2nd day’s over. I’m doing the jam again this time as I missed out on almost the entire day yesterday.

Anyway, here’s a gif of a “pow” block that I put into the game. Cool, huh?

Good luck for those in the compo in your last few hours, keep going!

Also, I’ve noticed there haven’t been many upvoted posts recently. Last few hour’s rush I suppose 😉

So, Windows 10 decided to do one of its random restarts, ultimately corrupting all of my game’s images in the procress.

I’m so glad that eclipse kept a temporary backup, otherwise I’d have been screwed. There’d be no way I could recreate all of those textures (and levels, as they are generated from an image) and still be able to add in all the features I need for a “complete” game before the Jam comes to a close.

Needless to say, I’ll be keeping a backup every few minutes from now on. Keep going everyone!

Also, if anyone knows how to stop Windows 10 from doing random reboots, I’d love to know. It happens too often to me (around once every one or two weeks) with no warning.

Just a settings menu, then I’m done!

Good luck everyone and keep going! 😀

…But I forgot this weekend was Ludum Dare. Damn…

A couple minutes ago I  was like, “I wonder what’s going on in LD, wait…OMGNSOGFBASBGOJDFBGAOB”

That’s when I realised I messed up. Time to piece something together and hope for the best…

This would’ve been my 9th (or 8th?) Ludum Dare entry, and I haven’t completely missed one before. I somehow totally forgot it was even happening until yesterday, and when I did, the theme didn’t feel very inspiring and felt more like a rule than a theme to me (much like the “Entire game on one screen” rule from exactly 2 years ago). It’s a real shame that I’ve had to give up on this LD, plus the next one in April will be hard to do due to exams coming up…

I had some ideas and even a small prototype, but didn’t wanna submit an unfinished and lousy game just for the sake of having a streak. Anyway, I wish good luck to anyone who’s still going, they all look great 😀 I’ll see you guys in the next Dare!

I missed out on last LD because I completely FORGOT... I kid you not. But now I'M BACK! Only problem is, like last year around this time, I have important exams coming up so I'll have to balance time between this and revision. My last LD, in August, was a great success so hopefully I can still produce something on that degree with the extra time constrictions.

I'll be using Java, bfxr and Paint.net- my usual set up that I've now been using for 3 years straight!

I'm on limited time due to exams coming up, but hopefully I can get something done. I'm planning on doing a small puzzle game, possibly point and click- but I haven't come up with much past that. Good luck to all!

I don't think I'll get to finish this thing, but it's gone well so far. I just have so much work to do inbetween, however I'd still be happy to release my game as a fun experiment if I don't manage to get it finished.

No screenies yet because I don't have a lot of time, and I haven't given myself enough time to get used to this new site yet (however I must say it looks great!).

Good night everyone, and good luck to those who are still working! :)

It looks like I'm not going to be entering this LD, so that means 2 competitions in a row :( Unfortunately I just didn't have enough time, and my concept was too ambitious. I did manage to get some cool ideas in there though, so if you're interested, you can download the source code here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/n8o767cmtnjkvza/LD38+-+A+Small+World.zip

I wanted to post this as a game for completeness however since there's no other gameplay other than messing with a terminal window in an office and getting it to print things I feel that it's not worthy of being posted as an actual entry.

Good luck to everyone who's still going, they look great! :) I can't wait to come back in August when I'll actually have time to enter. By then it'll be a whole year since I last entered... weird.

First time in a year! Didn't think it would come to that. Was hoping to try a C++ type game this time but haven't got far with graphics yet so I'm sticking with Java. Also hoping to make a space game (if the theme permits ;) ) Good luck to all!

Been working on an asteroids-like space game. Despite losing 12 hours and feeling a bit ill, fighting both health and game bugs for a few hours, I've made decent progress! (Hopefully this gif works!!!)

START OF DAY 2 Starting day 2 now, and things are going great! stayed up fairly late last night and might do the same again tonight to finish this off as I'm starting to see potential and time is fast running out!

I've made some little enemies for the game...

Scavenger: small, easy-to-kill but common enemies that try to steal your power + items!

Saucer (seen in gif): small, fairly common UFO-type enemies that shoot at you from corners with wrapping bullets. They drop plenty of resources when killed!

Orb: a strange, large, rare enemy type which glides around, deflecting asteroids and stealing your power! Can be hard to kill, but rewarding.

Good luck to everyone who's still going, they all look great so far!

Finally got a higher framerate for the gif. This game is starting to get really messy, I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it in time for polishing it up and such. Hopefully everyone will understand how to play! Good luck to everyone who's still going! Looks like I'll be up till 2am again (the deadline)...

First time in a year! Using the same tools as usual: eclipse with Java, paint.net, bfxr.net and audacity. One day I'll change it up, I swear! ;)