I finished my entry. Random and unedited thoughts follow.

Quick instructions: You are the “@”, use the nethack keys to move (hjkl and yubn for diagonal movement), t to toggle your light. Run into a wall to dig a tunnel with your pickaxe, make your way to the surface (“<” are the up stairs) collecting valuable gems on the way.

I didn’t get enough balancing in so chances are it’s too easy / hard. I wish I’d added an in game help thing (as it is pressing F1 will just tell go to go rtmf). I feel I did capture some of the original game’s essence (run away from the guards and don’t let your flashlight’s battery run out) so I’m pretty happy as far as that is concerned. Hopefully the learning curve won’t be too hard, which is a risk with roguelikes I think.

Codewise, feel free to look but it’s probably worthless except as an example of how not to make good software. One part I feel could have used more time was the cavern generator, it runs quite slowly (but not enough for me to take time to fix it) and I don’t fix the results for connectedness which is why I included the digging feature. I’m not too happy with that. :S

Anathema RL Python + Pygame

Tags: anathema rl, escape from anathema mines, final, roguelike

Finally, it’s (not) finished! 😀

I never entered the real Ludum Dare (yet), but this is my first entry ever to Mini-LD:

Juggle Paddle

A simple juggling game/sim/playground/whatever, although it’s more a
simulation as  there is no ‘game over’ yet. Also, the physics are a bit buggy.

I don’t if this game is accepted as the cover of Tower Construction Kit. The only thing the game has to do with that game’s cover is:

• Physics.
• The shapes of the objects – Bricks (Tower Construction Kit) & Balls and Paddle (Juggle Paddle)

I haven’t much time though – with all the school stuff,  tired, getting out of town, etc.
Made within 4 to 8 hours.

Here’s the link for my half-finished entry for this Mini-LD #5

Windows: http://www.filedropper.com/jugglepaddlewin32
Source: http://www.savefile.com/files/1878871

To run the source code, you need Python installed.
Pyglet, Rabbyt and Pymunk are included.

Tags: final

Hey!

I apparently managed to set up cross compilation on my Ubuntu machine, so now comes my mini LD 5 entry, for you Windows users.

Grab it here.

Double click “run.bat” to play the game.

See my previous post for more information about the game.

(Note: this is my first experience with cross compilation and pretty much with Windows binaries in general. I may not have done it right or optimaly, but it seems to work. If anyone comes up with a better way to do it, please let me know.)

Enjoy!

Hey there sports fans,

Ludum Dare #13 is coming soon.  December 5th-7th weekend.  You know the drill.

http://www.ludumdare.com

You can start suggesting themes now, with voting to start by the end of the month.

http://ludumdare.com/wiki/start

As for the start time, well, we’d like your opinion on that.  We know we have a number of regulars in various parts of Europe and the UK, so we’ve been considering pushing up the start time.  Post an opinion here.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/11/12/ludum-dare-13-start-time-poll/

We’ll be updating the site as usual over the next few days.  We’ll send out a note for the final start time once we have it.

See you there,
Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

I wrote a quick postmortem for Anathema RL. Read it here, on the game’s stunning iWeb-made page.

Tags: anathema rl, post-mortem, postmortem

Phew, got it finished 😛

PyGL2D is a simple 2D library for PyGame and PyOpenGL. It’s licensed under the GNU LGPL. See http://pygame.org/project/972/

You can download it here.

Tags: opengl, pygame, python

My libraries i wish to use on LD#13 and probably even work on durring the competition, they probably aren’t of any use to anyone else but me, but if you find anything usefull, by all means, take it. There is a 2D vector math class, the monkey wrench for game programmers. A simple log writer, which also need work, to add ease of use. And collision detection methods and classes, that detect collisions between concave objects, but it’s buggy, so check code before use.

PS:

Right, the link

Tags: collision detection, log writter, vector math

Because there seems to be a lot of talk about creating a multiplayer game for LD. Thanks, jolle!

Tags: motivation

I made some important bug fixes to PyGL2D, one of which was a serious memory leakage problem. I also added a couple nice (but minor) features. The doc was updated too.

Get it here.

Hi, I’m Dock, and I’m new to Ludum Dare!

I’m going to enter LD for the first time this weekend, so this week will be spent mentally preparing.  I’m fairly new to this sort of thing, and I only completed my first game, Tumbledrop, a couple of months ago.  I’m more of an artist than a coder, but I’m working hard to improve my coding skills and something like this seems like it should be a lot of fun no matter what.

I’ll be using Unity for the contest, and I’m hoping to do something in 3D, though beyond that I’m not sure. I’ll find out on saturday once I receive the theme!

Until then, I’ll be sure to read Sol’s LD survival guide, stock up on food, and get some coding practice in.

Hey, here we go!

Theme voting is going to be in 4 parts.  One part each day, so keep checking the site.

First day is Physical Objects.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ld13-voting-round-1-physical-objects/

Second day is Concepts.

Third day is Verbs.

On the forth day, the top 5 (more or less) from each round will be combined into the Final Voting.

Have fun!

-Phil

The hub for games designed to destroy you, for delicious cake.

www.towlr.com

No one is safe.  Cake flesh is moist.

EDIT: Online Flash versions available, courtesy of Fydo.  Towlr is pleased.

Tags: towlr

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Heya guys – thinking about joining up again, though I have a busy schedule this weeked, so I’ll have to see what I can do when we get there

Anyways, I am wondering if my lib, PYGGEL, is eligible to be used?

Here is the link: http://code.google.com/p/pyggel/

I released the first version 5 days ago – but beyond the tests and example program included there were no docs in the release itself.

I added doc-strings to the code 2-3 days ago, but I’m not sure what the deadline was, and there has been no official “doc’d” version released – though the source is freely available from SVN to anyone.

Thanks,

Matt

Tags: ld48_13, motivation

Hi I’m Swergas, a French student in IT, and I’m new to Ludum Dare ! I will try to participate to this weekend’s competition. I’ve previously coded several Flash games and I’m learning to code with the SDL lib in C++. So if I manage to gather enough time this weekend to participate, my submission will be either in C++ or in haXe, I’m not decided yet (I think it will depend on the theme). See you !

I’ll be in on this Ludum Dare like bees on flowers, ah sweet nectar.

I’m riding on the clouds of my notification last week that I’ve been accepted into the Computer Science: Computer Game Design major at UC Santa Cruz for Fall 09 =D Many moons of dreadful calculus and so forth and still some moons to go, before my schedule has courses like: Game AI, Interactive storytelling, 3d graphics and animation, game theory, and many game design studios. It’s going to be awesome. I’ll be on the LD4Ever and probably get some folks into it there.

Here’s to our grande olde arte of gaem maeking and a fun weekend!

Tags: motivation, towlr

Tags: motivation

Just getting an initial test for this journal. Seeing as I’m at a mad dash to try to get my Retro Remakes competition entry done, I don’t know if I’ll be able to put up such a good Ludum Dare entry, but I figure I’ll give it a go.

You can check out my website at http://www.otcsw.com/ if you’re curious about my background.

I decided that for this LD I wanted to do a Timelapse. I wanted a timelapse program that

• Ran natively on Linux.
• Produces a screen shot of the desktop with an image of my webcam inline – not the other way round.
• Be something that I can start in a terminal and forget about.
• Not spit out a movie at the end and decide on what format or quality it should be – instead it should give me a bunch of images in a numbered sequence that I can then concatenate with ffmpeg or something myself.

So I wrote PyCatcher, poking it for half an hour every day for the past week. I got my webcam displaying inline last night, so while it’s not as feature rich as I have planned it does work.

If this sound relevant to ones interests you can grab it here- http://github.com/Fiona/pycatcher/tree/master

This Ludum Dare I’ll be using PyCatcher for timelapse and writing my game in Python/Pygame using my Pygame-Fenix library to aid development.

Tags: fenix, pycatcher, pygame, python, time lapse, timelapse