Since everyone is posting custom libraries, I assume that was required somewhere in the rules? I’ll likely just use pygame, but if not, I might use this library or parts of it. I put the code on SF a few years ago, it uses Allegro and OpenGL: logo is here and code is here. It’s written in C disguised as Python (I converted it all from plain C after being inspired by pyplus).

Make sure to vote!  It’s down to 10 choices now.  Results will be revealed to start the compo!

Well, this will be my first Ludum Dare, so I wanted to be prepared 😉

I had started a 3d library before, but it was buggy and cumbersome, so I later abandoned it.

Now I have retried it, and the result, after about 9 hours work, is PygLibsX.

It is a sibling to my PygLibs 2d library, except it is 3d.

you can get it here: PygLibsX

Let me know if it isn’t “acceptable”, but I’m sure it is

Cya Later

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Tomorrow is the big day people. Yee haw.

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Been tinkering with this over the last couple of days.

EDIT: Official sfxr homepage – http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html

As the audio geek I am, I find it a bit unfortunate that most LD48 entries are usually silent. I figure it’s probably due to the authors not having a quick ‘n’ easy application at hand for making sound effects and therefore neglecting that aspect of the game in favor of code and, usually, graphics. Even simple sound effects can add a huge amount of immersion and fun to a game, though.

What I present here is, if you will, an MS Paint for sound effects… or something along those lines. It’s meant to make it dead easy for anyone to whip up a few simple sound effects and save them as .WAV files for playback using most game/media libraries like SDL or pygame.

Basic usage involves clicking the left-most buttons to automatically generate random sounds loosely targeted at certain categories. For more advanced users it’s possible to spend some additional time to manually create fairly varied and interesting sound effects.

The interface is based entirely around sliders for controlling sound parameters, along with a few buttons. Even if you don’t want to spend time learning about all the sliders you can still have some fun just hammering away at them and listening to the various sounds that come out.

Hopefully this will mean that there’s no longer any valid excuse for anyone to get N/A in sound!

Download: sfxr.zip (win32, 48 kB) – Latest update: 2007-12-15 (see screenshot)

EDIT: Apparently it sort of works in wine 0.9.50, though with some stability issues. Fortunately though, the good Gerry JJ/mjau managed to port it properly. Here’s a copy of his post:

I ported DrPetter’s excellent sfxr (info) to SDL, so it can now be compiled and run natively in Linux!

Download: sfxr-sdl.tar.gz

Just type ‘make’ to compile. You need SDL and GTK 2.

Source code is obviously included in the portable archive, and anyone is free to use or modify it for anything they please. There’s no need to credit me, although it would be nice if you did. I would also appreciate a little email note if you do create something cool based on my code.

If I get around to making a little update I’ll include source code in the win32 archive as well.

Tags: effects, explosions, fun, laser, random, sfxr, sound, tools

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There was going to be a town-wide parade of lights tonight where I live. But .. it got cancelled because of “weather”. Anyway, since the goat cart was already lighted up, I figured I’d just go out and have a Ludum Dare Parade of Lights!! Here’s pics of the first ever annual Ludum Dare Parade of Lights!

In this first picture you can see Cuzco the Goat’s head in the headlights. Cuzco was the star in my LD4 entry “Cuzco’s Goat Bloat Game”.

Here’s just the cart, looking very stylish and colorful in the snow:

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Corndoggin.

I’m embarrassed to say, I forgot to add Pineapple.  So much for a signature food item.

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Nice and spartan…

Motivational ornaments…

Midnight dinner & X-Files, prep prep prep!

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Go here to see the count down timer!

This is my room. I took this before another LD48, but it hsn’t changed much, Just more mess now.

 Nothing much to see here – and interestingly to my cellphone everything but the monitor looks dark..

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And for sustenance?

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This is about as clean as it gets. Note the xbox360 controller and plenty of reference reading material xD.

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wow, you guys are pedantic!

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Here’s the desk.   Complete with my cat Molly.

And here’s my reference books.  In there with all the other books.  And the toys.  And you can see why they’re all on the floor right now…

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I got nothing but ideas… Well, I also have a black screen that you can press ESC to exit.  But anyway, none of the ideas are really kicking it.  The most unique one, but one I am not at all sure I want to do, is something like this: You’re a old prospector type guy, carrying a keg of gunpowder.  It has a hole, as they always do, so you leave a trail behind.  You’re in a place filled with explosives.  After a set time, the end of your fuse lights and begins chasing after you.  It blows up any explosives it gets near, and of course if it gets to you, it blows you up too.  You can put the keg down any time, so the goal is A> blow stuff up without getting killed (put the keg down and hide before the flame gets to you), and B> blow up as much stuff as possible.

The chain reaction is that obviously all the explosives blow up other explosivs near them.  So the strategy is in putting your fuse down well without getting blown up along the way.  Seems kinda fun, but I don’t know about actually making it… well, after writing it, it’s strongly considered.

Other ideas include a Bangaio-style shooter where guys who explode blow up other guys near them, so you want to cluster them up and destroy them.  Also, a guy with a chain who smashes enemies, sending them flying into other enemies for a chain-based chain reaction (but chain physics scares me).  Another is  something along the lines of pool, shoot out a ball that hits enemies, and they go flying and hit other enemies.

But behind all that stuff is the idea that I kinda wanted to make a turn-based thing, like a board game or card game.  I don’t know, though.  So many ideas, so little interest in them… maybe the prospector thing.

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I think I found a concept I like. I’m currently calling it “Pillar”, as in a pillar/tower, and caterpillar. Here’s some concept art.

A character composed of blocks, that acquires new blocks as he moves. The controls I haven’t figured out entirely, but at the very least I think it’ll be based around the idea of picking a block on the character as a pivot point, and rotating him.  Probably constanly moving, walking in to walls, until told to turn around (or automatic after a few seconds).

As blocks are collected, they become part of him, evolving in to Tetris like shapes and beyond. The rotating mechanic is your ability to get to new heights, and cross gaps. Physics wise, I think it’ll be entirely axis aligned, since it’ll be far too easy to make shapes that couldn’t normally keep balance.  Legs would sprout wherever needed, purely for look cohesiveness.  Face always moves to the front middle of the shape.  Perhaps tails and other things sprout if a shape deems it.

My only concern at this point is trying to figure out, level design wise, why you wouldn’t want to always create a long piece.

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I think I found a concept I like. I’m currently calling it “Pillar”, as in a pillar/tower, and caterpillar. Here’s some concept art.

A character composed of blocks, that acquires new blocks as he moves. The controls I haven’t figured out entirely, but at the very least I think it’ll be based around the idea of picking a block on the character as a pivot point, and rotating him.  Probably constanly moving, walking in to walls, until told to turn around (or automatic after a few seconds).

As blocks are collected, they become part of him, evolving in to Tetris like shapes and beyond. The rotating mechanic is your ability to get to new heights, and cross gaps. Physics wise, I think it’ll be entirely axis aligned, since it’ll be far too easy to make shapes that couldn’t normally keep balance.  Legs would sprout wherever needed, purely for look cohesiveness.  Face always moves to the front middle of the shape.  Perhaps tails and other things sprout if a shape deems it.

My only concern at this point is trying to figure out, level design wise, why you wouldn’t want to always create a long piece.

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So I played with some ideas .. the one that kept coming up was gunpowder… so that’s what I’ll be doing.  You can see in my stuff below that I toyed with marble chutes, race car pile-ups, throwing cars into highways, toxic waste etc .. So maybe I’m going with the boring idea, but it seems like it’ll make for a fun game anyways.

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Here we go.   I’ve started.

Yes,  a game screen consisting of a boring-ass grid.

I think I’m going to be really original and base my idea around… BOMBS! Erm, yes.

The idea is to cross bomber-man style chain exploding (tweaked to be slower though…) with saving children from fire by building walls and things.

I just got back from ice skating, and I noticed people were posting their programming setups. Well here’s mine with my trusty beast.

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My bro, when he heard I was doing this, commented that this should be renamed LuDumb Stare, because I must be insane to try and look at a computer for the better part of 48 hours 😛

As for my setup – no pictures, but I have a 7 yo laptop I’m using for the last competition, before it gets retired.

I am also using a newer one,but just for all my webstuff. It was intended for the compo, but alas, I haven’t had the time to get everything on it to make it work, so eh

Just a bowl of soup for me – half an hour before announcement of the theme.

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Hello,

I’m off to a slow start. Due to some circumstances, I’m using my wife’s laptop to work on my entry. I was planning on doing something in C, but I couldn’t get the build env to work correctly and I didn’t feel like wasting more time getting it work. So I’m back to the good ol’ Python 😉

I’ve got an idea involving planets and gravitational physics. I made this nice intro/menu screen (it’s animated! wowee!)

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A nourishing meal of Pizza and Poppers is just the thing!

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hmm i need a refill of coffee

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Here the weight held up by a chain rests on a see-saw.

I still haven’t really thought up an idea for a game. Here’s one idea, but it’s kind of lame. maybe lame enough to use… the player shows the chain to different celebrities pictures from google images, and sees their reaction.

Maybe something to do with setting off a chain reaction in a plastiscene world. With weights, chains and see-saws. Or maybe just hitting celebs with chains to see their reactions. Not sure.

So its chain reaction. Let’s see now… (-_-)?

I’ll think about it in bed. 😛

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My room!

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While thinking about how I am going to make my chains react, I took this photo. IRC stays on the laptop, terminal goes on the left monitor, and docs/game stuff goes on the right monitor.

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I hope everyone will be responsible enough not to take this idea 😉

Ok, it is kinda long already, so I put it up at the paste.lisp.org

Voltzies 

Let me know what you think

Ok.. so i can’t start coding yet because i have to finish another project tonight first.. but here’s my desk.. ready to code.

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Just to post something up while I think about other things, here’s a grid.

I’m going to do something with a grid, and chains across the grid, and creatures that walk on the chains and interact in various ways.

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Perhaps not much of a reaction though. Here is my first sketch, I haven’t decided if I’ll do this yet.

Im thinking of using a physics lib on this one.

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Perhaps not much of a reaction though. Here is my first sketch, I haven’t decided if I’ll do this yet.

Im thinking of using a physics lib on this one.

Tags: 2D, chain, chain reaction, heli, helicopter, idea, physics

well here is some particles

they move and you can pose them

This idea might suck, but I think I have it worked out so that its going to be fun.  Anyways its basicly a lunar lander type of game, but the trick is you have to pickup objects and the objects can be connected to other objects.  Each object can have its own mass and size wich effects your ship quite alot as the objects swing all over the place.  Your job is to keep the objects under control as you make your way through the level.  I was thinking about also adding the ability to do things in the level that have chain reactions using physics like opening doors by dropping something on a platform etc.

Heres a crappy drawing of what i have in mind. =/

My idea is something to do with playing vs. an AI opponent on a grid. You have to put these Chainer guys down, and they lay chain for the rest of your guys. The rest of your guys will have other effects on the grid. I’m hoping to work out some chain reaction effects between the guys, but I’m not sure how to balance them.

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I’m yet to decide if i’ll enter.  If a good idea hits me in the next hour i’ll probably do.

Somehow i see bombs. Ticky Ticky time bombs.

Now that i pixelled up some items i think i do have to enter…. 😉

Yes, i am aware, it looks a lot like Lercs. And it inspired me to this. I hope that’s ok and it looks we’re going different directions anyway.

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Well, actually night 1, which lasted about 4 hours.

So far I have a complete design doc.

Units and UnitTypes.

Fighting between units.

A map and world class.

Tomorrow will see the end of most of the core gameplay stuff.

AI might have to wait, we’ll see though.

Then it will just creating a ui and enough content to make it really enjoyable – along with some sfx, and maybe some unbearable music if I catch the whim 😉

Cya tomorrow everyone

Today, after incitement by a CHAIN letter, a horde of villagers, armed with CHAINs, CHAIN guns, and CHAINsaws, attacked a shopping district in Washington DC, having crossed the CHAIN bridge. There our hero, a CHAIN smoker, sat nursing his drink at a coffee CHAIN. Killing the first villager to disturb his drinking, he took up the dead man’s CHAIN and proceed to battle the forces of evil. Little did he know that the same evil mastermind that sent the CHAIN letter also equipped his pawns with chemical tanks that would set off a CHAIN reaction when combined.

This..is..my..BOOMSTICK!

Tags: army of darkness, boomstick, chain, chain bridge, chain gun, chain letter, chainsaw, smoke

Ok, bombs in and smoothly chain exploding with Bomber-man-like mechanics.  It’s sort of mesmerizing to stare it.

But wow, isn’t that five frame explosion anim I did crap?

Lot more to do to turn it into a unique and possibly offensive game though.

After 2 hours thinking of an idea, and 2 hours of screwing with pyode I think im going to bed. I do have part of the physics working at the moment. Tomorrow I will try fleshing out the physics stuff completly and screw with collision detection. I hope to get the core of the game mechanic done tomorrow basically, and after that I want to work on level design, UI and the other stuff that really doesn’t matter xD.

I don’t have a solid gameplay idea, but I do have a bit of a direction to go on. My laptop is rather pokey in general; and especially so with graphics; and I’m using Ruby…

Because we’re going mining! Or rather, we were, until we discovered that we didn’t yet connect our detonation cord to the bomb. And rubble fell down in our way. And there’s gas clouds. And.. Where’s my coffee?

Ok, so, the theme is Chain Reaction and my idea involves blowing stuff up. Everyone likes blowing stuff up. Right? RIGHT?! Since the competition is now about 5 hours in and I got a bit of work done, it’s time to spam this place up. With pictures.

During the first 2 hours I worked on the level loader and world tileset. Right now it looks fancy colours because I need that to make sure what tile is which tile in the tile set. The result became something like:

Another two hours worth of coding and drawing later, and I had The Bomb™ and the detonator, as well as gas clouds. And I created level 2. Which looks roughly like this:

Then I implemented the chain reaction part, and my game is looking like it might become a game sometime. (There’s moving things on my screen!) This took me about an hour to do, but there’s a bug somewhere in my massive list of pointers. (Note to self: Hardcoding a recursive tree for testing purposes is not good on the brain. Really.) I’d upload a video but it’s not that awesome. 😛

During the next hours I will be adding the pictures of the combustibles themselves, allowing the user to select and place combustibles and add this to the chain. Then I gotta work out some other things such as how the gas clouds try and make a break for it to get to the exit. And explode when they intersect a fire. Stuff like that.

– Deepflame

Looks like i can actually get something done. I won’t be able to use anything near to 48h so i aim for something simple.

Some of the game tech is already working so i can think up some nasty contraptions to stop the player. The basic goal looks like you need to get all diamonds. But before you can pick them you need to bomb their cover off. You can place non-timed bombs which need to be activated by the editor placed time bombs.

The story: What story? It’s bombs, it’s chain reactions, and it has shiny things. There is no story.

Tags: chain reaction, Endurion, LD10 - Chain Reaction

Finally I have the Farseer physics lib working and showing the geometry of the collision objects.

Now I’ll have lunch and then play with some physics

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I decided before hand that I really liked the idea of putting the game setting in a microbial environment, and generating the graphics procedurally — using bitmaps as little as possible.  I think I’d like something like a simple 2D version of the tidepool phase of Spore, with the Chain Reaction theme in place.  I think the player will play the part of the single celled organizm that progressively grows and gets more complex by either gathering protien chains, which (when you have enough) react and make a more complex creature…  I’m not sure if this will also involve ‘mating’ with other similar looking creatures.

So far I have the initial cell body done with the shading.  So far both the shape and colour are functionally generated with alpha blending.  I hope to add some organelles (sp?) and other such things tomorrow, as well as some other shapes for the other microbes that you coexist with.  Since the shape and everything is generated through a function, the entire cell is animated quite easily and gives a ‘squishing itself through the water’ look as it progresses through the animation sequence. 

This is a kinda neat experiment, so far.  I’m usng Visual C++ 6.0 and DirectX 8.

My game is progressing nicely, and already I am starting to see signs of what the game will be like when it’s complete. There’s a little movement going on now, and the detonation cords are rendered. And I can now easily make the game end with a “Great Success!” when the bomb is hit. This was worrying me for a while, because I didn’t want to do some kind of ugly tile checking. Lucky, my chain tree is working without a hitch.

Also, as an example why hardcoding a recursive data structure is a bad idea, even if it is just for testing purposes and will be deleted once it’s confirmed to work:

pRoot->GetUp()->GetUp()->GetUp()->GetUp()->GetUp()->GetUp()->GetUp()->GetUp()->GetUp()->GetRight()->GetRight()->GetRight()->GetRight()->SetDown(pTile);

I wont do it again, I promise! 😉

– Deepflame

Just woke up and noticed the theme was Chain Reaction. While, again, not too happy about the theme, I’m going to set out to figure out an idea for a game. Not sure what it’s gonna be, though. I was planning on making a marching cubes implementation (just for fun and profit) and use that for something. Still not sure how to make a chain reaction game out of it though :).

A bit disappoitend about the theme (done so many times already in proper games), I was hoping for some time travelling. I’m not 100% sure about the gameplay of this one yet, but it involves platforming so I decided to start with a level editor which is about 50% done here. I’m coding it with python and pygame.

I hope 2/3 of entries are not explosion chain reactions…. because that’s just lazy.

I’m not vegan, I just like Silk better than milk.   It’s saturday morning, time to start crankinating!  I am going to make the stupid prospector game.

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I’m not vegan, I just like Silk better than milk.   It’s saturday morning, time to start crankinating!  I am going to make the stupid prospector game.

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Yay, nothing a long shower wouldn’t fix, it seems. I have got an idea, with all possibilities to include my marching cubes stuff and all. Though my current idea will require a LOT of work. I shall start right now and if it looks to be feasible, I will divulge some more details from what I’m going to do =).

So far I have mostly been sleeping. Woke up to find that the theme was Chain Reaction. I’ve had a couple of vague ideas, and I think I’m probably going to go for the least interesting because it’s the one I’m most likely to finish. Here are my initial thoughts:

– Some kind of physics-based puzzler, like The Incredible Machine, or maybe some sort of domino variant.

– Something like Lights Out or Reversi/Othello, where your move affects other pieces on the board.

– A looser interpretation of the theme (ie. kind of ignoring the “reaction” part): a scrolling shooter where your weapon is a morning star.

At the moment, I’m thinking the last of the three. I never liked Lights Out, and I think the first one is too much to do. I’ll give myself another hour to think about it, though.

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Hmm the evening continues! Here’s the first screenshot from my LD10 entry:

hmm wonder what it is!

So far, Friday I worked until 5:30, there was a lame xmas picnic for lunch in which I ate mostly starch. Starch and cookie. My Maia picked me up and I had 1 hour to divert my eyes from 7 hours of videogame testing before 48 hours of videogame programming, the simple act of observing a lamp brings tears to my eyes.

I had a pre-dare snack involving a Tofurkey kielbasa, the best Saurkraut in the universe, and etc. As I delved into the reactorium on #ludumdare, mama maia was making me-a stuffed vegetables, mm mm. Proof!

Also my lack of desk brings this intangible workspace:

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Chain reaction? Hahah yeah right, more like things blowing up and blowing more things up.

Hell yeah! Purple things fly on the screen, player shoot, purple things blow up, purple bits come out, hit more purple tihngs, they blow up.. a chain reaction!

http://www.myrmidonprocess.com/ludum/Ludum10a.ra

(arrow keys and QWERTY z to shoot) Windows Fenix binaries included only. (If you get the equivalent foryour OS it sholud still work)

Woo…

-Fiona

After having relaxing sleep and relaxing breakfast and all that, I’ve investigated current situation. The theme that’s won is Chain Reaction, and it’s won by quite a lot. It’s not the theme I most wanted, but then, whenever do you get what you most want?

So, I really don’t have very much time today to work on things, just a few hours, but with some luck I have the whole of tomorrow available.

I’ve so far made two conclusions about the theme: It’s extremely easy to come up with a non-innovative game for it. Could be a tetris/columns/pool/TIM (the list goes ever on) game. So it can be easy. But how fun would that be? But if I can’t come up with anything else decent …

I do have two ideas so far though, that’s half-way innovative. Almost. Not quite though. A bit innovative to be sure. Not a blatant rip off of existing games. Much.

So first idea I had was an explosion chain reaction game. You had different kinds of explosives and maybe something else. The explosives had different explosion radius and critical explosion radius. If another explosive is within the explosion radius (but not within critical radius) it goes off too. Then you can get a chain reaction. Goal would be to blow something up, I suppose. Thing is I’m not sure it would be such a fun game really, and I’m not sure I could keep the goal tasteful. It would be too easy to make it all goreish. Not sure I want that, even though it probably would be popular among some.

And second idea I had was you have your space ship stranded in space, without any fuel, and you need to reach your home bay. Problem is, the home bay is several jump gates (or whatever they’re called, think like in Eve) away. So in each star system, you need to get to the gate that takes you to another star system, and so on until you eventually reach your home bay. Each system is a level, but ultimately, they’re connected. In fact I could allow revisiting of star systems, and multiple paths if I were to allow multiple gates per system. Anyway, in each system, you would need to get your ship to the gate. To achieve this you can make use of your initial momentum (not much), gravitational forces from planets and the sun, and hi-tech gravity modules and explosive weaponry you can launch from the ship. Or maybe just place. Dunno for sure yet. Then the idea is to plan a level, then let it go, get to the next level, and so on. In the end you’d have the full path through all the games automatically traverseable. I’m not sure if this is enough chain reaction… and interesting enough.

Well, that’s my thoughts so far.

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Here is my “schoolgirl” sprite.  Not too shabby!

Well, it’s the end of day 1 for me so here’s where I stand:

• Bombs explode
• Player can run around
• Using sounds made with DrPetters awesome sfxr app like oh, 99% of the rest of ya bastids!  Hope to augment this with some mic stuff later.
• Need to add the items, walls, win/lose, levels, etc

Goodnight and good luck!

Bit of a slow start for me — lots of time wasted trying, and failing, to sleep. Got it eventually, but now a lot of time has gone by already. Oh well..

Got a couple ideas for what I’m going to make. I was thinking of maybe making a vertical shoot-em-up thing with enemies sending projectiles towards other enemies when they die, but it seems a couple other people have similar ideas, so I might end up making something else. Or maybe not, we’ll see I guess..

In the mean time, here’s a photo of my desktop:

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Hi,

I’m a little late, the contest has begun here in Germany at 4 am, however I have just started. I’m developing with GLBasic (www.glbasic.com). It will be a 3d game and the modelling is done with anim8or (www.anim8or.com). I’m still thinking about the gameplay and I’m not really shure, but it will be something with lots of small insect-robots 😉 .

Here’s a first screenshot of my insect-robot-prototype (without legs and texture).

 A lot of you have already done so much. (O_O) It’s a litlle intimidating.

All i have to show so far is my idea (and some code, but you don’t wanna see that). I didn’t have a lot of good ideas for this one, so the best of them wasn’t realy oroginal.

You have you “ship” (pod or whatever), and you have to avoide getting

close to any projectiles, that are wooshing by. When a projectile gets close

to you or another projectile, it explodes, creating an explosion. If you get in

reach of it, you lose health. If another projectile gets in the area of the explosion

it explodes, creating a secondary bang.

You “ship” will be able to shot projectiles of its own, allthough they will be much

less powerfull, but will be able to destroy other projectiles. This is where you will gain points.

I hope i finnish it in time. If i don’t I’ll still try to complete it, at least to the point of playability.

Like so many, I have a random screen of tiles up and running now.  Guess I’ll make the editor, because this game will NOT work with random levels!  Well… hmm.  Better not.

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Like so many, I have a random screen of tiles up and running now.  Guess I’ll make the editor, because this game will NOT work with random levels!  Well… hmm.  Better not.

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I woke up this morning discovering the horrific theme of Chain Reaction, I was pretty bummed that something like Evolution didn’t win and to be honest, I was doubting if I could come up with anything that wasn’t just another Boomshine clone. Well, I sketched around a bit and came up with some ideas that involved chains reacting to input 😉

Originally I was gonna do some kind of “throw your rope and catch something” kind of game, but by tweaking spring properties I stumbled upon something that feels much better to play. You’ll play as some snake-like creature, and have to either kill enemies, or collect stuff by bashing your tail into them/it.

So this is a debug view of the current condition of the game. I prefer writing the gameplay mechanics before delving into doing the artsy fartsy stuff.

I still have no idea. That is, already when Chain Reaction won in round 1of the voting I thought I’d just remake an old puzzle game where you place to bombs to set up a chain reaction of explosions. Problem is, I already remade that very game in SpeedHack once, so it would be like totally un-inventive, a re-remake.

Another idea I’m toying with is, a chain reaction of light bulbs. Like, you have to light a Christmas tree with electrical bulbs, and a chain reaction is involved. A level is won when you manage to light the tree. Still don’t have a complete plan how it should work though.

Well its a start, but I dont really feel like working on it. Might just leave all the game logic until tommorow.

Frist post on ld blog.

Whoo boy. I still have ways to go, but I think this is turning out to be a game. Time log and bunch of screenshots are available at http://iki.fi/sol/ld10/ – here’s a recent one:

it’s shrunk, so right-click and view image to see the full thing. I think.

well I’m a little late to the party blogwise, anyhoo, heres a piccy of the game, I just got multiple wires working without too much fps loss (hey its flash, 20fps isnt that bad, heck its capped at 30 =p).

so I felt like putting wires up around the place

Tags: decorating, low fps, silly string

Hey ho. I’m on a very limited (and flakey) dial-up connection this time around, so I will be working on stuff that compresses well.

I had a hard time getting away from the obvious chain reaction ideas.. and ended up settling on one of them. Explosions. Whatever this game is going to be, I know that the chain reactions have to be big, chaotic, pretty, long-winded affairs for them to be satisfying. From this premise, I arrived at the concept of a fireworks factory.

For once, I could start off by drawing a run cycle. Just like the good ol’ days.

The story: There is this abandonded fireworks factory, see. It’s full of fireworks in storage, and noone knows how to dispose of them safely. It’s time to call in Mr. Splode.

Mr. Splode has a special fire-proof cloak that he can hide under. Most of the game consists of throwing matches into large stacks of boxes full of fireworks, and taking cover.

Would you believe my luck? I’m 12, I know how to program etc. I want to take part in Ldum dare, but, as its a weekend and I can’t set my alarm I really overslept, still I have some strange idea for a game.

Basically its something to do with a train, and you need to drive it into pillows, cushions or something, and such a force it’ll do something else, I really need to fill in those gaps though.

Running app, chipmunk physics and really ugly art. But where are the chain reactions? I don’t know

Fully functional level editor!  Lets you draw the map, and saves and loads.  And check out that hardcore artwork!!  Hopefully I will update that later…

Tags: editor

Ok, still no fleshed out idea – but somehow, it goes like this: Santa wants to light up all trees for Christmas, so he has to do some electrical wiring in the forest to cause a chain reaction lighting up all trees. So far all I have is some mockup drawn in Blender:

Ok, thought of proto-idea last night. Got a lot of sleep. Refined idea this morning in bed and in shower. Started work on framework code etc (kind of happy with it). Finished that after some 2 hours. Put in a few placeholder sprites and coded simple map drawing.

Prediction: Come voting I’ll get flak for blocky graphics and questionable theme adherence. Just the way I like it. At least this time it won’t be a sidescroller.

More info to come as I implement stuff.

Five hours after waking up and finding out what the theme is, I still haven’t been able to come up with a good idea. I’m kind of surprised that so many people voted for “chain reaction”. Anyway, this is probably going to be some kind of puzzle/action game with bombs, so I started implementing some basic tile stuff.

I thought using photoshop’s vector tool and exporting the polygon as a ai file would speed up the dev process… seems I was wrong. One point is just not where it should be.

One main character in my game will be this arachnid.

Gameplay!  Nothing explodes, but your gunpowder fuse burns after you as you run.

Tags: fuse

Huzzar! After about 3 hours of Recursive Pain I finally discovered what I did wrong with my implementation of the A Star algorithm. This has now been fixed and my clouds are making a regular run for the exit! I am really pleased with this, because I was getting frustrated. 😉

– Deepflame

I’ve decided to change it so that you now need to see how far you can make the pillow go, which will lead to some obscure chain reaction.

Now the fun part…coding starts. 😀

Woo, first screenshot:

Seems I’m going with the vertical shmup idea after all. I think it could turn out to be fun.

Tags: screenshot

Okay guys I drew an asteroid and made a particle system… PARTICLES ARE PRETTY THIS IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE GAME. OKAY!

http://www.myrmidonprocess.com/ludum/Ludum10b.rar

-Fionas

I’ve been working on this quad for the better part of the last 11 hours or so. It’s a pretty awesome quad though.

Tags: screenshot

Ok finally got some code down. I was planning on doing a plain C++ application this year (I haven’t made a C++ entry to LD48h yet) but XNA and C# got the better of me. Here is a screenshot of the first version. What this is, is 3 spheres defined mathematically (2 solid spheres and one substracting one). Then I run the marcihng cubes algorithm to the scene and this is the resulting mesh. It’s not perfect but probably good enough for my needs. I’m planning on adding boxes and capsules as well. The coloring is just a test that my shader rotates the vertex normals correctly.

I finally got a working claw on my heli! Yay!

The controls are really hard though. Its like… controlling a 1ton heli with a keyboard from remote that has a 1-2 sec response time. I guess I’ll have to fake it a bit.

Tags: 2D, chain, chain reaction, claw, heli, physics

http://iki.fi/sol/ld10/partycle_rc0.zip (~756k win32 binary)

Phew.

First playable done. The game is pretty much “complete”, in a way that there’s multiple different stages, the player’s ship has been tuned a bit, etc. Audio is missing, and the game, quite frankly, isn’t fun. But it’s a game!

Unfortunately I have to leave now, I’m playing the double bass in a concert tonight (with a symphony orchestra and choir). Of course I’ll be making a recording on minidisc, which might be useful for background music in my game .

Always a believer in good eating, I put together this sandwich.  I was out of sandwich meat, so I put in some chips to give it some substance.  I feel healthier already!

Tags: foodphoto