March 24th 2009 - Spate! Stem the tide!

[Robyn]

Spate (http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/Spate/)! Overflow! Stem the tide of boxes, push back those infernal crates! XGen's own Cody "eedok" Hollis-Perdue brings us his addicting little side-project: Spate (http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/Spate/)! Try not to get addicted...

GDC 09 (http://www.gdconf.com/) started yesterday, and XGen is attending again! If you're headed down to San Francisco you might be lucky enough to catch a demoing of the brand new Defend Your Castle (http://www.xgenstudios.com/defend-your-castle/) iPhone version!

After many long years of searching, he has been found (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sll=51.463676,-0.21536&sspn=0.009505,0.019312&ie=UTF8&ll=51.46386,-0.215499&spn=0.009505,0.019312&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.463944,-0.215446&panoid=aTUlkjN4ZDh_2sWaOxjDPg&cbp=12,96.223121611225,,0,27.200000000000024). By who else but Google; masters of the search!

[eedok]

I'll take this opportunity to shout a thanks to the people of the XGen Chat who tested Spate, thanks!

[Kerolix™]

I'm having fun watching the boxes bounce around.

Makes me feel guilty about never going to Chat.

EDIT: Awesome, I'm in second! (For now!)
EDIT #2: How come you guys never come to New York? D:

[Aquamenti]

Tickets to San Fran get! Dragon, get ready for it!
Do you need your own iPhone there or not?

[Mr. Anderson]

Spate's enormous fun...like Tetris, but better. I'm 12th.

[Kerolix™]

Noooooooooooooo, I'm hooked already! ;_;

EDIT: Lol, It can't find what country coolman lives in.

[Serisium]

I just got 3rd place in Spate. It's awesome when you get a huge combo going. The highest I got was 81.

[WaterZoma]

A game you can be good at by screwing around? Impressive!

[Dragon]

Dude I could Drive to San Fran in less then an hour.

I don't know, I think I seriously might go. <_<

Also, I'm in the Credits for Spate. Woo! Looks completely awesome graphic-wise now, great job!

[LizardRob]

Addicted to spate after the first play. I got 17th place on my first try, too.

Such a great game, instantly rewarding and replayable.

[jrmagic360]

That was a very enjoyable game, very good job Cody! Now I wish I hanged out at XGen chat more often!

[Serisium]

http://truimagz.com/hosting/Public/spate.PNG

:)

[Chicken13312]

I'm 13 on HS right now, I got 126X combo and I came.

Great game Cody =D

[Sharpryno]

It's a cool game.

Good job Eedok and others

[denacioust]

I just visited Eedok's site and I'm in the credits for one of his games. Go me!

[Sharpryno]

Wow, the highscore is 21 million. I got to level 25, 156,000 and thought that was amazing -.-

[WhiteKnight]

Looks like an amazing hit on xgenstudios, nice work eedok and xgen team.

[Dragon]

Heck yes, number 17 on the highscores :P

[Matt]

Pretty fun game, the pace really picks up fast!
I didn't do very well I didn't think, but then again I'm not a fan of match-um-up games.
I did enjoy playing it though. Good job.

[Helmic]

http://truimagz.com/hosting/newhelmic/Private/Numbah%206.PNG

Incredibly fun. I'm at 7.

[7Elite7]

Love Spate, but I suck at it. GAAAH! Are you guys anywhere on the GDC site?

[Kerolix™]

I showed this to my homeroom teacher and a few of my friends.

We all basically lol'd after I hit 100X combo, right when Lunch ended. :(

[DarkReality]

Is it me or is the collision between boxes a bit iffy? Could use less bounce for my taste.

[eedok]

the weird collision is probably a result of one of the hacks I made to Box2D to make it not run so slow when there's more than 100 collision objects in an area, without the hacks it needs a core2duo or better to run smoothly :p

also 666

[7Elite7]

the weird collision is probably a result of one of the hacks I made to Box2D to make it not run so slow when there's more than 100 collision objects in an area, without the hacks it needs a core2duo or better to run smoothly :p

also 666
Took me a second to get the 666 thing. GJ.

Also, could you translate that into, Idon'tunderstandathingaboutflash-ese?

[Serisium]

Basically, he hacked the physics engine so it wouldn't lag.

[7Elite7]

Thank you for making sense.

[Defective]

Good game, but yea when the boxes bounce so much it just annoys me. I'm addicted though.

What was with google maps? It showed something for a second then just turned black.

[TheLionKING]

Very fun game. Got like 10 mil. Should be like right behind helmic since it doesn't show past 20.

[LizardRob]

The bouncing boxes just adds difficulty. I smash the boxes from side to side to stop them bouncing up out of the box.

I think my highscore is 2mil at the minute. People are getting crazily high scores already...

[Jaydor]

Spate looks fun But, who's he?

[eedok]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_Waldo

[Blastedt]

So, Cody left a false name here...

Never mind, I will find his cell number soon enough.

[Dragon]

Damn, the current highscores will be tough to beat. =/

[poguemahon]

I just got lvl 9 on Spate... Awesome game.

Wii port, anybody?

[Hamly]

Nice game! I just played it for awhile, got bored and made myself lose at 207,477,470 points. number 6th! Wow, insane high scores there.

[7Elite7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_Waldo



No posting of links to other sites. This means any other site, even wikipedia, google, etc.


:P

Anyways, is there like a strategy to spate?

[poguemahon]

1) Click

2) Drag, and match

3) Level Up

4) Profit.

[Stickdude8888]

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg188/tyus8/spate.jpg
Very addicting game. I managed to get 4th place, but I doubt I'll be up there for long. ;)

Cool game eedok!

[jrmagic360]

Oh wow, nice Stickdude.

[Shadowcasterx4ffc]

http://truimagz.com/hosting/shadowcasterx4ffc/Private2/waldo.png

Oh wow...

[eedok]

aquamenti is currently banned but here's his score:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/168938/aquamenti-spate.png

[jrmagic360]

Damn it. I got so bored of the game after the 1200 combo...

http://i39.tinypic.com/11awuns.jpg

I quit on purpose, I got too bored, I couldn't spend 30 more minutes getting past Stickdude's score. I'm sure no one will beat either of us soon... :)

I could've went longer with the +4000 combo.

[poguemahon]

It practically plays itself :D

[jrmagic360]

Exactly, I stopped touching the blocks, and it got a 3 combo all by itself...

It's still awesome.

[darkComp]

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6006/awesomescore.png
This game is insanely fun. Got placed at rank 10. (it's not much, but it's better than what I expected to get ranked at)

[7Elite7]

I like how y'all found waldo. But how?

[Rtzizle]

Spate is insanely fun, i had to stop playing, you know parents.

But please don't flame me but who has been found?

[Quentin]

Yeah...
Plays itself ^_^

[ballin85]

its a good game

[YoureANubcake]

Twas fun to play.

[Spectral D]

Try not to get addicted...
Too late.

Yay, daily 15. Awesome game.

EDIT: Now daily 3rd. =D