Fun Man, Again

A project in Akron, OH by Jim Ether
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An explorey, fighty, crafty, collecty type video game a year into production. Being created with the Godot engine.
Backers: 33
Average Pledge Per Backer: $44

Funded: $1,439 of $1,000
Dates: Oct 14th -> Nov 4th (22 days)
Project By: Jim Ether
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Latest News

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Twenty - Hinto

November 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Pals! I hope you're doing AOK. A very pleasant day for Fun Man. Last night I had an idea, today I have a new thing! There's a whole video about it that I hope you enjoy.  This thing is in its last hours, very exciting times. I'm going to try one... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Nineteen - Them Pesky Poolballs

November 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings and hello new person! Thank you so much for being part of the Fun Man. Today, in Fun Man world, I fixed pool balls. I had made a big ol' code mess, and today I untangled that spaghetti. It was rewarding, but not all that visually exciting.... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Eighteen - Spray Zero and Fight Dynamics

October 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Gang,Happy Halloween. Hope things aren't too scary. Today in Fun Man world, I worked on some spray animations and fight dynamics. It was a winner. Thank you for your support. Love,Jimbo  (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Seventeen - Sprays

October 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello gang!Happy day to you all, I hope it was a super one for you.  Today was a good day for code. Now that I have my universal NPC, I've really started tweaking animations for them. Today was mostly people falling down and getting back up, and it... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Sixteen - Oatmeal Phil

October 29th - via: kickstarter.com
WELL HELLO! Fancy seeing you here. I hope you're doing well, and your day is all cool and stuff. Today I made Oatmeal Phil a bit more responsive to things. I had a good time and I thank you for supporting this big ol' dream of mine.  Love,Jimbo  (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Fifteen - The NPC

October 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings and hello!Thank you very much, new person, for being part of the Fun Man fun! I very much appreciate it. Today, I finally figured out how to do something I've wanted to do for a very long time that was bottlenecking progress a bit. The... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Fourteen - Materials

October 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello! Thank you very much, new person, for joining the Fun Man Kickstarter project. I am very appreciative and hope to deliver a fun experience.Today I began exploring the possibilities of creating .tres files in Godot. A .tres file is a standard... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Thirteen - Neater and Cleaner-er

October 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Happy Today to you. Thanks to all of you, this campaign has reached its goal. A lovely surprise, arrived around noon today and if that was you, thank you for that. I relaxed for the first time in 11 days and fixed the pull down shade Dougal (dog)... (Read More)

Special Little Guys

October 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings!Yesterday I had the idea to make the golden balls open up a statue with a collectable inside, today I made that happen. It was cool. I hope your day was cool. Thanks for being here. Love,Me  (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Eleven - Decals

October 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello!Thank you, new person, for becoming part of the Fun Man project. I appreciate it. Today I worked on some decals and spawning scenes and stuff, I had fun and I hope it looks cool.I'm going to do some more work on poolballs now, discovered a... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Ten - Problem Child

October 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Gang!Thank you so very much to the new folks for joining me on my Fun Man adventure! 62% with 11 days to go, very excite!Today was mostly under the hood stuff, not terribly interesting. I did get Fun Man to punch and block on demand, tho, with... (Read More)

Tomorrow/Today

October 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Hello, you!Thank you very much, new people. I enjoy making Fun Man and this shall make it easier to make Fun Man. Thank you. A bud of mine has created a character called "King Cockroach" which is an animated character who plays video games and does... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Eight - A Trip to the Post Office

October 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings, pals!Hello to the new person, thank you for joining this...thing. I had a silly idea on my way to the post office, to make a faux mobile game with Fun Man for a video. Well, turns out I had fun playing it, and shall develop it further to... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Seven - NEWCLAUSTRA_CAVE_1

October 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Gang!  Thanks for being here and hello to the new folks! Thank you for your support of the Fun Man.  I realized that any time there was a jump in people joining on here, I'd recently posted something neat looking on social media. Today I woke up... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Six - Magic

October 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello!Thank you very much, new person! Welcome aboard the Fun Man journey. Took a "me" day today, but the thought of now following through all 20 days gave me the boost to do something. I did that something and made a video about it! What fun.... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Five - Oh U(I)

October 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello gang!Today's adventure was mostly under the hood stuff. Previously, I'd featured the sprays in their own dedicated area in hopes to make the screen look all "full" and "cool", but I've since pivoted towards consolidation.  Well, that was... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day 4 - "Gun Man"

October 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello pals, Welcome to the new few of you, how do you do? Thank you for your support of the Fun Man game! Today I had two goals, make an animation of Fun Man tripping and standing back up, and making Fun Man into a walking gun. I succeeded in one of... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Three - Screaming Death From Above

October 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Welcome, new people, hello and thank you very much! Today was a very cool day for the game, I may have managed my most complicated particle setup so far. You can watch a video about it above if you like!Thank you so much for supporting the game, I... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day Two - It's a mess, but it works!

October 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings!Hello to the five new folks! Thank you so very much for supporting this thing. Today was a very cool day for the Fun Man. I was very scared of breaking my UI for a while, but today I dove in and it was no biggie! I made it all ugly, but... (Read More)

20 Days of Fun Man - Day One

October 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings to the two of you who joined up today, thank you so very muchly! A weird thing I noticed this time around, I didn't get instantly bombarded by bots trying to offer me "promotional solutions" or other malarkey like that. It was cool.  I'm... (Read More)

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