Yesterday I’ve played Mad Skills Motocross, a 2D motocross racing game for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is using the jMonkeyEngine, the same engine that also powers Grappling Hook.
Mad Skills Motocross is pure instant fun: Start it, select a track, and race!
You can also do cool stunts and it supports rag-doll-physics!
When you have mastered all 52 tracks, a powerful and easy to use level editor is already waiting for you.

Have a look at the trailer:

And check out the free demo.
The game has a built-in replay-function, which could be very useful for speedruns.
The developers are still developing it actively. They started a poll, what feature should be added next. Most fans voted for an online multiplayer.

IndieGames.com and SpeedRunGames.com arranged a competition, where you can win a free copy of Grappling Hook!

To have your chance of winning, just answer the following question:
At various points during the demo there are 3 wall tags in black letters.
What do these 3 tags say?

Give the demo a playthrough, find the 3 tags, and then email your answer to walltags@speedrungames.com.
The competition will run until Thursday evening (8/10/09). The 3 winners will be picked randomly out of the emails with the right answer.
Happy hunting!

Grappling Hook is available for Windows PC, now!

Visit the new website, play the demo, and buy the game.

I’m very excited, because of the release and I hope you will enjoy the game.

For support and feedback visit the forum.

Latest Changes:

• created a new website for the game  ( Special thanks to Bernhard, Stephan, Erlend, Jens, Boris, John, Jan, Aaron, and Norman for suggestions and advice! )
• created the demo
• installed the forum
• tested the full game and demo on multiple PCs ( Special thanks to Stephan, Bernhard, Charles, Erlend, John, Hans, and Roger )
• changed some things so the game runs on Linux ( the Linux version will be released soon. )
• created an installer for the game
• written the ReadMes for demo and full game
• evaluated e-commerce services

Hey,
today I added an achievement-system, 30 achievements, and worked on the Windows deployment.
From 9 to 12 august I will take a vacation in London. When I’m back I will work with 200% energy to release Grappling Hook as soon as possible!
Do you have any recommendations for my London-trip?
What should no one miss who visits London for the first time?

Hey, I worked on the menu in the last days:

• Picked a better font
• designed the logo and the 2 most important menu-screens
• started to implement a small UI-System for the game

This is the main-menu:

And this is screen, where you can see your progress in the game and select the level you want to play: ( Every level will have its own thumbnail in the final version)

Any suggestions?

I just installed WordPress, so this will be the website for all future games I will develop.

The working title for my current project is GHook. Tomorrow I will fill this website with more informations about GHook and the development.