I am going to make my Ludum Dare debut using a combination of Game Maker 7, GIMP, archive.org and whatever free sound effect archives I stumble upon. And possibly a microphone and camera too, who knows?

My plan is to spend tomorrow morning preparing my workspace and start immediately after lunch. Saturday afternoon will be devoted to coming up with ideas and trying to hack something playable together; by Sunday morning I will have slept on the matter and refined my ideas; Sunday afternoon will involve polishing up the finished product, and then Monday morning will be an official period of gratuitous self-promotion.

Also I’m going to hit Klik of the Month Klub on Saturday night. This will make a fine intermission if I figure out how to record timelapses.

I failed to finish anything at all worthwhile for Ludum Dare this time, but I did finish a game. I wanted to avoid making a game about the act of exploration because there’s already a million billion games about that, so instead I tried to focus on the fear of being discovered – the act of hiding, of obfuscating the truth from an investigating agent. The game I planned to make was like a cross between Pong and Battleships where both players tried to keep track of the ball’s location while hiding it from their opponent, but the short deadline, procrastination, and my poor technical abilities meant that I only ended up with a barely modified remake of Pong. It seems kinda ridiculous compared to some of the stuff you guys have been posting, but I’m pretty happy to have finished something more ambitious than a Wario Ware game.

Presenting: Turn-Based Pong. May or may not be more ambitious than a Wario Ware game.

Tags: Failure