Here’s what a not-quite-final version of my entry looks like.  The game is fully playable and probably won’t change a whole lot now in the 8 hours or so that are left.

You can try it here.

I also figured that a hey let’s playtest each other’s games mailing list would probably be cool to have?  link.

This was my first LD, but it sure won’t be the last.  This was fun as hell.

You have 10 seconds to save everyone! GO GO GO GO GO!

Play in browser: link

Windows exe:YouHaveToSaveEveryoneButThereIsntMuchTime.exe

Source:YouHaveToSaveEveryoneButThereIsntMuchTime_Source.rar (requires FlashDevelop and FlexSDK)

Tags: final, mini ld, time

I fortunately have no real experience with domestic violence, so it is more on my feelings about people treating the ones they love poorly.  Just general misdirected meanness.

Early today I decided I hated how the game was turning out and gave up.  Then later, a friend said something encouraging and I had to come back and at least get it presentable and post it.

PLAY IN BROWSER LINK

for those interested:  Source Code

Tags: final, mini ld

Well, I had the start of an idea, but then never really figured out where to go with it.  It could have come out worse, I guess, but I really feel like I should be better at this by now.

In the future, I think I will actually spend time figuring out how I want the game to work instead of going with something extremely vague and getting right into implementing something before I know what I want.

Live and learn, I guess.

PLAY IN BROWSER LINK

for those interested:  Source Code

time-lapse: link

Tags: final, mini ld, sandbox

Looking over the rules here, I see that I’m supposed to declare my custom libraries ahead of time!

From the MiniLDs I’ve done, I’ve built up a little bit of a framework in Actionscript 3 that I think I’ll be using again for LD 15.

I’ve put it on Google code, so you can browse it online here or grab it from svn with something like this:

svn checkout http://meyermike.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ meyermike-read-only

It’s not too fancy, but it has been quite handy for the kinds of things I’ve been making lately.  I didn’t make any documentation for setting it up or using it yet, but if anyone is interested in using it, just let me know and I can do that.

Oh my goodness there’s no way I can keep up with the amount of posts and comments this site is getting! It’s awesome that so much awesome is awesoming here so awesomely.

Awesome.

So my update.

Looks way better in motion. Click it!

Turns out that Flash doesn’t really likethe way I am doing 2.5D, but eventually I got the framerate to be a consistent 30.

Postmortem of Saturday:
I’m doing it wrong:

• Too much Mtn Dew.
• Not sleeping when my body is telling me I need it.
• Maybe concentrating too much on the visuals. I always spend a lot of time tweaking things like colors and animation speeds.
• Normally I’d say AS3/Flex is great for LD, but I think that for this game concept I’d have been better off dusting off Code::Blocks and using some SDL/OpenGL.  A lot of time was lost to getting Flash to cooperate and the quality of the game is definitely suffering.

I’m doing it right:

• Never seen a Flash game that looks anything like this!
• Nap!  I seem to be like 10x more productive now.
• Excited about the game concept!
• It’s kind of fun!

Basically I am ripping off the Wario Ware Inc. microgame Ninja Pipe Cleaner. Which you can see a video of here.

You can see my last upload here.   I’ll be uploading updates there occasionally.

Extremely close to final version is playable here.

Place Fist Here

I love you guys.

Oh hey!  If I make a blog post, then people will actually have a place to comment on the game!

Latest upload of Blow Up Wikipedia is here.

PLAY ONLINE

This is a post-compo version where the game is more like what I actually meant to make.  The original and post-compo versions are marked as such on the game’s page.

It’s like some weird mashup of a broken typing tutor and Space Phallus (NSFW!  Play it at home!).  Only mine has no genitalia.  Well, depending on which Wikipedia articles it uses.

Framework declaration:

So you guys can keep me honest, I just put the current version of the crappy framework I’ll be using up on BitBucket:  http://bitbucket.org/excitemike/stego/

I’ll be using that, FlashDevelop, Photoshop, Sfxr, and maybe this.

I cannot wait to start!

I was really happy with my game from the previous Ludum Dare.  Not so much this time.

The idea here was to have a bunch of teensy games showing a variety of game mechanics and have them arranged in a big grid you can browse.  Unfortunately I didn’t get working on the actual games until very late in the compo.  Somehow I managed to lose a lot of time on the UI for browsing them even though it doesn’t look that complicated.

I guess I knew going into it that the idea was going to be terribly hard to pull off in 48hrs, but stupidly kept going with that idea instead of the others I had.

I guess I still finished a playable, silly platformer with five levels in 48 hours, and that’s still an accomplishment. 

I look forward to reviewing the timelapse once I put it together and take a look at how the time was really spent.  Should be educational.

Official Entry Page

Play Online

Timelapse

Source Code

I have a new wallpaper!

Keep doing square numbers, guys!

I will soon be spending Christmas vacation in a land where non-dial-up internet access is somewhat hard to come by.  So to prepare, I have downloaded offline copies of almost all the games.  Now that I’ve put that together, it occurs to me that maybe others would like that?  If one giant download of (almost) all the LD16 games would be useful to you, you can get all 327 delicious megabytes of it here.

I think there are only 2 games that I couldn’t get working offline copies of.  One was Linux only and the other looked like it would be nontrivial to steal from Kongregate.  For all the games whether I could rip them or not, the folder contains shortcuts to that game’s page on ludumdare.com.

EDIT:  Link fixed.  Thanks, Jonny D!

Super Game Boy changed my life.

Progress:  Spent WAY too effing long in Photoshop.  It’s way too easy for me to get distracted tweaking pixels.  I have an intro that I’m really happy with, but no gameplay at all yet!  Time to focus on that now.  Definitely NOT time to play my copy of Umihara Kawase DS that arrived yesterday.  Focus, Mike.

The Greatest Game in the World... Tribute

A clone of Gameboy Donkey Kong (a.k.a Donkey Kong ’94).

(there’s no winning or losing, just platforming around and watching the levels change)

compo entry page

PLAY ONLINE

Fixed version for folks without a sound device

Source code

Timelapse

Tags: final

Late

I gave up on my original idea and didn’t think I was going to do a mini-ld game this time, but then suddenly within a couple hours of the deadline I decided to whip together something bad but playable.

PLAY ONLINE

On a happier note, I did make four games this weekend!  The other three were for Klik of the Month Klub.  over here.

Edit:  Timelapse!

Tags: final

Framework:  This Stego AS3 framework thing that I’ve accumulated over the last several months:  http://bitbucket.org/excitemike/stego/

IDE: FlashDevelop. compiling with mxmlc.

Music: I’m thinking WarioWare DIY, then recorded and edited in GoldWave.

Graphics: A copy of Photoshop CS 1 which as far as you know was obtained completely legitimately.

Sound Effects: I bet you can guess this one.

Will be listening to: Switching Pandora between a DragonForce station and a station based on music from movie montages (on which the Transformers: The Movie (animated) soundtrack comes up often! ).

For timelapse: I will be using Keeyai’s Chronolapse on account of it’s awesomeness.

Desk:

The Brachiosaurus will be relocated before the compo begins.

Refridgerator:

In case you wondered whether I like bottled water.

Additional foodstuffs:

crunchy munchies

Inspiration:

I should be playing the GameCube version with bongos.

Projector + FC Twin + Super Game Boy + Game Boy Donkey Kong = Heaven!

Sauce Control: Mercurial, which I love.

Twitter: ExciteMike

Favorite Dinosaur: Microraptor gui

And actually I may use Unity, depending on what kind of ideas I get once the theme is announced, but the above is most likely.

I need to get a decent camera.  The webcam built into the cheap laptop is kind of a pain to use.

Tags: declaration of intent, desk, food, foodphoto, framework, workspace

I guess we’re about three and a half hours in, and it turns out I spent all that time on just the idea!

Thought it might be cool to share my whiteboard:

The accel curve drawn there is pretty much exactly the worst I could have picked for hard-to-explain reasons.

Title ideas.

It doesn’t really communicate the game idea well

At this point I think I’m going to try a kind of offbeat movement scheme combined with grabbing and throwing things.  I’m not sure those things combine well, but I guess I’ll find out!

Tags: whiteboard progess idea update

It’s about that time where I start thinking my game idea might be crap!  I was thinking I’d have you grabbing passing ships and using them as weapons to throw at other monsters, but now I feel like this guy just wants to swim around and have a good time.  Probably chase things around the cluster of islands.

Baby Leviathan squirming around.

demo/status page here

Tags: baby leviathan, panic, screenshot

Giant grid of screenshots from all 205 LD 17 games!

205 screenshots + LD logo

Here are some wallpaper-sized versions:

• 640 x 480
• 800 x 600
• 1024 x 768
• 1152 x 864
• 1280 x 0960
• 1280 x 1024
• 1600 x 1200

EDIT: These ones add some space for your task bar.

• 640 x 480
• 800 x 600
• 1024 x 768
• 1152 x 864
• 1280 x 0960
• 1280 x 1024
• 1600 x 1200

Tags: grid, screenshot

Framework: Stego, the as3 framework I’ve cobbled together over the course of these events.  I may go with Unity instead if for some reason I feel like going three dee once the theme is decided.

IDE: FlashDevelop. compiling with mxmlc.

Graphics: A copy of Photoshop CS 1 which as far as you know was obtained completely legitimately.

Music: I’ll try WarioWare DIY recorded and edited in GoldWave.  It came out kind of terrible last time I did that, but I’ll try again anyway.

Sound Effects: I bet you can guess this one.

For timelapse: I will be using Keeyai’s Chronolapse.

Will be listening to: Some combination of an exciting Pandora station and my 8bitcollective favorites.

Desk: I’ve moved since the last Ludum Dare!

Sauce Control: Mercurial, pushed to Bit Bucket.

Twitter: ExciteMike

Interweb pagesite: http://excitemike.com/

Rules Question: How would people feel about a game connecting to internet radio for music?  I probably won’t do it this time around, but I’m thinking about it for future events.

Tags: declaration, deskphoto