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Mon, 12/30/2013 - 10:58 — Lynx

It seems that I stand out in this world of trainwrecks. Humor, creativity, originality, and craziness is the mode in this madhouse. While I'm stuck in the vanilla indie gaming world which I've always wanted to fit in but never had the chance. The personality and attitude so far removed from the standard. The outsider art foreign but familiar; sweet!

Hey all! And hey myself. After spending my entire adolescent youth plinkning around in the Zzt community back in the day I've always wanted to take stab at making games people might actually want to play. My good friend WiL posted his progress on an indie game which he scored called "Snapshot" and another intriguing post about this website and it made me intrigued. After perusing this community for a bit I decided to join and downloaded Klick and Play. It obviously has infinitely more features than Zzt (though I did enjoy overreaching the limitations of the masterpiece) and I found myself enamoured with it. After writing "Tanks" and downloading the demo of MMF2 and looking at some other indie gaming groups I decided to stick around. I admit I've never quite fit the mold of "Trainwreckers" or of the earlier Zzt'ers, but have found it inviting and nostalgic.
It must be obvious now that I like to create functional and playable games while I enjoy the zany moments in your games as well as the sometimes powerful execution and strong programming. Let me know if you are intereseted in a collaboration as one of my goals is to make a successful android/flash game.

Thanks guys!
Lynx

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Tue, 03/10/2015 - 03:36 — Lynx
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Services

A family member of mine deeply steeped in the corporate business community recently told me a nugget of wisdom. He said, "If you do a service as your occupation then you will have to continue providing the same service to continue making money." As I dug deeper into the possibilities of making a modest income I found one format which defined it the simplest. Trickle vs. Bucket income. With bucket income you provide a service or do specific jobs to create a moderate "dump" of income which hopefully lasts you until the next job/paycheck. There is really no problem with this type of income and is the primary way in which most people provide for themselves and families (unless you milk Yaks). Trickle income on the other hand are small investments or endeavors that you may never need to replicate which attempt to provide small flows of income. This income only slows over time and hopefully never stops.
Transitioning from services to a constant modest flowing income is the inspiration for me to continue plugging along in this community posting small sometimes irrelevant games. Eventually genius will happen and the little game nugget which will provide trickles of income will be created.
Here's the tie in. I recently posted a game for the click of the month and have decided to post it to the app stores. It will be posted soon. When it is I would love to have my friends here play it and have their friends play it as well. Thanks for the help and keep wrekkin'

http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/9148

BLINK 1.5 UPDATE!

A quick reflexes game by Lynx

Press an arrow key before hitting the middle of the screen to travel that direction.
Collect power bubbles!
Press spacebar when powerbar is full to slow down.

Post your highscores!

Use the mouse to click on the sides to move in that direction!
Press the middle of the screen to use powerup.
Try to bet the highscore which is now at 79 and set by sergiocornaga of Glorious Trainwrecks!

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