Got a quick nap and decided to TOTALLY revamp my first concept (a spaceman exploring an unknown world). Finally, you will play a prehistoric man, accidentaly teleported in our modern days, and you will have to use the short time granted to discover as many concepts as possible.
Destroy a TV with your heavy stone mace, and you will be awarded with “Discovered the concept of Channel-Hopping”.
Latest version, also known as :
“hey look at me guys, I collide with things ! Woohoo !”
As my game is near complete, I started looking for a title.
The game is a combination of Scarab of Ra and aMAZEing labyrinth, so I came up with the following combinations:
Or maybe I should throw ‘Discovery’ in the mix. Feel free to let me know what you think!
now I can move around the map.
Got a couple hours in, so here’s a shot of my progress. We’ll see if I find the time to finish this. Probably have around 3-4 hours here and there which I can devote to this. Fingers crossed..
Hide n seek shot #1
Click Here for the demo of the game I’ve got working
Believe it or not, that’s 90% of the engine I’ve planned handled, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes.
So the concept is discovering the maps…but there will be innumerable things stopping you. the code’s a complete mess already, but ah well. I’ve been livestreaming the whole thing to my players and the general public over HERE
Getting some sleep now, and hopefully will come up with a wonderful name and artistic skills overnight
EDIT: You can play the incredible demo of our first build here. http://certainlogicstudios.com/projects/nano-something/v1
Long time friend and colleague, Sir Not Appearing In This Post, are working on a title that will shake the very foundations of modern science.
Following the theme, we’ve decided to delve inside of ourselves. Literally.
Hour 1
From concept to screenshot in under an hour. That’s pretty good for one Canadian (not myself, my colleague).
The game shall be a top-down, asteroids like game taking place inside the human body. More to follow…
Tags: certainlogic, nanosomething
Got up, read theme, had a soak in the tub and just let my mind work. Arsed around a bit. And then almost two hours later inspiration stuck like the might hammer of MJÖLLNIR! Time to write my idea down before it scorches the inside of my head with it’s fiery HEAT.
First evening down. Bed time.
Pretty butt ugly at this point… have just been trying to block in the basic functionality.
This is the kind of breakfast you get if you forget the fact that you have to eat to survive. Also, the title screen is complete:
The game will be a mix of Desktop Dungeons and XCOM. I hope.
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It simply follows the steepest slope, and erodes the land when there is no lower point around. Kinda works.
Alright got the hexes working, and a simple interface. Have my hexes all set up (thank you Emanuele Feronato) . Simple hex picking, and a rough hierarchy for my game objects. Check it out here!.
I think I’m progressing at a decent clip… But well see how I feel tomorrow night at this time. For those of you using tasklists, or milestones, or any extensive time management during these competitions, hows that work out for you? I’m always scrambling from Saturday night onward during LDs… ugh hoping to avoid that this time around.
Slipped my mind to thoroughly detail my tools earlier.
Tools
Flash CS4
Flash Builder
Notepad++
Paint.net
Chronolapse(Totally psyched for how the timelapse will turn out!)
SVN
PHP
mySQL
audiotool.com
and of course sfxr
I’m wondering how the 8-bit effects will sound with whatever I can bang out for music from audiotool. Oh well, worse comes to worse I’ll hum a track or two.
Around 6 hours in now and my idea is going swimmingly, here’s a little teaser, wonder if anyone knows what on earth its about 😀
Of course these are just placeholders at the moment.
As always simple has won through and my idea is lovely and simple, the most important question is, what should I have for breakfast…
i guess i’m in. woke up at 4am to check the theme and went straight back to bed, hoping for ideas in my dreams ^^.
let’s get started!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12926434/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.html
Small post is small.
I present to you, SnowBot! So called because the only things I have made for it so far are some snow and a robot.
It is the ugliest game ever made, but it works – the robot chases your cursor while you hold the mouse button, and decelerates when you release it. Obviously with 48 hours to make something, you start to look at what really takes time, and the answer is invariably ‘tweaking’. So I made a pact with myself: no tweaking till the game is virtually done: of graphics, movement, controls, anything. I’m allowed to change things once or twice to get them functional, then they’re set in stone until the rest of the thing is in place.
I have two days, so my plan is to make the game in one. That way I can spend the second day making it good, or making up for how badly I failed to meet this ridiculous deadline on the first. My game is going to be crude and ugly no matter what, so I’m happy to make it even cruder and uglier to give myself some time to balance it and make it more fun.
In my head, this meant getting a character moving around the world in the morning, then making content in the afternoon. Turns out the first part only really took an hour, two with all the faffing with all the blogging and setting up screen captures for the time-lapse video I’m hoping to make of this process.
So next up is putting an enemy in the world, and letting the two shoot each other. Video games.
It doesn't look like much, but we're moving our trusty little planet through space on the long road to actual discovery.
Working now on getting actual gameplay in. I probably won’t be doing better graphics until tomorrow or until I can’t concentrate any more. Progress can still be followed on my livestream, if you’re interested.
Well, i have thought p an idea, now its time to start making it! dinner (pizza) is on the way, so i’m all set!
Sonar bouys in place, ocean moves now (can’t really tell from the screenshot). Better airship graphic in place. The team is done for the night, back at it early tomorrow morning. Good night!
Lots of background work done. Basic graphics stuff done too:
Discovery? Let’s start thinking something 😀
Now in Italy is morning and snow no more fall!