{"author_name":"Detox","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1212881280,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"74998","p_author":"Detox","p_authorkey":"510589","p_urlkey":"110830","p_title":"Mini-LD 1: Frogger -x- Master Shake","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD11","p_time":"1212881280","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"510589","us_name":"Detox","us_username":"Detox","event_start":"1208476800","event_key":"87","event_name":"LD11"},"text":"

This is my first Ludum Dare. I really like the theme and rules so I jumped in this time.<\/p>\n

… so I stalled right out of the gate trying to pick a good pair of characters to face-off against each other. I had all kinds of ideas. My trouble was picking one and sticking to it. It’s definitely a fun theme. I picked Frogger from the 80’s arcade game and Master Shake from Aqua Team Hunger Force.<\/p>\n

I like frogs and Shake is the perfect villain.<\/p>\n

I picked a single-screen 1-on-1 duke-it-out style game with projectile and close quarters weapons. I haven’t done a 2D tile game before so I kept it simple: no scrolling, 1 screen, no OpenGL acceleration. it looks like the OpenGL acceleration isn’t that rough to add. I won’t have time tough.<\/p>\n

So far I have a primitive particle system, my 2D tile drawing and loading from text files, and a simple sprite animated character. The mouse is used to aim the projectile weapon and fire. Keyboard moves left\/right, jumping, change weapons, and can also fire weapons (as well as left mouse button).<\/p>\n

The big stuff still to do:
\n very primitive collisions – rectangle-rectangle at tile level for jumping & weapon damage.
\n sound and sound content – this is a biggie for me. I haven’t messed with sound much before.
\n Draw Master Shake sprites
\n Draw “slap fight” hand-to-hand combat tile\/sprite animations & add hand-to-hand game logic<\/p>\n

\"Frogger<\/a><\/p>\n \n

Tags: ANSI C<\/a>, Detox<\/a>, mingw<\/a>, platformer<\/a>, SDL<\/a><\/p>","time":"June 7th, 2008 6:28 pm","title":"Mini-LD 1: Frogger -x- Master Shake"}