Heading to the airport later today for a 14-hour international flight. Sounds GREAT for LDing, too bad qantas doesn’t have power for my laptop on their A330s. So this is me signing off. Maybe I’ll finish something for the jam, but I might build a smokehouse instead. To bacon in.
Well, I advanced even less this hour. Mostly spent some time trying to use a method that didn’t work. Trying to squeeze the memory usage and saved data usage down for intractable objects so I don’t end up with huge saved files when I get the game saving. I’ll skip out on posting a screenshot this time since there is nothing new in this update. I did manage to get it all working how I want though, so from here I can start re-factoring the current items and then make the map randomly place them on the island. A couple other changes I want to do is make the inventory only have two rows.. as current names of items is too long for three rows. And I want to add in some sort of grid for detecting if an area is occupied… that would be used for placing buildings like shelters / workstations etc.
Now that the first day has come to a close, it’s time to share what I’ve made so far.
W, A, S, D = Move
Mouse = Aim Light
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7265269/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.html
There isn’t much so far, as most of my time has been spend getting the mechanics of moving, jumping, etc. in place. I also spent several hours tinkering with the lights so they’d be just to my liking.
Since the last update, I’ve added a basic enemy spider, player damage (represented by the in-game lighting), and a simple introductory sequence.
At this point, the game mechanics are mostly done, with the exception of another enemy type. The next 24 hours will involve sleep and level design!
That I forgot “SDL_Init” at the beginning of my game… On the plus side it doesn’t look like the function achieves very much :-S.
Missed the first 24 hours, but I had real life to attend to.
Not sure yet if I’m submitting for the main compo (depends if I can finish it on time), otherwise will submit for the Jam rules.
Let’s get it on!
Adding in the game over logic now, including the submission of highscores. They’ll be kept track of on a server…which might not be able to handle the LD22 traffic, but that’s something I can’t do much about.
The game should be pretty nice and polished come tomorrow, and I feel pretty good about it.
errr had to work last night , go to karate this morning , the go to dads friend’s xmas party , plus i have 11 hours work (in a cafe standing up all day) tomoro. duno when im gunna make this game , but with 1 day and 23 hours to go . im gunna start now and at leas try
I’m pretty tired but I won’t go before taking the opportunity to show stuff off.
I still need to add music…
I made Big snakes. They can eat through walls (stone and wooden).
I made it compensate for lag (somewhat).
But I added treasure, which makes the game quite more purposeful.
The snakes tend to guard the treasure. It’s still dangerous at day, which is new.
Six levels. No title screen or end screen. Arrows move. Space jumps.
(-o^_^)-o Good luck! o-(^_^o-)
That’s right, I have a graphic for the main character! And he can make SPARKLIESSS!!!
So, about 4 hours ago (midnight here), with 22 hours left in the competition, I decided to scrap the idea I was working on and make a different game.
The original idea was a turn based strategy game, where, essentially, your units would gain bonuses for being isolated from their teammates. I knew that was over-ambitious to begin with though, and it was taking to long to get the basic control system working, so I gave up on it.
My new idea is much simpler, and I think I can get it done in the remaining time (even accounting for sleep). So far the game looks like this:
This is a hint about the gameplay:
I’m pretty much burned out at this point, and my game is too simple to do much more anyway, so I’ve added some polish. This is probably going to be my final version:
I’ve added little facial expressions to the circles to go with the sound effects. All done 
A golem in the making!
Kilns are in! They burn with fire, and you can drop blocks into them! Also, you can now push and pull blocks.
I’ve come up with a title for my game: Luto Hominus. It means clay man in Latin, which is basically what a golem is.
… I am way too far behind schedule.
My first Ludum Dare! 
It’s a lot of fun, and I’m really glad I’m doing it.
I’m working with a friend for the jam, who shall remain anonymous for now… He’s doing the art, and I’m doing the programming, so far. Check it out!
Also, Flixel and FlashDevelop for the win! 
I’ve never technically finished a game before. Even the most basic art creation is taking a long time. Ive already implemented a bunch of things I never have before.
But here is a screenshot. I hope I can make it into a little game before tomorrow!
I’ve done all the levels that I feel are necessary for now. I’m going to spend day two on shine and polish!
Alright, I’ve finally got the LightGrid working out – so lights, when they are directed at certain parts of the grid, they’ll react to it – based on the level of power the light has.
I was asleep until 3. So I’m glad I finally got it working. Also…see the title.
So yeah. The grid is going to be layed out as background panels, probably a lot smaller than they are now so that it looks smoother, but then they need to be associated with light panels. Which is where I’ve had a problem for a while as to how to do that.
So what I end up doing is used two symbols inside the Lamp symbol (So it’s used by the class), and pull those bounding boxes out to use them. Or more specifically, they’re stored as MovieClips. Because MovieClips simplify everything in Flash.
So I’m using the MovieClip Symbol object of a specific part [Separate from the Lamp itself] of that Lamp Symbol object that’s being used, and calling that object’s “hitTestObject” method to determine if a LightGrid object item in sight:
So yeah – if it is, then we link the Lamp to that LightGrid object.
Would’ve probably been looking around in Actionscript 2.0 code, but I was lucky enough to know that a friend of mine already did the research on the function method name: namely this post here.
http://hownottoblog.tumblr.com/post/9163148238/ludum-dare-21-day-2
Thinking about how the character has gotten me to remember this particular video @7 minutes in:
(Warning: Has Profanity in it, like a lot of it. Use headphones if you’re watching this at work, and/or children you don’t want spouting specific curses.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM
(Also, it’s 20 minutes long, so you may not want to watch it in full now. But watch it in full at some point. And if you already did, then you wasted 20 minutes away from Ludum Dare. I wish I could say I was sorry, but this is a competition. <_< :p )
So the important part out of that video is that Megaman X is on the title screen as the cursor. Something along those lines.
Also, RIDING ON CARS!</random reference from video>*
*Just watch the video when you have time.
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Okay, but seriously, next is sorting the lights, and storing the lights in one array, and the grid parts in another.
Then, ground and the player character.
Then Switches the player can use to relate to Lamps and LightGrids (Really, the whole reason we’re doing them more or less.).
Then…layout of the level, I guess. Probably just going to be one hardcoded level (Maybe per difficulty level), and like…yeah. Entrance and Exit. Figuring this stuff out then.
Then enemies.
Then combat.
Then EXP.
Then Bonus Board.
Then Sounds.
Then animation touchups.
Then Title Screen?
I’m probably missing something, but that sounds like a reasonable setup, I think.
but is there an issue with the jump? it seems a little unresponsive