I’m a lecturer at Southampton Solent University, we opened our game development rooms for our students to participate (between 09:00 to 16:00 Saturday and Sunday) and I was there to supervise. Whilst helping the students with their own Ludum Dare Game Jam Entries, I decided to have a little play myself and enter the competition.

I’ve gotten a bit rusty with my coding, due to marking and writing course content for the degree so it was great to be coding (almost) solidly again!

It’s tough bouncing between working on your own stuff and helping the coders plus having my art being mocked by the artists in the room in the room, but in between I came up with this..

Oh S**T! A Shark!

The goal is to keep the shark (on or under the island haven’t decided which) to avoid it eating the swimmers. It plays better on Android but the windows version runs quite well too

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=37051

I hope you enjoy!