This will be my third attempt and this time there will be a game! *serious* 😀 *excited*
As a fanatic C++ fanboy I finally agreed with myself that Java will be better to get something reasonable in time.
These are my tools:
Have fun everyone!
So I draw some art and level tiles and now my little man can walk around and explore the tiny map 
Will have a lunch break now *hungry*
My little plane walker now fights monster with bows and swords and he can teleport between worlds.
Now sleeping time … zzzZZZzzzz
Last time I tried a self-made 2D engine with Java, but this turned out to be a lot of “engine” programming and I did not have enough time for content. Pixeling art and sprites actually was a lot of fun, so I decided to use a more professional pipeline this time to have more time for art and content.
My tools:
If there is anyone planning to go with a similar setup or with pixel art in general, I can recommend some tutorials which helped me a lot:
Good luck everyone! May your art be beautiful and your code be straight
So finally Evolution managed to be the theme. Mine will be about the player trying to survive in an world evolving around him.
Try a first release here (Unity HTML Webplayer).
Not much gameplay yet, but I like the procedural creep art
Tags: progress, screenshot, unity3d
Unity is tricky. Progress is slow. Nothing is easy.
If you like, you can play it here (Unity HTML Webplayer).
Tags: screenshot, unity3d
Some improved graphics and gameplay in the last hours, but now it is time to sleep.
If you like, you can play the current version here (Unity HTML Webplayer).
Controls: Move with WASD or arrow keys. Attack with space.
Tags: screenshot, unity3d
I finished in time at 3:00 am 😀 In the last hours I actually added only completely sensless features, like “Darwin says…”.
My game plays around with the evolutionary pressure you apply on your environment. If you are too greedy and extinguish all the yummy animals and plants you will soon find yourself in a hazardous environment and die.
Here is a screenshot:
You can see my entry here and play it over here.
Timelapse and post mortem will follow in the next days after I got some sleep and did some work.
Tags: screenshot, unity3d
For this Ludum Dare I did a game using Unity 3D. It has little procedural generated bugs and plants!
You can play my entry here and leave me a comment
How do you create theses insect/plant like critters
from these basic shapes?
That was the question I posed myself for the Ludum Dare 24 compo. The theme was evolution and I wanted to create some little critters which could change there appearance smoothly.
The basic shapes you see above can be easily described using polar coordinates.
Polar coordinates express a 2D curve in the form r(t). For each angle t the function r(t) gives the radius at this angle. Here are the definitions of the simple shapes above:
Now how do we get the complex shapes? Easy: they are formed buy just using a linear combination of the simple shapes.
For example we use the two simple shape functions r_star(t) and r_cardioid(t) and form the linear combination r(t) = a*r_star(t) + b*r_cardioid(t). Using a and b equal to 0.5 yields the third shape you can see above.
You can use my critter generator to create your own critters.
Also, play and rate my compo entry!
Tags: compo, post-mortem, postmortem, techniques, unity3d
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The game is done and I am exhausted. Time for sleep now and looking forward to your entries!
Tags: minimalistic, unity3d
I am in – again! Cleaned up the desk and prepared everything
My tools this time:
There is a twitch live stream running where you can watch me writing this post 😉
My game is a small jump and run juzzler where you have to run through one room after the next in 10 seconds. Currently there are 3 simple levels and I am on my way to add some more game mechanics and graphics (and sound and …)
You can give it a try here: http://content.wuala.com/contents/Danvil/Public/LD27/web.html
Leave me a comment if you like it or if you have a suggestion
Tags: LD #27, puzzle platformer
The game ist finished and you can play it!
I wanted to add some more puzzeling but lost a lot of time with Unity3D physics … Nw it is a bit short but hopefully fun nevertheless
A first version of my game is kind of playable, but there is still a lot to do. Right now you can only walk around and jump
You can give it a try here.
Tags: 2d platformer, pixel art, unity3d
Added more animations, particle effects and physics. The player can now pick up and throw stuff to attack. You can give it a try here. Use Left/Right to move, Space to jump and LeftStrg to pick and throw.
A submarine (yellow of course), swarms of fish, boulders, a hook, treasure and TENTACLES – what do you need more for underwater physics madness?
This is the result of day one and a test of my game play mechanics. Next steps will be programming a procedural level generator and making a game out of it.
You can try the current version here. Controls: AWSD – move, mouse scroll – extend hook, F – grapple with hook
Beneath the surface: my first though was digging, the second underwater. Then I remembered the Beatles song “Yellow Submarine” and it was clear: I do a submarine treasure hunt game. You can try it here! For this Ludum Dare I wanted to put an emphasis on creating an immersive environment, so this is what I did (read: “tried”).
Fish:
Some years ago I experimented with swarm behaviour and there is even an algorithm called particle swarm optimization which I used once. A quick 3D model of a fish with Blender a uniform orange material and we have a fish GameObject. Then a second GameObject for the swarm which moves the fish in sync. Each fish is pulled towards to the common swarm goal and pushed away from other fish in the swarm – ready.
Weed:
While the ocean floor is actually extremely empty down there (did you see that ghost shark!), I figured some plants would look nice. First I tried a blender model, but quickly switched to procedural generation. Weed is created dynamically in batches of around 100 halms. Each halm is created as simple pyramid with 3 radial and height segments. At each height segment there is noise added and the halm bends a little to created the rigged effect.
Hooks:
Now how to pick up treasure from the floor. A hook for grasping and pulling the treasure in would be nice. But how to do that in Unity3D? After some failed atempts I created a spring joint on the submarine object which is attched to a hook mesh. If the “Max Distance” property of the spring joint is increased/decreased the hook is lowered or pulled in. To pick up objects I use a dynamically created “Fixed Joint” to connect the grappeld object to the hook. The rope is a dynamically created cylinder where one end is on the submarine and the other on the hook.
Tentacles:
Motivated by the hook physics I aimed for something bigger: evil tentacles which grap your submarine and drag you down. I used four cylinders connected with hinge joints, a fixed base cube and a sphere as a endeffector. But moving the endeffector in a controled way from A to B is not a trivial task. The tentacle tends to mess up and get stuck in itself. Time for some math magic (line 136) and please don’t ask… In the end the tentacle gets stuck sometimes, sometimes it moves a bit erratically, but in total I am quite satisfied with the result.
It can hoard treasure too:
You can play my entry here! Please let me know what you think in the comments!
My game so far: evil robot world domination!
Next will be multiple connected worlds and win/loose conditions.