On the first day I learned how to use node.js. It was a little harder than expected and I was constantly avoiding to think “but in django we have…” and the documentation is not as helpful as I am used to.
The game will be about passing messages in a bottle between little islands on a map.
So I have some kind of title screen:
If I’m going to get anywhere with this im going to need to get serious. I’ll be posting updates as the day progresses. Who said you can’t wake up late, when your doing some LD48?
What I did before I went to sleep:
What I had around an hour ago:
… I shouldn’t have tried to make a game about the Great Old One as I’m not allowed to move The Unnamable in the game (or in any universe) so I need to move the game around Him, instead.
As the game progresses some lines that used to be parallel are not parallel any more….. I’m losing my sanity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCM6E7szRLU
Tags: video
Got about 5 to 6 hours of sleep. Now for showering and then straight back to work. Will post screens later today.
last post i said that i would post something about the game development, here are some screenshots of the game in action.
By the way, the game (except the lighting overlay) is all in 3 colors!
We are ok with the ideas. We are also about to finish the game concept document with all the ideas and mechanics of the game.
Let’s keep the happy spirit.
I call it Alone in the Murk. Basic features work; moving about, pushing blocks, falling into pits… and some things that might spoil where the game is going. Let’s hope I can finish something…
At the turn of the century, a Cambridge scholar and explorer has led a team to the depths of the South American jungle to investigate a newly discovered temple complex claimed to predate the Olmec by several centuries, showing evidence of stonework thought beyond the capabilities of preclassical Mesoamerican masonry. As they begin to explore the strange temple, our professor accidentally falls into a pit and is separated from the group. All alone, he must find his way back to the surface, and maybe score some fascinating pieces of research data while he is at it…
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Wow!
Our game looks very cool!
We still have to add some more levels, platform types and graphics, But the main gameplay is fully working!
Please Help Us Choosing A Name For The Game!
Tags: progress, screenshot
Adding in powerups now, a flat points booster, a speed up, and a power regen up. Should encourage the player to move around a bit more, and diversify play.
Also powerups are always fun.
From lack of ideas I added a small Easter egg, I’ll leave you guessing as to what it is. If you watch my time-lapse after it should give you an idea though.
So…
Movement: check,
Rotation-aware fire: check,
Some bfxr sounds: check,
Ugly sprites cause I didn’t think of alpha transparency: check.
Gotta work on the gameplay, at least I got some art work done.
This time I’m doing much better than the last one, might be able to even submit an unfinished copy!
PS: here’s everything for the curious kind: https://github.com/rjimenezda/ludumdare22
Got a lot done today, yay! It’s a shame that none of the things are in any way related to my game… 
Oh well, there’s always tomorrow. Now off to sleep!
After spending several hours last night and today, I have next to nothing to show for it. I’m been spending too much time messing around with the dom and making it draw shapes instead of actually making the game.
So I’m switching to ImpactJS and I’m going to focus on getting the core of the game done. Hopefully this means I’ll have some screen shots in a few hours.
When I think about the progress that I’ve made in the game so far, I realize that my LD19 project took about half the entire event just to get the entity management working correctly. I’ve been working on a level editor and game mechanics for the past hour, and this time I have collisions working as I want them.
I bet I’ll be able to get more done, like cool sprites, music and sound effects, then I did last time.
Tags: progress
It’s starting to look a little better. I have finished animating the player, now I need to fix the tiling.
While thinking of what to create I made a chicken wrap !
Tags: foodphoto
Hmm, lot harder to do this when there’s other stuff going on around you in your life… I finished my title screen, but that’s not much… really like my idea, but just not looking promising at the moment…
NAME HAS BEEN CHOSEN! Nightmares of a Wizard!
So we added some static enemies, different slime types that respond differently to the different spell types and added an acid spell. The colour on the staff now changes colour to denote the current spell selected.
Download Link: Click Here
Current Version: 2.0
Bugs:
– Fix Acid Glow repeating itself four hundred times
ToDo:
– Add Splash screen and Menu
– Add more Storyline
– Add a second room
😀 If you like where this is going, please click that little [<3 +] button to show it!
Pics:
#gallery-1 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%;
}
#gallery-1 img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */
Figured I’d follow suit and post some updates! So I’ve got the design hammered out, and have been working on getting the design from paper to an XML file. I’ve also started writing some code for reading in the data and some processing of user input. Most of the code so far is just data structures for handling the various elements of the game (I’m probably over-engineering it, but that’s what I do). Here’s a screen shot of direction handling:
I know it’s not as pretty as everyone else’s, being interactive fiction, but I’m pretty happy with it so far :).
I got an image, but no idea how to upload it. Well, I uploaded it, but I can not post it ;-(
Anyway, I just did a lot of thinks. You can… WALK!!!!! Yeah, impressive. You also starve but never die anyway so I should improve that. I’m already learning what I’ll need next time, so I’ll just finish and wait for LD23 😀