Did you want to participate in Ludum Dare’s October Challenge, but couldn’t find the time or couldn’t figure out a good way to handle payments with your current development approach? Or maybe you’ve never written a “real” game before and thought it was more than you could handle? It’s not too late!

As some of you might be sick of hearing about by now, I’m developing a website specifically for indie Java (and Processing) developers who want an easy way to showcase their games- and make money! I spent my October updating the site’s look and feel and making things more obvious, so check it out at StaticVoidGames.com.

Developers can specify an ad code for their games, and they get 100% of any revenue they generate. Getting an ad code is as easy as signing up for a google adsense account!
So if you still want to try out the October Challenge, maybe think about using Static Void Games! You could upload some old games, or spend this weekend doing your own mini-challenge.

Think about what you could do by October 31st with a theme of Halloween!

After fiddling with a few bugs and GUI polish, Ethereal Isles is now live on Kongregate. Man, I hope there are no nasty bugs lurking in there.

Getting the game ready for “prime time” took a lot of work because you have to go back and fix all those things that you let slide: placeholder sounds, sloppy GUI layout, and “mostly-working” code. But now it’s done! (mostly).

I’m going to look into fixing/modifying code to work well on tablets for the Google and Apple stores, but I don’t think that will get done before the end of October. Right now the game works and is playable on a Nexus 7 but some parts are not-quite-working with the touch screen.

View the entry here.

So, my game, Rockwell, is in beta and I think it’s time to release. It’s already being reviewed on Indievania and will soon be on StaticVoidGames. I may put it on the chrome app store but considering it’s not a web app it probably will not. However, if Rockwell has support it will show up on the Mac app store. Rockwell, although not a technical masterpiece, is a fun addictive arcade game.

Sorry but I do not have time to finish the game. But still I plan to finish it soon. I created a page on TIGsource and if you’re interested, you can follow the progress. http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=29269.0

Thanks!

We finally found a baby sitter in Barcelona! As a result I drank too much yesterday night and my head hurts a little 😉

By the way, Bloblocks was approved by apple during my sleep and is available for iPad!

http://itunes.com/apps/bloblocks

I waited 9 days but it may count as 8 since I am not in USA.

I’ll have to push a minor cosmetic and improved controls (two step swap and slightly better rotate) update but the little game works quite well I think. I hope reviews won’t be too bad…

I also made a small promotional website for the game this week, I still have to translate it to french: http://bloblocks.labe.me

The game is nearly ready for Android tablets too. It wasn’t that easy since I had to support portrait orientation and scale things so the game would be playable on 7″ devices. The last thing in my todo list for Android is to integrate Gree (or some other competitor) to support the Leaderboard and achievements.

The game was made with haxe, starling-framework, air, a lill bit of haxenme, emacs, org-mode, inkscape, sketchbook pro (MacBook air and iPad), pixelmator, sunvox, bmglyph, elbow grease, tapas and love. Prototyped with processing.

I am waiting for my first sells now, I think I will win the challenge too!

Regards

Laurent

Another short update. Closer to finishing up first map/world. Need to add some enviroment elements like trees and bushes.

That thing friends, was the trial mode, which would allow me to lock levels of the game that players would need to pay for.

So, it means I can’t get my $1, and complete the Oct challenge – arghhhh!!!

On the bright side, there have been a few downloads, without any additional marketing (which I don’t have a clue about anyway).

Anyway, resubmitted a new release which should turn on trial mode, but in the mean time, if you have Win 8 and you’d like to have the game for free, go for it!

Plz, plz, plz help out another Ludum Dare brother, give me some upvotes and rave reviews on the Windows Store, I’ll be sure to return the favor!

http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/battleship-islands/5e25ffd2-2cb0-4708-b88a-4bdc61f19107

Hi everyone,
Here’s the game we did for the October Challenge ( our Ludum Dare 23 entry ), we polished it quite a bit and there it is !

Here’s the pitch :

As the 37th reincarnation of the ball god of Balance, you’ll have to herd your people to safety around their home… But alas, as they appear, those little fellows will unbalance the world, threatening your own equilibrium !

– Move the ball by tilting your device !
– Scare off your people to gather them around the house !
– Careful not to roll over them… or not !
– Sacrifice some to restore balance, avoid falling and save the rest !
– Win the levels by gathering the necessary amount of people !
– More content is coming !

Feedback and comments are welcome, thanks for the support !

Please note that we will constantly add features and updates to content !

October Challenge Entry Page
Balance Google Play Page

Working on an indie platformer, but instead of being able to jump, you can switch gravity.

Inspired by: Gravity Guy, Mario(and various other platform games)

Not importing my own graphics, just using Java’s awt graphics.

Released Qubid Today to the Android Play Store!

I recorded a gameplay video here Qubid Demo !

Truth to be told : the main challenge is time management for me . . . I will not finish for the  end of October, I need to learn the lost art of pouring into my game 😉

http://blusterthegame.blogspot.fr/2012/10/it-will-be-teaser-october-challenge.html

Ok, i’m done with first location. This is last update before demo. With next maps i will iterate based on current assets and adding couple new ones. Another Tower Defence is comming!

Sorry I forgot about making entry so here it is:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/october-challenge-2012/?action=preview&uid=8471

Tags: poland, renegades

Did anyone of you have terraria and someones says “How do i get Terraria?” You say “Well you have to get Steam.” And you keep on talking about steam and terraria. And then he makes this account on steam, and then it gets hacked. Im saying terraria needs to get off steam! Minecraft isn’t on Steam, why should terraria? I hope terraria will get off steam. AND MAYBE JUST MAYBE It’ll be easier For people. Thanks for reading :D!

After a month of work, “Dimension of Cubes” is for sale!
Now, to expect a sale before the end of the month. All purchases from here are welcome.

http://www.indievania.com/games/dimension-cubes

Tags: Dimension of Cubes, Game Maker, October Challenge 2012

Yay! After a month of work and stress, here it is: Keys

Make sure to check out our website, too: www.splitbitgames.com

Finally made some game which I hope deserves to be published.

Link to entry:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/october-challenge-2012/?action=preview&uid=8942

I uploaded my LD24 entry “IO VUOLE ZEN” on Kongregate, if u want to play it again, go and do it here.

Well, if you wanted to check out my October Challenge entry, Rockwell, it’s free for a limited time on Indievania! I would love to hear some feedback! Rockwell

Okay, now, I’ve got to promote my game. Best way to do that? Ludum Dare, October Challenge. It’s $1 on Indievania. Rockwell is an arcade style, addictive, time-consuming space-shooter. It looks and plays like classic games such as Pac-man and asteroids. It has a page on gumroad, a digital-download marketplace. Buy it here!