Hooray, I’ve finished! This is certainly my most polished LD entry, so I’m really pleased about that. It’s not a bad game, either! 😉

Since I posted the last build, the player physics is a lot more slippery and bouncy, you can knock snow off your opponent, there re particle effects, and even (a cappella) music and sound effects!

Game page is at http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=1049 and it’s playable online at http://atkinssj.itch.io/snowman-sumo. Find a friend, and give it a go!

Tags: final, game, progress, screenshot, unity, unity3d, update

Morning folks! Not my favourite theme, but not the worst. I’m making a game about Dr Frankenstein, who as everyone knows, is the real monster in the story. It’s a management game about running a monster-building business. I have a tendency to always aim too high in game jams, but I think that I’ve managed to simplify it enough to be feasible. Enjoy an exciting concept-art sketch:

Aaand I have a sketch of what Frankenstein's Monsters, Inc. will look like! Yay! #LDJAM pic.twitter.com/YhwmOVfFwQ

— Sam Atkins (@AtkinsSJ) August 22, 2015

(Apologies for my awful handwriting.) Not to actually start making something!

Tags: concept art

It’s Horrible Programmer Art Time!

First screenshot! I think you'll agree, it's quite beautiful. #LDJAM pic.twitter.com/DhaPGeqqNi

— Sam Atkins (@AtkinsSJ) August 22, 2015

Game’s going quite well! The three stages of monster production (grave robbing, stitching together, and zapping with electricity) are in, and you can drag monsters you produce into those three departments to assign them to work. Not much actual game logic remains, then I can spend lots of time making slightly-less-horrible programmer art.

Tags: progress, screenshot

Aaaand submitted! 😀 http://t.co/z8pFpHnwio #LDJAM pic.twitter.com/RJzOEawCBR

— Sam Atkins (@AtkinsSJ) August 23, 2015

Frankenstein’s Monsters, Inc. is done. Huzzah!! Give it a go at http://atkinssj.itch.io/ld33-frankensteins-monsters-inc (Playable as HTML5 in browser, or as a Java download.)

Had a small panic last-minute when I had to rewrite some things for the HTML5 build to work, but it’s all sorted now.

To everyone still working: You can do it! 😀

Tags: final, LD33, screenshot

Super happy with the theme as ever since playing Waking Mars, I’ve wanted to make a game about playing with an ecosystem. I haven’t posted any screenshots here yet, but here’s one from a few moments ago:

It's starting to come together now! 😀 #LDJAM pic.twitter.com/EFyOmKH1P1

— Sam Atkins (@AtkinsSJ) December 13, 2015

There’s only one kind of plant right now, but you plant seeds which grow if the soil humidity is right, and they’ll spread their own seeds once they’ve matured and flowered. (Humidity is indicated by the soil colour, the bluer the wetter it is.)

I don’t think there’s going to be a goal at all, just a sandbox to play around in. I’ll be adding more plants, maybe animals, maybe insects if I get time, maybe weather, maybe light/dark and plant preferences for that. A whole lot of maybes, basically!

Tags: 2D, screenshot