screen shot
i now have enemys for you to kill and the point and combo system works like a charm!
next ill add a tutorial and maby a few other thing s 😀
polshing up games is fun!
lol
fyi. im a bug and i will attack your game!
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Done my music and most of my main sprite:
Gonna have to tone down the detail for the rest of the graphics, this took ages. x_x
Even coders have to eat:
LD18 Screen Shot 1
My game is now actually somewhat a game. The intro is done, and now you need to find springs. I have 2 screens done and the one you see below is almost done.
This is the “level” that will introduce the main concept: getting enemy turrets to destroy their own circuits, or whatever you want to call them. so yeah. If I continue at this rate there should be a lot to explore
Here’s a very ridiculous attempt. It’s got some odd ideas that may or may not work depending on dialogue, which I’m leaving ’till tomorrow.
Here’s what I got…
Now with cool trails. Of course it would look more interesting if the ships did something else than going straight…
Can you feel the epic?
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Circles and Squares are no longer cutting it for what I’m trying to do, so I’ve begun work on a “part” editor.
Breaking for lunch.
Eating some oreos while I write a quick update. I’m now 750 lines of code into my game. Pathfinding for the invading aliens works beautifully; There’s never going to be more than a hundred or so on screen at once and the board is pretty small, so I’m just running DFS for each alien on each game update. If that becomes a performance issue later, I’ll rewrite it as Kruskal’s from the endpoint and reverse all the paths as needed, but hopefully this will be good enough for LD18. The “Spud Cannon” is also up and running, grabbing an adjacent alien as it marches by and firing him as a projectile at another alien, causing damage to both. Progress since last screenshot isn’t really visible, so I won’t bother for now.
Next up on my list of things to do is to have actual player input, rather than just hard coding everything like I’m doing now for testing. After that, deal with levels, timer, budget/cost/score. Then weapon upgrades. Then game overs. Then build the other 4 weapon and 4 alien types. Then music and sound. So much to do! Time to get back to work.
Excitting!
Finally got around to a real lunch. Beef pot roast, corn on the cob, green beans, and cucumber.
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Nom nom nom.
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The game is fully mouse controlled now! To celebrate, some CB2 Bistro chips. Seriously, these are amazing chips 😉
Planning to add buildings in to get smashed, and get those monsters fighting. Will probably do this on the train back from Cambridge.
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Ok, for my first attempt at LD, it’s not going too well. So far, I have a single image that can moved around the screen with the arrow keys, and my first spritesheet. I spent far too long working on that spritesheet as I just don’t have the art skills … but it was fun
My first spritesheet for LD18
Anyway, I’m going to get some coding done now and not going to worry that I probably won’t have much at the end of the 48 hours. It’s been a good experience so far, and I’ll be back for the next one
Who needs collision detection, AI or gameplay when you can have graphics!
Been feeling like I have a cold all day, so I’ve given myself a relaxing time fiddling with graphics instead of doing the real work.
Plan is for the player to fly an unarmed ship that is being chased by (very much armed) enemies. Duck behind asteroids to avoid fire and trick the enemies into shooting themselves.
Okay its been about 6 hours since my last update, and I have been working pretty much solid apart from an hour lunchbreak when I went for a wander into town.
Ive made quite abit of progress with the core bits of the engine including the physics particle systems and the destructible terrain.
Dont believe me? Take a look for yourself:
(Gotta play it on my blog, no flash linking here for some reason)
http://mikecann.co.uk/ludum-dare/ludum-dare-hour-17/
Theres still no game really, just a pretty tech demo. Im hoping the gameplay will come next
Im going to have abit of a break now, get some food wind down a little then its going to be a loooooong night ahead for me!
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this is going too smoothly
When’s it going to go wrong? it must be soon!
Nearly done all the game code.. tomorrow will be dedicated to sound and graphics!
little looksee:
Money money money
Frame of my game is pretty much done. Basically you have a “gun” or whatever, which shoots colors. red, green and blue. There are enemies of the same colors, and you have to match the color to kill them. but wait, that’s the easy part. There are also magenta, cyan and yellow enemies, and you for instance have to shoot your light blue light through a green (or green through blue) to finish the cyan ones. In addition there are also orange, crimson, violet, cobalt, turquoise, lime and white enemies, and you’ll have to combine your beam with more enemies to get rid of them!
Red ray + Cyan enemy = White ray.
the next part of the game is making a simple AI chaser, and a level “director” along with something to protect in the middle of the map. I’m pretty happy with the color system, though, when you combine the “3rd” set (orange, violet etc) of colors you always get gray, which is the only loose end.
If things goes well I might even make an entertaining game, who knows I’m hoping to add slower but tougher (maybe they have two colors or something) enemies. but can’t say if there will be time for that.
I’m off to watch the outsides now though. been working 12 hours straight. weird part: I’m in a great mood! go ludum dare!
Edit:
Some air did me great. my plan for the rest of the day (putting it here so that i wont be able to lie to myself or procrastinate!):
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Transcendental.