Wow many enthusiasm!!

I’ll be working alone, coding in Java with SFML and such. For graphics I’ll use PyxelEdit and possibly GIMP, and for music (if I get that far), MuseScore, Fl Studio, and the piano to my left.

Hehe.

Yo.

So I’ve been working on some stuff and here’s what I have so far.

So there’s that. The tiles are individual and load dynamically based on a map (which is also in a file). It handles keyboard input. Bg is separate and moves slower. Map size is indefinite.

Stuff for LD30

Yup, that’s a cruddy GIF of my current game! It…yeah. I’m not happy with the player sprite though the guys on IRC seem happy with it. Time to do flipping and arm motion! 😀 Then I can make the actual game.

Okay so there’s no hope of me finishing my game, even in time for the Jam, so I’ll just explain what I did wrong.

I planned around the theme, but I put the theme in the story, not the mechanics. That’s fine, if you’re a walking IDE. I barely finished the basic physics of the game a few minutes ago and there’s no gameplay at all, let alone storyline! There’s a very, very slim chance that I’ll still make it by coding from early tomorrow morning. I doubt that’ll happen though.

I should have made all the mechanics and gameplay today, instead of focusing on graphics, and then I should have done graphics tomorrow. Oh well. Next time.

So a list of things to avoid unless you’re certain:

• Your game looking good on day 1. (if this happens by coincidence, that’s great!)
• Your game’s mechanics being unplanned when you start graphics.
• High-resolution pixel art (I killed myself with this one.)

These may or may not be painfully obvious but this is my first dare and I just learned them the hard way.

Yeah so I slept for 4 hours too much last night. Oh well now I’m well rested right?

Okay so now I’m going to actually try to finish my game. I hope this works…right now I’m implementing the menus and such.