So we’re doing it! I’ve finished the outline and started a sprite for this thing. As always, because my mind loves to over complicate everything, this game will feature real sharks and metaphorical ones legasp! Will be using Ren’Py and yup. Now to sleep and get back up to write-edit-draw-cry-collect-program not in that order of course ^^

Title: FINS

Synopsis: It’s 2046 in an average coastal town, and Anna-Marie thought she’d be spending her break partying it up in warmer waters. But, instead, she finds herself in a den full of cold-blooded lunatics. Because of one, minor, slip up involving letting her best friend alter a grade, resulting in her owing him big time for it… Anna-Marie has to dig up some dirt on the local big bad business in town if she doesn’t want her professor blowing a gasket. The only problem is that snooping around in a major corporations graveyard is never a good idea, and when she stumbles upon some very big and very, very illegal information, Anna needs to think fast unless she wants to end up sleeping with the fishes!

Characters:

Anna-Marie Gutierrez: A young freshman in college overwhelmed, under-employed and suffering from a severe case of apathy. Due to an ‘incident’ involving her best friend fudging a grade for her, she has to uncover dirt on Tributary Inc. and finds herself way over her head.
Logan Cho: The resident all-around activist and genius in the making, he’s passionate about uncovering all the dirty deets on Tributary Inc. and publishing them up anywhere and everywhere he can.
Experiment F-2V or Fien: A highly, highly illegal Splice Anna-Marie encounters while uncovering the Inc.’s secrets. Splice being a slang term for humans genetically crossed with another species. In his case, you guessed it, a shark.
Big White: A local loan shark and small town gangster, that is working in step with Tributary Inc. to cover up what they don’t want to be known to the public. Is harassing the Gutierrez family over past due loan payments.
Tributary Inc.: A shadowy, international organization that participates in some highly unconventional activity behind the mask of a family-friendly corporation.

Tags: FINS, interactive fiction, mini ld, Mini LD #46, Ren'Py, sharkjam, text adventure, Visual Novel, VN

Even though Halloween was 2 days ago, I added in pumpkins into NIKRA ;D

Please check out my blog if you haven’t already!

http://endesga.blogspot.co.nz/

thank you!

-ENDESGA

Every year, for the past 3 years I have used the October Challenge as a way to motivate me to finish Sky Hawks. I originally started this game to teach me how to use Unity. I learned a lot of hard and soft development skills. I will be forever grateful for that. After 3 unsucessful attempts, I’m releasing this game as a free vertical slice. It’s currently free on Itch.io. I’ve had a lot of fun making this game.  It feels good to mark a game as ‘done’.

I ended up cutting a lot of content. While this was painful, I realized that I could either work on this game forever, or I could pursue some other projects. There’s stuff I’d want to add, but it’s time to just finish things.

Finishing is a skill, and it is a state of mind. This game is done, for now at least. Anyway, even though it’s a day late, would you mind giving it a play? To complete the challenge, feel free to tip me a buck. Thank you to this community! It pushes me to try to be awesome everyday.

Play Now! 

Features:

• Screen searing special attacks
• Unique enemies that attack in waves
• Giant Bosses that fill the screen
• Power ups that allow the player to perform different attacks
• Fully 3D Rendered backgrounds

Controls:

Up Arrow or W –  Forward
Down Arrow or S – Backward

Right Arrow or A – Bank Left
Left Arrow or  D – Bank Right

B– Shoot Bombs
Space Bar –  Shoot Guns

Gameplay Demo:

OOOOOOOH I Almost Had it

See ya next October!

“Let the games begin…”

I will be using the Ren’Py engine to create a party murder mystery involving several gentlesharks … Who is the kriller? …

Have fun everyone!

Tags: fancy, jam, shark, sharkjam

I have not pertispated in the last ludum dare or any game creation/development events because of how busy i am (i dont think you guys care but, might as well). I recently started High School, and have been busy with varsity soccer and some Honors/AP classes on top of that my girlfriend has been taking up most my time (and money…). but we recently broke up (after about 5-6 months) she was cheating on me. Then my grades started to drop and i was not allowed on the computer at all, on top of that i had and still do have soccer practice from 2:30 pm- 4:35 pm. Game development is not my main priority or something i need to focus on at the moment. but enough of that, here is the good news recently, everything has kinda died down and i have had a lot more time to focus on my favorite thing, making games and i cant wait to join you guys in irc and get even more involved in the community! Cant wait to see you next ludum dare.

Yay, this is my first ludum dare and…. I’m doing solo! [because noone has time, I’d like someone else working with me]

CarDonk

that’s the sound cars make when they collide. I’m making a top-down derby-racing game.
Therefore my game is called CarDonk.

So yeah… I’ve never really finished a game, so I hope the Mini-LD is long enough for me to comp(l)ete.
I hope I’ll be back in the december jam with some friends.

So far I have cars and an awful tileset.

I’m working with HaXePunk and will probably be able to ship to windows, linux and mac!

Let’s hope it works out.

I’m in for Shark Jam, and following a friend’s suggestion, I’m also making the game under the constraints of GBJam. So here’s the first screenshot of “Sharkastik”, an infinite swimmer. Yeah I know, not the most original idea

Tags: infinite swimmer, retro

Hey everyone! I’m stil waiting on Desura to get approval on publishing my game on their website. Meanwhile I’ve uploaded my game on http://itch.io.

Buy the game on itch.io!

HOX is a turn-based tactical game. It’s origin was the idea for a board game. The number of steps you can take is based on the opponent’s square anti-clockwise from you. So if Green stands on 2, then Red can do 2 steps. Everytime you move, you leave a colored square behind. You can’t land on these, but you can move over them. If it’s your turn but you can’t move to anywhere, you’re dead. If only 1 players is alive, he wins the game.

HOX provides a fun single and multiplayer mode. If your friends aren’t around, you can also play against the computer instead. Each level is randomly generated, so every level is a new experience! Try to out think your opponents and be the last one standing!

HOX is DRM-Free, so share the game with anyone you like after buying the game!

Sharks vs Pirates (Click to watch Vine video)

If you are in need of inspiration, check out my Sound Design Flashcards

Shark-themed Jam?
Hell yes, I am in.

Maybe this guy will be in my game?
I haven’t decided yet. Sharks! There are so many possibilities!

Here is an image of my game, bad graphics. I have a launcher too.

I am working on the graphics to make them better. So for now they suck LOL.

Well, I’m making excellent progress on my entree into the SharkJam, right now it’s just a shark firing missiles. I plan on making a top-down arcade shooter base in an underwater city. The shark fires missiles pretty well, but it causes a whole lot of lag for some reason. Therefore I think I may replace the missiles with raycasting and particle effects; Then I could call it “Sharks with friggin laser beams” instead. I have also made another model for one of the enemy types :

I also have a nice underwater shader (DXStudio calls them “effects”) in there.

Yes, I am making RAPID progress on this game. I even have a playable game demo ready, and all I really need to do is tweaking. Seriously, I underestimated how fast I could make things with DXStudio, I may have try to be a little more ambitious next time. Just a little. Anyways, here is the EXE for all to enjoy AND NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT THE FINAL RELEASE, THIS IS JUST A DEMO.

http://www.uploadmb.com/dw.php?id=1383428341

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Hi JT-Games Here. We are taking part in the MINI-LD and we have something! A thing!

We Kinda took too long setting stuff up…. So anyway this is all we have!

Here is a quick screenie:

There are still a lot of things left to do, like adding a water effect (the shark is floating above the sea floor on a cushion  of air right now!), but it’s pretty great so far 😀

Also, I should probably add a goal and fix his tail in the movement animations 😛

I have too much real life stuff going on at the moment, and I’ve already lost about a day.

I’ll have to walk out of this one, guys…

A bit late, but Im joining the Shark mini ld, let’s make wonderfully gritty and disturbing games with sharks! 😀

After 1 day of development, I decided to show this one screenshot from my game. It is my first game jam, so I’m little bit jittery. But I’m enjoying it so much.

I’m coding in javascript, using html5 canvas, which I completely don’t know.

Yeah, it isn’t mistake. Shark with gun.

Update on CarDonk

Okay, my first 24 hours (timezones etc.) are over, and so far I’ve made good progress!

I have two driveable cars and collisions between them, as well as a tileset.
I need:

• moar cars!!
• at least one map
• logo / header
• intro and death-sprite so I have more sharks in this game
• actual gameplay elements

Should you be a pixel magician or a veteran top-down vehicle coder (or in any other skill level between nothing and those two) and / or willing to join me for the second day, please contact me either on twitch.tv or by commenting below.

twitch lurkers, pessimistic and optimistic critics and everyone else welcome!

epic shark car

So, day 1 is over, but before i go to bed i will walk you through my game so far!

It’s a beat em up side scroller where you first customize your shark (which affects different things; speed, damage, defense), and then beat the shit out of other stuff, so far i have the generation screen mostly done, and basic artwork done. Tomorrow i will make the actual fighting! Hope everyone else is having a great time, see you tomorrow!