Whoa, I’ve finally done my entry for the Jam.
It’s been a lot of fun despite some little unforeseen events that have slowed me down.
Here’s the entry, playable on web (Unity web player required), Windows, OSX, Linux & Android.
Toolset used for the game
Engine: Unity3d
2D Graphics: mspaint, gimp 2.8
Sound: sfxr
Here’s an image on the progress so far!
It’s a very difficult theme, I’ve come with the idea of this concept only 3 or 4 hours after being awake (about 7h in the Jam), but I certainly like how the game is shaping up!
Yesterday I’ve worked at basic movement script for the game, today I’m adding some gameplay objects.
I don’t know how the game will be called D: 😛
I know that LD users loves gameplay gifs 😛
a Tree is a collaborative asynchronous multiplayer game.
Play as a root to find water to keep the tree healthy.
So far already 18 players have played the game 😀 (here’s a little screen of the roots :D).
You can check it here:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=8795
Tomorrow I’ll post a simple post-mortem 
I’m happy to announce that 70 unique users have already playied the game :D, and with that bombshell here’s the post mortem
What went right:
– almost everything, in fact the game isn’t much complex so it have taken not so long time to program. The few bugs were found & fixed very fast.
– graphics, I’m not an artist so I made the graphics as simpliest as possible.
What went “wrong”:
– server code. I always hated database & co, so it took a lot of time to create a functional back-end for the game.
What could have been improved:
– gameplay, the gameplay can be expanded a little bit also I like the idea of customized servers and a bigger play area.
Fun fact:
At the beginning of the play stage there was a little sound that resemble the grow of a root (actually is a leather scretched)
The sound was removed after a test on my android phone because it sounded like a noisy fart.
The fun part is that if you wait a little in the root view and then play the game you can hear the fart noise 😀
You can check the game here
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=8795
First of all this it’s maybe my favourite LD of all I’ve entered, the “entire game in one screen” theme it’s a lot wider than the pasts LD but it’s also very difficult to stay attached to that when making the entry.
What went right:
-Graphics: I’m very proud of the graphics of my entry, it’s very simple but effective!
-Gameplay; It’s very simple and barebone, but it also have a bit of resources management to keep playing,
What went wrong:
-Unity: I always use Unity for my games, but with Jimmy hates fun I’ve had some bug/problems that I’ve never noticed in the pasts version of Unity. Actually I’m using Unity 4.6 and sometimes the baseballbat or the grenade changhe their size when picked up, and I don’t know what cause that bug as I do not scale objects during the game.
Some Tip:
A part of the gameplay is to discover what the objects will do when trhown, but for thoose who want pick up & play right now here a little tips:
– Grenade: It “kills” only one enemy;
– Baseball Bat: kills up to two enemies;
– Ball: kills an “infinite” number of enemies, in fact every time the ball bounce back when it hits an enemy and so on until it touches the ground 😛
You can play my entry here: