Inflation Games

Any others?

http://flattened.info/squishgame.html

ebucey at DA created this. Its a sprite transformation game. Of course, one of the weapons is a bike pump ;)

Go for it!

Not sure if you can, I think the entire fourm is dead.

Nah, this forum isnt dead. Real life just gets a toll on us. We are all getting older.

There was one on the GBA...I had ripped the sprites too and placed them in one big .bmp file...as luck would have it the motherboard on that PC blew around christmas and i've yet to hook-up the hard drive to my new PC and transfer my old files across :\

Through talking with a good friend of mine, we've come up with a good concept for an inflation-based FPS.

Bascially, HP would be reflective of body integrity. All guns would cause the victim to inflate. Guns that do more damage cause the victim to inflate larger. The less HP a player has (all character models are female), the slower they will be able to move, until they're completely spherical. Melee weapons would be pins (which have no effect on uninflated players), and a completely spherical character can still use a pistol to defend herself. Since this is still a first-person game, the player can still look around to some degree, and can even see their own bodies. Players who can still move but are still quite full can jump higher and farther, and float in water.

Mobile players can roll immobile ones back to their team's spawn point, which has vacuum pumps used for the purpose of deflation (restoration to 100 HP). "Medics" would have portable vacuum pumps to deflate other players.

There would be pump bayonets on most guns (I've been playing a lot of Gears of War, okay?!) that can be used, either from the front or back, to inflate a player to bursting instantly. In addition, spherical players can perform blowkisses on nearby players attempting to land a melee pop. This transfers half the player's air into the would-be popper. These context actions would be viewable from either third-person or first-person, and this can be changed in an options menu.

In addition to standard deathmatch (burstmatch), team burstmatch, and capture the flag gameplay, there would be other inflation-oriented game types. First is the B3 (Big Boom Button) mode. Players are all inflated upon spawning to 1 HP, completely spherical. No weapons are allowed in this mode, as players can only bounce off of obstacles and each other, jumping to "swim" and gain altitude (think Joust). Nobody pops unless one player gets to the enemy team's button and lands on it. This bursts the enemy team, ending the round. Another game mode is an assassination-style deal, in which one character is a VIP (Very Inflated Person), and is on a team of bodyguards with inflation weaponry. A team of assassins armed only with pins (they can therefore not attack bodyguards) is trying to pop the VIP as she is rolled towards a goal zone. A third is a game in which each team starts off with a tank half-full of air. Teams must attempt to steal the enemy's air and bring it back to their own tanks, courtesy of their own bodies. In a variant, teams must steal air from the enemy base to bring back and fill up a captive enemy player with. The first team to pop their storage player wins.

There would also be helium- and water-based inflation guns. A character partially filled with helium can "swim" through the air, but the more helium she takes on, the harder it becomes to "swim" down, until she helplessly floats up. If outside, this means she bursts, but if inside, she bounces against the ceiling and can be deflated. A waterlogged player is harder to roll, but can leak water over time, and is therefore harder to burst.

Whew..! I think that's about it...

Damn dude, that's pretty brilliant. I dig some of those ideas; and I might rip them off for stories or something. If you don't mind of course.

Other than that, I should have the know-how to program a fairly basic game in about two years; so if you guys don't mind waiting I'll see what I can do. :lol:

haha The thing is, we have to wait two years for Ceffiene, then maybe a whole year more for him and some others to make it! Its torture.

I also think, vertigo, that those ideas are absolutely brilliant! I can picture it now! I wanna play it!

Theoretically, it could be done with a small programming team using Valve's Source engine, since it's one of the most easily modifiable engines out there. The problem is, I personally know next to nothing about programming, and contracting a development team, revealing the nature of inflation fetishism in the process, is not my cup of tea. :P

Also, you're welcome to make a story of it...I may do concept art or faux screenshots, and hell, maybe just a story to add onto it.

Success! I finally got my hard drive in this pc and now i've got the spritesheet :3 it's got all of her sprites from the GBA version of the game :D

In 2D games, all of the movements an on-screen character makes are basically a series of pre-rendered images strung together to make an animation. For instance, Sonic the Hedgehog running, jumping, and spinning would each require its own set of images. Each of these is called a sprite.

Further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)

I keep trying to upload the sprite sheet but it's not working. For some reason it won't upload.

I had actually suggested an idea for an inflation pinball game in an old thread.

Actually, if you study the history of 3d FPS games they started out as 2d sprites inside a 3d maze...infact the very first "3d first person" game was actually 2d, ironically. But this is all besides the point since this is an inflation forum not gaming forum n.n;;;

is there no screen shots of violet from the playstation 2/ xbox version of catcf anywhere?

I wrote a couple of pages for an inflation game idea that i sent to that Similar guy on deviantart to use for his game. He thought a tiny bit complicated though ^^ But damn, it is a great idea :)

Sorry, I just wanted to direct the conversation into more inflation waters.

I know I've said it before but I haven't got a clear answer. Has anyone bought the Charlie and the Chocolate factory gane for the ps2? Apparently you spend two levels with Violet by pushing her into the juicing room. Is this true?

Any still photos for the site?

How 'bout making a post with some actual substance instead of just a ">.>"?

Speaking of staying on topic, who's this Similar person and what's this about an inflation game?