Making games on LD!

So after participating 3 times with my LD team ( ConflictiveLabs ) I’ve decided to go solo this round, mostly because I won’t be home and also my mind is a bit tired so I don’t think I can handle 3 days of massive game creation.

For the type of game, I guess I’ll have to wait for the official theme.

For my work tools I’ll use:

Programming: Monkey ( maybe with flixel ).

IDE: JungleIDE.

Gfx: Pixen ( yeah, I love pixel art )

Sound: cfxr ( the mac versión of sfxr )

Music: I don’t know, probably steal something from a free assets library.

I guess that’s all.

Good luck to everyone!

It’s almost 6 am where I live and I need to get up at 9 am, so I guess I’ll just have a minimal sleep.

After a while fighting with the theme, prototyping a couple of test I decided to go with an old idea I had before learning how to program. I don’t know how to call it or if it’ll have an end or something. Right now it’s just some circles moving around.

You can try the demo here: http://shin.cl/ld26/

Now I shall sleep and dream how can I make this a fun game.

I decided to call my game shon, in honor to my cat.

I wasn’t able to make a lot of changes as I am bit sick so I guess I’ll just got for the jam.

The idea of the game is that you need to protect the center circle, while it’s growing, from the pink circles that are coming towards it.

Here ara a couple of screenshots:

I am still thinking on adding some levels and a how-long-you-lasted score.

Here you can try the demo:

http://shin.cl/ld26/02/

F.

After reading all feedback I’ve got about my game I decided to make a couple of modifications to my game.

The things I’ve fixed include:

– New enemies.

– Margin, so it’s easier to spawn bubbles on edges.

– Some minor bug fixes.

I have the feeling that with this fast update many bugs will be found, but right now I can’t see straight so I’ll just leave them to a Post jam to-do list.

Here you can see my entry:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=13148

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Hello everyone, this night I’ll be streaming playing and rating some ludum dare games together with my girlfriend. If you would like us to play and rate your game just post it on the chat, we’ll be happy to play them.

** NOTE **

I’ll be playing games on a Macbook so I won’t be able to play Windows or Linux games. Sorry.

Join us at http://www.twitch.tv/ilovepixel/

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Just a couple of minutes to finish the voting period I wanted to post my favorite 4 games.

For all this time I didn’t know which to choose because I really loved many of the games on this ludum dare. Some just screamed GENIUS. Now I can choose because my mind is filled with beer and everything it’s more clear.

Anyway I’ll start the list with

Gods Will Be Watching

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=11045

I guess this is the favorite of many, but this one caught the eye of my girl friend. So I am putting this one for her. She really loved this game. She played about 20 times, only lost 2 the rest she just kept playing. She was amazed with it so great game!

The second game on my list is:

Fractured

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=13960

This is a crazy and difficult game. The puzzle will probably destroy you brain, I don’t know if it’s because I am not smart enough for this or what, but I wasn’t able to finish it. Even though it was a very hard game it really kept me going.

Next on the list is:

(Follow the) Line

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=17883

Another popular game on LD26. I really loved how simple it is. It’s simple but not easy and doesn’t get boring after a while. This is a game I really want to keep playing. Please port this to phones and tablets. I read you made this with haxe, so you MUST!.

And last but not least:

Somsnosa

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=18575

I really felt like I was on a surreal painting. The art  was just great! and I really loved the battles. Something about this game just makes me feel like I am on a dream.

If you have a minute left you could play & rate my game  “SHON” ( whoring  )

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=13148

I recently moved from my home country, Chile, to start working on a game dev company. This is my first time participating in Ludum Dare away from home.

My weapons of choice are:

Programming: Monkey

Art: Pixen

Music: GarageBand

Sounds: cfxr

I wish everyone a good weekend and I hope to see on monday a couple of thousands games.

Yes! after a lot of time thinking about this I decided to just participate.

I will be going solo on the compo.

My working tools will be:

Programming: Monkey-X

Art: Paper + Photoshop

Sounds:  cfxr

Music: GarageBand

Good luck to everyone!

Sadly I couldn’t make to the compo. I really wanted to, I guess I am out of practice. Anyway I don want to make it to the jam!

Here is a small progress 😀

And here is part of the first battle

For fun I also made it work on 3DS :D. This wont be a entry but it was fun to see it could run on the console.

Cheers!

Following the tradition :)

I'll be using my own engine and probably it'll be a 2D game.

I'll either make a game boy game or a web game in C. I still have no idea. Either way a game I shall make!