Another one based on lucynic83’s gif.

Based on lucynic83’s gif.

A doodle of what’s supposed to look like Reggie Watts with Swedish text.

The question should be answered betwixt,
How can a Hill be Billy,
if it doesn’t exist?

I’m working on a game called *.Bits, where you build stuff with bits.
Download it and leave some feedback!
http://create-games.com/download.asp?id=8570

Here’s an Icon hiding in a folder.

In *.Icons, this is the nucleus of The System.

It takes one of these to create an physical OS within virtual pixelspace.
This atom attracts bits in pixelspace, which come together to form a protecting hull, which slowly expands.
Ever growing, ever changing, collapsing, rebuilding, evolving and withdrawing into itself to grow bigger and better.

Pulsating paths of information, multiplying, dividing and converting data where Icons run around containing code which they have no idea what it’s for, all they know is that calculating and solving queries helps them evolve into bigger and better icons.

It’s not a corrupt or forcing System, Icons are free to advance in any way they choose.
It doesn’t matter what they do since anything they do helps The System advance.

What follows below are some ideas about turning *.Icons into a game.

Skills and skilltrees:

This block of text will explain skills like:
Calculating
Adding
Subtracting
Dividing
Multiplying
Patching
Gathering
Exploring

In *.Icons, the regular “Warrior”-class is called Calculator.
Within Calculating, there’s Adding and Subtracting.
When using Adding and Subtracting to attack an enemy, you either subtract or add bits from the target.
Subtract is good if you want to break something/someone down.
Adding is good if you want to slow a target down, or add harmful bits, like a Virus for example.

There are 32 skillpoints.
Placing over 16 skillpoints to Subtracting will make an *.Icon able to use division, which is a faster and more powerful way to handle data.
Placing over 16 skillpoints to Adding will make an *.Icon able to multiplication, which is a faster and more powerful way to handle data.

Being equally skilled at both adding and subtracting, 16 points in each, will make the *.Icon able to convert bits, which is impossible to do if the skilltree is unbalanced. Converters make excellent healers, but poor attackers.

Besides gaining EXP through Calculating, there’s Patching, where an *.Icon adds empty Bits to broken walls, ceilings and floors surrounding The System.
Like Minecraft, but backwards.

Gathering Bits also helps an *.Icon grow and evolve.
An Icon can consist of a maximum of 1024 bits, 32x32.

*.Icons can also become an Explorer, but that involves running around a lot, gathering knowledge about The System.

This is a palette I made from the colors of classic Windows 95 icons.
Use these if you want to make retro icons.
And you know… mix the colors to make gradients, shades and stuff.

I finally ordered a Line 6 DL4! Finally my ever growing body-hair will have a voice!