BLOG SHIFTED !

Hi everyone !

My Blog is now shifted to wordpress. This blog and its content is still accessible but future posts will be on the new blog.

See you THERE.

My first Ludum Dare Entry !

Hi everyone !
Last weekend was a great weekend. Why ? It was Ludum Dare 20, and yes...I did participate in it. The theme for this jam was ITS DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE ! TAKE THIS !.

My game was a mix of 2 genres- MEMORY and ROCK-PAPER-SCISSOR type. And its called RIGHT THING. RIGHT TIME.. I couldn't work on it the whole time and so it lacks gameplay at the moment with few sever bugs :P I am planning to extend it in coming days !

For now, the final game jam build can be played HERE.

Keep FLASHING !!

A wallpaper I designed for all game developers.

Howz it ?


EDIT:

Made a dark version of this. Check out.

Game Developer Summit 2011

The second Game Developer Summit is scheduled to take place in August in Bangalore. For those who don't know what that it is, here is some intro :

Game Developer Summit (GDS) is the quintessential Indian game industry event focused on inspiring, connecting and educating the Indian Game Developer ecosystem. Featuring top-notch keynotes from luminaries, visionaries and gaming gurus on various subjects from mobile and indie games to MMOs and AAA games, GDS will also provide a hub for business and networking opportunities in the Indian industry.

Well...I am looking forward to attend it, specially after being at the awesome Nasscom A&G summit. Hope to see you there.

KEEP FLASHING !
Cheers

Processor - LEVEL UP-graded !!

Hey everyone !

Finally received my prize from Intel for the Level Up 2010 :) Check it out :

Hurray !

New game in the making..but with a touch !

Hi every !

I have been working on a Flash Lite game for touch phones. It has been 2 days since I started it and its pretty much playable now (can't show it though).

Heres a ninja character from the game:

Stay tuned for the game :)

Till then, KEEP FLASHING !!

Which plan is best for me ?

Hi


Today I was just wondering if I should switch over to 'Pay per second' plan from my '0.5 rupee per minute'. I couldn't really figure out which one was better. All I wanted to visualize it to be clear. And so here it is. An application that I made to visualize how the two plans cost with time.


(Refresh the page to see it again).

LEGEND:
Red Line - pay per second ( 0.01 Rupee per second).
Blue Line - 0.5 Rupees per minute.
Green Line - time where the 2 plans cost equal.

ANALYSIS:

As is clear from the graph, after ~200 second (the 4th green line) Red Plan never comes below Blue Plan (except for few seconds). It costs more than Blue Plan after that point and the difference between them only keeps on growing with time.
Before that, Red Plan costs less than the Blue one for most of the time being the best specially between 0-150 seconds (3rd green line).

VERDICT:
If you make calls that generally last for about 200 seconds or less, Plan Red is for you. But if you like to talk for long durations to your pals gossiping about the cricket match or last night party then Plan Red is certainly not for you...Go for Plan Blue.  :D

Duration                             Plan
0-200 s               Pay per second (RED)
>200                   0.5 Rupee per minute (BLUE)


Just in case if someone wants to see the application code :
Download Project

Cheers !

The caricature artist has awakened !!!

Hi all !

Well, I have recently started drawing caricatures. It started out as a requirement when I needed a caricature of me for my Tee. I realized I liked it and its so much fun doing this :D So from now on I would be practicing drawing caricatures and putting all of them right here. So stay tuned for more.

For the time being here is my second one :

The easiest person to caricature :|

Let the comments pour in. Tell me if you like it so I know I am improving.

My T-Shirt design ready !

Hey everyone !

Finally I am done with my new T-Shirt designs. And here it is :




Comments on the design are welcome :D

JIDE crosses 100 downloads on Softpedia

Hurray Hurray ! JIDE crosses the 100 download mark on Softpedia. CENTURY !!
Thank you all who downloaded it.

Way to go JIDE.

New year's first post - 2011

A new year and a new decade has started. Its 2011 - year of new developments, creations, fun, gaming, chatting, surfing, and lots of opportunities and targets. This year has started with a trip to IIT-B's TECHFEST 2011 ( for the 3rd time :P ). It was a yet another great experience but with a twist. As there were no software events, I decided to take part in a mechanical event this time called FULCRUM - An event where we had to create a crane from ice-cream sticks :). I together with my friends Ankit and Nishant made a crane that was somewhat awesome being a first attempt though it failed to lift the required weight. Nevertheless, building it was fun and I enjoyed a lot. This is a pic of our crane.

You can count the number of ice creams we had to eat ;)

And now back from TECHFEST, its time to dive into some serious stuff. Just to keep a record of what my plans are for this year, here is a list of it.

1. More blogging, writing tutorials for blogs and forums.
2. Be active on programming forums like actionscript.org, dreamincode.in etc
3. Create a playable MMORPG in flash. (tough job).
4. Do some freelancing stuff.
5. Improve my website...make it better in looks and functionality.
6. Develop Rickshaw Brawl into a complete full version game.
7. May be apply or at least prepare for a job in gaming companies.
8. Work on my aptitude skills :P
9. Develop some AIR applications for the Intel AppUp store and Adobe Marketplace.
10. Participate in as many GAME JAMs as possible. Cool thing >:D
11. Register my own game company...not sure though.
12. And lots of lots of learning the whole year - new languages, hacks, games, etc.

EDIT:

1. Become a caricature expert :)

NOTE : These are in no order of priority.
Lets see how the year goes. All the best to all for their plans.

Happy New Year everyone !
Keep Flashing !

Cheers !

Tweeterfeed check :)

Just now configured my blog with Twitterfeed.
So this is post just to test the setup. :)

EDIT : Yup..its working !!

Biggest day of my life (until now) !!!

Hi everyone !!

Today I am so so happy and want to share this news with you all. As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, our game RICKSHAW BRAWL won an award for Best ART n DESIGN in Intel Level Up 2010 - India Series and the final result for the International Series was due for 15th December.
Well, the results are out and have just now received a mail from Intel saying,

"Congratulations! Rickshaw Brawl has been chosen as the student winner for the Judges’ Choice award for the “Best Graphics Performance” in the Intel Game Demo Challenge: Level Up 2010. We had over 847 games registered from 32 countries this year."



Yes...you guessed that right. RICKSHAW BRAWL once again bags an award internationally, competing with 847 games and this time for the BEST GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE :D

Student category winners list

And whats the icing on the cake ??? We get a Boxed Intel® Core™ i7-940 Processor. Yippeeeee !!!!!

This is how our first 3D game makes a mark in the gaming world. Really excited about this. And hopefully, RICKSHAW BRAWL will continue its journey to evolve into a full version game and become one of the best game titles :)

Three cheers for our team !!
Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray!

Animation Guru features Rickshaw Brawl !

Hi guyz !

Great news as Rickshaw Brawl gets featured in India's one of the leading Animation magazine - ANIMATION GURU.

Heres a page from the magazine :




Cheers !

JIDE 1.0 beta version now on Sourceforge

JIDE - Java Integrated Development Environment



This is an application I have recently finished as a minor project for my college. Its a simple IDE for Java language.

For more info & Download, visit JIDE on Sourceforge

License :

JIDE is an open source software released under GNU General Public License v3.0

Game Over - DODGE ready !

The game jam on Flashpunk is now over and this is the final game I developed in a day. Not much of a killer one but cool enough to spend some time playing :)



Screenshots :




And guyz, dont forget to rate it after playing :)


PLAY GAME HERE

Game developed using:

Flash Develop, Adobe Photoshop and Flashpunk Engine

Credits :

Programming & Artwork by ME a.k.a. Chin Chang


Have fun playing!

Game for Flashpunk Contest

Hi !

I have been working on a Flash game for the first ever Game contest on Flashpunk. And also this is my first experiment with Flashpunk game engine by Chris . Its the second night working on the game and hope to finish it in next 2 hours :P


Well, for now, enjoy the screenshots:







Keep Flashing!!

Rickshaw Brawl - Now online !

Hey guys !
Rickshaw Brawl demo is now available for playing.



You can download it from my Website or just grab it here :

DoWnlOad :

Rickshaw_Brawl.rar (5.83 MB)


Developed in : Unity3D Engine
Credits : Kushagra Gour, DC Animations
Development time : 1 Month
Awards : BEST ART & DESIGN prize at NASSCOM A&G Summit 2010.

Some Screenshots :








Enjoy Playing...and do comment !

My new Website

Hello people !

After being under development for 7 months, my new website is finally ready :D
Check it out :





Do post your suggestions and comments either through the site's Feedback Box or here in the comments.
Thanq for visiting

A dream trip to the NASSCOM Animation & Gaming Conclave 2010

Hello friends! I would like to share with you one of my biggest achievements so far. RICKSHAW BRAWL, as I mentioned in my earlier post, was selected among the top 10 finalists in the Intel Level Up 2010 India series and was invited to be showcased at one of the biggest events for game developers and animators in India – NASSCOM Animation & Gaming Conclave 2010 in Hyderabad. And yes, I was able to make it to the event after crossing so many hurdles :P thanx to my friend Ankit :)



The first day of the summit was for Animators. Unfortunately I couldn’t attend it. Nevertheless, we were there on the 2nd Day. The day was packed with lots of interesting presentations by speakers from leading organisations like Ubisoft, Adobe, Intel, Kreeda Games and many more. We attended many of them and it was really great to hear such inspiring minds. Though, we were in the game lounge playing games most of the time :)

The final event – “The Gaming Super Pitch”, where I had to present our game RICKSHAW BRAWL in front of the Judges, started at around 5:30 pm. After all the game presentations and a lot of questioning by the judges and audience, it was finally time for the results. And I am really happy to announce that RICKSHAW BRAWL won the prize for THE BEST ART & DESIGN. We won a laptop from DELL. So well done DC Animations. You guyz really did a great job. Wish you were there with me.






It was such an awesome experience for me. I got to talk with some really great people from EA, KREEDA GAMES, INTEL and many more. I had never got such an exposure and this event turned out to be a great opportunity for me to showcase my work and interact with such cool people from all over India.

Once again thanx to Intel for the wonderful opportunity, thanx to Ankit for coming with me. And last but not the least, well done team. Awesome work !!

RICKSHAW BRAWL ROCKS !!!