!WARNING! May contain boobs (LOL, I mean stage 9 contains)! !WARNING!

“Ab Solanum” – Ludum Dare 27 Compo game entry page

So we are few days after Ludum Dare 27. This was my first LD 48 hour Compo and I can say I am really satisfied with my game (above You can see pretty screenshot of stage 3). So far comments are mixed and people commenting are torn between “Great graphics!” and “It hurt my eyes”, I literally have no idea what to think about it 😉

I was working on my game for about 26 hours, I produced exactly 3278 lines of code, 41 graphic sprites, 2 font files, 10 map data files (png files), 9 sound files and 1 music theme 3 minutes 24 seconds long. Ab Solanum was created using Microsoft’s XNA 4.0 (C# language).

Things I used creating my game:

• IDE : Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express
• Graphics : GIMP 2.8
• Sounds : BFXR
• Music : PixiTracker

I think 26 hours is my maximum. Starting Saturday after 11 hours of coding I could not concentrate enough to produce anything worth a dime so I started creating music. I did not know PixiTracker before, but after some time I loved it sooooo much! Finally I came out with nice music theme fitting my game exactly how I could imagine it! I got some really kind comments about my music as well, thanks for that! You people are really awesome!!

When I started to think what kind of awesome game I should create I came up with wonderful idea… I wanted to incorporate all of the final round themes keeping “10 seconds” as the main one. One game stage would be all about one selected theme which would give whole nice shiny 20 stages. So it is Sunday, I am finishing 6th theme and suddenly realizing it is already 3 pm and… “well I am f*&#ed”.. Ultimately I came up with only 10 of them, pitty, it would be real blast if I had enough time to finish them all!

Thanks for reading, I will go back to rating games now, there are over 1800 more to go for me (oh my). I will be flattered if some more of You will play and rate my LD48 Compo game! Here is the link: CLICK