Some time ago i made a little post asking for ideas for a new Pengu game, and it was actually my intention to finish and release one this December, both as a shorter demo here on Newgrounds, and a fully fledged release to be bought on steam!?!

But sadly reality set in, and it's not feasable, and also releasing a winter game outside of winter doesn't make sense, so because of that, i'll have to postpone it to next year. Where i really hope i can achieve my goal in a way that i'm proud of.

For funsies, though i can share a lot of the progress we did make.

This next game is taking heavy inspiration from Sonic, meaning loops and cool gimmicks, some of which can be seen below.

As you can see it's not for a lack of features that I'm postponing it.

Most of the base is actually there. Way more time consuming than that, turned out to be level design and graphics.

Pengu goes so fast that the levels have to be super duper big to compensate, and whilst i have made levels before, it proved to still be very difficult for me, so it's something i have to rethink come next year to do it correctly.

As a close, i am excited to revisit Pengu's big game again sometime next year, and i hope you'll support us when it happens. Also a very special epic thanks to @chocoholicmonkey whose always there helping me with Pengu, and also did the backgrounds in these tiny gifs, they're also a key part in figuring out the story and style. They're very cool go follow : - )

Merry Christmas, from me and Pengu

Hello everynyan, how are you, fine thank you.

Some years ago, some of you will have been playing Pengu Saves Christmas. It was a live updating 12 day advent calendar. Leading up to Christmas. It was developed by myself, with help from @stepford and amazing art from @chocoholicmonkey

Now comes the time i am considering what a sequel to such a game would look like. I would love and appreciate any wishes any of you would have for more pengu!

• Specific controls?
• 2-player?
• More levels?
• More visual themes?
• Gameplay mechanics?
• "make it more like sonic"/"make it more like mario"
• something i didn't think of?

Whatever it is you want LET ME KNOW!!!! Thank you for listening ( :

Continued from part 1 (i didn't know there was an image limit before now lol)

At this point there was about 12 hours left. And i was insanely tired, and frustrated with making features. I did manage to be able to drag your quests onto the board though. Making the quests zoom off screen, and then reappear on the grass near the bullet-tin board took a super long time to figure out, and did not help my dwindling sanity.

When i finally went to bed i literally had neverending stress dreams about this.

Here several hours later and the deadline very imminent, i was realising i wouldn't be able to make the other systems i would like to include to complete the gameplay. But i mustered through and added little npc's going to your shop or the bullettin board at the top of the screen. As well as many more items, you would supposedly be able to collect from adventureres after the complete your quests.

You would then use those items to craft better loot, and sell it back to others for a profit.

I had here decided i would stop. There was about 3 hours left on the jam, and i could have included a bit more. But i knew i wouldn't be able to make it playable as i intended anyway, so i decided to call it quits early and finally lay down again.

The end product is unfinished but still very pretty i think.

And i would definetely like to use some of what i made in a future game maybe. More papers please games where you interact with objects or papers up close is very cool i think.

more ideas i wanted to include but couldn't even consider cause it was too tight

• Crystal ball with stock-market, telling you which items are hot, or which are hot garbage. So you can plan accordingly
• An annoying rival (like i sketched in my first image) checking on you and running a competing business
• Being able to decide prices on the objects you sell, too high and no one will buy it. too little and you aren't earning anything.

The table tinker simulator aesthetic i really like, and would like to explore more. It's hard to figure out what works well for a game though, i've recently been playing Shadows of doubt, which is a detective game where you try to pinpoint who your target is using limited information, and deductive reasoning. I think is really cool. And would love to do something similar.

Also if i could come up with an excuse to make and have the player tinker with a computer or telephone in a fantasy game like mine that would be super fun. Still brainstorming.

Anyway all in all, i didn't finish it all, but still made some pretty visuals. You can toy with what i made here if you want https://stannco.itch.io/quest-giver-07

Tell me whatever you think about it

I recently took part in the GMTKjam. It's a gamejam hosted by the GameMakers Toolkit guy on youtube.

The theme was revealed to be "Roles Reversed" And we had 48 hours to then develop a game around that.

I'll preface by saying i didn't finish all i wanted in time, but if you wanna cut to the game you can see it here

https://stannco.itch.io/quest-giver-07

Here i'll post my thoughts and development progress as it happened while i was working and brainstorming

The brainstorming started

Decided to go with quest writer idea. And base the gameplay off of papers please.

Idea being you write quests to gather certain items and pin them on the towns board for random adventurers to take on.

After a while i had the base of a paper's please style setup down. Being able to drag an object from one scene to another.

What's happening here, is there is 3 scenes, actually really far about in the game world. Each then has a camera attached, and the camera's contents are drawn to the window right next to eachother.

When the cursor drags some object to a scene, the object is actually teleported all the way to the other scene, and it's state is changed to be either big or small to fit the scene.

I imagined you would have a maximum of 3 papers at a time you could manage, and write on. If you did something wrong you can then trash it and get a new fresh piece of paper. Having new papers spawned in worked pretty well. Though making sure the object you drag pops to the top of all the other objects turned out to be pretty difficult. And my perfectionism for neat animations started early here

I wondered how you would actually write on the pages. So i thought you would have an enclopedia filled with both game instructions and specific words you could then paste onto pages.

Some extra hours later, way more tired i managed to get a start on the enclyclopedia and added little pages you can sift through. I realized my artstyle might have become a draw-back because i had to draw all the text manually in aseprite, with not much to use. And i wasn't completely sure on what to write either. so it was very messy. I'm happy i included some funny doodles in there though.

nap time

After a long ass rest, i continued with my idea on having text samples you could click on to paste them. For that to work, i made every sample be an object that spawns in at the right location, when you turn the page. Though that alone doesn't mean the text actually sticks to the book haha.

Some extra hours on that, and now the words stick, i also decided i wanted to add funny images. The text here would be purely for flair and not actually do anything on the quest. But it would be fun to spam different phrases and images regardless i thought

I also pondered for long how i would actually tie meaning to whatever quests you write. Even though you typed words and phrases on a paper, i would need to code it in a way so a simple game npc's can actually understand it, this would continue to stump me till the end.

Finally came the crux of the game, being able to paste from your book onto quest papers. I spent extra time making it look fancy with the quill and ink-bottle. Which may not have been neccesary, but it also just felt better so...

Despite it being a game about putting quests on a board, i only made the board really late. And here spent a super long time making the transition back and forth look good. Behind the scenes it's a codey mess, so if i started over i would try to come up with more modular approaches. But under the tight deadline, i just forced my way through it

Continued in part2

It's been exactly 1 year since Pengu Saves Christmas was released

Where for 12 days leading up to christmas a new level was released to the public

( and many tweaks and bugfixes where made )

I would of course have loved to make a sequel, but since it was such an involved project, and some of us had gotten really busy there was no time. Tho i am happy to see that some people came back to see Pengu once more!

Also check out the Tankmas ADVENTure! You might see a familiar face ( :

Maybe Pengu will get some more games, maybe even a fully fledged game sold on steam and nintendo-switch and and and... Yeah that'd be nice, no matter what happens i'm sure you'll see more of him!

Special thx to @chocoholicmonkey for being such an amazing friend,

making art for Pengu and teaching him how to read.

Special thx to @stepford for being a huge help when we made the game, and encouring everyone

to join Pengu on his adventure.

Special thx to @fractalcounty (who accidentally deleted his original NG account)

for making amazing music for the game.

Special thx to @brandybuizel for including a Pengu cookie avatar in the Tankmas ADVENTure game.

And special thx to all who played Pengu's game, recorded speedruns, left constructive reviews, and drew art for him.

Me and @chocoholicmonkey have worked hard the last (i think 2 months?!?) on this animation parody of Death Stranding, and i think we'll be able to share it before the end of this week, so i am very excited, and i hope you'll be on the lookout for it too!

here's a sneaky peek

When it finally arrives, be sure to share it far and wide, it's been a long time since i've animated a whole video. So i hope ya'll like it! (also Choco's backgrounds and character designs are amazing)

If you didn't see it, Bulb Boy was released. Me and @chocoholicmonkey made it in 2 weeks as part of the #NoticeMeGamejam hosted by Opera & Gamemaker studio. After the formalities of that was over we shared here on newgrounds as well of course.

After getting some valid feedback here we've now updated it a smidge to fix bugs and make it a less stressful experience, the "changelog" is at the bottom of the description.

If you've reviewed it prior and had gripes with it hope you'll give it another try (:

Play Bulb Boy here!

Also if you'd like, the song i made for the game Dim Light is here

We'd like to try continuing with this "universe" and maybe making a fully fledged game at some point, any publishers feeling cool about this project hit me up haha. Now go play

Me and @chocoholicmonkey has worked for the past 2 weeks on a new little game for the NoticeMe Gamemaker studio gamejam.

It will first be published on OperaGX as part of the competition, but following that after some slight tweaks we will try to add it here on Newgrounds as well. Tho i'd really appreciate ya'll checking it out there as well if you can (:

Here's some stuff to see

I've made some lil games and shared, and i think people like them!

I hope to make more, tho with everything going on i am very bummed, i will personally be fine, but i am seeing it's physical effects on friends. Recent games and projects would not be possible without someone like @chocoholicmonkey for example. Who's one of the best amazing friends i know. (they made all the pretty art in Pengu Saves Christmas, among other thing)

So be kind to the people that are in the midst of it. Ukrainians, but also Russians who in large numbers had nothing to do with this situation, they're being hailed as villains of the world right now, and that doesn't feel nice when you played no part. I hope and wish there's an end in sight sooner than later, for everyone's sake

Thank you for playing!

Pengu saves christmas

It is only my second completed game, but people have enjoyed it a whole lot, and for that i am grateful.

Since Dec 13th all the way to Dec 24th, we worked hard to try and make the experience as enjoyable as possible, there was a handful of hiccups and bugs throughout, and the levels were not all given the same amount of care because of time restrictions, but in the end I'm still proud of what we got to make. And happy you got to play it!

Special thanks

Super special thanks to @chocoholicmonkey Who painted the beautiful calendar image, as well as a number of in-game sprites. The cookies, Seal, and some of the character sprites for the winning parts

Go rate the final pic here

Special thanks to @stepford Who helped me with programming and a good handful of levels, they made the bulk of the achievements, made the timer work, and a bunch of other cool stuff for the game. Follow them and you'll be sure to see a lot of other cool games!

Special thanks to @fractalcounty Who made the Theme song you hear in the game, it was a very long process, but the final version really gets you in the mood to groove!

Hear and rate the song here

Final thoughts

The year is about to end, and Pengu is gonna take a long nap. One day he might return for other lil adventures, no promises, but i'm sure he'll hop around again eventually. Though i think he's saved Christmas enough for now