It may not be Giga, but it has Pocky for backup.

Well, after some work, I’ve got good platform physics, two well drawn levels, and cool lighting.

I’m now essentially done with this scene. I expect there to be three more significant areas in the game before it’s done. I’m fairly certain that 9 hours is enough time to do this given I don’t suddenly crack from getting so little sleep the past few days ^^;

You can download this most recent build here.

Passion fruit and shredded wheat. Trying to bounce back from last night’s junk food.

This probably looks like exotic baby vomit if you've never had a passion fruit before.

Tags: food, foodphoto

Jetpack bear is angry with you!

I unfortunately did not get any progress done last night. I started a book at 10pm and after finishing I looked up to see that it was 2am. Oh well.

Another thing the makes me sad and happy at the same time is that I have a family Christmas party to engorge myself at in about 2 hours.

Everything is mostly working in JB though, so its a matter of putting it into a game-like form.

I just completed my first Ludum Dare entry. It took around 10 hours of work and I am happy that I managed to make something entertaining in such a short time. I’m not sure exactly how entertaining other people will find it, but I enjoyed making it and actually enjoy playing it.

Here is a screenshot:

The basic plot is a rescue mission – find a colleague who hasn’t returned from their last mission – but there is a lot of ocean to explore and cool things to discover. I threw in some rare creatures to find and a secret area to uncover. I hope people play it so I can get some feedback.

Now I’m looking forward to playing everyone elses games. Good luck everyone still going.

The plot thickens as the Furbo3000 investigates (read: spies on) the inhabitants of Sector 10.58 Rad.  His task is to discover how these furballs reproduce so much.

There’s a door that can be opened when the player steps on the button.  Now I need to refactor the code a bit and clean it up.  And probably redesign the level to fix the glitches.

I’ll see if I can crank out an update or two. Maybe I’ll add a boss enemy for the final level or something. I’m allowed to add to my entry before time runs out right?

I only have one level in place, and watching my girlfriend play through it demonstrated that it is deeply confusing, but oh well, here is a build.

osx only so far, sorry about that.

Tags: journal, progress

This is not really going to help me finish my game in time…

Tags: foodphoto

Soooo, I woke up yesterday morning and my power went out for 8 hours. I’ve been working since I got power back, and I just now got internet back (16 hours after the power was restored…).

I dunno if I’ll be able to finish, I had some pretty grandiose plans, but I’m gonna get as close as possible.

All because of one puny little tree:

Oh, and a screenshot:

Or rather, one screenshot:

Yeah, not much at the moment. The yellow line is where the torchlight is being shone. The red line is a gunshot (when the player clicks). The edge of the circle you can see is is just a generic spherical obstacle.

Next: Cattle and their respective AI (yes, this is a game about shooting cows in pitch darkness)

I managed to get some nice planet generation going – colours are set randomly (as is size) and the SPACEBRICK has a real mesh!

Based on feedback I’ve tried to make the brick easier to control – you will be able to get upgrades for speed and various other things (that’s next on the todo list!) but for now it’s just WASD or the arrow keys to SMASH THINGS. Also, the “spacewindows” pointed to by arrows around the place lead to other planets.

Play (unity)

Tags: progress, screenshot, unity

Back from work, and the loading screen’s in and I’ve added a bit more polish to a couple of bits that needed it. A loading screen screenshot:

It’s looking like I might even have time to build the Linux and OSX versions before the deadline, which would be a first for me.

… porting to Not Linux.

I think it’s going to work on Mac OS (about to reboot and find out) but for reasons unknown, the startscreen worked in windows, but as soon as I clicked to play, the fan whirred up and soon enough my game was “Not Responding”….

Of course, my game should be playable by anyone who already has love2d installed — and I shall link soon, just as soon as I’m sure this works on Mac Os…

So for anyone wanting to try out Nameless Island before I put in all the art and pretty stuff, you can get it here.

Time to make what I have into pure awesome.

A profiler is extremely helpful when trying to figure out why you’re game lags. It turned out that all the collision checking done every frame was a huge bottleneck. And actually, most of the checking was unnecessary (do I really have to check if two wall instances collide with each other?).

Anyways, I’m mostly done with the mechanics (which really aren’t that complicated). I’ll add some more gameplay elements and submit the game with at least one completely level hopefully. But first, I need to catch some shuteye.