Since I do not have so much time this weekend, as I am going to finish my Master’s thesis soon and have to implement some changes on the related code till the next meeting with my advisor, I decided to create a rather simple game. It is based on some of the comic characters I used to draw as a child: Ino, the flying dinosaur, and Rakete, the intelligent missile that relentlessly chases poor Ino. While in my comics Ino typically manages to escape by means of quickness and virtue, this time it’s supposed to be the other way round, since You Are The Villain ™.

Title screen

I used the source code of my entry to Ludum Dare 24, Evolution, as base code for this game; this also includes the Game Over screen and some sound effects. Hope that’s okay (it wouldn’t have been too much work to create new ones for this game, but as I said, I am busy). The idea to the game occurred to me some minutes before 9:00 am (Central European Time). Two hours before I had got up from bed in order not to lose too much time, and found out what the theme of this compo was going to be. As my entry to Ludum Dare 24 was partially a shooter game as well (the other part was a platform game), I could reuse a lot of the code e.g. for the control of the user-controlled character. I spent the majority of the time on the behaviour of the “good” character until I found an algorithm that makes it evade the arrows most of the time, while still allowing the player to win. Then I had to fight with some nasty bugs related to the text-output routines, which I had taken from the NeHe website; they caused the game to crash. You can imagine how reliefed I was when I found out that the crashes were not caused by my own code. Since I currently do not have the time to search the ‘net for other text-output routines and test them, I decided to drop test output and just display a “hurry!” message when the player is running out of time. At about 6:00 pm, I was finished.

Here you can download the game:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=15196

Enjoy playing! May it provide you as much fun as I had developing it!