I have greatly enjoyed the fruits of LDs in the past… I have a bunch of friends who have been doing this for years and everytime they say, “Go OOOON, you can do it!!!” So I think I will have a go this time. Although, I must be able to make a game with proper SEXY TIMES based on the theme, the only thing I’m good at making is eyecandy. Besides, it’s not sexist having gratuitous images of barely-legal anime babes plastered all over the screen if they are drawn by girl, right? Right? … (^.^);; 

My tools: Ren ‘Py (Yeah I know, right? :P), PaintTool SAI, Photoshop CS3, Wacom Intuos3, Sibelius First (because I can only compose music/sound effects classically, not with sequencers ♪), husband (for making me tea, if he’s not too busy working on his entry XD)

I look forward to finally sharing in your pain, everyone! *(^w^)* ♥

OMG OMG OMG I got here at 0255 UK time and was so happy to see that there was an hour’s grace period XD So yeah, I think it’s okay. Well, it doesn’t crash on loading or playing through on most options, so that’ll have to do!  As my first post on Ludumdare stated a few days ago, I only entered if I thought I could put some gratuitous sexy time into my game. The good news is… I could. So I did.

(Actually, it’s not so racy, I’d say it’s a 12A game). I must confess, I only downloaded Ren ‘Py 5 days ago (and Sibelius First 4 days ago) so I had to teach myself how to do this stuff pretty quick! Sincere apologies if anything seems a little clunky/buggy. You can view my entry here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?action=rate&uid=4135

I managed to get the sentence “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this!” In there no less than FIVE TIMES XD Time lapse video and other stuff when I get some sleep. Trust me to make the type of game that not only needs some (simple) coding, but tons of graphics, music and some semblance of a story… My husband (mjb67) was able to submit his game after lunchtime and he just played Mass Effect 2 all evening whilst I was rushing to churn out the last graphics on mine…

GOODNIGHT and congratulations to all who managed to get their stuff in on time, commiserations for those who didn’t (but keep trying! Always!) and for those still racing to get their JAM games done, YOU CAN DO IT!!! *lovelovelove*

I have mostly recovered from the rigours of last minute bug killing before submission last night. So I have made a little time lapse video. Hopefully you’ll find it interesting as I really tried to tackle every part of the game in big chunks at a time (scripted my story in one go, then re-wrote in Ren’Py, then composed all the music in Sibelius in one go, then did all the artwork). Please watch it at full size to see the tits & arse- I mean, to see the artwork and the scripting clearer.

 I can’t seem to embed the YouTube on here, so here’s a selection of stills from the video and the YouTube link below ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MRDp2RHGEc

View my entry: Let Me Save You! Your Faithful Companion

WINDOWS (OLD ATI DRIVERS) IN REN’PY VERSION 6.12.15 for Let Me Save You! Your Faithful Companion

If you have a computer with an old ATI driver (very rare, but possible – I’d say only one person has reported this to me) it may have crashed on start-up. Please note this was not a coding error on my part, but a bug in the developer tool itself, Ren’Py ver 6.12.0e. I reported the bug to Ren’Py on 3rd May 2011, and 4th May 2011 they fixed and finalised their new version of Ren’Py, 6.12.15! (Many thanks to Tom at Ren’Py for being so quick!) As such, the above link is the original Windows version EXACTLY AS IS (no changes to my script/content, you can check if you want) in Ren’Py 6.12.15 which allows for older ATI drivers to run the game.

I’m not wanting to break any rules here, so please view and download from my original entry links where possible. This is only if you run Windows and have an old ATI driver/graphics system which has had trouble with not just my game, but possibly ALL Ren’Py games in 6.12.0e.