I'm working on a top-down puzzle with an electic grapple beam that loses some range every time you use it to pull you in. I'm building this in HTML5 and raw Javascript and I just finished building a tile engine that imports a map I made in Tiled. That's the first 24 hours, and soon I'll make the character, grapple mechanic, and collectibles.

You can try this build here. This will be my first ever game that works on mobile phones, so I tried to get touchscreen input working too.

This gets quite hard quite fast! Would appreciate any feedback!

(click the broken keys and switches to fix them)

http://www.cudascubby.com/ld39/

Slowbot gameplay video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yrkIMSbvbo

Getting pretty far with the main character at least ! Got a bunch of rest the first night after coming up with the idea so hopefully we can power through the rest of this thing!

got a bunch of rest the first night after coming up with the idea so hopefully we can power through the rest of this thing! You can follow updates on twitter . Or there's been a stream of our pixel art on twitch !

I had a gif to show but for some reason the site wouldn't let me upload it. Don't look like much but here are some screenshots "Poot's" AI is almost complete and player controls are almost done. Unfortunately, I still got a loooong way to go. Stay Tuned!

Yikes there's only 23 minutes left and I haven't started coding D: https://twitter.com/LatteDrift/status/891475069574291456

So I finished the character controller and give him his enhanced jumping ablity and laser. I also did a quick model for an idea for the platform. I just really need to set dress it and finish the enemys. I also created a loopable track for the map. d('.'d)

Here's the link to the video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7rspdq4wcc5rg2m/PandaIntro.mov?dl=0 Here is the link to the track: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t6glnethy19g4rv/PandaLevelBGMusic.mp3?dl=0

Isn't this exciting?

(Actually, no, it isn't!)

I'm pretty late to the game, so I got a lot of catching up to do!

Well, I'm calling it quits for the night... all the main features are complete, and tomorrow will be spent on polish (music, SFX, main menu, etc.) I'm calling the game "The World's Worst Segway", where you have a Segway that drains battery like mad and you have to recharge it a lot. It's kind of a score attack game where you have to try and deliver packages to the residents of the neighborhood on your trusty segway. But running out of juice or getting smashed by a car (which I got a pretty satisfying animation for now) will permanently drain your max energy, and the requests come quicker as time goes on.

I don't really have the setup or the desire to figure out how to do a gif right now, so I wont post any images here, but yeah, I think all of the core features are now implemented and functional, which I'm happy about :)

I also made some advances on graphics, making my first real set of 3D models and particle effects, and they are coming out, for me, pretty OK (but pretty bad overall... meh, programmer art). So despite the outcome of this, I will be pleased with this Ludum Dare.

My Brother is in the midst of creating a scripting engine and I'm churning out the artwork.

Once done we'll come together and start cranking out event "cards".

So it has been a really short day one (only started really at 7PM), but have managed to get a little bit of art and a little bit of gameplay in. Still quite a few features to go in so it can be classed as a playable game from start to finish, but this gif should give you an idea of half of the gameplay :)

Really pleased with how the game is starting to look. Hopefully I will have enough time to add some gameplay.

So the game is finished essentially! Just a few odds and ends to tie together and I think it's a wrap!

If you wanna check in more closely with the progress check out my BLOG!

The tile generation system and player movement are complete, along with a little bit of tweening to make it juicy! The movement is grid-based; the player can move in the cardinal directions, turn in place, and strafe.

This is clearly a problem for me.

Less than 24 hours and I'm starting a new project. Oh dear.

I didn't get started until quite late today, but things are beginning to come together now. Calling it a night as it's approaching 4am here.

I'm working on something with gameplay inspired by Night Shift, but aesthetics and narrative inspired by Robo Rally, Wall-E, and the security robot that fell into a fountain last week.

Gameplay is a bit lacking at the moment, but I have working player sprite, power meter and conveyer belts. I'm reasonably happy with the graphics too considering my lack of artistic ability...