Exploding Rabbit

Kung Fu

Jay Pavlina — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:33:49 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do7PhnFs1O0

Howzer takes a break from lifting weights to hang out with friends and beat people up. Completed in June, 2001.

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Seeking Programmers, Music, Sound

Jay Pavlina — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:58:32 +0000

I am looking to expanding our team so that things can move along a bit more smoothly on our projects. I am looking for programmers, musicians, and a sound effects person. For details, read this post on the Unity forums. I will still be keeping the team small, and I’ll only add people if they’re a good match. If you contacted me about doing music a long time ago, please do so again.

Edit: All positions have been filled. Thanks everyone!

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Attempted Love

Jay Pavlina — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:08:54 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3sqKubDK0

Watch with audio commentary

This is the first short film I made in college. It’s silent and was shot on black and white 16mm film. It’s about a guy trying desperately to win a girl’s love.

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Jay: Vampire Slayer

Jay Pavlina — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:12:44 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7JuWvDR8hI

Watch with audio commentary

I finally decided to start releasing my old movies. We’ll kick it off with the classic, “Jay: Vampire Slayer.” I believe this was filmed in March of 1998, so you are seeing 14 years into the past. Crazy times.

Also, I decided to do audio commentary for every movie I release. That way you can learn a little bit more about what was going on when I made them. There won’t be any particular order I release the movies in. I’ll try and mix it up so that you don’t get a bunch of boring ones in a row.

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Super Mario Crossover Two Year Anniversary

Jay Pavlina — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:36:43 +0000

Today seemed like just another day, but then a bunch of people started saying stuff like “congratulations on two years of success” and “I can’t believe it’s been two years” and then I realized today is the two year anniversary of Super Mario Bros. Crossover‘s release. It seems that quite a bit has happened since that simple day two years ago, and there are many more big things to come.

I figure now is a good time to update people on what’s been going on with Exploding Rabbit. I know I usually do videos to update people, but I’ve been working so much and having so much fun that I haven’t taken the time to do it. I feel like I hit a really nice flow with working on the game. This is probably the smoothest workflow I’ve ever gotten into, and I’ve been making very rapid progress.

But “what am I making progress on” you may ask. I mentioned on the forums recently that I’m porting Super Mario Crossover to the Unity Game Engine. There are many reasons for this, but it’s mainly because it’s more powerful, easier to work with, and most important of all, more fun to work on. This will allow many more possibilities for the game, and I’ve already mentioned on the forums I’ll be adding multiplayer. I have not decided if it will be local or online, but I plan on doing online eventually. Progress on the port is going extremely well. I have all of the sprites, animations, colliders, and most of the palettes imported, so I can start writing game logic soon. It is going much faster than I thought… maybe because I work on it for like 12 hours a day.

I also have another exciting announcement. The Exploding Rabbit team has expanded yet again. We have recruited sbq92 from the forums to help us with the game. I have always been impressed with sbq92′s graphics and suggestions for improving the game, and he just seems like a nice guy, so I brought him on board. Sbq92 will mostly be doing graphics for Super Mario Crossover and adding new skins to the game. Zach’s duties are mostly concentrated on other games we’re working on, so I thought it made sense to get someone specifically to work on SMBC graphics. Sbq92 will also mostly be in charge of looking at the skins made by the community and suggesting which ones we should add to the game.

Hopefully the team will continue to expand (I’m praying for a sound/music person to fall out of the sky… if only I was more organized at the beginning when people volunteered to do music), and hopefully I’ll eventually make enough money to pay people. Wouldn’t that be crazy? It may happen soon since we’re finally working on original content.

So things are going very well right now. I feel like after 2 years I finally made some solid plans and am moving smoothly towards them. I’m very thankful for how helpful the community has been during all this time (most of them ). There are many things I learned about games and many awesome ideas I’ve heard that have helped to improve the quality of SMBC and any future games we make. I’m sure the community will continue to expand in positive ways and will continue to be a cool place to talk about games and other stuff.

That’s all for now. I’m very excited about the future of Exploding Rabbit, SMBC, and our future games. I am very confident that we will not disappoint. Happy anniversary everyone!

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Super Mario Bros. Crossover Ported to Atari

Jay Pavlina — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:46:23 +0000

The old version of Super Mario Bros. Crossover was too complicated with its fancy graphics and sound, so we ported it to Atari. Since Atari has less memory than Nintendo, we took out some of the characters. I think you’ll like this new version of SMBC much better. I know I do.

Play it here.

Edit: This was an April Fools joke. You can still play the atari version by clicking the link above. The Atari skin will be included in the game in a future update.

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Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 Released

Jay Pavlina — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:09:26 +0000

The day has finally come. Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 is now playable. We’ve been working on this update for over a year, and there are a lot of changes. The two big things added are skinnable graphics and a new power up system. There are about 800 tracks of music in the game now. We also added Luigi and Bass as playable characters, and because of the skinning system, it seems as if there are many more characters. For a full list of changes, see the version history.

Although I still did all of the programming, I had some help for this version. Zach Robinson did all of the custom graphics in the game and helped design the skinning system. Him and I are a team now and we’ll be working together on many future games. We also have custom music made by Mathew Valente. He’s been making Super Nintendo versions of the Blaster Master music. He’s not completely done, but you can hear a few of them in the game if you play as 16-bit SOPHIA. I’ll add the rest of the songs as he finishes them. He also made nsf versions of the Mega Man 9 and 10 soundtracks which we use in the game.

Sadly, there are a few problems in the game that I can’t do anything about at this current time because of the Flash platform. The music emulation will slow down the game for some people, especially Super Nintendo music. If this is the case for you, you can change the music console in the options menu. Adobe is releasing an update at some unknown time in the future that should address this. As soon as they release it, I’ll update the game.

The other small problem is that there is a delay when the game loads at the beginning because it is very heavily compressed. It may appear that the game is not working, but it will continue on after a few seconds. I apologize for that, but there doesn’t appear to be anything that can be done about it at this current time. This is what we get for cramming so much awesomeness into a flash game.

I’ve been working on this game for almost 3 years now. When I started, I knew nothing about making games or programming. With all of the experience I got from working on this, I now feel I’m ready to make my own game. Exploding Rabbit will now be shifting focus away from Super Mario Bros. Crossover to work on an original game, which we feel will be awesome. We’ll still update this game a few times a year with more skins, and I’ve mentioned before that we’ll add the Lost Levels in the next update. So we’ll still be updating this game, but it won’t have our full attention like it has in the past.

I expect that there will be bugs that were missed by the testers. Please report them in the bugs forum. I’m not going to fix every bug because the game is free and I could spend my whole life doing that, but I’ll be sure to get the important ones.

I am very happy this day has finally come. It’s been a lot of hard work, but it’s worth it to see it all come together. We hope you’ll enjoy playing Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0. We’re very excited to finally release it, and even more excited to start working on our awesome original game. Exploding Rabbit will entertain you for many years to come!

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Let’s Play Zelda: Parallel Worlds – Part 7

Jay Pavlina — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:02:59 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZwTytEnUmQ

This is part 7 of my playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds, a hack of A Link To The Past. In this episode, I finally figure out what to do and make my way to the next dungeon, but I don’t enjoy my experience and consider ending the playthrough.

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Let’s Play Zelda: Parallel Worlds – Part 6

Jay Pavlina — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:02:38 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pClOaegkkDA

This is part 6 of my playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds, a hack of A Link To The Past. In this episode, I get frustrated since I can’t find where to go. It turns into a montage instead of a “Let’s Play”.

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Interview with Nitro Game Injection

Jay Pavlina — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:40:28 +0000

I’m doing an interview with Kyle Crouse and Larry Oji from the Nitro Game Injection podcast. I’m very excited because I’ve had a huge man crush on Larry since I met him last year at World’s Fair Use Day. The interview will be broadcast live at Arecibo Radio. After the interview I’ll update this post with a link to the archived version. The interview will be at 2:00 Pacific time tomorrow (Sunday).

Edit: The interview was a lot of fun. You can listen to the entire show here. My interview starts 27 minutes in and lasts for about an hour and 40 minutes. Also right before the interview starts you can hear me say “shut up” to Iggy.

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