Yep, I’ve just finished my second LD entry. I had pretty much the whole of today available (after working a very busy weekend, where I didn’t get as much work done on this game).
Basically, in this game, you’re a pickpocket, and you have 3 minutes to steal as much money as possible, by carefully pressing a sequence of the arrow keys in a set amount of time.
You can play the game on it’s entry page.
Our game is finally submited!
HB
This was our first Ludum Dare and we’ve learned a lot from this experience.
Now it’s time to sleep. We’ll post the post mortem later! 
Tags: game, heartbreaker, ld48
http://killkong.weebly.com/
Not really sure how to submit, I’ll keep tryin. Maybe that submit countdown means something?
If you read my previous post then you will know that my ludum dare experience has been an utter disaster.
Mainly from being really really ill yesterday, and still feeling pretty bad today.
Even so i couldn’t leave my game quarter finished, so what i’ve done is bring it up to more like half finished or greater.
So i’ve added more ganeplay elements, working lives, and a title screen…
I haven’t got any time to polish the gameplay unfortunately… so yes, it’s not very good…
It feels so great to have accomplish the game in 72 hours! Now we are looking the other games and they look amazing!
Thank you all for the great experience!
Our first Ludum Dare felt awsome! Wohohohoho!
It’s that time again. Join me on my stream at 6 pm PST (-8 GMT) on 12/18/2012 on Tuesday because
I WILL PLAY YOUR LD25 GAME just as I did during the previous relax streams.
Postmortem:
What an experience. I told my brother we should put our hair on the line because we both felt this Ludum Dare was different from the previous ones. It was worth it. We have our hair, and this game is fun. This is what we hoped for.
After a long discussion when the the theme was announced, Double DeConstruction become a game I really wanted to play. Originally it was about a bulldozer on a rampage. The rule of never go with the first thing that pops in your head worked well because my second concept was better. I thought, what about a construction worker with a laser arm (like Samus Aran from Metroid) that shoots wrenches.
What went right:
What went wrong:
Edit: If you cannot make my stream and you want your game played, request it via Twitch message or E-mail me.
Tags: livestream, post-mortem, stream
Whew, this past weekend was intense for us. Shouting matches over design details, nerd rage brought on by stubborn code bugs, frustration caused by our sluggish computers, not knowing what to do next: we went through it all. We didn’t even have our first level done by the end of Saturday. Come midnight Sunday, and we still had major work to do on all other levels. But then in the wee hours of the Monday morning, a lot of big chunks of our game started coming together and our entire 4 level game materialized. After a long all-nighter, we finally decided to deem our game finished and uploaded it to Kongregate.
Now that we can finally relax and take a breather after the intense weekend, we’d like to share with you the fruits of our labor: Kim Jong Un’s Glorious Missile to Liberate the Nations DX. It’s a side-scrolling shmup without the shooting. The players guide a recently constructed North Korean missile in an attempt to strike the White House. The player must successfully avoid obstacles to advance and complete the game.
To develop this game, we used the following technologies:
Our team consisted of five primary contributors, consisting of four programmers and one artist/composer. Two of us had competed in the previous Ludum Dare jam, where we made Radioactive Space Bunnies (http://www.kongregate.com/games/zimmy87/radioactive-space-bunnies), and there’s even a throwback to our earlier entry in the second level of Glorious Missile. Fun fact: we used more assets in the title screen of this game than in the entirety of our last game.
All in all, designing it was challenging. At the last minute, we had all wanted to do more and more things, but you can’t let feature creep kill your whole project. The game was originally slated to be only three levels and we had already ballooned to four, and even more was getting planned. It took discipline to know what we needed to finish and fix and what we could let slide.
We all learned a lot this weekend, but in particular I’d like to share this one piece of advice: if you’re going to work in a larger group, always make sure that you have someone who doesn’t have a lot of experience on your team. Their fresh insights can help polish your final product in a way that more veteran folks wouldn’t have seen. Plus, you introduce the joy that is Ludum Dare to someone new, and how could you argue with that?
Please play and rate the game at:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=17159
Here’s my game:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=14440
The crazy story of my Ludum Dare experience is in the description. TL,DR: I forgot to make sure I had the weekend free, and ended up making the game in under 4 hours. Crazy day. Congrats to everyone else who finished, I can’t wait to play as many of your games as possible.
Well, the game is online now. Here, try it.
I managed to add different enemy behaviors, stars in the background, and a title screen and game over screen (thanks to Jim Burner). Pat Kemp added sounds, and we put Teo Acosta’s music in the game too.
Still, there’s a lot missing. The player doesn’t level up, the numbers are not tuned at all, and there is no communication about what happened when you lose or finish the game. I expect we’ll continue to add these things in a post-competition version of the game…
For now, time to rest.
I was very tired all weekend and there were times when I wanted to give up, but I’m glad I finished it. I’m not that pleased with it but at least I finished. Working with my friend was a big help because I didn’t have to do any art, I just coded.
If you want to check it out here it is
I can’t believe I did it again…I had so many problems because I decided to use Haxeflixel instead of Game Maker but I still managed to finish my game, Pissin’ you off!
It’s not very good but I’m happy since I learned a new tool while making it!
Here it is! Have fun!
My JAM submission is ready! I’ve already made the submission page, so here’s my game.
It’s called Brobulon the Terrible. You’re an alien trying to conquer earth, so your goal is to destroy all of their structures while they try and stop you.
The submission page is here for your viewing pleasure :D. Now it’s time for a nap!
Phew, I barely made it this time.
Now that I finished the game, I wish that I would have added more items to make the puzzles more complicated.
They are all super easy right now.
But, it is still fun to watch the neural network AI try to beat your deadly levels (especially when it explodes)!
While programming it, I kept on turning down the number of generations that the evolutionary algorithm ran for since it ran slowly even in release mode in VS2010.
But, when I took it out of the IDE and it performed absolutely no tracking anymore, it ran much faster suddenly. So I could have afforded more generations.
Oh well, the AI is still capable of beating the levels as intended most of the time even with so few generations.
OH NOOOOOO!
My attempts to increase my productivity have gone horribly wrong!
The tincture only put me to sleep! I just woke up with my head on my desk (and not feeling too refreshed).
So, it looks like there’s only one complete level of Super Goatling Poacher 2013. At least I woke up in time to submit what I had! (Thank God for that submission hour!)
I was really hoping to get in a complete game on time this Jam. Oh well. As is my wont, I’ll be updating this post-compo anyways, clearly identified as such with a separate link.
To everyone that completed your goals: Congrats! 😀
our game:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=3022
Short summary:
You’re Darth Vader and you have to kill everybody.
So we did this crazy thing for this jam, we attempted to make a Massively(not sure how massive :D) Multiplayer Online Tower Defense game; BFG TD. It’s based on node.js and socket.io on server side and starling on client side.
We’re not sure how stable it is so hop in and spam the crap out of it so we can see 😀
Once we have an idea about what to do with player profiles, server performance.. etc, we’re planning to release it on mobile so you can TD all day.
BFG TD
Can’t wait to play your games,
Cheers!
Finished work a little early and had time to throw in a few new things including sounds and music! I’m going to start working on porting to other platforms and running tests on other OSs other than Windows.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=4626
We were working right up the wire this time!
MEMEX is an ambient puzzle game where you steal bits and pieces of someone’s memory.
We’ll definitely be writing up a post-mortem but for now, the game speaks for itself:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=10976
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