Well today was like yesterday with so many interuptions, but I am getting somewhere at least, but definately not going to complete something good in the 3h left in the compo.  Will see if ill submit my SDL failure LOL 😉

Here is the first interuption of the day :

Yes I had to go buy this product, as I was going to take a little break at around 15h and went to grab some cookies in the closet I saw an army of ants picking up those chocolate cookies :-(.  So went to the store to buy this, take out everything and let say I didn’t eat cookies.

Second interuption was for some healthy reason, I had to prepare a dinner for myself and my wife :-).

Tthe pots contains potatoes, meatballs, carrots, pepper corn sauce and the important ingredient BEER ;-).

I don’t believe I will finish unfortunately. The mechanics are there, but I lack content. I code too much. ^^
I will see how far I get by 4am, and finish this game during the upcoming week.

It ought to be some sort of puzzle/explorer game. I really don’t know where all the time went, I guess my framework was holding me back a little or I’m just rusty. And the map collision took forever in the beginning, but speed has been cranking up this evening/night, that’s pleasing. It has been a very fun, first LD nonetheless!

… isn’t much different from the end of Saturday, I think.

I wasn’t taking this contest seriously, expecting most of my time to be used up. What I did have left I did very little with. Mostly today I just drew a floating island and added them in. So in 2 days I’ve almost made the overworld. 😛

Link again is here. I’m not submitting as it isn’t a game. But it’s been fun, and I’m looking forward to wasting a couple of weeks playing other people’s entries. 😀

Tags: end, fail

Oh man, finally. I thought I was done two hours ago and then my build system decided it hated me.

Game released! Check it out!

I’ve finished! And I’ve come up with a name for the game since my last post!

Island Construction Malfunction is my game, and I’m feeling pretty good about how it came out.

If I had more time, I would have added sound effects to go with the music, have made a level editor, and added more gameplay features.

There is no chance in hell that I can make a game out of this in the next 3 hours. Shame, really.

I’ll still post whatever I’ve done at the deadline, but just don’t expect the “final” tag on that post.

‘Complete’ in the sense it’s vaguely playable and I’ve uploaded it, and I implemented most of the main features  – basic movement stuff, randomly generated track (though for now it’ll always load the same one – this is intentional for time trial play, and it’s not like there’s much replayability with different tracks anyway), islands with purchasable repairs and upgrades, and you can find out your time if you complete the three tracks(or losing message if you lose all your health) though you have to go into the log file to see it.

‘Failure’ in that there’s not much gameplay and what’s there just doesn’t have a good feel to it, and there’s next to no presentation/interface or music, and even for programmer art it’s a bit below average,  and out of everyone who actually followed the theme I’ve probably set a record for smallest use of islands. Gameplay wise I’d mostly have liked to have added mines and/or opponents and a way to choose tracks.

Anyway, overall I’m pretty happy with it for my first time actually taking part in LD rather than just lurking around, and I’ve surprised myself a bit with what I’ve done here despite failing to prepare as much as I’d have liked. Looking forward to playing the other entries starting tomorrow, considering developing this a bit further though probably in more of a spacy direction, and looking forward to the next LD.

http://www.shockedfrog.com/misc/itrld.zip

Not a whole lot changed visually:

But I’m a lot closer to having something actually playable. Still a few last details, and of course, content. Blah. I lost a few hours to a graphics bug, too, but that’s cleared up now.

One thing that I’m happy about is that it’s got music and sfx now. I realized I’d have to choose between having music, and probably not finishing the game, but I choose music, cause the last few LD games I didn’t have any music and I didn’t finish gameplay anyways. So there’s that. It’s not very good music, but it’s fun and self-indulgent and trippy.

This will probably be my last update until it’s done, so wish me luck.

BTW the game has a name now, it’s called “Galapagos”.

Yay, I finished! And wow, these other games look awesome! I can’t wait to play them all

And I’m done. I had full intention of sticking more closely to the theme, but I was just having too much fun with this game. Would love to hear any feedback you may have.

Timelapse and full Postmortem coming later this week.

A huge thanks to everyone that provided feedback during development and of course a gigantic thanks to the organizers at Ludum Dare HQ. It was an awesome weekend as always.

OK, I’ve finished uploading all the platform builds and the source, fixed a critical bug and now I’m all done!

So I’ve managed to finish a playable entry. I’m surprised! I wasted so many hours on Saturday because I had no idea. Finally I started making art assets without having a clear idea of what I was going to make. By Sunday I had not written a single line of code. Sunday afternoon was spent tinkering with Unity and trying some physics based controls that didn’t work. So 7 hours before the deadline I still had no gameplay and wasn’t sure what it would be.

In the end the gameplay is very minimalistic, just some platformer controls and that’s it. I hope it can still be enjoyable for a few minutes. I was even able to add sound effects (thanks to sfxr) and also made a kind of “music” (I hope it’s not too annoying).

That’s it for now. I have recorded a timelapse but I’ll take care of that later.

Tags: final

Anyone want to see my LD17 game in motion?

Here it is:

Flag Island Gameplay

Comments are welcome

Is anyone doing a game under the name “Island Guns”?

If not, I’m taking it.

Thanks everyone.  I had no intention of entering this competition and despite the set backs I still got a lot accomplished and I’m proud of what I’ve done.  Island Drop wasn’t finished by the deadline and my time is out but never fear because I’m going to finish it.  Here’s the last build I’ll make within the deadline but not the final build ever.

http://www.internetspacepimp.com/unity/Islands/9.html

Thanks to #ludumdare, #unity3d, my friends, my girlfriend and my parents.  See you all next competition!!!

Unfortunately, my excellent new fan-novel, ‘The Bourne Apoplexy,’ was like 70% done before I realized I’d gotten this mixed up on my calendar with the Ludlum Dare compo. This was a considerable setback!

Okay no that was a hilarious lie invented for the purposes of humor. Here’s what actually happened. After the theme was announced, I spent a couple of hours coming up with an idea for a game (which I’ll describe a little later.) Then I came back, sat down fully intending to work on it, and realized I had no interest in actually programming a game like the one I’d thought up. I still thought the concept was interesting, but the idea of making it was unbearably tedious. So, I procrastinated. Then I went to sleep. Then I woke up and procrastinated some more, and I started to think maybe LD17 wasn’t going to happen for me.

After a short conversation with my brother, I decided that the project was still worth doing if only so that I could participate in Ludum Dare. So I spent a little time coding before going out to dinner, and on the way I realized that the gameplay I’d thought up for this idea was completely wrong and that was a big reason of why I was having so much trouble. So I decided to restart the project in Inform 7 (there wasn’t much progress to scrap anyway.)

At first, things went smoothly. Then I found out how goddamn hard it is to do ANYTHING in i7. I’m sure it’s great once you get used to it, but there was a thousand page manual and even though the things I wanted to do were simple in terms of programming basically no traditional programming constructs worked in i7. Not only that, I was finding it incredibly difficult to even look up how to do what I needed to do. After spending 20 minutes having to look up how to do a basic if-else construct, another 15 looking up the SPECIFIC syntax necessary to check whether the character is holding an object, and another 25 minutes looking up an extension capable of controlling the part of the program I wanted to control, I had to stop before I started breaking things.

In summary: It sucks balls to try to learn a new tool under time pressure.

Anyway, I’m going to write a followup post with the failed project summary. Stay tuned.

Finished. Finito. Over at last.

That was a truly epic weekend. Apologies for the lack of interesting posts this afternoon, but I was having to crunch like crazy just to get the damn thing done. There’s a bunch of things I want to say about it, but I’m stupidly tired, and can barely focus let alone type, so I’ll leave it for a post tomorrow.

For those still struggling on, good luck!

Two hours left! And I’ve got all that stuff I mentioned in my last post to do still.

code faster

Guess I’m not gonna make it… Went a little too big on this one and didn’t plan it well. I’ll have to remember the 5-Ps next time: Preplanning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

I didn’t really get this where I wanted it so I’ll just post where I got and leave it at that 😛

Controls:

WASD to move, space to jump. (left ctrl will make you lose altitude in your ship, and space makes you gain altitude)

“e” to get on your ship (you have to be close enough to get on); “e” again will drop you off your ship.

Left-click to dig, right-click to build (You have to have blocks to build with)

1, 2, 3 to switch between stone, silver, and gold to build with.

ESC to get your mouse back.

http://ian.paradum.com/SkyVikingBeta.html

Thanks for all the inspiration, and I can’t wait to actually play some games 😀

I’m livestreaming an attempt to make a #ld48game in the two remaining hours.http://www.livestream.com/pekuja_gamedev