First thing I did when I saw the theme was to search on google, my mind was blank… later I had an idea of the Roman Technology and how they used it and I got the idea for a Tower Defence/Action/Upgrade game (I’m not really sure about what genre it is but I like it XD).

I did some drafts and here I’m an making a roman themed game.

I began coding in Unity when I had a precise idea of what I wanted, and I had been coding like 11~13 hours since.

I think I can finish before the Jam deadline,

Here’s a preview.

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It needs more polish but all important mechanics are implemented and the desing is ~80% done.

Hopefully I can make a decent pixel art.

Lost the theme somewhere in between carp and top down Joust;

Guess the theme implementation would be re-imagining an ancient game technology…. using CARP!.

One day down and lots of progress. Some last lines of coding and then some deserved shut time. Tomorrow still lots to do. But it should work out.

Hi everyone !

I’m doing this 36th #LDJAM solo, it’s my 6th LD. Usually I have a lot of ideas, but yesterday night, it’s was totally blank. It’s like I couldn’t think outside the 1st interpretation level of the theme.

Will it be 2d ? 3d ? Roguelike / dungeon crawler based ?

I finally got my idea at noon today, been working non-stop since. It’s a retro JRPG fighting game, with a twist :

it’s playable thru an old electronic video game device !

Good luck to everyone !

Our team has been working all day and all our efforts are coming together nicely.

It is starting to feel like a game.

Its coming along pretty great, I think. Didn’t know I could produce a functional game in this little time. ;^^ Still need to polish it up a bit, and add some sound and music.

The three hidden temples emerge from the mountains. Now we’ll see what lies beneath their walls.

Enjoy a pug in jumping boots scaling a tower:

My entry, if I can find time to finish it that is, will be a single player card/puzzle game.  You’ll be dealt some cards with a glyph on them.  You’ll place the glyph on the device and try to unlock the secrets of the ancient device.  What secret does it hold?  Who knows!  I certainly don’t yet

Anyway, very little coding done.  Ditched an earlier side scrolling effort in favor of something with less moving parts as it were.  Screenshot of what little progress I’ve made.  Graphics are will hopefully get an overhaul.  You know, life gets in the way of these things sometimes.

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All right! Here is my report for Day one!…. Not much really xp

So I decided doing a text game for a change (and some other reasons), but never really made one before, so today I spent most of my day learning how to use Ink and Twine, and I’m still a bit indecisive about which one to pick, though now I think I’m picking Ink. At least I already got the first screen and how the style will work… more or less… Anyway, here’s a screenshot! (of a text game, very exciting)

And that’s it for today ^^; I wanted to keep it simple this time, since I came from a really tiresome week, but I’m still so far from the end, I hope I can actually finish this in time…

Oh, in case you are curious, the story is a sci-fi adventure about YOU crashing into a forgotten planet, and your quest to escape it!

Anyway, keep up the good work guys! See you after a quick nap z_z

Here is our progress for today:

It’s our first game jam and we already think it is amazing! =D

Let’s call it a day and go to sleep. I think I’m good with these two mechanics and i’ll work on the level design around them tomorrow like proper objectives, puzzles and traps, etc…

But first, rework that ugly token design.

Able to complete game design, models, Menu flow on end of day 01, Feeling slow progress..

Game Idea:

Ancient Indian civilization is so advanced in science, medicine, maths and even space travel.
Ancient Indians have fought them equally when Aliens attacked a city in India. Now that city is submerged under sea.
You use with this ancient technology to fight incoming Aliens.

What you guys think of this i idea and art?

End of Day 01

Got a cool dawn/daytime/evening/nighttime cycle. This will help the engine show appropriate events for each time of the day.

My game is basically ready, aside from maybe tweaking the music a bit and adding a favicon to the site.

https://ancients.herokuapp.com/

But the question is, should I enter the Compo or the Jam?  My game is very subversive (I think it’s really interesting) and I did all of the programming, assets and music myself.  Can anybody help me with this question?

Use hair style item generated nearby the White Stele to change your hair style XD

See the Black Stele in this gif? Special hair style items will be generated there, shoot them for a haircut 😛

So I added some art, still place holder. I also fixed the box pushing mechanic and added a smooth player following camera.

My ancient technology is manual traffic lights (Did you know that the first traffic light killed one person when it exploded?)