Hi there,

after theme was discovered my partner ReikVal and me begin a brainstorming session. Alone is a an abstract theme and we still think about poor kittens =^.^=

We are thinking about the game genre but maybe we must decide first the general idea of the game.

By the way, we are developing with C++ using GLUT.

See ya!

Hi there,

we start coding our micro-engine for this ludum dare. First of all we introuduced the Game class for game loop management, update, render, update, render, update, render……..

Next, we start playing with OpenGL, drawing some boxes in the window. We realized boxes are so bored and we develop a Texture class for handling png images. With Texture class introduces, next step was coding a very simple Sprite class but… now this class have more lines than the whole program.

In this Sprite class we have implemented a hot-reload sprite’s info using XML files. For reading this kind of files we use rapidxml.

Now, we can test our sprites without compiling the code. Next step? Blue background is so bored too…

See ya!

@ultrayoshi @ReikVal

Hi again,

after 2 days of coding we have a usable Engine (about 1500 loc) with the following modules:

• TextureManager: handles Textures and improve memory management.
• InputManager: read keyboard and mouse inputs and save it in a nice structure.
• SceneManager: WIP, now we have only 1 scene and we don’t need it.

We are developing a turn-based RTS on you assign tasks for your workers and then generate money and lots of problems for you. These are two screenshots of our development: See you! @ultrayoshi / @ReikVal

Hi there,

first of all, congratulations for all contestants, you made a good job :). Now, our post-mortem/discussion/reflexion about our game.

Well, this is my first LD and I want to thank @ReikVal, my friend, game designer and co-developer of our first game. It is not perfect, actually it is full of bugs, inconsistencies and poor gameplay. But, it’s not bad after all :D.

We learnt a lot in this contest, we learnt how to develop a game from scratch, designing the game, creating a micro-engine and developing game features. While we were developing we found a lot of problems.

First, we start developing our engine without any experience. We lost a lot of time doing this task and we don’t invest enough time on game development. But, if we are positive, we developed a cool engine with the following features:

• Loading textures using a TextureManager improving our memory management.
• Handling mouse input using GLUT with a InputManager class.
• Using a SceneManager we can switch between two different contexts, using a nice interface for our Scenes.
• Cool Sprite class for handling sprites animations.
• A TileMap class for loading the map
• Three useful GUI classes for Buttons, Selectors and TextInputs.

The engine is not finished and its not usable for now. We want to continue developing it and adding new fancy features. About the game, the theme was alone and we start our brainstorming with popular concepts like shadows, ghosts, fear, zombies and…straw balls!. But.. we thought that things were too classic and we start thinking about a cool RTS game about being the unique civilization of the world. Our references were Civilization, Revenge of the Titans and other RTS games. We don’t finish the game because our project was too big for us. But we “finish” it, because it has a start and end conditions with a poor gameplay and no instructions (sorry iforce2d). We love the experience and we will participate on next Ludum Dare with news ideas and more experience. Thanks! See you in LD23! P.S.  Sorry about my poor English. @ultrayoshi @ReikVal

Hi there!

I am @ultrayoshi and I’m participating with my friend @ReikVal on LD jam.

This is our second attempt and this time we are using a different technology for the contest because we learnt some things. Our choice for programming language is Java and we are using LWJGL for all engine stuff.
On the previous edition we used C++ but we were noobs and we developed a tiny engine for the game. Now we have some experience and decided to use a language which we are more familiar and not building a whole engine for the jam.

We are very excited with theme announced: Tiny World. Now we are beggining the design phase.

Let’s go!

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P.S. Sorry for my poor English, I’m learning too!

Hello everyone!

Finally we decided our game genre and story, yay! After a huge brainstorming session with interesting ideas: from a protons wars to rescue a dog for annoying fleas, but finally we decide to program a shooter in a curious environment, our mouth.

These are the main features:

• Control the main character (dental fluoride agent) through a person mouth.
• Defend our host against bacteries
• Shoot to enemies to destroy them before they reach the theeth.
• Bactires creates tooth decays and they spawn more enemies!
• Repair tooth decays shooting them.

We are still working on the idea but its reaching a good shape.

About technical details we decide to use Slick engine because lwjgl is too general and as I said, we learnt the leason, no more engine programming on a ludum dare!

Also our team is growing up! We have a nice graphic designer @_Dreisa_ and the best game design advisor @hmudurra_. Thank you guys!

See you later!

Only a screenshot, not a long post because I’m hungry! 😀

 

It’s not even playable but we are on fire!

Our designer @_Dreisa_ is doing a very good job and both programmers are proud of her 😀

 

More progress!!

It’s not complete yet but it’s playable and need balance! 😀