Gate + Key!

I just made this little additive for a more puzzel-esk feel, a gate and key!

When you pick up the key the gates go away, but I'm going to make it a bit harder that only gates facing a certian way will work with one key, then another way you need to pick up a new key..And so on.

Key

Gate - 1

Enjoy!

~ God bless,

Firefly ~

New Menu!

I have remade the Main Menu! It now has different buttons and a new background! I used one of the rooms of the game for the background, kinda like an indirect preview.

All the buttons work except the "How 2 Play" buttons because I didn't make that menu yet. - But everything else works (click sound and sprite darkening).

Enjoy!


~ God Bless ~


~ Maker.

Just some updates

I've been working working on some things but I can't seem to get them to work!

I'm working on moveable blocks, and blocks I can go through.
Music attempts are pretty futile right now but I'll figure it out.

Added Weather!

I learned how to add rain and lightning using this tutorial, I originally wanted it to be overhead but atm I'm happy with what I have! :D

I also made the lightning have a sound which was a little tricky but it works! Recording the sound from the laptop doesn't work so I put at the end of the video the sound for the thunder. - The rain is hard to see even with me making the video HD but the lightning is pretty easy to see.


I'm also working a lot on making different new features, like cut scenes or at least a pop up message for the new features so I don't have to have those new rooms all the time.

Enjoy!


~ God Bless ~


~ Firefly

Room Redesign and New Rooms Screen Shots

I redesigned the 2nd and 3rd rooms/levels a bit and added some new rooms.

The Redesigned Rooms:

Some New Rooms:

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Enjoy!


~ God Bless ~

~ Firefly

Update: New Coloring Pages!

Update: New Coloring Pages!

I have just updated the 4 Kidz page, it now has content on it! - 4 new coloring pages in 3 different sizes: 500 X 375, 800 X 600, and 1024 X 768.

I hope you all enjoy them! More content to come.

~ God Bless ~

~ Firefly

Old Concept Arts

Before Tilly's Rose Garden, I was working on a group of characters called "Furry Friends", at the moment they are just characters but Tilly made her way to be a character to be used someplace, her first game! Here are some of the concept arts of her!

The Original Version of Tilly

Second Time Drawing -  Bigger Version

I decided to revisit the characters and I thought she needed to actually be developed so here's the first stages of development.

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Here's the design I settled with! I rather like her this way. The multi-colored hair is to make it more exciting since a toucan is originally black and a multi-colored beak, black "hair" would have been boring in my opinion.

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 I hope you enjoy looking!



~ God Bless ~


~ Firefly

Drawing Process of "Tilly's Rose Garden" Splash Screen

I figured ya'll would like to see how I drew my splash screen in time-lapse! So here's the drawings process in sped up video form.
All Art done in GIMP.

Time Taken: Approx: 6-7 hours.

 

Song in this video is an instrumental of this song By. Summertimes End


If you wish to play my demo (which has the old splash screen) click here. Or the newer release with this splash screen which can be found here.

If you play the demo/release(s), I hope you enjoy it and please give feedback in that post on what you think,I've added some rooms and redone some stuff so I might take a while

Enjoy!

~ God Bless ~

~ Firefly

GameMaker Room Making Interface

In this video I will show how I make a room in GameMaker, it's pretty simple it's just point and click!

Here's the room when I'm done:

This room isn't actually in the game, it's just an example of me using GameMaker.



The music in the video is acoustic versions of these songs done by Summertime's End:
In Stereo
The Art Of Succinct Compliments



If you wanna try my game out, you can get the demo here.
Or the Newest Release Here


Enjoy!


~ God Bless ~

~Firefly

Some Screenshots

I figured seeing some screenshots might be of some interest to people so...here are some screenshots of the game!

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Enjoy!

~ God bless ~

~ Firefly

Game Release - Tilly's Rose Garden, New Version! [Still in development!]

Tilly's Rose Garden!

Introducing a brand new game! 

Fun for all ages, “Tilly's Rose Garden” is an enjoyable overhead 2D platform game, similar to pac man in game play, lovely graphics all made in GIMP 2.8 and sounds made in Sony Acid (Demo version). This game is fun for all (even if it is a bit girly!).

Enjoy picking the flowers and avoiding point drainers and enemies, both moving and idle!

Note: This is still in development so there are still bugs and inconveniences!

Download Here

Trailer:

Creator's Notes:

Edit: I noticed that the menu has a typo! That will be fixed next version.

• Things seem to stick a bit because of the grid and transparency, if your player won't move in to each area smoothly try and lightly tap the movement key you are trying to use, if you don't budge at all then try to go another way, it's a bug I'm trying to see how to fix, but I think it's always going to do that because of the images it gets stuck on.
• If you push on moving blocks they'll go out of alignment be sure not to do that!
   
• I haven't been able to get the cursor to windows to go away even with "Display Cursor" unchecked, I'll figure out how to fix this eventually! - And to add to this, I'm still yet to learn how to make the cursor only appear in menus.
  
  
• This Edition of "Tilly's Rose Garden" has no music, I might change this within the next fixed up version but for now it just has basic sounds.

• All artwork is created in GIMP and all sounds are made in Sony Acid (Free Version).

• To see how many points you have, you have to play in window mode, or full screen; If you press "f4" you will play in a total full screen (No user bar on the bottom or start menu will be visable) and can't see the points. - The points are visable on the upper left hand corner of the window border of the program.

• Saved Games go in to a .sav file, be sure not to delete that when you see it, that's where your saved game is!
• Going in the diagonal directions can cause the player to go out of alignment although not always, just a warning!

Copyright:

© 12/2013 - All Rights Reserved to Mokonafan/The Factoid Firefly, All Reproductions of This Game Without Previous Permission is Expressly Prohibided.

Permissions:

1. Linking to my game - Yes
   
2. If already downloaded, giving to a friend - Yes, but I'd rather you link them.
   
3. Selling it - No
   
4. Claiming it as your own - No
   
5. Modifying or changing, no matter how extreamly unrecognizable in the end - No!
   

If you download, please give me a comment, good or bad, just please, if you have consturctive critique say it nicely, don't say I'm stupid or anything like that (people do things like that!).

May God Bless You, Your Family, Friends; Along with the health of you, your family and all who know you. ~ Amen


~ Firefly

Welcome!

Welcome to the official blog website for my game in progress "Tilly's  Rose Garden".

About the Game:

The game is a simple 2d platform game that I am using to learn about GameMaker; There will be releases of the game as I move along in the making process as well as posting concept arts for the game preview videos and screenshots of the new updates as I move along. 

Game play:

The Game play is very much like pac-man but not exactly, I'm in the process from switching keys around to find the right keys for all people to play with ease.

Here's a preview video for the game:

About myself:

I am a young adult artist, who enjoys painting, drawing, sketching, minor animation sometimes, writing, and making this game! I also blog on my art blog "The Factoid Firefly", if you are an art enthusiast yourself, maybe you'd like to check that out as well! :D

All I ask:

Please remember on this website I ask for good behavior and clean language in any comments you post on it, this is a fun simple game for all ages and I want this a free environment for everyone, so please keep all vulgar and hurtful language to yourself. 
Also although this is a site about this game I have seen religious arguments in stupid places, if you end up with a discussion about such things on here stop it short and take it someplace else, I'm all for the conversations but there's a time and place for everything and my  game blog isn't the place.





~ God Bless ~


~ Creator