Just a reminder, don’t forget to add a cat to your game!

Tags: 7Soul, cat, kittens, motivation

I have put a small demo online to test my code long before the deadline

It is a Html5 canvas game which means that it will only work in quite modern browsers.

Use the arrow keys to walk around. You can’t do anything else yet :).
The game is about not ending up alone and miserable in a hostile social situation.

Here is also a screenshot:

Day 1 is almost over, I made quite some progress, all the levels are done, except for the final boss.

To do:

Add Sound

Add Music (Maybe)

Improve sprites (With enough time)

Tomorrow people are coming over for my birthday, that means not much time!

My game is officially known as “EpiCat”. Why is it official just now? Because I started the title screen!

Tags: screenshot, title

I’m panicking, running out of ideas. i’m going to take a break and brainstorm, i really don’t want to exit like so many already have.

also: large amount of dirty cups sitting in my bedroom

Excellent, it’s finished!

Came up with a game title too:

WEIRDLY ALONE.

Good, isn’t it?

Time to start on making levels, art and fun stuff.

EDIT: Forgot to add this –

This is how the level is looking so far. The trees are “supposed” to be pointing in a direction, and you have to find your way through the forest.

Check out the playable build HERE!

We’d love any feedback you have!

If you find yourself unable to move, tap E or R a few times.

More to come later!

– Eric & Derek, SendMorePeople

I’ve been really limited to what I can do because of my lack of programming knowledge. I’m trying to make a text adventure, but the way things are turning out it will probably be more like a demo than an actual game (even a short one).  I’m making a text adventure, but I doubt ti will turn out as a very good one. I’m using lots of complicated if statements to run through a series of classes, giving the illusion that it is like Zork, but if anything it is more like a choose your own adventure book, because you can’t go backwards. So kind of lame, but it is the best I can do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEnNdSxnkMY

‘Nuff said. I have absolutely no idea how this is happening, seeing as the only line of code I am using is “node->translate(0,0,-speed*timeSinceLastFrame)”

I am off to bed now for the next 4-5 hours.
Will have to think of a better way to implement the event system and the sort: currently sorta stuck on that. Atleast the door is done… >:O I think…

I came to the conclusion that trying to do stuff in Unity 3D might most of the time end up being unnecessary complex making it, at least in my opinion unsuitable for LD Compo atleast when doing it the first time around. (If id have time, I would do the jam, however I’m on a schedule my self, going on a flight a few hours after the compo is over)

So far heres a list of things I’ve done:

• Made a cliche horror plot
• Made a scene in Unity 3D
• Added a seamless, custom Skybox to the scene,
• Adjusted rendering settings
• Created two scripts: Light Flickering, and Door opening/closing relative animation through script
• Created two materials: Dirt and Asphalt
• Created, Designed, Modeled, Unwrapped and Optimized a Gas Station base build
• Created Glass panels and doors for the Gas Station

As a side analysis: Most of my time was spent on figuring out how exactly does the GameObjects communicate with each other, and with working on frame-based updates instead of timer based updates, or with crunching some, really annoying bugs.

Good night, and see you all in a few hours.

I spent today trying to knock together a very basic platformer using a .png file to store the levels… in C. As a result it took me the whole day and I achieved nothing. Not sure what I’ll do tomorrow. I still want to make the same basic game but there’s no way this source is going anywhere in 24 hours. I suspect I’ll end up doing the same thing, but on a much much simpler scale, which uses a large pixel grid for the levels, not the “one px of the file is one px on the screen” approach I’m currently taking. Some of the code can be salvaged but not much… If I start running out of time the game will become a jam game for lazy reasons, but I hope it doesn’t come to that.

Wish me luck.

Still no jump

Database parts done. Well, design wise. I need to write some objects to handle the various things, but that shouldn’t be that difficult given … well, except that I am now tired.

I had tool issues. That I covered in a post I will post in the post mortem.

Overall, at this point, I’m doing – better than usual, which is to say, I’m not where I should be.

I sleep, then wake, and work on objects and game code. There are some gfx I should play with (meaning draw/playing) and, well… I need to sleep a bit and then I will work more.

Good news:

I am well-rested, just had lunch, took a shower, room is clean, I started brainstorming ideas and have a sort-of-solidifying idea in my head, and I just created my project and github repository.

Bad news:

We’re at T minus 1 day + 3 hours and I haven’t actually done ANY coding on my game yet.

Well, I’ll still try and get this done, but depending on how things go I may just decide to enter the Jam instead, as that gives me a proper 2 days.  Kind of a bummer how the timing worked out and all, but that’s just how it goes!

I’m thinking to do a 2d platformer, as I think that really works for the mood/atmosphere I’m envisioning.  I have a central concept in my mind.  I’m scared that it won’t end up making for good gameplay, but I’m going to roll with it anyways and hope I can come up with good level design later =X

I was initially thinking to do video blogs of progress updates but I’m tossing that idea because I’d just make myself look like an awkward fool and I don’t want to waste time on unnecessary things anyways.  If I need to show you guys stuff I’ll just post screenshots instead!  But…right now I have nothing to show.  SO LET’S GET TO IT >=D

If anyone is interested, check it out: http://www.livestream.com/screamrawr ..

BUT BE WARNED. MUTE THE VIDEO. For some reason, it likes to loop the same 3 seconds of sound over and over again.

Anyways, come watch me art!

Be gentle, its my first time having this game judged by the masses.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46225469/LD22/index.html

There’s no win yet, it mostly just a tech demo. Try seeing how far you can swim =D

I made all of the sounds from scratch in audacity and made the game using Flashpunk in Flashdevelop.

It’s loaded from a Tiled map file, and can be scrolled around in.

We are lagging a bit behind, we’ll need to start adding some actual gameplay tomorrow..

But at least we got a lot of pretty pictures!

I’m so proud of myself.

Tags: jmonkeyengine, lighting

And the game’s going fantastic.  Should have story mode done by tonight!