Got my character moving around and throwing flares.  Going to limit my player controls.  So there is less work for me to do.  Forwards/backwards along the bridge, and throw flare up… throw flare down.  Now instead of a whip/gun or other attack, the flare will both be the weapon and the way to light up the level.  UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT.

The rendering is still pretty bad. Not at all how I want it.

After I fix up the drawing… next will be to put in the BIG BAD code, make some lasers, then do collision detection between the particles and the BIG BAD, and also collisions with the cavern.

For lighting and shadows I’ve decided to have a lighting layer with per pixel alpha.  Which will just be an image that is blit across the whole screen.  It will be all black, except in areas where it will have parts taken away by lighting. So I will draw the lights onto this lighting layer, so that it leaves alpha at 50 or so, and instead of black an orangey color where the lighting is… the rest will be shadows.

So now to implement that… but here is a screenie of ‘Exploratio‘ so far…

play it here (Flash): http://www.2bam.com/showcase/?game=FindingHer_LD16

Ok, got more conversations in, a bunch of graphical tweaks, 2 “songs” (2 more in the making…)

I’ve just made an ‘exit door’ for my game, which will be the goal. It feels good to have something concrete to aim towards, and hopefully I can get everything together and in place in time. I’m starting to feel much better about this game.

Started working again. I have pretty much the game in shape, shame that I don’t have any idea yet about how to actually make this fun (in a reasonable time). So I guess I’ll keep changing stuff until something magically happens.

So, I think I got a lot of the actual game logic I will have in the final competition entry done today.

You can try the current windows build here (see final submission). And hopefully everything’s working.

The character will look towards the mouse and will walk left and right with A and D respectively. If there’s a branching path you can take the upper one by holding W. With the placeholder graphics the different paths are not entirely clear.

I think any game play will likely have to wait until after Ludum Dare 16. The character walking animations I drew actually look a lot nicer than I was expecting. Shrinking them down from the high scan resolution and scaling the frames to be a consistent size likely helped. I’ll probably spend tomorrow making some environment art and setting up something other than solid colours to explore. And if I have time I’ll look into adding sounds.

It’s time for sleep now though. Hopefully I don’t sleep in to late.

Well, the rule system for crew is working, I still need to work out the rule system for the weather because it doesn’t appear to be working.

What’s left:
– dynamic weather (a snap, actually!)
– fix rule system for weather, seems to be broken
– make sure rule system works for crew intelligence, etc.
– add “camping” play state NIX IT
– add “shore leave” logic NIX IT
– sell ship and retire at lisboa
– return to england and get a score
– death conditions
– some nice graphics for weather, etc.
– descriptions for the berths, camps
– sound effects, music? why is this always last for me? =)

Quite a bit I guess, but the game is really working well! I’ll probably nix it. I have some nice ideas for making good weather graphics, would work well with sound effects there. At this point I should nix the shore leave, provisioning, and camping stuff.

Whew, I’m too tired to think!

I’m still making progress. I actually made a new year resolution this year that I would finish something. Is this it?

Here I’m trying out the new more silent terrain bits (less dots) in conjunction with the more busy ones.

I might skip making instances for the enemies and just make them terrain objects of sorts. They wouldn’t have any real stats this way. Instead they could die based on a dice roll. The player would have health though. This is a cheap way out just in case I don’t get to making the buckets and linked lists for the enemies.

Breakfast…

mmmmm

And progress:

The steps/foots is calculated using a simple manhattan algorithm, if I got the time I’ll use a modified version of bresenham’s line algorithm making it look nicer and making it easier to move. Next up is treasures!

Tags: foodphoto, progress

We are getting there, I hope. This little bugger took me a good 3 hours of work, but he is walking around and happily humping air, when there is nothing else to do. (Yeah, the idle animation sequence didn’t turn out quite the way I wanted it too).
For a puzzle game, I have an alarming puzzle deficiency. Looks like I won’t be able to put together more than 1 level, but already It seems this game’s quality is far beyond my usual entry (if I get one together).
Also I would need some nature themed sounds for this thing. :S

Good morning. Got a decent nights sleep so hopefully I can finish the game today :). As the game itself will be quite simple, I’m planning on getting the gameplay thing down fairly quickly, then focus on making it at least look pretty, if nothing else. I’m planning on heading the post processing route (with possibly deferred rendering). But we’ll see what The Time allows. Now it’s time to take the dog out and then start whipping out some code.

Aprox. 20 hours from last post. Almost all of the time spent on debugging and deleting things that didn’t worked out like i thought they will and discovering posibilities of flixel. But at least, the biggest bug was found, triggering actions kind of works (even if it needs some changes) and i can start thinking about ‘level design’ and actions needed to be done. 2 hours ago i didn’t hope, that i will be able to finish at least anything, now i have some hope, but am affraid, that it won’t be that much fun as i hoped before.

In the evening i needed to pause searching bugs for a while, so i started to think about the main charakter(s)…

Found out what size the characters should have and used this measure for another debugging session…

Without greater success i tried to eat some chocolate and when it didn’t helped, i fell asleep.

Taday i’m a bit further, even if it doesn’t look like that from this screenshot…I’m 12 hours after my optimistic schedule, so now i have decided keeping the programming part simple and trying to get at least some graphics working…

That’s my desktop. There’s not too much thing there, as my books and mangas and other stuff stays on the shelf :3 Anyways, there’s still work to do, and I hope I can finish it to-day 😀

Starting to see a little progress!

Tags: screenshot

Got some particle system lighting coming from the characters flare. All the darkness should give a nice dark atmosphere… and a sense of exploring the caverns.

A new source release here if you wanna have a look (requires python/pygame/numpy):
http://rene.f0o.com/~rene/stuff/exploratio-0.1.1.tar.gz

Or check it out with bzr…

bzr clone lp:exploratio

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Ugh. I’m awake – honest. Z Z z z z z z

Right I’ve got 24 hours to catch up on. Today I’m going to throw a game together!

Tags: awake, catch up, zzz

Here: http://www.mottaweb.com.br/project/oblivious/game/

There’s no gameplay really implemented yet. I mean, it’s just a maze game for now, but hopefully I will implement the turn-based strategy part 😀

Procedural galaxy generation gone bad:

Wheem, just got DirectInput up and running, so I’m getting mouse input now.. Now to combine it with the tunnel renderer to form some sort of game class with interactivity =).

My lovely workplace!

Tags: desk, deskphoto

Stopping for lunch and, incredibly, the core game’s finished.  All I’ve got to do now is the sound and the AI player.

So there you can see the 3 buttons and the amount of food the player has (top left).  Each movement/garrison costs 1 food.  On the map there’s a garrison to the right of the blue player, which means nobody can move onto that space until its turn limit is up.  You can also see various spaces with food in them.  These appear after someone forages in that space, so you can see how much food can be got from which spaces.

I keep forgetting to post my pictures of my food, but here’s my lunch:

Beans on toast, and a goblet of Irn Bru. You can just about see the original map in the pile of paper to the right.