My first-ever public game, after many years of, well, steadiness due to the turnings of life.
I've been reading a lot Jesse Schell lately, on game development and I applied quite some stuff by him to try to make this one fun!
Enjoy: Airborn Island Delivery ! :)
Appricate any comments!
It's a minimalistic physics game where you steer an ugly plane and eject a crate in ejectable areas to reach a flag for at least 3 seconds. You can speed up a bit and the crate will be thrown harder. You can turn your plane upside down so that gravity helps you when ejecting.
The speed of your plane also makes the throw different.
12 levels (as of now)
Tech: manually written (no editors other than VSCode) with the help of Phaser3 + matterjs + a js tool still in the works
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/airborn-island-delivery
:smile: Hope you enjoy! : ))
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https://aweskybear-ldjam-53-entry.netlify.app/screenshot-1.jpg
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@Mike,
As others suggested, some fresh profiles (like mine) are not yet whitelisted ;( and thus my Extra game never became public (not listed under the Extra section) although the link is available publicly (to the game posting itself!). If it matters, currently it can be found in my profile and 2 generous guys were nice enough that they even played my game. : ))) (^-^)
Mike, this is for you, thank you very much in advance.. and I know (that you will) at some.. point.. whitelist me :D .. wanna make it for the next jammy-jam ^^ officially
THANK YOU! Keep up the great work and let it become even greater!
Hello guys, here's the story (along with my appreciation) for this event! First off, thank you all and to @Mike for all the positivity which is felt throughout this jam! I got pleasantly surprised!
Let it be time-lined (you will laugh)!
I will be playing more of your games, if get time, they are awesome!! ... Thank you all!
Oh, it's a post-mortem, kind of... then here's a few things from my side: - DON'T try to do physics games if your setup is flaky - HAVE an LDJAM account earlier... not on submission day hahaha - Polish your setup/framework and flows for the things you want to include in your game / in my case I didn't even have a visual level editor; all code - Plan plan plan but keep it simple... 1 core mechanic done well is much better than 3 mechanics done in a mediocre manner - Note: while I was not on the computer, my head was pumping stuff, some of this stuff had to go on paper to get validated - I've spend a lot of time thinking about what's to be done next, not "trying to just code it" - novice programmers should take note of this
Oh, here's the game, it's ugly and has one nasty bug :D but... if intereseted Airborn Island Delivery (AID)
It's a story about some limited space... in an infinite maze, with you - a green doughnut and an antagonist (or is he?!) - an evil rubber duck.
Size will be configurable and there will be notes, hopefully configured levels - so that you can seek out the correct way!!
More to come tomorrow!
All is pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript (with the help of my architectural tool for rapid TypeScript coding), called obs-disp. https://aweskybear.github.io/obs-disp
Who said limited space meant finite number of spaces?!
Long live pseudo-randomness!
This is from the Free Roam mode, in which you do nothing but roam freely forever.
Done (but not all shown above)? Styles, foes in the maze, collectible fruit, level processing!, 2 tunes created in minutes via MIDI composition software + sound fonts!
In the works?: the actual game where you navigate the maze along some hints in it + foes trying to get to you and eat your watermelon pieces ;( . Stitching it all together in hopefully several complete levels (testing and refining takes quite some time).
Previous post: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/$371504/day-1-progress-notes
This is my 1st competitive Ludum Dare. But anyway, I wish you to enjoy entering the.. Infinitum Labyrinth! Loooot's of tinkering was needed until everything looked right!
Thank you in advance! Happy playing!
Now tell me there are no aliens.
I am in NO way affiliated with those games but that's how the list showed it to me.
Good luck everyone!
Well.. will be honest with you - I think game LOOKS really draw attention.
Is this PDN-modified image zoomed from in-game of my LD54 entry look cool and intriguing? Or not at all :D ?
Please be honest, experimenting...
You don't have the nerves. It's about attention to detail and exploration, not reflexes this time. :P
I've just added a level guide, but what about NOT using it? :stuckouttonguewinkingeye:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/infinitum-labyrinth-space-un-limited
Since we try to help each other..:
Rating And commenting meaningfully on games is the sure-fire way for your game to be seen more.
The longer version:
So, it seems to be pretty simple (and confirmed by other members and our self-giving host Mike as well) - I have not checked how exactly it works, but I know it is there since every time I rated a game, the next day I was getting an equivalent (or close to) number of ratings. No posts, no additional self-promotion comments anywhere, no nothing. Note: I do spend time to quality-comment on most games, not a single one did I not comment (not sure if this is related or not, But the site also says that the coolness/karma rate is probably involved too (when you get a heart on your useful comment, again - more people WILL see your creation).
So it seems it really is a community exercise : ))) I very much liked it (first competitive LD for me, finding some awesome and warm-hearted friends here : )))
I am already at 30 ratings without even trying to do much (other than the above) after the 15th, so no need to check my thing.
Thank you all aaaand have fun playing and providing feedback to others! There are around ~50% percent of the games with < 20 ratings yet. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/stats
Enjoy! ^^
So.. this post may have been a bit longer overdue than advisable... anyway :smile:
I've become kind of quite passionate with the possibilities that reproducible random generation can give you. More about it? Google PRNG or pseudo-random generation or procedural generation + insert your language of choice here and see what could come out of it.
Want some examples?
You can tinker with it to see how the maze title generates a completely reproducible infinite maze - every portal you enter, leads deeper into the maze and creates 3 new mazes.
You can configure and share it as a URL with those 2 buttons:
This is part of the Free Roam mode for my game for the jam. I feel it didn't receive enough love or I didn't mention it nearly enough!
Anyway - the idea is - generating a sequence of numbers by a seed, applying it to some algorithm (like maze-generation) produces... well.. reproducible randomness!
This could effectively be used in games for automatically positioning elements/game objects, imagine 2D or 3D levels, decoration on levels, creating infinite sequences.
Now... it can get even more interesting when you apply/change stuff on top of the pseudo randomness - accessing the created elements and applying logic on top of them can get a refined feel : )) and actually overlay custom gameplay on top (that's one of the things my game does).
What are your ways to apply pseudo-random generation? I've never formally sought to learn about it... if you have cool ideas or cool things you've done, feel free to share! ^^
I didn't plan for Summoning, until it happened. Happy to say it starts to form into something playable.
First gameplay GIF (sorry, basically has only 2 graphics right now):
The blue thing is Earth... the bad bugs are red... your summoned bugs are green. Ugly as hell :smile:
Let's see what happens tomorrow! GL everyone and have a lot of fun! : ))
Stack: (same as for my LD53 entry... it's just now much more mature: Phaser3, TypeScript, obs-disp - last is my event-driven layer).
Can you save the planet from the bad bugs? Summon your OWN!
Game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/bugs-vs-bugs
Hope you enjoy the game! This is my first Compo entry EVER. It was tougher to pull it off than expected (almost went crazy).. anyway, Have Fun!
Dev notes: - [Day 1 post here]: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/bugs-vs-bugs/the-theme-sucked-until-it-didnt-day1 - this is the final Compo (Day2) post - any other posts will be for a post-compo version - I ran into deployment issues yesterday, now the game is playable without downloading too - Didn't get several features in... more on this in later posts
A few pieces of artwork that didn't end up in the game... limited time :/ - 2 days is really tough :D Sketching on a phone... ever heard of Sketchbook and its Symmetry feature? :D
**This guy ended up in however :grin: :grin: :grin:
And recommend the right one ;)
It happened that my game worked correctly only in Chrome/Chromium-based, with a few ugly problems in Firefox for example.
GL!
EOM
Life's been hectic but I owe it to you - the better game, the better gameplay! Feedback's been amazing, so... I owe it to you - the players.
New gameplay video: https://aweskybear.github.io/ld-55-Bugs-vs-Bugs/video/postcompo-1.webm
PostCompo game link: https://postjam-ld-55-bugs-vs-bugs-aweskybear.netlify.app/
Definitely taking a break after these updates. But looking to your feedback forward on. :)) Thanks!
The theme is a cute one, but here is day 0 progress : ))))) for a lazy-ass creation - no trouble, no hurry (usually also no time bhahaha)
Day 0: come up with a plan on paper with the theme in.. without caring which one it is ; )))
How so? Magic
And of course, GL everyone ^^ and have a blast!!!!!!!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/cosmic-themes
They all are in - in the story here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/cosmic-themes
