I’m SuperDisk! I really like using Python + Pygame(SDL) and Ludumdare sounded really fun to me. This one happened to be approaching so I hereby decide to give it a shot! (Although the finished product will probably be… unfun. Or unfinished. Depends on what mood I’m in.

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It’s crap! But I’m leaning for more of a SimCity approach rather than a platformer or something. After all, SimCity’s original name was Micropolis 😉

A tile system and the title screen:

Yes, I am a complete amateur.

It’s getting slowly better! The grass looks somewhat nice now, but the game is still pretty crappy.

But we have roads. Beat that. Ah well, now it’s time to add civilians and other economy stuff. I’ll probably run out of time

Slept a little extra last night, just so I would feel refreshed for the last bit of polish on my game.

Then I got up and played it. Next time you do a ludumdare, follow this nugget of wisdom:

Make sure your game works without the livestreamer running.

When I play it, my whole computer becomes unresponsive and the cpu spikes up to 100%. The livestreamer must have been sucking away the resources it wanted, allowing it to run without destroying my computer. Awesome, just 9 hours to fix it now D:<

Turns out the fix to http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/04/22/fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu/ was just that I was changing the window caption each frame to show you how much money you had. Silly me. Fix’d now, hurray 😀

It’s done! To be truthful, I think it turned out a whole lot better than I had hoped it would be. Sadly though, I had to cut out a lot of fun stuff because of time constraints and unoptimization. The whole thing’s codebase is a pile of crap. Don’t kill me because I misspelled ‘Globe’ as ‘Glove’ in the code and just ran with it.. 😀

GET GAME

My friend and I are going to be doing this with Multimedia Fusion 2. This is his first ham and my second. No pygame for me this time but hopefully a better game than MiniCity

Tags: compo, countdown, duran, jam, Ludumdare, MMF2, nick

Our game is about good plans backfiring on you. Obviously if you’ve played a Mario game, you’re going to want to kill the goombas.

But poor Obama is being ridiculed for harming the poor baby’s father.

Just finished up on the first level. On to the Minecraft level.

We resolved the problem by just putting new music in each of the levels. Here are some pictures of level3

One last final level until the election! :O

DISAGREEMENT TIME:

Side 1 (Nick): Using the Honours March in every stage was funny at one time, but now is a stale joke and is rather grating on the ears to listen to over and over again for each stage

Side 2 (Duran): Using the Honours March in every stage is a funny joke and the dissonance between level and music strike a funny chord every time listened to. If we were to put different music in a new stage, it would break the pattern established by the past 2 (of 4) levels.

Here is some picture:

Will you help us settle the (silly) disagreement?

Obamapology’s out.

Lower your expectations 😀

I am back with bad news:

Me, Duran Coleman, and Chase Michael will be participating in the upcoming Ludum, I lied about the bad part.

Ludumdare 23: I made MiniCity in Pygame.

Ludumdare 25: Duran and I made Obamapology in MMF2.

Ludumdare 26: Duran, Chase and I will make some game in either MMF2 or Klik’n’Play.

Wooby!

I take it all back. I would love to have Potato over this Minimalism garbage. Good luck to everyone trying to make a game that’s not a “negative space button clicker”.

BLAAAAH

IBM ASCII is minimalist, am I right? Here’s the title screen.

Best thing about having tiny tiles is the inability to completely jack them up. We forge on!

The platforming engine is functional and the story line is as follows:

You are esteemed miner Richard. Over the years, you have been digging to destroy evil.

But there is now one final dig before your retirement:

The evil, firespitting gnome Charles Flint, king of all subterranean evil.

Dig for destiny, Richard.

We made final boss Charles Flint. Take note, however, that even though we’ve finished the boss, we’re nowhere near done with the game itself. We simply wanted to make sure that we have the final level done, so that we can just construct levels until we run out of time.

Multimedia Fusion 2 (Clickteam): http://clickteam.com/

• “Programming”
• Recoloring of ascii art

Paint.NET (Rick Brewer): http://getpaint.net/

• Picture editing

Audacity (Audacity group): http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

• Sound editing
• Sound recording

64Pixels (Asiekierka): http://game.asiekierka.pl/

• Ascii art

Thanks to the folks who made these.

Well, we’ve spent 9 hours straight creating a boss for Digquest.

Now, it’s time to actually create the levels between the opening and the final boss..

The remainder of the Ludum time will be spent just cranking out levels. We’ve already finished the beginning and end, so if we run out of time making levels it’ll still be a complete game.

Game is about 90% ASCII characters!

Stony level: