Hello dear Beatnikians. I’m Leander and I’m the latest addition to the Beatnik office.
 
I joined Beatnik Games a little over a month ago, and have been working alongside some of the others in developing prototypes for new games. It’s great fun and we’ve come up with some very cool ideas. We start each week be bouncing ideas for a new game around the office, letting everyone contribute and have their say. Usually by Monday lunchtime we have something to move forward with that everyone is happy with. Luke and myself, with a fair old heap of help from John and Jack (and of course everyone else in the office continually giving their input) spend the remainder of the week making something that is playable and shows off the main ideas of the game. We’re very strict on this time scale as we don’t want to get stuck on one thing; this is very much an exploratory phase of game design. It also means we are very focused on getting what we need to get done within a week. We’ve been doing this for the last four weeks, and so far have three and a half (it is only Thursday after all) games that we enjoy playing, and each week we seem to achieve more and more.
So for your viewing pleasure, may I please present you with some screenshots of our prototypes!
 



 
We’re not quite ready to go into details of what the games are about, but that doesn’t stop you guys from having guesses at what you have to do in each game! We’re also planning on keeping you guys informed along the way, showing off what we’ve come up with whenever we have a moment to breathe. Hope you enjoy!
 
Leander

1. game where you move left to right to avoid obstacles and collect power ups

2.some fps

3. crate 5 lines at points to get more points depending on how many intersections with other lines but you always have to keep enough free to make new points on the lines even though you have to intersect lines each turn or the game ends…if you get that

those are my guesses