Hi all!

This is a team entry and my brother and I’s first entry into Ludum Dare!

For the theme of ‘Tiny World’ we are creating a game centred around an agoraphobic nanobot who is forced to help test an experimental device that makes his universe infinitely larger!

The game will be a puzzle solving platformer from a head on, top down RPG perspective. Think any classic old school RPG/Pokemon, but with nice painty animation!

Check back soon! We’re recording a time-lapse of the whole thing too!

 

– Rob –

Having abandoned the idea of using my own game engine, I was forced to revert back to using DarkBASIC Professional, which I have not used in years.  It’s a blast to the past, but also a bit of a shock finding myself having to write in completely procedural code again… I miss object orientation.

F1 is my friend.

Joseph

Update! Got some rough animation done today as well as half of the rough idle turnaround. would be able to get more done but I have to go out for a birthday meal

If you want to know more about our game I talked about the story in the previous post here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/04/21/agorobophobia/

[EDIT] click to see unsquished image obviously

This is what he’ll look like coloured (he’ll look better than this actually)

Loving the variation from you guys so far!

Healthiness not included…

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Back from dinner, and voila!  Here is the end result of a day’s programming and rediscovering DarkBASIC.  We now have an infinitely scrolling world, ready to populate with robots and other such things.  Time for a well-earned sleep, and we up early in the morning, and hopefully we’ll have more than just a tile asset in-game, and other things as well!

506 lines of code so far…

Check out the previous posts for more details!

Mockup of final look:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lots to do still. Music, sounds, polished animation intro sequence level design, phew.

Sorry to our loyal fan(s) for the lack of updates yesterday; it was a really busy day!  We were quite exhausted by 3 o’ clock in the morning, hit the hay pretty hard.  We overslept by an hour this morning, so we’re (or at least I am) a bit behind schedule.

Lots and lots of stuff still to do.  We have a schedule drawn up for the day, and there are an unbelievable amount of features left to program before we have a minimally functioning game.  So I should probably just post a screenshot and get on with it!  1133 lines of code so far.

Who loves infinitely looping worlds?

Look at our game making skill and despair!! This is a test we’ve whipped up to iron out the kinks in our system before we compete for the second time on Saturday! Sorry bout the low fps, screen recorder doesn’…. *yawn*

I will be using Photoshop for animation and art. My brother’s written his own game engine in C++.. I think. Possibly using something else.

Oh and a friend’s friend is helping us with the music this time.. and he’s rather good. I’m almost afraid we won’t be able to do justice to his music.

WHAT DOES IT MEAAAANN?

Hi all,

This is an art dump for mine and my brothers game idea ‘Revolution’

 

A teaser description of our idea: You spawn on the inside of a circle, headless, and all you seem to be able to do is run. You run around the inside of the circle, and then you see something fading into existance as you reach 1 full revolution. It’s a mask! A very poorly made mask but a mask nonetheless, you put it on and when you channel your energy through it, a knife appears! floating and disembodied, how useful! especially since an enemy seems to have just spawned… headless, and what you think looked like an ‘R’, but it faded. You put your knife to work on the poor guy and you are alone once more. You run around a bit and as you reach another revolution you see, yes! another mask! You decide that this one looks noteably nicer, so you put it on and channel your energy through it again. A sword appears! and around the other side of the circle, another headless little guy, and a guy with a knife and a very familiar looking mask, one with an ‘R’ above him, and the other with an ‘E’ and they both seem to be coming towards you…

 

Here is some of the art I created over the three days for our fast paced fighting game ‘Revolution’. Our idea was very ambitious so we didn’t get to implement everything we wanted, but unlike last time we ended up with a game you can actually play! The idea of the game was going to be that you play as 10 different characters, and each time you get a new character you have to fight all the characters that came previously. Fighting on the inside wall of a circle is quite an interesting thing, which ever way you go, you’ll meet the same enemy, there’s no escape. We present to you, ‘Revolution’ – Rob. Download it here

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LUMBERJACK!!

Me and my brother Joseph are back for our third Ludum Dare (and third consecutive!)

Here’s the character for our game about chopping down trees with a big, nasty chainsaw! before all those pesky environmentalists show up!

 

Little turnaround..

 

– Rob

Just had to upload this little turntable of our lumberjack character!

OK! Back to work..

Lumberjack is a game about bouncing between trees by cutting clean through them with your mighty axes!
We hope you like our timelapse from this year! It’s a bit gappy in places but I think I managed to fill the holes successfully.

 

Click Here To Play The Game (link is fixed now)

 

 

Available for windows only!

 

http://youtu.be/K8H5aoIWcKs

And other stuff.

It’s a minimalist point and click puzzle game! Have fun!

PLAY IT HERE

 Scores

  PLAY GURU

We got our first medal – in ‘Graphics’!! And as the artist I know how competitive that category is so I’m extra amazed at the result! If you just look at the scores around ours, 0.01 of a star could have tipped us over the edge into silver territory or knocked us out of the running for the bronze. So tight!

Thanks to everyone who voted on our entry!

We also beat all of our previous records apart from in the fun category (understandable, it was a very hard/cryptic point and click puzzle game), and almost came in the top 50 for everything!

And we trashed our previous scores for Humor, Theme and Mood.

Spreadsheet of our past 4 Ludum Dares + Graphs

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgqMypAQnKEYdGhUcXZLWjZ4MEtTazZjdV9hdDhtbWc&usp=sharing

Linux

We’ve also got our game working on Linux! – Does anyone have any idea if it’s possible to update the entry page with a new download link now that the contest is over? If not we’ll just post it with the timelapse that’s coming soon!

Social Networking

Join us on Facebook and Twitter! (I just made the accounts the other day so they’re looking pretty lonely)

 

I love Ludum Dare.

We’re making a game about a thief and an experimental time device this time!

Although we still don’t have a name for our game.. can anyone suggest a name for a game where you are a thief trying to steal an experimental time altering device but it goes wrong and you get stuck in a 10 second loop? 😛

Click to view large images

Throw baby Jesus at zombies to save the original Christmas why not. Don’t worry, His Dad’s cool with it.

PLAY IT HERE

 

Master the Jesus dunk and try and beat my high score why not. Because it’s stupid you say? Well, that’s your opinion…

PLAY IT HERE

blas fer me,  blas fer you…

One of our team threw everything in after effects to really nail the mood and style that we want.