My first official attempt at making an entry resulted in this flash thing: http://danik.gotdns.org/flash/crystals/index.html The crystals are randomly generated to be unique. The goal of the game I had in mind was to collect the crystals using the mouse as a magnet, but I didn’t have enough time by far this weekend to pull it off, so I just ended up with this little “demo”.
Crystals screenshot
I will be coding in Java using Eclipse, Photoshop for gfx, Audition for sound, EnergyXT for music (if I can get music working in my applet).
This is my base code I will be using: http://danik.gotdns.org/java/LDAppletBase.zip
Time to get some sleep!
If all else fails, at least I have a good looking background. 😀
As I went to bed last night I had almost given up because all of the issued I had with the gameplay. I couldn’t make it fun.
But after a good nights sleep I knew what didn’t work and had some new ideas, so now I’m up to speed again.
The game is beginning to come along nicely, the gameplay is much more fun now. Just one level so far though, and no menu or instructions.
Announcement: The game now has a title: “Alien Abduction of Aliens.”
I’m having some issued with applet loading resources and such, but other than that – it’s getting there!
Please let me know if you have any issues, some people have reported not being able to play it (some issues with chrome specifically).
A bit late to post this, but I thought the submission entry would show up on the blog. 😛
So yea, the game is finished and submitted. You can play it here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-18/?action=rate&uid=2311
Timelapse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIOyWFkWTdw
Here’s a video of me playing through my game.
Tags: game play, playthrough
My preparations for this LD have been next to none, thanks to exams (had the last one yesterday). But I won’t let that stop me!
My plan:
Make a flash game using FlashPunk (and learn the library at the same time.)
Other tools:
Obligatory desk photo
After a slow start learning FlashPunk my pace is beginning to pick up (sort of). My game will be some kind of secret agent platformer, I haven’t come up with a name yet.
So far I have tile level loading, collision and stuff working, some graphics and some music.
Here’s a screenshot:
Time to get some sleep and think about where I’m going to take the game from here.
See you in the morning.
Current version (not much you can do except jump around and admire the awsum lighting effectz and music):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4785344/ludumdare/LD19%20WIP/index.html
So I have painstakingly assembled a timelapse for my game. I didn’t have any video editing tools besides Chronolapse and Camtasia, so it was kind of annoying, but I’m happy with the result.
Click here to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeFOvKJqIDQ
Update! Better version of the timelapse:
I have been working on my game some more since the competition version.
New features include:
Play it here! –> The Secret Documents
2.5 hours of work so far, took me quite some time to settle on an idea and I’m still not sure about it. We will see…
FOOD!
And some fibre (IMPORTANT!)
Playable! Click here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4785344/ludumdare/LD20WIP/index.html
Today I have mostly worked on some graphics for the splash screen and win screen. It’s coming along nicely, but I still have a lot to do.
Gameplay and graphics are pretty much finished now. Next up: music and sound. And if there is time; online highscores.
Yes, I would like to finish it, but I haven’t decided on what the game in this “game” would be. 😛
I have some ideas though…