Radioactive
Future Snooker Coming Soon
Future Snooker, the third Cornutopia release for Steam, is being prepared for release this November.
Future Snooker is a sci-fi style snooker game played on a circular table that has all of the tactical play and skill of real snooker. This is a perfect game for Steam's new Remote Play Together feature, and supports up to six players, any of which can be real or human, as well as a solo player tournament, different computer opponent personalities, plus a choice of tables and customisable rules.
Set for release on November 15th. Store and other details coming soon.
Mark
Flatspace Music Pack 2 Released Today
The new Flatspace music pack is now released with a 20% launch discount.
This is the second pack of 9 new in-game music tracks to enhance Flatspace IIk. Like any in-game music for Flatspace, these will trigger at random when you enter a new sector.
The original Second Music Pack for Flatspace II was created in 2008, and included lots of game themes and tracks from the album Stupid
Computer Music, such as China Syndrome. Those tracks were catchy and energetic, like game title themes, so when working on this new pack I decided to compile music that inspired epic feelings of space exploration and excitement, so in the end Journey Through Fractional Space was the only track from that early pack that made it into this new set.
The nine tracks are:
Blue Nebula
This is a new remaster of a 2012 track that sets something of an epic scene.
Journey Through Fractional Space
Commissioned by a Flatspace II player, the brief was to create an action tune that crossed two existing tunes from the first game: Catacombs and Cobra. The full six minute version appears on the album Stupid Computer Music.
Pandora
Created in 2013 for the album Bites of Greatness, the idea for the track was to create a catchy piece of music reminiscent of game themes from the 8-bit era.
Rock-It 99
I wanted to emulate the feeling of race-game arcade music, and the result was this high energy track. Previously unpublished.
Sonus
This mysterious track is the opening track to part two of my 2018 release, A Walk in The Countryside. The eerie sound here is a perfect evocation of exploring a strange, new frontier, making it ideal for Flatspace.
Strange Angles
An odd time signature for an unusual piece of music inspired by a sculpture and composed for a 2019 album of ekphrastic music, Music of Poetic Objects. I had Philip Glass in the back of my mind while working on this.
The Dark Cliffs
I wanted to include some more expressive, naturalistic music in the pack and The Dark Cliffs is exactly that. The full track appears on my 2019 album, Tree of Keys.
The Glass Screen
This is an edit of the final track from my 2018 release, A Walk in The Countryside. The track is a strange blend of electronic game music and acoustic piano music. The full album track includes electronic vocals.
Trax
A high energy track from Bites of Greatness.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020370/Flatspace_Music_Pack_2/
Mark
Flatspace Music Pack 2 Coming Soon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020370/Flatspace_Music_Pack_2/
Flatspace Music Pack 2 In Development
Thought you might like to know that the second Flatspace Music Pack D.L.C. is now in development. Unlike the first pack, most of the content will be new to Flatspace, and will include a mix of tracks to add variety to the in-game soundtrack. The store for the Flatspace Music Pack 2 will be live soon and the release is planned for June 27th at $3.99 plus a 20% launch discount.
More details will follow in a couple of weeks.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/585430/
Mark
Yinyang Released
Yinyang is a small and simple adventure game starring a little ball. The aim is simply to roll over some tiles to flip them and make them vanish. When they're all flipped, the exit will open, so the trick is to find a one-way path. There are lots of special tiles and bonus rounds, and other games to unlock.
This is my third Steam release and my second 2019 remaster. It's a very different game from Radioactive but still features new graphics, full controller support, and support for the latest graphics hardware.
Yinyang is out today with a 10% launch discount.
Take a look at the game on the store page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1043450/Yinyang/
FlatspaceIIk v1.04 Now Live
Flatspace IIk v1.04 is now live.
Here's a complete list of the changes:
-Game engine upgrade to v1.16.
-Screen selection now limited to Desktop or Best. Users can Browse Local Files edit Config.txt to specify another preferred screenwidth and screenheight if really needed.
-The primary game controller can now be plugged and unplugged while the game is running and be detected.
-Default control for Thrust is now left trigger on an XBox controller.
-The mouse pointer can now be controlled by the game controller with 'X'/Button 3 for Left Mouse.
-New main font, corrects some clipping on the v1.03 font.
-Maximum Thrust for thrusters increased from 1.0 to 10.0 (for custom items). Most useful to speed up capital ships.
-Number of music tracks installed is now shown on the plug-in screen. This is 4 with the basic version of Flatspace IIk. More music packs are available as DLC from the Steam Store.
A few of the changes are a result of preparation to launch our next game, Yinyang, in two weeks or so.
Mark
Radioactive Released
Radioactive is a turn-based strategy game based on a simple idea. Players begin a world map (rendered in glorious 1980s wireframe), and a random scatter of missile silos (or submarines, or airbases, or other things to fire from). Players take it in turns to select a unit, set the direction and range to a target, and click fire. It's a variation on a classic genre of set-the-angle games.
Playable with one to four players, any of which can be human or A.I. (no network play as yet)! Games can be massively customised too, which really adds a lot of depth. You can choose you exact mix of units, which map to play on, as well as difficulty and game speed, so you can play games that take a few minutes, or a few hours.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1019370/Radioactive/
Radioactive v1.13 Pre-release Update
The new update checks display frequencies and gives users the possibility of explicit control over the game screen mode.
Radioactive is all set for its public release in 5 days: midnight on March 22 2019.
The perfect strategy game of nuclear war.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1019370/Radioactive/
Radioactive Coming Soon
Radioactive is based on a simple idea. You begin with a world map and a random scatter of missile silos (or submarines, or airbases, or other things to fire from). Players take it in turns to select any unit, set the direction and range to a target, and click fire. It's a variation on a classic genre of set-the-angle games.
More than merely turn based, Radioactive is set on a 3D map, and shots continue to move while other players take their turns, adding a real-time factor to the gameplay. Games can be customised to a massive extent too. You can choose you exact mix of units, which map to play on, as well as difficulty and game speed.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1019370/Radioactive/