Ok, it’s my first time in LD and I hope I can make at least something playable. I was looking forward to the theme parallel universes and had some interesting ideas for that, but I guess islands will have to do

First hour I spent figuring out what I was going to do. Then I got a half decent idea and had to decide whether to do it in 3d or in 2d. I wanted some animation to it and I don’t like sprite sheets, so it had to be in 3d.

I’ll be writing it in C++ with OGRE. I hope to have something playable in about 6 hours.

Here’s something I made for it in about 40 minutes. Models are made with 3ds max and textures with paint shop pro. I’m a lousy artist but I guess this will do.

As I’m participating for the first time I began to wonder if it’s ok to use the default cursor and buttons in CEGUI.
Here’s what my game looks like at the moment. The debug overlay will be taken away in the final version but I would like to at least keep the cursor. Though if it’s against the rules then I’ll take it away.

I got the basic gameplay features done. It’s probably quite clear from the image that I’m making a tower defense game. Not very original, but it was the only decent idea I could come up with
There doesn’t seem to be many other tower defense games from what I can see, so at least there’s that. The camera can rotate and travel freely in the world, but there’s probably not much point in it other than if one wants to take a screenshot from a cool position or something.

Now I’ll just have to decide whether to improve the visuals or make the gameplay better… At least I’ll be needing a money indicator or something. Then maybe upgrades to the towers.