The Dragon is a 75% puzzle, 25% platform game with 30 levels. It saves your progress and allows you to play levels again if you have already beaten them.

The story is told through white text that appears on the level, and which follows your progress through the game. The story is intentionally ambiguous, and supports several interpretations. Spoilers may or may not be found in the comments below this text.

Click screenshot for download.

I will be writing a post-mortem shortly, once the competition is over.

Made with Game Maker.

Alright, this was 100% an experiment to see what I could do with Flixel and Flash, and how much I could push out of the little web player. I’m doing a crazy amount of copies and color checks, I even had to extend Flixel a little bit to allow the sprites to be more color based (fill was not setting _color). The intro screen is Conway’s game of life wrapping around the edges, cause I love that one.

Game Link:

Sine Bender – http://cthulhu32.kraln.com/misc/MiniLD16/

Source! (with Flixel license) –
http://cthulhu32.kraln.com/misc/MiniLD16/SineBender.2-21.zip

Controls:

1 2 3 4 – Control the speed of the sine waves from top to bottom
7 8 9 0 – Control the x-value of the sine waves from top to bottom

Objective:

Every time a sine wave you control intersects an incoming sine wave, a gold ball appears. When this ball hits the left side of the screen, a white ball appears. Fill in the entire left side of the screen with white balls to Win! You have 30 seconds.

Only got started a few hours ago but couldn’t pass up the great theme.

I’m not starting entirely from scratch, as I’m using some code from my Hexplanet Demo , but it’s been public available for a while so that’s within the rules. However, I’m going to have to bend the contraints a little bit — I’m allowing myself to use blends of the colors a bit, and since I’m doing this for the iphone I can’t exactly hit the resolution or input contraints. Still I’ll try my best to stay within the spirit of the constraints given.

There’s no way I’m going to finish this today but at least I cam make a start of it…

Well, this probably took about 20 hours, maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less.  But my game is done.  It’s actually pretty hard, due to the AI that tries to follow you, or escape.  I actually turned down the difficulty a bit.  Anyway, ripping straight from the readme:

—IMPORTANT PART—

Controls: 1 and 2 will move you left and right, respectively, 3 will give you a speed boost (the bar on the right will decrease while boosting).  Your vertical movement is limited by your position on the screen.  The white specks give you an indication of what direction you’ll go in that general area.  Escape or 0 will quit the game.

Gameplay: You are the orange dot.  You must eat smaller dots to grow bigger.  When you reach a certain size, the game ends and you can play again.  Enemy positions are random (except for the first game, which has a constant seed).  Enemies are color coded by size, with small sized enemies being light blue, and large enemies being a darker blue.  Enemy movements are semi-random, but they will chase you or avoid you (depending on size) if you get too close.

Download the game here: http://barchok.com/p/miniLD16/miniLD16-thedaian.zip

Get the source code (only) here: http://barchok.com/p/miniLD16/miniLD16-source.rar

Game compiled/tested on Windows XP.  Could feasibly work on other operating systems.

Soo,…after lot’s of work and lot’s of problems at places I wouldn’t have expected before I finally have something to release. See it as demo as I again hadn’t enough time to really design a level. But now I have to stop cause I have somehow think about work tomorrow…. 😀

The Level is still the same as yesterday now with NPC…Very very “intelligent” ones with from time to time strange behaviour 😀 Actually I worked lot at my engine but in the end didn’t use most of the new stuff… (clever, isn’t it? 😀 ).

Here a satellite-picture from the whole scene:

Play the game here:

http://thomas.trocha.com/games/tank/tank.html

It tried to fulfill all constraints. (color,24sec loop,microphone effects,size and input)

The time has come for my first LD compo.  Life and time constraints made things more difficult, but I did get a few hours to create art/code before the end of the compo (technically, it’s not over, but I don’t know what to refine within an hour).  Sound turned out to be harder than I thought, and was scrapped (I didn’t use SFXR, and my music loop is 0 seconds, so I meet the constraints).  In this compo, I learned how to create a scrolling, collidable image, as well as how to use pygame.mask collision detection.

Pyloon is a very casual, slow-going game.  It does eventually become impossible to continue, though; this is the area that could use the most tuning.

A .zip file containing a windows executable and needed data files can be found here, as well as a python ‘egg’ and the source code.

Screenshot beneath More:

You can play this game in your browser (warning: sounds will play)

Concept:
It’s time for your final exam to graduate from your UFO school. Only problem is you were a complete slacker. You have no idea how to fly your ship. You have 3 minutes to impress your commander by destroying as many humans, cars, helicopters, tanks and jets as you can–or suffer the consequences!

All you can remember is to use the keys 1,2,3,4 and 7,8,9,0

Tools used:
* Coded in ActionScript 3.0 using the Flash CS4 IDE and using my mouth and microphone and Audacity to process the sound effects. I composed the music loop in Reason.

Tags: academy, alien, city, destruction, final, flight, graduation, humans, jets, MiniLD, tanks, ufo

My entry for Mini-LD 16: Constraints.  I’d appreciate any comments you might have, as well as what scores you end up getting.

Click on the image above to play.

It’s pretty basic and I didn’t get to half the stuff I wanted to, but here’s the two player versus space shooter, PEWPEW.

Controls:

Player 1 –
1: move down
2: move up
3: shoot

Player 2 –
0: move down
9: move up
8: shoot

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/139336/PewPew.zip

Windows exe. Unzip, open game.exe, shoot friends.

Well, finished my mini-miniLD game, which i made in about 3 hours… it’s so rushed, it doesn’t even have a name! i spent way to much time on initial graphics, and in the end didn’t have enough for stuff like menu graphics, which ended up being quite simplistic, I like how it came out though, especially the character’s walk cycle. And…. i just realized you can’t win the game… well i guess that’s something i need to fix… anyways, screenshot!

Yay for Jpegs!

oh, and a link to the other page thingy for this:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-16/?action=preview&uid=1548

so yeah! fun weekend

It’s done!
It’s a bit further then my last attempt, I hope it’s interesting!

Controls, use the numbers to select a car, press the same number a second time, after a brief delay, to drop the object. Try to fill all the cars!

http://www.ericmcquiggan.com/Gameuploads/ludumdare/LDMini16.swf

Late

I gave up on my original idea and didn’t think I was going to do a mini-ld game this time, but then suddenly within a couple hours of the deadline I decided to whip together something bad but playable.

PLAY ONLINE

On a happier note, I did make four games this weekend!  The other three were for Klik of the Month Klub.  over here.

Edit:  Timelapse!

Tags: final

I spent all day thinking of a name and Horse Racing is my best idea.

I’m a little late, but had a late start, and I’ve been constantly distracted by the Olympics this weekend. That’s where the idea came from, watching speed skating.

It’s kind of silly. Just bet on which horse you think will win. 1,2,3,4.

I wish could have used more of those lovely blues. The sound and music is the best part in my semi-sane sleep deprived opinion.

link to download page:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-16/?action=preview&uid=505

Thanks for playing. It’s been great fun making this

So the lil guys now have opponents to fight. Note that arrows and spikes don’t do damage yet, but that will come…

I’m not dead! Just very late, but it’s a mini so I guess it’s not that bad.

EDIT: also, i’m very high on caffeine. oO’

I’m having a big gameplay direction crisis. I’m wondering if I’m not making the game too complex, and on the other hand I think making it simpler would make it a lot less interesting.

Plus the “musical ear” aspect. Should I expect players to be able to reproduce reasonably complex rythms, and how many different ones? This is hard

Plus I suck at art. Boo hoo.

Note the split screen...

Well, I doubt I’ll have anything like a game done within the allotted 48 hours, but here’s a playable test:

http://vacuumflowers.com/temp/miniLD16

And here’s a screen shot:

I thought I’d finish tonight, but sleeping 4 hours last night really doesn’t help. I’m off to bed, and hopefully I’ll finish tomorrow… For once I’m gonna try to really polish this game. I think it might turn out good.

So I think the gameplay is done. The game is fully playable in versus mode (two players on one keyboard). I have texts and scripts ready for the tutorials (which will probably prove very necessary for a rhythm game), but I still need to plug them in. And I have the intention of thinking about making an AI. Or let’s modestly say a computer opponent, because I’m frankly doubting my abilities to make anything clever enough to make the game interesting against it.

I'm not sure about this title, by the way...

In a post-LD version (as if the deadline wasn’t two days ago already…), I’d like to think about networking. I know it’s not always easy to find someone to play around the same computer. On the other hand it’s a lot more fun…

Anyhoo. I really need to sleep.

It’s neither well coded nor robust, but circle versus circle and circle versus line collision response are now working well enough to continue prototyping. I’m going to put a bit more time into getting the physics working, then I should be ready to begin testing a few puzzle ideas.

This miniLD was like more or less all of the last competitions before. I work and work on writing frameworks for the specific game leaving not enough time to do something cool gameplay with it. So I decided to invest an additional weekend so that I finally can say:”Yes it is some kind of game!” 😀 So stay tuned and buy some fuel for the upcoming Tank-Missions 😀

Ah, as the competition is over, I decided to add one green color to the colormap and I will really think about kicking the input-constraint or just adding additional gamepad-support. Maybe I will use a MiniLD and a Normal-Mode. Similar to the old “Turbo”-Button of my very first PC (8086) where you could lower the speed from 10MhZ to 4.8MhZ . Unbelivable 10 (TEN) MhZ…. seems to be some years ago 😀

Here a very first possible new tank…(blender render)

So yay, I finally got the tutorials to work properly. As promised (and I don’t feel late at all…) the game is released!

No AI, so the solo mode is deactivated. The rest should be fine.

Get it on the submission page (Windows and GNU/Linux).

I hope the Windows version works. I crosscompiled from Linux, and although it ran in Wine, it was super slow.

I don’t have new screenshots, except tutorial text, so I’ll put back old ones. Because, heh, a “final” log entry should have screenies…

Here’s the readme:

Rise of the Taka-Pum

A Mini LD #16 entry by Noé Falzon (Tenoch)
<firstname.lastname@aliceadsl.fr>

Lead your army of Taka-Pum to victory using the Heavenly Drums of Awesome!

How to run

Windows: double-click Taka-Pum.bat
GNU/Linux: run Taka-Pum.sh (depending on your file manager, double clicking on it might be enough). You will need the following libraries: Lua 5.1, SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_gfx, SDL_ttf.

Controls

1,2,3,4 = player 1’s drums
7,8,9,0 = player 2’s drums

Game includes tutorials.

Note: Solo mode doesn’t work yet. You’ll have to find friend.

License

The source code is under GNU GPL v3.
Sounds and graphics are cc-by-nc-sa.

GNU/Linux notes
The game comes with a precompiled binary (evolcore.so) created on a Ubuntu system. If it doesn’t work on your particular distribution, compile evolcore.c into a shared library evolcore.so, linked against the libraries mentioned earlier.