Announcing Park of Flock of Dogs (working title I guess)
This is a behind-the-scenes look. Unedited, no audio, extensive placeholder art. This is a behind-the-scenes look. Unedited, no audio, extensive placeholder art. This is a behind-the-scenes look. Unedited, no audio, extensive placeholder art. This is a behind-the-scenes look. Unedited, no audio, extensive placeholder art.
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The Flock of Dogs Sky Park will be included in the "Free Friend Version" of Flock of Dogs (WISHLIST NOW!) as well. As in, people who don't buy the game can still play all these minigames both online and locally and will not have to rely on someone else having a Friend Slot for them to join in with.
The idea is this will be done...soon. And I'm super into it. And I'm sorry I haven't finished my video game yet. I was into this idea for several reasons.
1. I love minigames
2. I have already built this platform for playing an online game together with friends where you can get on and off dogs/whales/islands and pick up items and fall into the sky and stuff. So making a space to just mess around in and maybe engage in some friend competition would be pretty quick to implement.
3. Let's me stress test my game with a larger audience.
4. Exposure. Specifically to a younger audience. You know, "free" sells.
So let's see what we got right now...
For some hungry, hungry whale action, go to the Block Buffet.
Each team starts with a whale and their own flock of dogs. They compete to fill their pots with as many blocks as possible before time runs out. You can stuff your whale for more efficient hoarding, you board enemy whales and purge them, you can punch opponents off their dogs, and more.
For the speedsters there's the Air Track.
Race dogs or whales or maybe even just balloon racing through tracks, gate by gate, with zippers, blocks, weird obstacle thingies, and powerups (watermelon missiles, pus balls, ring shield). YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN TRACKS WITH YOUR FRIENDS ONLINE AND SAVE/LOAD THEM AND SHARE THEM.
And then for the old school, we have The Game Board.
Play chess, checkers, Chinese checkers, or make up your own rules. And maybe other minigames one day who even knows.
I probably shouldn't make any promises about future games, but I can't help sharing my ideas! They get me so excited!
Maybe one day:
(1) Umbrella Ball
(2) Take the Mario-Kart style powerups from the racing minigame and do arena racing combat
(3) Flock of Dogs Pac Man, where players can choose to be the ghosts or the pac-dog.
(4) Hide-n-seek with the daylight/nighttime mechanic already in the game as well as hiding behind clouds and stuff that also already exists.
(5) Dogback archery competition
(6) A cooperative sky-trail-drawing game where you're shown an example picture and then you have to work together to draw it the flight trails of each your dogs.
(7) Bring back bomberman (which some of you might remember was my first minigame I made in FOD shortly after I first started doing netcode)
(8) Bring back Shady Ripkins (at the start of the pandemic, I implemented an item that was like a sheet of paper that you could type a secret message on and then others wouldn't be able to read it unless they were the one whose turn it was or whatever, which was going to be a way for my friends and me to recreate the passing of notes required for our game of Shady Ripkins via Zoom. Some of you mihgt know Shady Ripkins by another name, which is Telestrations)
(9) And more!!!
Alright, listen, I promsied myself that I wasn't going to spend forever writing this email/creating the video. So the other stuff I've been working on like auotmating converitng sprite sheets into animations and drawing more dog breeds and stuff I'm just not going to talk about. And you'll have to ask me personally for an update on my soccer career and my Starcraft career.
Peace
-Max