Day #1 began, as always, about 7 or 8 hours after the theme was announced. 3:00 am is no time to start jamming in polite society, I do declare. We all got on discord and into a shared Google doc, and brainstorming began. After a little while, we had an idea: a narrative-driven social commentary. It seemed pretty ambitious. We tried to figure out the distilled version, the minimum requirements for it to work. Nope. Not a chance in three days. So we went for a wacky arcade game where your bodyguards must jump in the line of fire and protect the president!

Yes, this is a working title.

Don't worry, if you're not excited about either protecting or failing to protect the tangerine marvel you see in this screenshot, I will in all likely hood pixel together an Obama tomorrow. We'll aim to be inclusive.

The Art So Far

I began with some quick sprite work for the bodyguards, limousine and the president. I put together a temporary four frame walk animation for the bodyguard, and then we decided it's more important right now to have a world for this all to take place in. So all in all, most my time was spent on background assets. I created seven buildings while using Google Streetview in the middle of Manhattan as inspiration. And I threw up some posters of our previous LD entries, as per my own tradition.

Got Game?

We got game! @daanvanyperen has been slaving away at whatever demonic rituals you need in order to write code. (I won't claim to understand any of it.) Right now we have a very basic and unpolished game. We have a president to protect and a bunch of bodyguards. We have laser sighting indicating when and from where a bullet will come, and a time-slow mechanic combined with a draw-back catapult system for launching your bodyguards in the right direction. All of this still needs a good amount of work to get right, of course.

Other than that, @meatmachine has made three songs for our soundtrack. Hopefully we can start implementing some sound effects tomorrow.

Tomorrow's Plans

Like I stated above, I plan to add Obama as a choice for president. This is meant to be a silly game, not a divisive one. Other than that I hope to do a lot of character animation. We'd like to have spectators by the side of the road, waving at the parade. I think I am good on buildings for now; more is always better for variety's sake, but there are other priorities.

For now, I will finish my Day #1 Reward Beer, an imperial porter named Je Moer In De Band brewed by De Moersleutel, and then go to bed. Goodnight!