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Hey there, daring people. I’m Chronomaster, and this is my first LD, even my first game dev compo. I’ve been looking forward to this for some time now, and have been mentally prepping for Friday. My purpose for joining this competition was to improve my lousy record for doing/achieving anything whatsoever. I have a habit of finding myself with excuses that, while valid, seem to be holding me back. Hopefully, with the competition’s restrictions in place (a short dev period, one person teams only, all resources from scratch), I can get my heading straight and pull through with a respectable piece.

Not that any of that is helping with my prep time. :V

Best of luck to everyone, and cheers to a good show!

Well, due to a surprise entry on the 4th round of voting, I came to a conclusion of what is inevitably going to be the topic of this Ludum Dare. Now, I don’t want to tip my hand just yet, but I figured, hey, I should go and get the box art out of the way, while I still had the idea in my head.

Hope you guys like it.

Going into the 48, I was planning to have a dedicated pizza on hand in case I should get hungry (and I would). My friends work at Papa Johns so I get one on discount, props be to them. However, I am probably the nicest person alive and put myself at the misfortune of leaving the pizza DOWNSTAIRS where my family lives and I don’t.

What follows might be traumatizing to many, and is even banned in a few countries. Please avert your eyes if you have sensitive stomachs.

I’m afraid this will be a long, long night.

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Three hours in, still nothing working to show for it. I’ve been toiling with an idea, napping, dreaming, then trying to compose what I dreamed into my idea, and hopefully I have a solid direction to go by now.

At first, I had this huge idea of creating a random world each play where you must traverse it in order to find an objective, then escape alive from wherever it is you went, all without draining a constant stamina bar before you finished, so the idea was to explore smartly, and not be lead into traps or detours that would waste your time. Scratched that for the comp, so I narrowed it down to a static overworld and 2D sections, to blend action and my knack for board gaming together. Also too ambitious.

One nap later, ~2 hours off my time. I have something. It should consist only of the 2D section stitched together, with the simplest elements of what I’m trying to get across. Anything else is just butter for now, but I could come back to it later. I didn’t have to make it replayable, after all. I just have to prove a point to myself.

Well, now that I finally have a rock solid point, I’m going to go get some root beer. Here’s hoping that isn’t depleted, either.