Well, my friend told me about this contest yesterday, and so I just got to work without even seeing the site. Silly me and oh well. My game is done now though…

Here are some screenshots:

The page is HERE

It’s been far too long since I’ve tossed my hat in to the Ludum Dare, and I’m jonsin’ for a go-around.

Language: C++ and perhaps Lua
Libraries: Lua, OpenGL, SDL

I will use at most up to 100 lines of code I’ve written prior to the competition (To make working with Lua more sane…)

I really should have known better! This is my third Ludum Dare, but I’m still unable to manage my time correctly. I spent almost all of the first 36 hours on asset creation, and I really failed to get my programming going until way too late.

What went right:
– My core mechanic is intact. Time rewinds every ten seconds, just like I set out to do
– A decent soundtrack made by me. This is a first!
– A full compliment of pixel art for the game
– relatively bug free platforming physics with moving objects
– A decent auto-tiling system

What went horribly wrong:
– Ran out of time
– Had to nix a ton of features, corpses of which remain in the assets bundled with the game
– Wasn’t able to design any provocative levels
– No menu and no win screen
– Game breaking bugs that could only be fixed half an hour after the submission deadline

My takeaway: Next time, start programming the second you hammer out the basic idea. A game with placeholder graphics and generated music, but lots of gameplay, is way better than one with pretty assets and little game. Here’s to hoping for a better tomorrow!

I’ll be using C++, SDL, OpenGL, Lua, built on MinGW and emscripten.

I hope to have a great round!

Between my job, my family, and obligations unfairly imposed on me, I’ve only had 10 or so hours to work this LD. I’ll try to get a good night sleep and then spend the following 8 or so hours plowing through the rest of it. Obligatory motion picture:

I’m gonna try again this round. This time, I’m going to use the following software:

Code::Blocks – My C++ IDE of choice

Git / Github – I’ll be hosting my source on Github, and my workflow will be considerably faster

SDL / OpenGL – My beloved libraries

Crossbridge – After the compo I’m going to port whatever I write to Flash using Crossbridge

FL Studio – For music

Aseprite – For pixel art

The GIMP – For photos

I will be using some of the base code for resource management that I used in my last Ludum Dare, however the engine will be written from scratch.

Best of luck, everyone!

I’ll be using C++ and SDL. I’ll probably also be using FL Studio.