Hey, I have been making “games” (if you could call them that) for a few years now, and I almost feel like I don’t want to anymore. I started out simple, scratch, Unity, etc. Last year I decided I was ready for a bit more of a challenge, moved to Unity, I made some really cool stuff. Then I tried some stuff like C++, Python, Java, ACTUAL ways to make games. It has not been easy. I wonder sometimes if this whole, game, thing, is for me I don’t know if anyone feels the same, but I am in this weird place where I don’t want to make games, but I don’t know what else to do. I don’t really like making games anymore, that much. I really like film, and photography. but I don’t think I could ever turn that into something. I am only 14, so I have so much time to figure stuff out. I am very worried I am wasting a gift I was given. Like, if I don’t act soon, someone will snatch it from me. I am just looking for some advice from the wisdom of my elders. Thanks.

So I was thinking of moving to OSX over my 2 year old Windows 7 laptop, and I was wondering if any Mac users are here who have had any experience with running Python on Mountain Lion. Specifically I would be interested to know what version of the OS you are running, and what graphical module you use (I use PyGame). Please don’t suggest I use Windows 8.

Thanks in advance

-Topaz

Hi everone! I’ve actually gave up every single aspect of life to finish this game. It is not so big, but creating all the assets and polishing it took me almost two months of work every single day.

I have added many new features – but the most noticeable one is good old two players mode with split screen! Was not so fun until I took it to the real event where people made queues to play it

Online demo and humble store

and Original Entry

I will for sure write as many technical details as possible in my games from scratch articles.

Just a quick summary:

The game is done in javascript (html5) and ported to osx/win/lin using node-webkit
For music I have used FLStudio (you get the soundtrack with the game)

THANK YOU LD,
I would never finish this game without this extremely encouraging event!

Hey all,

My first android game release is a fact, whoopy!

Get it 😉

Description

Collect 25 blocks to win.

Enjoy!

* Unique design
* Fast to learn
* Three diffuculties: Easy, Normal, Hard
* Relaxing music
* Free

Get it 😉

I found some sprites online for daft punk megaman style, so I am hoping to make an awesome game.

The MiniLD this month will be June 29-30th. Since it’s a MiniLD, it’s going to be pretty lax, so feel free to start at any time, and submissions will be open for a week or so after the deadline.

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I have two themes! Yes, that’s right, two for the price of one! What a deal.

Music influenced gameplay

In a lot of games, audio is an afterthought. We can do better! Music can really influence the player’s emotions – watch your favorite movie without any sound and see what happens.

Here are some cool ideas to get you started:

• The Wind Waker – The Wind Waker does a ton of stuff with music, so I just pulled one example. Notice how when link attacks the monsters, the music matches the action! That makes the game so much cooler.
• Chrono Cross [1] [2] – In Chrono Cross the player journeys between two parallel worlds, and a city in one world has a theme that’s interpreted differently in the other world. It’s a really nice idea. Check the links 1 and 2 to see the same theme interpreted in two different ways. (And can I just say that the music in Chrono Cross is so so beautiful!)
• Leaf Me Alone – Even in the rapid development of a Ludum Dare game people still have time to innovate! In Leaf Me Alone the music gets quieter as you go higher, which gives a really nice responsive feel to the game.

However I can understand that writing music is not everyone’s cup of tea, for one reason or another. So I have an alternate theme for those people. And that theme is…

Dreams

Awesome art courtesy of Sarenji – www.davidpeter.me

Of course there are the surreal things that happen when we sleep, but another interpretation of “dreams” is hopes and desires.

What are your dreams? Why not make a game out of them? 😉

Some thoughts about dreams:

• At one point in Golden Sun, you’re about to fight in a big tournament, where you really need to win. If you make a mistake and end up losing, then you wake up in your bed and someone’s telling you “you’re having a bad dream! Quick, the tournament is about to start!” I’ve always thought that was really clever.
• Sound usually makes it into a dream world from outside. Hey, you could combine both themes that way! 😉
• Dreams often have symbolic representations of what people desire.

Rules: Premade assets are fine. Teams are fine. It’s more about being inspired by the theme than following it to a T. Good luck and have fun!  

Hello! I am here to tell you about a screenshot program that I found called Gyazo. Gyazo is very useful because of how easy it is to use! When you click the icon, your cursor instantly changes to a cross-hair  style cursor. with that you select the area that you want to be seen, then within the second your web browser pops up with the image on a Gyazo page. This is very useful for making very quick screenshots of games, rather than having to past the picture in to an image editor, upload that to the web, etc. plus you get to select how much you want to be seen! if you just want to show one line of code or a group of sprites, there is no need to crop! I love Gyazo and I just wanted to make this post to show you this wonderful and useful tool. Thanks! and have a picture of me writing this! http://gyazo.com/79ccc91e9dfc723e6060c5a1b7740a06

Gyazo download: http://gyazo.com/

Happy coding!

//Ion_

One advantage of creating 8 games for LD48 instead of just one, is that people get to tell you which ones they like best.   Of the 8 games I created in Minigames Octacade, three came up as favourites, both by me and by the audience: Leaping Larry, Axis Invaders, and Roof Escape.  I am planning to create postcompo versions of each of them.

I’ve just finished Fast Eddie Deluxe, also submitted to 1GAM.  It’s available for Android and PC. Get it here:

http://tmtg.net/onegameamonth/fasteddiedeluxe/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.jgame.net.tmtg.jun2013

If you would like to check it out go here, http://fleethecave.clay.io/ 

It is short, but fun I think. Thanks, ya’ll

We’ve got some new graphics, sound, enemies, playable characters, levels, blood, explosions, camera shake etc.

Thanks everyone who’s supported us from the beginning (and everyone else from Ludum). We’ve still got a long way to go (but hopefully you’ll like what we’ve done once we get there).

… with games?

I have been making this puzzle game and had some really good feedback on it! I see that it might actually go somewhere!

I’m starting to think, even if it’s far away, how would I monetize it? It’s an HTML5 game, a casual one I would say. I am considering selling it on mobile markets, but I have no mac, no android and no windows 8. Since it’s html5, I can of course test it on my little iPod touch. The question that I am asking myself is if I should release a free online version AND THEN see what I could do. It seems that Flow Free did just that…

What would you think?

http://unsquareprototype.clay.io/

So, I’m working on the post-compo version of my LD26 game: The Fair King.

One of the problems I’m trying to solve is that the game’s fonts look really shitty on android. Take a look at the original version, linked above, for the desktop and then take a look at the new android version here.

All the fonts in the game look flimsy and ugly, even when I tried to make them bolder (in the “Help” pages). The fonts look much better in my computer.

Does anyone have some suggestion on how I can improve this?

Thanks a lot!

Tags: android, font, help

Hi Guys.

This morning when I received a mail from humble bundle, I was like “Yeah, ok…”, so I read :

Hey there!

We just added three more games to Humble Bundle with Android 6! This bundle now includes McPixel (celebrating its first birthday with Humble Bundle-inspired levels!), Waking Mars, and NightSky HD!

… … …

What? McPixel is on HumbleBundle? This is ****ing good news! I didn’t buy it yet, And I remember it clearly from LD.

That’s how I ended up buying McPixel.

Enjoy.

Hi Everyone,

As this website gathers a important number of game developers, I came here to ask you some help for my “Game Engine oriented” thesis.

To help me, you just have to take 5 minutes of your precious time to answer this questionnaire :

http://yct62.free.fr/mathias-theys-thesis/

Its main purpose is to gather information about video game engines and especially the multiplatform component.

It would help me a lot. I hope I’m not posting at the wrong place. Don’t hesitate to kick this post if necessary.

Thanks a lot in advance

See you later !

So this game is turning out pretty well, I’m happy with how it controls and plays. I’m just about to start the heavy duty work on the combat system, so be prepared for a more action-oriented experience. Furthermore, I finished the cinematic trailer for the game. However I’m worried (seeing the other stuff on Steam Greenlight) that my game is not up to par yet. I know it probably has something to do with the art assets, but I’m no good at making super detail environments.

As a question for you peeps out there, what’s a good way to show off a game that doesn’t have impressive art assets yet? So far I’m drawing a blank. Thanks if you can answer, and here’s another hint on the theme and title of the game 😉

Happy gaming, Ludum Dare!

Tags: game, unity, unity3d, update

A Fuzzy Associative Memory (FAM for short) is a Fuzzy Logic tool for decision making. Fuzzy logic FAMs are highly applicable in Game AI.

A Fuzzy Associative Memory uses Fuzzy Sets to establish a set of linguistic rules , e.g.:

• “If the orc’s hit points are a little low, retreat from the enemy”
• “If the enemy is distant and my rocket ammo is low, the rocket launcher is a poor choice”
• “If the enemy is near and my shotgun ammo is okay, the shotgun is a very desirable choice”
• “If the ship is off course by a little bit, correct just a little to the right”
• “If the bird is much slower than the flock, speed it up a lot”

The linguistic rules, and the fuzzy sets they contain, are defined by a human “expert” (presumably, you). That is to say, the rules codify intelligence and map this knowledge from the human domain to the digital.

After the rules are defined, a FAM is consulted to help your AI make a descision:

• The orc retreats, attacks, strafes.
• The ship launches long range missiles or fires short range guns.
• The control rods are lowered into the reactor or raised out of it.

As you can see, the fuzzy rules are deliberately vague and use qualifiers like “a little” and “a lot”. Furthermore, the lines between fuzzy sets are intentionally blurry. This is the nature of fuzzy sets; they capture such human fuzziness in a way that extracts highly natural behavior from the fuzzy rules. When defining these rules, it helps to imagine interviewing a bona fide expert in the domain and writing down the skills necessary to be successful in the domain.

Learn more, and get the Ruby Gem for your own game:

https://github.com/cpowell/fuzzy-associative-memory

Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, fuzzy, ruby

Hi everybody !

After the end of LudumDare #26, I told myself : “I can do better !”. Indeed, my game “Skip on Slabs” was too poor, only three levels and not very ergonomic.  That’s why I reworked a bit and add some stuff.

I added pictures  and some new gameplay elements. The game was too easy, but now, after adding “malus” and a monster, the game will not let you win easily.

You should wonder why  I took so long ? Encode the malus was simple and fast, but the monster was much harder than I thought. The monster must have known the pathfinding to reach the hero, otherwise he stuck himself.

You can play my game through my entry and “Web (After Deadline)“.

I look forward to reading your opinions.

Social Planets

http://www.newgrounds.com/projects/games/681865/preview

A while ago, I made a quick game for MiniLD #42, which was around “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. It was just an adventure game where you hitchhike from planet to planet by holding a sign with the name of the planet. On some planets, there’s an alien that gives you clues about where to go next. I think it could have worked if I had come up with a good story, but I really just worked on the game for two days at that point. One question remained: What happens where you end up on a planet where there’s no alien (which will happen all the time since you can write anything random on the sign). Well, you end up on an empty planet. Quite boring, huh?

So before releasing the game to portals, I decided to use the SaveFile API of Newgrounds to allow you to occupy an empty planet. Basically, you find an empty planet, you fill out a “New Tenancy Application” (which is just a form where you update the alien’s look and write a monologue). So yeah, I outsourced the development of the game to the public ;-P

We’ll see how it goes. I’m also doing this project to learn the API and prepare to develop a new project with user generated content. Feel free to try it. The game is open to everyone for BETA testing at the moment, and will probably published next week. Make sure to play from a logged in account on Newgrounds if you want to create your alien and occupy your own planet.

I’m in for MiniLD 43!
That’s right!

My Arsenal:
Code->AS3
Engines->Flashpunk
IDE->FlashDevelop
Art->Paint.NET
Sound->SFXR
Music->???

Have fun and I hope to see peoples entries!

Because – why not

http://rezoner.bandcamp.com/album/qbqbqb

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if you wonder what is it – it is a game I made for LD#26

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