First day of my first LD will end soon – Time for a recap:

I couldn’t spent the whole 24h developing but I guess I got around 7-8 out of it. After juggling ideas, I came up with three concepts for the game. I sketched all three and after laying them side by side we had a winner. What I did from there:

• setting up a project in eclipse with slick as lib
• entity framework
• simple (temporary) graphics (gimp)
• simple movement
• simple enemy
• better movement
• better enemy movement
• shooting stuff
• hitting stuff
• displaying the points, lives & bombs
• first sounds (sfxr)

And for day two I also got some more to do:

• final artwork
• more enemies
• menus
•     -> main menu -> mini logo
•     -> howto screen
•     -> game-over screen (and matching event)
•     -> highscore screen (nice to have) -> highscore to XML
• MUSIC
• more sound effects
• play with words
• joypad support (nice to have)
• polishing (find the right rythm/speed for everything)
• playtesting -> GOTO polishing
• release
• sleep

Well, that’ll be a long day 😀

LD26 – Halftime