So, I managed to get my game logic finished last night, and now since the site is back up, here’s a demo (without so much<\/p>\n
milo.grotonma.net\/uploads\/LD21.zip<\/p>\n
It contains no instructions, so I’ll give a brief rundown:
\n 1) Each weird redish-thing is a building. If you click on it, cars spew out. Red Building = Not evacuating, Green Building = Evacuating, Gray Building = Empty.
\n 2) Cars always take the shortest path to the exit (which is any road leaving the left side of the screen). This usually causes gridlock.
\n 3) There is a deadly wave bearing down on the cars. Evacuate the buildings before it’s too late (or don’t; it’s your choice).
\n 4) Clicking on roads makes them into 1-way roads. Cars will obey these UNLESS there is no path to the exit.<\/p>\n
Okay. That’s where I am now. Also, that’s an entire game. That means that tomorrow is left for assets, tweaking, and making menus and stuff. Which is AWESOME because, last time I did the Ludum Dare, I was working on the game logic until up to the deadline! Also, my timelapse is working this time! Things are really going up my way this time.<\/p>\n
Of course, I have to say that if I had been a fool like last time and tried writing a fairly elaborate physics engine, I would be failing again (Read: All the blog posts I wrote last time about HOW ANNOYING that code was. Debugging it took up, probably, 90% of the entire time I was working on that). Also, every system in this game is discrete, so I didn’t waste time on difficult math (I love doing that math though). I think that, even though I only intended to do the Jam this time around, I’ll be able to make the competition, which is pretty sweet (although, I don’t have any windows computers nearby, so they’ll have to compile for themselves; shouldn’t be too hard though, since its only dependency is SFML).<\/p>\n
I’m quite pleased with this game, especially considering that the theme completely caught me off guard (what were you thinking, people who voted for “Escape”?) and that I didn’t really have any good ideas (~first 16 seconds of my timelapse = creating a game below my quality standards) until about 8 hours ago. I’ll have to think about whether I want to keep working on this game after the dare (it needs more spicing up though).<\/p>","time":"August 21st, 2011 7:54 am","title":"Woo! Asset Time! (Demo for Macs included)"}