Promo 1. The Rubber Hits The Road

Sooner or later, you just have to put it out there. So here it is. The beginning. Promo 1. In Mongril’s words. I’ve always struggled with ‘when’ will Carny Island be ready? Is it ready? I have often said had the technology available to me today been around 30 years ago, this is what The …

Body Parts

The Body Parts System. An entire human body, including all organs, bones, muscles, ligaments etc is worth about $45m. You win body parts by harvesting graves, by a spin of ‘the wheel’, from a secret CIA drop gone astray of prosthetics and robotics, or on Gweedo’s Black Market. If you pick up one too many …

Nukin’ The Easter Bunny

Carny Island is where all commercial BS comes to die. At every stage of the game, you get to nail a capitalistic creature – a western myth marking and celebrating that ‘family holiday’ event, ironically falling every quarter, and designed to make you buy stuff. Like chocolate eggs and bunnies. Uncle Shrift’s mission, like your’s, …

Hello World!

‘Hello World’ is one of the first things you learn to execute in coding. Not that I’m a programmer, by any means. Or any stretch. I failed miserably in understanding GameMaker Studio and I struggle with the logic of BuildBox – the no-code/drag n’ drop app I’ve chosen to prototype a lot of the game …

Desecrating McPhee’s Grave II

Picking up where we left off, with attempt 2. Our Villain (fuck hero) returns to the scene of the crime to have another crack. We see the GraveRobbers ride where the game takes place. We get a wider look at Uncle Shrift‘s room, showing a bank of security monitors and a control desk with some …