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Hi, I'm McJey from U-GameZ!

I'm from Germany and still fairly new to itch.io, I've posted some updates in the past in the game's community, but I did not get much feedback there, so maybe here´s a better place for a Devlog :)

You can check out an (outdated) demo for Windows on the game´s itch.io page here!

Alpha Trailer (June 2015)

But what is this game about?

Well, as the title suggests, it's a sequel to "Error Ware", a "Wario Ware"-style party game I released for free in 2012. I love the Wario Ware series, but imo there haven"t been many good games since Smooth Moves on the Wii. So I made my own, of course! XD

I'm making games in Game Maker for 8 years now and Error Ware has been the first game that turned out to be actually quite good! It got some good reviews on IndieDB / Desura (RIP) and even reviews & Let's Plays on YouTube from all over the world, which was amazing to see :D

Coming up and programming dozens of short minigames has been and still is a great game developing exercise, but quite time consuming, as well. I´m doing all of it on my own (concepts, graphics, sound, music, programming, debugging...) and I still have other jobs, so progress can be a little slow (I wanted to release it in 2015 originally, now I have a hard time to get it done this year lol).

Features

• Challenging gameplay with quick minigames ála Wario Ware / Bishi Bashi
• Playable with up to 4 friends locally
• Supports keyboard & mouse, a gamepad & even a Wii Remote with motion controls!
• Text & voices in English, French & German
• Colorful visuals with catchy music
• Lots of unlockables like retro style "Error Boy" games, toys, music...
• Engine: Game Maker 8.1 Pro by YoYo Games
• Platform: Windows

Current status: Alpha

The main game mechanics, some micro games and most of the menus are finished. I'm working on the unlockable "Abstráctomon" Error Boy game (a Pokémon parody in the style of the GBA titles) right now.

When that's done, I'll add a few more minigames & release a new demo for you to enjoy!

I appreciate any feedback and ideas for the game! If you want to help me in any way (translating, ideas, promoting...) or have questions feel free to ask!

You can find me here, too:

• Twitter: @UGameZ_McJey
• YouTube: youtube.com/user/thefinegod
• Twitch: UGameZ_McJey
• U-GameZ homepage
• Error Ware 2 homepage
• The game on itch.io

Here´s an animation I did today!

Have a nice weekend :)

Gameplay of the almost finished ingame-shop. Not that many things to buy yet, but that will change in the future :)

I need to display the player´s money, but otherwise that´s it for now.

I will focus on finishing the unlockable Abstráctomon game next.

Abstráctomon move #95: Terrify. I hope you like critters!

Here´s another test fight.

I´m almost done with implementing all of the attacks. Just 6 more to go!

Then it´s time for items...

I´m finally done with coding in all 102 Abstráctomon moves! Yeah! I hope that is enough...

I improved the displayed team info in Abstráctomon today! What do you think?

Working on the items menu for Abstráctomon.

Displaying part of a table and make it scrollable was more complicated than I thought, but I finally got it working. So the Item selection works now! Now I just have to make the Items actually usable. But that shouldn´t be too hard...

Now you can see the item bag in action! And I finished the catching mechanic (the animation at least)!

Abstráctomon Intro & Title screen done!

Introducing the first Gym Leader in Abstráctomon: Venom Violet Version!

Weldon´s Gym is located in a wind park and owns a large energy company. He´s an expert welder and specialized in electric and flying type Abstráctomon.

And here´s the second gym leader: Capt'n Arnold! Since he retired from sailing the seven seas, always searching for new water Abstráctomon, he leads the water / normal type gym.

The third gym leader is ready to fight: Anna! She recently opened a Hip Hop dance school and loves fighting & ground type Abstràctomon. Can you keep up with her smooth moves?

A first look at my overworld engine for Abstráctomon! Objects automatically get collision and the correct depth (depending on the player's y position so they are either in front or behind him) and background tiles can be animated. Signs work already, too!

The character's sprite is a placeholder of course :)

Tip: in Game Maker there is a problem with tiles when color interpolation is active (a basic form of anti aliasing). You can get nasty gaps in between tiles depending of the screen resolution. Luckily, you can switch it on and off during gameplay!

So the game looks a bit sharper now & tiles work perfectly.

Here I showcase recently added features to the overworld in "Abstráctomon", a unlockable game in the upcoming "Error Ware 2" by U-GameZ.

New features include:

• Dynamic music based on location
• Dynamic rain & mist
• Shadow when player is obscured by an large object

I plan to add a few more weather effects and include them in battles.

Happy Halloween! Here's your treat: a new Abstráctomon update video! :)

Thanks to Knife Drawer Games for this review of the demo!

I want to take a moment to say thank you for over 500 views & almost 150 downloads of the Error Ware 2 demo!

I really want to make an updated demo available as soon as possible. I did not update it for a long time because most of the work I did this year was "behind the scenes" so to speak, just things like the ingame shop and the Abstráctomon game-in-a-game.

While I made great progress with the Abstráctomon battle system for example, it would not have been much fun to play for you without an overworld, NPCs and so on.

In the last two days I made it possible for your creatures to learn new moves when reaching certain levels, and it suddenly felt a lot more like a game :)

Also I decided to add another 30 or so monsters and a few more moves, so if you have any ideas you can send me your ideas and monster designs to

Twitter: @UGameZ_McJey and it might makes it into the game!

A drawing (only your own ideas, please do not steal stuff from devianart or something) + type (no fairy types) and a cool name would be awesome!

Have a nice weekend!

I recorded some new Abstráctomon Gameplay!

In the last couple of days I

• added wind as a weather effect (there is now bright sunlight, rain, fog, snow, hail, duststorms, thunderstorms and wind in the game along with a day & night cycle),
• improved the lighting at night,
• made it possible to learn new moves when leveling up
• and fixed a lot of bugs.