So I had my late lunch a couple of hours ago which was a yummy Tesco cheese baton, covered in marmite, cheese spread or plum jam, so very yummy :).
The game’s coming along ok I suppose, the screenshot is very basic, as everything needs a lot of work still.
Hoping to get a lot finished by the end of the day so there’s only art stuff to do tomorrow, currently waiting for dinner to cook, which of course shall have a picture posted shortly 
The fungi collision detection is in, and I’ve added spores and the weapon toadstools:
Next to add bullets for the toadstools to fire, and get them colliding with the fungi. Also, I think I’m going to add drop shadows to the foreground objects to distinguish them from the background.
Dinner was a big bowl of cheesy tomato-y rice:
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I haven’t done much on my game besides a couple of sprites (programmer art!), but the important thing is that I ate. Which is good.
Oh by the way, it’s 9pm here, not midday…
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By the way, it’s permitted to use .dlls?
UPDATE: Ok, I’m using a dll for the online highscores. The problem is that I need to use some special scripts that come with it to make it work. Can it stay on the game, or it isn’t allowed?
You play a guy in a fodora hat who recently found a cannon that fires tiny angry brown guys. Use platforming skills and puzzle solving to beat the levels and reach the end of the game. Although almost nothing of that is in place yet. 😀
You can play what I’ve got so far here:
im taking a shower 😀
get the brain going (i found a bug)
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Well, it looks like I’m probably out… Tried something new, underestimated the challenge, and it didn’t really work out… my attempt at something isometric (2D, no z-buffer) has failed, after spending the whole afternoon trying to sort my depth sorting…
Whilst depth-sorting a grid of isometric tiles is trivial – adding in objects that can move smoothly around the map, well, it’s not exactly simple!…
Will keep hacking away at it for another hour or so, see if I can figure out a ‘good enough’ alternative – but I’ve wasted a big chunk of the day on it now, can’t see much hope of recovering from this and finishing something
I can now walk around my generated maps! This is coming together really quickly
The day started with me hating the theme, now I like it.
Had a first version of old game, abandoned because of really messy code.
Created a second game.
+Jumping
+Can hang onto edges with cap
+Punching
-Nothing get dropped yet
-No title
-1 Minute Menu
-Zombies don’t do anything but run
Controls:
Left + Right = Walking
Up = Jumping
Space = Punching
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?k6q1de2jmhpi6w2
Multiple enemies loaded from xml files, levels loaded from xml files created by a timeline based level editor I made.
Had a great time this monring / afternoon with the other people who met up here in New England, JonnyD and HybridMind.
My game is “Birds of Prey“.
Birds are flying south for the winter; stop them! There are several types of birds [not yet] and all you have is your bare “hands” (I plan to port this to Android where it’ll make more sense). Grab a bird and fling it into the others; don’t let them fly south!
Each of the birds will fling in a slightly different way. The first one (and only one at the moment), which I secretly name Spearbird, gets flung in a straight line. The flinging mechanic is there; the collision and random generation of birds is not. So I have a while to go, but I’m making good progress!
Please take a look; play it in your browser! All you need is Java 1.6.0_10 or newer, it’s a Java applet. Browse on over to http://insertnamehere.org/birdsofprey/ and give it a try!
Here’s a screenshot for those of you that can’t get it to work. I’m off to bake cookies.
There are enemies. Their utility as weapons is yet to be determined.
im done with my shower and i feel like i can code 1000 new fully functial lines of code!
lol
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Game on!
And why is there only one entry at this time? By now there’s usually ten!
Yes, good idea. Wait. Eww.
Because I feel that sleep, food, and hanging out with family is A Good Idea ™, it looks like I’ll be lucky if I get 16 hours in. But fear not! I’ve got an awesome game idea. Also some ground tiles!
Behold my workspace. I was going to photograph my sketches, but my camera battery died. You’ll just have to wait in suspense for the final product.
Things are going well, I’ve got all the hard stuff programmed and a fair few sprites sorted. The game is playable and has 1 level at the moment. Still need to sort out some more levels, more art, sounds.
Here’s a screenshot:
Oh look, it’s a crab, the natural enemy of the rabbit! We can deal with this problem by loading one into the cannon and firing at the other.
Finished lots of stuff… The GUI was pretty easy, and it doesn’t look half bad (I’ve done worse in the past, eheheh):
Still need to add some information on what’s the blue bar and the other bar that will be shown later (showing the progress of the super spell that’s being cast). Also left space for other spells, if I have time to make them work (game logic system already supports it, just a matter of implementing each spell).
Also done the possession logic:
The possessed soldier (the blueish one) has just killed another soldier (hence the grave), by dealing 25 points of damage… Different unit types deal different damage to the others… this way I can have archer units dealing more damage to dragon units than soldier units.
Currently, the fight system is done through a “I hit you, you hit me” thing, although I might want to add some randomness to it (just because it’s cooler), and even critical hits (because they’re even cooler!).
The game also implements an agro table so that the enemies attack whoever is dealing them more damage (which will make them prioritize, hopefully).
Not sure on what to do next… probably I should finish the game, with just some more units types (trivial to add) and game over/next level/success conditions, so I can try to balance it. That would leave me with whatever time I can gather on Sunday for polish and the Monday for all the spells and abilities I’d like to add to this game (although it could only be used in the jam then)…
Anyway, haven’t had this much fun doing a game for a 48-hour compo for some time now…
