolates the uv-coordinate (the position on the texture map) according to the vertices (the points) of the model.

Offset Parallax

This technique is really just a cheap trick and as seen in the picture it fails at steep angles. Despite this, as the material editor video showed, it still gives a good effect in most cases! The way it works is by adding an offset to the uv coordinate depending on the height of the height map and of the angle of the eye (compared to position of the pixel). The biggest problem with this is that a pixel can never occlude (be in front of) another.

Relief mapping
This algorithm is a lot more accurate than offset mapping, but also a lot more expensive. This is no longer a cheap trick and works by casting a ray from the position of the eye and into the height map. It is then computed where the ray first hit something and the uv coordinate of that point is used. This sort of ray casting is used in all advanced parallax techniques, but is implemented differently. In relief mapping, one first steps along the ray at certain intervals and looks for an intersection. When one is found a binary search is used between the intersection and the eye position to pin point the exact intersection point. The binary search means that the distance between eye and the first found position is halved over and over, locking in on the intersection.

Other techniques such a cone step mapping give even better results but require the height map to be set up with certain extra data that is calculated before the rendering starts. There are also techniques for letting the height map not only occlude itself but also the other objects in the scene. It can even carve the actual model to better fit the height map, see "Relief Maps with Silhouttes" here for an example. This really takes the technique to new heights (ha..ha...) and it is really cool how much can be done with what starts out as a flat surface!

Sally's Quick Clips

While reflecting on her years of success, Sally's mind drifts back to her humble beginnings when, fresh out of beauty school, she jumped at the chance to appear on the hit TV Show "Styling America" and a chance to win $100,000! Arrange scissors, dryers, hair color and more into matching groups of three or more to gather resources for the special services you'll provide to your choosy clients. Match your customers' tastes and make them look sharp in fun mini-games.

Enhance your supplies with all-new upgrades and use special power-ups to give yourself a winningedge. And calm your cranky customers with hot tea, magazines, and more. With your help, Sally'ssure to win the big prize on this dazzling TV competition!

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I'm a Material Boy

Sorry for the long period with no tool show off. Blogging sure takes time :P

Here's the HPL Material Editor, our latest addition to the tool suite. This is what we use to create, edit and preview materials with. In a nutshell, a material is what's gonna determine how an object is going to look like in the engine. As of now, we have three basic types of materials:
- SolidDiffuse, which we use to model solid surfaces. Take a bit of a bump map, and another bit of a heightmap and you will have a more than convincing rock like material for example :)
- Translucent, to create a "glass like" look - Windows, ice... transparent stuff falls in this material type.
- Water, the most bleeding edge feature in the engine right now, used to simulate "liquid objects". Just like water in Penumbra, but now with more Reflection(tm).

Of course, it wouldn't be a HPL2 tool if it hadn't a realtime preview window, which is what really makes the tool worth it. In the good old Penumbra days, one would have to edit the material using the HPLHelper app, but then testing how the material looked meant having to start an independent viewer program, a bit of a pain if you ask me. The preview window features cubemapped and flat colored background, different preview models (ie cube, cylinder, sphere and plane), and lighting with customizable colors.

And last, but not least, here's a little video showing the Material Editor in action, in standalone mode (yeah it is also integrated in the other editors)

By the way, that "blackness" artifact at the edges of the water plane are caused by the current preview window setup. Looks like I'm gonna need to fix that... :P

Paradise Beach

You have been selected to become the manager of some of the world`s leading beach resorts in Paradise Beach, a fun and exciting Strategy game! Create your dream retreat as you construct buildings, plant pretty foliage, and even design the layout of your peaceful getaways. Travel to different islands and use your imagination to keep your customers nice and relaxed as you plot the perfect Paradise Beach!

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Farm Mania

Help Anna and her grandfather turn their fallow fields into a bustling business in this free-range Time Management game! Raise a huge variety of animals and crops; the more you produce the more you can buy. Build your farm with incredible upgrades and helpful abilities. Turn the excitement all the way up in the frenetic Arcade mode or enjoy the rustic pleasures of the simple life in Casual mode. Put your green thumb to work with Farm Mania!

Game Size 26 MB

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