After 4 and a half years of development, The Spirit Engine 2 (www.thespiritengine.com), is going to be released on July 30th, 2008.

Source: http://www.thespiritengine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=126

The day has finally arrived! Noitu Love 2 is here and ready to be purchased!

 

 Konjak has just released his masterpiece in 0.9a - as there might still be some bugs - along with an extended demo version which I intend to try out as soon as I have the spare time, then I need to get enough money together to buy a copy of the full game!

 Even if you don’t think Konjak should be selling his games visit the site here and get the demo anyway, just so as to marvel at the level of excellence achieved in this game.

 Bye! 

ChrisD has just released an early beta of his online text based rpg game named ‘Syndicate’!

 

 The concept behind the game is an online, text based crime game. You can join or start your very own mafia families and possibly reenact scenes from “The Godfather” if your heart so desires.

The aim of the game is whatever you want it to be. Some people will set out aiming to becoming a don and running their own crime family, while others might want work in the police force. Some will choose to become hit men or contract killers, businessmen, thieves, vandals, or drug barons- there are many possibilities, it depends on how you play the game. Whatever you choose though, you’ll need to start earning some money. 

In it, players can chat, fight, shoot, rob, train, vandalize, create and join crime families, build, buy and maintain buisnesses (bars, casinos, diners, gyms, gun stores etc), grow, process and deal drugs, and a whole bunch of other shenanigans. 

The game looks very interesting, none of your generic platformer action here! For more information and a download link visit the official site/forum here.

Va1entine has just asked us to cover his upcoming project, Block Master.

The game is controlled by the mouse only - and you must guide your little blocky friends to safety though many perilous mazes

My First project which i’m now around 3 months into titled “Block Master” i’m creating with Multimedia Fusion 2. Basically this is mouse controlled game in which you the player must guide the little block characters with the mouse through the maze avoiding the challenging obstacles to reach the goal. Block Master is Still a working title. The story and intro animation is what i’m working on at the moment and still unfinalised! The game will feature 12 fully playable levels that include 10 maze’s, a secret hiden maze and a Boss stage. I also plan to feature a construction kit/level editor to create your own mazes. Block Masters file size is currently arround the 15mb, i’m hopeing to keep it under 25mb! Further details and more screen shots can be found at http://va1entine.com/

More information can be found at either http://va1entine.com/ or at the TDC Development Log here.

“Spike!” has released a demo version of this awesome looking little online racing game, where members race… yes, cows!

A few of the games current features -
- Hosted on a dedicated server in europe
- 2 - 8 players possible per race
- A fully working ladder system
- Ability to host / join games (the games are hosted on the server)

This hilarious and clever little game developed with Clickteam’s Multimedia Fusion (and I think, ‘MOO’, how ironic ^_^) is still in the beta stages, but why not give it a try and leave some feedback for it, at least? ‘Don’t have a cow, man’? Click here

Also, sorry for the lack of updates at the moment - but remember WE NEED YOUR NEWS!! Also, our editors have either been extremely busy or undergoing tough times right now - however, we are looking for editors at the moment. If you fancy a go at being an editor here at toastface, please contact us!

 Clickteam - the makers of the Multimedia Fusion family of products - are currently running a competition for games created with only 20 events. To quote organiser Kisguri:

Clickteam and Fusion2Developers is proud to announce “The Twenty Event”, A Multimedia Fusion Programming Challenge contest… Entrants will battle it out to create the coolest game in MMF that uses no more then Twenty Events in any one frame, The Grand Prize winner will walk away with $250.00 Cash and MMF RESPECT!  

More information can be found here. The Daily Click also has a forum thread for discussing the competition which is located here.

Remember Hempuli’s “Floating Islands Game”!? Wanna play it?!

“Because there were so many requests for a demo, I managed to create a version with the first five levels, the credits-section and half of the tutorial. The demo shows all the basic stuff that appear in the game, though there’s nothing really cool like in some of the later levels I have to keep at least some things secret to the public release!

The game uses just mouse and it’s left button, but if you want to get irritated you can also use esc or enter for some stuff. Notice also that every level has a ‘restart’ and ‘quit’ buttons in the bottom-right corner.“

A small demo of the game has been released at SilverNova so go check it out! ^_^

Floating Islands Game, or “FIG”, is a very stylish and very well-built game being produced by Hempuli. The game itself has a lot of charm. FIG is a puzzle / strategy game, boasting over 30 levels and 5 secret levels and its gameplay only requires you use the mouse! Why? This game is inspired from games like ‘Lemmings’ and the infamous flash game, ‘Hapland’.

Aid the man from one side to the other. Simple eh? Ohhh no. Of course not The levels feature so many various ways of saving and killing the little dude, ranging from watering cans, to vicious dogs, to laser beams! But nothing says more than a video, so I’ll do something a little out-of-the-ordinary and post this youtube trailer

Keep up the excellent work Hempuli! I’m looking forward to this one..!! Find more information on FIG, right here.

I’ve been keeping a very close eye on this one. Not only is it an Real-time Strategy - It’s a Real-time Strategy made with Multimedia Fusion!! “Is that even possible?” I hear you scream… well according to ‘Retainer’, the man behind the game, it is very possible indeed!

This video only shows a very short snippet of what’s to come, but it certainly looks promising and very impressive!

Fortunately, the name of the game isn’t set in stone. “Alien Invasion” isn’t really the most… imaginative… of choices Will be interesting to see what it turns in to. The game is very pretty too, which is always a bonus! This seems to be a project that will actually be finished, too (”touch wood”, as they say!). Four years to make the engine for it? Really!? After such a long time in the works, it’d be crazy to give up now!

Remember to send us your news guys! Whatever it is, major or minor, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Head splitting, hardware accelerated, baby crushing action!

In a truly unique attempt to explore the hardware acceleration beta in Multimedia Fusion a developer known as PaulG has used babies falling from exhausting heights. The game features some decent rag-doll physics and excellent silhouetted graphics (most likely to censor the extreme body breaking injuries these babies endure).

So how does it work?

“The goal is to reach the end of the course within the alloted time and with at least one bone remaining in your little meatbags body“

It’s an excellent time waster and a great start to a new potential for MMF developers. Try it out here.

Today I bring you some information about “The Ion Adventures” made by Newt.

This game looks quite different from most platform games, since all the graphics are 3D renders and it apparently plays quite differently too! It mixes RPG elements with traditional platform gameplay and adds an intriguing story too, what more could you ask for? To quote Newt himself; “It’s been in development for over two years now, and when complete in Spring 08 it will include over 35 levels, several bosses much more!”

If you’re interested there is much more information available at Newt’s own site and If you’re after some video footage of the game, some can be found in the latest episode of The Klikcast which can be viewed here.

Konjak has only gone and released a demo of Noitu Love 2!!

The game will be shareware or donationware; Konjak says he will let us know. So the demo provides a small taster of what’s in store for us. Click here for more information and download! (thanks axel :))

Today I bring you another video (amazing!) this time it’s of Ainevoltas 2 by Alspal (video shot and edited by yours truly, all in about an hour).

The description from Alspal is as follows:

It’s 11 years since the defeat of Azazel, monsters have invaded the castle again. Justin is asked back to the castle and to find out who is behind the invasion this time! This little RPG has many, many hidden secrets! Can you unlock them all? (note: signs may lie!)

This really is a fun little time waster, and as you can see in the video there’s quite a bit to do (Note the save file with 9999 health was hacked by me for fun, I will not be releasing the application I created to do this, unfortunately :P). There are a total of three characters to play as, women to marry and bear you a child, monsters to kill and bosses to battle - it’s all really rather epic.

You can download the game here.

So, to continue on a theme here’s another post accompanied by a video! Today I bring you “Roller Coaster” a game currently being made by Nick.

To quote nick himself:

It’s not exactly Rollercoaster Tycoon
It’s not exactly Line Rider either.
But it does have a little bit each.
With a little hint of puzzle thrown in.

Well I say it looks mighty cool! So be on the lookout, more information available here.

One of the most popular “click” games ever is finally getting a sequel it would seem!

Noitu Love the original was a plain and simple combat based platformer played with the keyboard. That’s all changed, the level of polish in this game is far, far higher and what’s more it’s played only with the mouse! Konjak (the author) has always been known for producing brilliant boss battles; and from the video we can see that he has outdone himself in that respect once again.

The game may be shareware, for a low price of course - but it’s going to be worth every dollar in my opinion.