As the title says, this is my first LD!
“Develop a game in 48 hours.” – That sounds challenging! Well, I mostly do this to get some inspiration. I will develop in Java, using Eclipse and no extra libraries – from scratch. I won’t make a timelapse, but I’ll try uploading some screens of my project in development. Also, since I’m a german student, this LD fits in my holiday time.

Well… absolutely no idea how hard i will fail – but it can only be an improvement of my programming skills. LD, here I come!

Edit: And I will also use tools like sfxr or Ulead Photo Impact (i don’t like Paint.NET). 😉

7 hours and not a single idea. i don’t think i got any chances anymore.
(although i had one for discovery, but that was last time…)

Anyway, you guys are doing amazing things! Keep it up!

Yummy!

Let’s get back to coding…

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First screenshot! :D

The game can already load maps, take own screenshots, has an editor and you can move. No enemies or anything yet. Well, let’s hope I’ll finish it on time

I know it doesn’t look much different than my previous screen, but the engine has been improved a lot! Tomorrow i will implement entities, collision, and… well, gameplay!

Deadline is too near. School tomorrow. No time. Portal 2

Anyway here are 2 screenshots from my game

Old man wants his book. I found it! :D

How nice! He gave me a flashlight! :)

Yeah, title says it all. Didn’r have time to participate earlier, had to learn for a test, but at least i now have a 99.9% idea of how my game should be.

I’ll be using:

– Eclipse (Java ftw!!)
– Ulead PhotoImpact 10/Paint.NET
– Audacity for sounds maybe
– My (music) keyboard if this is allowed
– No libraries ^^

Listening to: www.psyradio.fm & www.audionautix.com

My Entry

I know it’s a bit late, but well, this just increases the challenge 😉

GL HF everyone!

I really have to say, I had a great time participating in this Ludum Dare, and first of all, I want to say I’m gonna do it again! LD is such an awesome experience!

I was surprised I did not have much problems during the development. I couldn’t code on saturday, but that was not a problem after all.

This game btw

What went wrong:
– Sound. I planned to make a music and add some sfxr’ed effects, but when I was done with coding, it was already monday here in germany, and I had to write a test this day. All in all I got 3 hours of sleep, and did not feel great that day. But I don’t regret anything. ^^ Anyway, sound is something, I would have liked to include. In the post-compo version, I added it.

What went right:
– Planning: I used 6 hours of saturday to write everything on paper. This of course gave me the opportunity to develop with a full concept of how the game should be, which resulted in enhanced coding speed!
– Discipline: I got up at 7 am in the morning, and coded nearly straigt until midnight. But I drunk way to less, just one and a half pot of tea for the entire day!
– Gameplay: The gameplay developed amazingly nice. I did plan how to make the game, how it would be was unknown, in my opinion, the gameplay is quite nice.

I had a todo-list, which gave me motivation, each time I completed a point.

P.S.: Many thanks to Notch for bringing me here with his timelapse videos! (Metagun!!! Breaking the Tower!!!! Bunny Press!!!)

Just like manual PvZ

So, TheFridolin made a game for LD, and I fixed and uploaded it.

You can play it here!

It’s not really advanced gameplay. Many things could be added and improved, but since this is his first Java-game with graphics, he did a nice job!

Anyway, looking forward to next LD ^^

Not googled graphics at all!

Can’t wait to code for that damn thing! 😀

As usual:

• Language: Java
• IDE: Eclipse
• Graphics: Ulead Photo Impact / Paint.NET / Irfan View / We’ll see what we need…
• Sound: OpenMPT for music, SFXR for sound. Perhaps Audacity too

Good luck and have fun everyone!

Still haven’t finished Danger! (my first LD game) ^^

R-Evolution. Lol. You get the point.

R-Evolution! Got the map, the UI, the basic idea, the renderer and many graphics done. Well… programming the game itself comes next ^^

/edit: Here is food!

Very tasty!

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Now that looks nice!

A bit of progress happened. Mostly behind the scenes though. Anyway, I’m proud of my ingame-dialog class ^^

Hello fellow Ludum-Darees!

As usual, I hereby announce my participation in the next Ludum Dare!

My tools haven’t changed, so if you want to know them, just take a look at my previous posts!

Shameless advertising ahead ^^

Also, check out this handy tool I’ve written: IconTool
Ever wanted to create an icon for your game, but failed at finding a good freeware tool? Or are you just looking for a simple way to create icons with multiple resolutions?
IconTool has exactly what you want: No unneccesary functions, just specify the input PNGs and click “Save” to create an *.ico file out of them!
Oh, and if you use it, could you credit me please? Thanks!

Hello! I came up with an idea, hope I’ll be able to do all this ^^

I’m making a game in Java, and since Java 7 I have the following problem:

Whenever I want to pack my JFrame after creating and filling it, it leaves a white “border” on the right and the bottom. The game is 800×600, but Java makes the frames content space a bit wider.

I can workaround this by using a one-time action event with Swings Timer class. But isn’t there a more elegant solution?


private void makeUI() {
ds = new Drawscreen();
window = new JFrame("Goatz! v"+VERSION+" - By AyCe for LD 25");
window.setIconImage(MediaLib.icon);
window.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
window.setResizable(false);
content = window.getContentPane();
content.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800, 600));
window.pack();
content.add(ds);
window.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
window.setVisible(true);
ds.requestFocusInWindow();
// hackfix for border bug
Timer t = new Timer(1000, new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
window.pack();
}
});
t.setRepeats(false);
t.start();
}


The bug

After some hours of coding, I got the sneaking suspicion I won’t finish on time. Should have done something useful with the day (and not spend 2h on the task system).
The game is suppossed to be a mix between Wiggles and Dungeon Keeper.
You lead a tribe of goats defending their magical hayrack (which is powered by black magic?). What is special about it: It’s a 2D-side-scrolling RTS game.

First screenshot. A goat and a hay rack. Wow.

My biggest problem is: Whenever I want to make a game, I end up coding an engine which I could reuse later. This may make the adding of features easier, but it also slows down progress considerably.
Whatever! It’s my mother’s birthday tomorrow, so I baked a french chocolate cake! 😀

C’est un Gâteau au chocolat

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Do you know anything else that can break walls like THIS? (You should open it in extra tab and zoom at least to 400%)

Use horns with wall

Hey guys! Here I am, trying to make a game with an idea way too big for minimalism! 😀

Made for our IT class. Also pretty much sums up my toolbox.

Here’s a first screenie of my game so far:

Not much going on ATM…

Good luck have fun everyone!

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After 12 hours of coding (with some breaks) this is what I got so far:

Movement, Control system, Info bar system, occupying and sieging system… engine is nice. Game is not. Yet. :)

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Hey folks!

I’m in, once again! Hopefully coding a game rather than a cool engine without much gameplay! 😉
My tools are as usual:

• Eclipse for Java
• Audacity, OpenMPT, sfxr for sound
• Ulead PhotoImpact, Paint.NET for GFX

Let’s do this!!

Hours of work, and I still only got this.

You can give orders to your units every 10 seconds. The more experienced a unit is, the more orders you can give to it at once (and more benefits ofc).

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