…and I’ve got my game just about finished!
It’s missing a fair deal of polish here and there, but the mechanics are all sorted out and the difficulty progression is in place!
I’ve decided to make a projectile avoidance game mixed with a typing game, where you play as a parent who has to monster (british slang term meaning “to scold”) their children who keep throwing household objects around the living room.
I’m very happy with how it’s all coming together.
and with four hours to spare, no less!
I’m pretty happy with how my final product came out, but I’m going to spend these last few hours continuing to test and tweak it so that it’s perfect for submission hour. Here’s a little screenshot to whet your appetite in the meantime:
Hey hey! Looking for a cool game to play so that you can get your cool new Jam entry onto the frontpage?
Why not have a go at Monstering Monsters?
Hey all! I know that lots of folks like to listen to music while they program, so I’ve set up a dubtrack.fm page so we can all do just that! It works like an ongoing music radio station where we all take turns queuing up songs to play. Any and all genres of music are more than welcome! Ludum Dare is about trying new things, so why not come on down, listen to some new music, and share some of your own favorite songs with the group?
You can check it out right here if you want! https://www.dubtrack.fm/join/ludum-dare
I had a bit of a slow start last night, but I’ve officially settled on my interpretation of the theme. You’ll be controlling a giant snowball in a made-up winter sport where two teams of runners try to complete laps around a track, while you try to consume them in your ever growing ball. There’s another little twist I have planned, but I don’t want to spoil it just yet.
On another note, if you still need some music to listen to while programming, drop on by https://www.dubtrack.fm/join/ludum-dare! It’s like an ongoing music radio station where everybody on the site gets to take turns playing their music. It’s a great way to interact with the community, hear some new songs, and share some of your old favorites.
I’ve decided to make a game about decorating shift dresses using scraps of fabric shapes that you had lying around. The mechanics are pretty simple – a conveyor belt of shapes runs along the left of the screen, and you drag shapes onto the shift trying to meet the tastes of fashion VIPs which are listed on the right. I’m thinking I’m going to aim for a score-attack style game in which you’ll try to score as highly as possible with somewhere around 5 or 6 dresses.
I’ve just uploaded Makeshift, my Ludum Dare entry about high fashion.
I found out that a shift is a kind of dress, so I rolled with that and made a very silly game about decorating shift dresses on the fly to send out on the runway.
Check it out here, if it sounds interesting:
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=29805
