Hey all, I’m a AAA dude gone solo and taking on all the dev roles.

I’m a long time Ludum Dare lurker, but I’m excited to finally be able to participate now that I’m learning to code.

Yesterday I took a trial run at making something from scratch and put this together in ~8 hours of work:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17611986/ClutzBot.html

(not a full game, just arrow keys to drive around and bump into things)

To be clear, I don’t plan on USING any of that in the event, it’s just the first non-tutorial thing I’ve tried coding, and was a great way to get a couple 1-2 hour long stumbling confusion fests out of the way (like, oh hey, THAT’S what an else-if statement is for!)

I’ll be using…

Code:

• Unity
• UnityScript / JavaScript
• IDE: MonoDevelop
• Free shader code libraries (“Free MatCap Shaders”)

Assets:

• Graphics: I won’t lie… a version of Lightwave 5 that I’ve used literally since 1999 (aint broken, aint fixin it!), Modo, Photoshop
• Sound and music: GarageBand and Audacity (It’s my understanding that using loops and audio from GarageBand is allowed, so, running with that I’m sure)

I’m on Twitter at @MrLeePerry… I’ll probably vine some updates, but not live feed my work (too hard with doing art on PC and Unity on Mac)

Thought I had a conflict for this weekend, but it turned out I’m clear!  So, after coming up with a possible game based on these twin themes, I think I’ll hop in for my 3rd Ludum Dare!

(Also, David Kalina from Tiger Style just saved my ass and pointed out that I had misread the theme as ONE button controls instead of two, haha!  Whew!)

I’m using:
Unity
Modo
Photoshop
Audacity
Autotracker random music gen tool

Good luck, all!!!
@MrLeePerry

Will be my 3rd solo compo entry...

I will be using Unity Photoshop Modo Audacity Ummmm... and coffee, I reckon.

OH! And some swanky Autotracker music, as always.

Will be tweeting at: https://twitter.com/MrLeePerry

Man, I had a lot of fun with this compo! Best one so far out of 4 Ludum Dares and other 2 aborted ones.

I actually have a LOT of fun playing this one, which isn't always the case, haha. My highest score so far is 33, and I was just in the zone. Normally it's like 15.

As far as production went, I got most everything in I wanted, except I wanted all the crates you're carrying around to sway as the stack got taller... and my super stretch goal was to make the platform under you dip and sway based on your weight... but you fling around the platforms at like the speed of sound, so that probably wouldn't have worked anyway.

But those are two minor aesthetic things, not losing sleep over them.

OH!!!

I had WAY too much fun screwing around with sound/music. I just pulled out my phone and started recording layers of singing this ridiculous stupid pirate song and just rambling... then I edited those all into modular bits and it made this (IMO funny, but guaranteed stupid!) random pirate rambling soundtrack. There's a backing beat from autotracker midi stuff, but mostly you hear my dumb voicework, haha.

Anyway, if you want to give it a shot, the PC build is on my dropbox, linked in the game page obviously. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/booty-looter

(I didn't mess with making builds until the last minute... I'm not familiar with the process of making a WebGL build, but will look into it. Damn I miss the days of just throwing up a web build and knowing it would work on different machines and browsers)

ARRRRRR!!!

'Ave ye e'er wondered what ye should do with a drunk'n pirate?!

E'er sat on ye poop deck ponderin the great masses o' booty ye could loot from a shite-ton o' floatin' debris?

Want ye some slick arse simple control scheme that makes ye feel like a hardcore pirate type?

Does ye like truly freakin' awful music recorded on an iPhone at 3AM and rigged to create random funnery?

GET SOME BOOTY LOOTIN!

OK, nuff o' that...

I made this solo for the Compo, and it turned out really damn slick IMO. Give it a whirl if you're looking for something fun to play :)

PC and Mac builds.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/booty-looter

Will be sporting Unity, Modo, Photoshop, Audacity, a microphone... some medications probably.

Hoping for a good theme!

-Lee Perry @MrLeePerry

OK, got my basic crew of groupmind chickens moving around "correctly"... now to add some game structure to this.

Hmmm... could figure out how to add video to this post, or just include a link to my twitter post with a video and get back to work. Yep, option two it is! -Lee

VIDEO HERE:

https://twitter.com/MrLeePerry/status/1068934027963334656

Able to play a match, and... it's preeeeeetty dang fun! Very happy so far!

Video of a playthrough... https://twitter.com/MrLeePerry/status/1069057223832158208

Video of random level generation stuff working https://twitter.com/MrLeePerry/status/1069045465163821057

WOOOOOT!!!! This was a BLAST of a Ludum dare. This was a solo project again.

Probably one of my fav game jams this time. Everything just flowed really nicely. The game is suuuuper fun IMO, and I even had time to do a custom crazy dynamic farm song :)

Give it a shot! YEEEAAAWWWW BIIIIIRD!!!

Game link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/clucked-up

Hahha, I put a vid up of Clucked Up :) Really happy with how this came together.

Hope you all dig it! (Gotta go put a Mac build up now!)

https://youtu.be/gTH2Y3Y41aI

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/clucked-up

Had some success in the past, and this time I'm going to try and make a learning opportunity to use Unity's newer input system.

So I'll be using Unity, Photoshop, Modo, Audacity, a microphone and some random music generator... That's probably it

Anyone interested in seeing updates I'll probably post a lot on Twitter as @MrLeePerry

Think I've got most of what I need to hit the ground running with code in the morning. This should be a genuine hootnanny :)

Got my basic player controls in, with some visual love...

Movey movey! https://youtu.be/5SBwdCqmWpQ

How it works: https://youtu.be/NUCzWxJeU1U

Details on this on Twitter, for those that care: https://twitter.com/i/status/1251577232046395394

Got "eating" in, which is gross for a fly ;) (You eat faster the longer you're stationary)

Your overall score will be the lowest of the colors at the top.

Lots to polish, balance, and fun audio of course to go. And yes, my reflexes suck. Blaming it on the fractured wrist! It falls into my scheme of making games I suck at, but others seem to dig :)

(Crappy phone vid, just, too hurried to do more this moment)

https://youtu.be/Rum1tWh9MYQ

I shot some video of my fancy-ass solo comp game, hoping to entice some people to give it a shot, it's purty fun! :)

Vid of playthrough: https://youtu.be/x0N7_PFfE-c

Short dev commentary: https://youtu.be/u86V_ljjXgU

Game Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mr-buzzs-fancy-ass-picnic

OK, today I'll be playing some other games, but thought I'd start with posting this :) Good luck, all!