Let the testing begin! Take 2!

We're almost at the close, so if you guys wanna get in on the beta-testing bandwagon, jump on now before it's closer to that sunset and without you! I'm pretty sure you can just comment below on this post with your email, you'll be sent the details later, BUT PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, TRY COMING TO THE TESTING. We got about half of the people who gave us emails last time, and luckily, that was enough to get by on, but we'd like more opinions than one or two, it'd give us a boost for definite.

So yeah, don't just ignore the email or whatever, in fact, clear your schedules and plaster the words "Lime Grenade Games Testing session" on every date on the freakin' calendar if you're one of those that need dates. But it will only be one or two hours on one day.

We'll be using an IRC chat, details of which go in the emails sent to you too. You'll be given the time as well as the date, in a timezone - if it's not your's, you go online and look for a timezone converter like this: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Seeya next time!

Full speed ahead to our beta!

Ok, so we are working very hard to make this game, and we are very close to start our beta testing (Yay?).
but before this can be done, we first need to have a working game in a beta stage,
so here is the list of what is needed to be done till we can start actually inviting people and showing them our awesome beta version of the game.
(this list will be updated every time something is done)
Last Updated 27/11
arts:
Menu [Done]
Credits [Done]
Instructions [Done]
Difficulty page [Done]
Controls page [Done]
Pause menu [Done]
Upgrade menu's - dodge menus, RPG menus
Game over screen
Coding:
Implementations
fixing health bar
adding enemy health bar
difficulty management
angle of character
minor bug fixes

Keep checking here for progress.. so that u wont miss the beta registration when it starts.
any questions can be asked at the comments or the kong chat.
HF Waiting MUHAHAHAHAHA

Let's see what's on the menu... I'll have the Icicle Salad.

Hello, non-existant fans and weary wanderers who click upon a link! Curiousity killed the kitty, y'know.

So, very sorry for not updating for 2 months with a post, but I doubt anyone out there reads this, nevermind cares. Back to business, we think this could be released at the end of this month or so, we're definitely not far behind on completion! I present to you a prototype menu interface for you to play with in giddy schoolgirl excitement, like I do when I see a themed-TF2 update by Valve.

http://pixeldood.deviantart.com/art/LOTI-RotBH-Menu-Interface-269726413

Nothing in this is really for certain that's a "Very FINAL" menu, we're just certain that it's "Pretty Final" as far as menus go in the ranks of finality. If there's anything majorly wrong, in your eyes, we'd love to hear it in any way possible, can't guarantee we'll be all like "WHOOPS-A-DAISY, YOU'RE RIGHT, TWA SUCKS AT MENUS." Nah, we couldn't guarantee that, mostly because I think I'm PRETTY SLICK, YO. And that might crush my self-esteem into a pit of fiery despair and cake.

Oh, and it's called "Legend of the Icicle: Rise of the Brief Hero"... yeah. It's cool, much cooler than Dodgecicles, but it could potentially change... probably not now that I've done a logo, to be honest, but still. Stay tuned for more, we promise we'll try and be more productive with the blog! :D

Back to school, back to development

I(TWA) am now back at school 'cause I've just started my College Diploma on Interactive Media, and Mani has just got back from his fancy holiday to London, so I'm going to be(actually already am) being bossed about by several peoples to several different work stuffs. But at least work's getting done, because I need those bossy peoples for determination to be there in the first place. :P

So I'm doing animations still, because I just laid down dead on my keyboard for the last week and 5 days or so refusing to do anything important. I just know I can... lie down dead... again... when I get the work done... always a nice rewarding prize. Get ready for some tap dance-palooza with my idle animations, I may show them off to all of you on this blog's stage, or we may just draw the curtains.

Cya later.(I hope... *gulp*)

Hi, ho! Hi, ho! Off to development we go!

No idea where the post title came from, maybe I have dwarves on the mind? One of us at LGG is taking a nice break to London, "but I wonder which one!", I hear you cry. Well it's NOT the one that writes all the blog posts(lol) which is good for the blog, ain't it? I'll give you two guesses. Wait... there's only two of us. Oh, you got me! "That artist is a lucky a bugger, isn't he?" Why yes, he is.

He gets to animate! Whooo... not so much fun as it sounds. Whenever I animate a character, it either humps the air or tap dances awkwardly like he's trapped in a dance academy armageddon, enslaved to do so for entertainment. Oh, do I make everything sound so bleak or is my attempt at satire as entertaining as the vision of the tapdancing enslaved guy in his heart-covered briefs in an arena avoiding arrows and guys in chicken suits?

Either way, it doesn't make the process anymore grueling. If I stop posting and coming online, I've probably died, for sloth is my sin and and I'd take the sin any day instead of the alternative right now. "Wait... isn't post day Wednesday?" Supposedly, but I'm a little tadpole swimming in the mess of organization some call the "brain".

Cya.

LET THE TESTING BEGIN!

Ittt's testing day! Yes, we are testing! With hardly... any testers... at all. But no problem, we can always fashion up another date for them. I think this testing has been somewhat a success. We've gotten a lot of feedback from our small amount of testers, and we've got a LOT of work to do, therefore.

We're thinking this is actually the alpha stage though, so maybe the proper BETA testing will be in a couple of weeks! Then hopefully, a few more weeks after that, a release!

So we're off to exterminate game bugs, wait for the next post at the weekend, which will have new progress lists!

We put the pro in procrastination, that's for sure!

Okay, so, this is TWA again. Not that much of the graphics in my progress list was done over the last week, so we're continuing my objectives and laziness on a fresh page. Whoop? Oh, so that's why they're called DEADlines. Har har.

This week brings "Graphics Implementation Week", or so I'm told, and pressurized for. It also means we're looking for beta testers! Viewers: YAY! Us: Calm down! We're choosing those special kiddies. Viewers: Aww... wait, aren't we non-existent at this stage at the blog? Lies! You have no viewers! *paradox of swirly doom*

*big motivational poster of the army guy with the stache (My old History teacher)* WE WANT YOU! Yes, you. To beta-test our game. We're selecting a handful of the people who request it (God, there won't be many). And then they'll be part of the big project by helping us test. Ooh, do I get to sound like GLaDOS too? I NEED TESTING.

Yes, we need testing, we'll be having discussions with you peoples in our very own... BETA TESTING IRC CHANNEL! *gasps* *standing ovation*

See you there! Oh, almost forgot, just comment below or email Mani(our very own programmer) at his email which is maninhell1@hotmail.com