Lets see how much work in two people we got done.

Pyglet + Rabbyt game:

Gtk editor (rendering only):

All sprites/tiles are, of course, only temporary.

I have attempted two ludum dares so far, both failed. Now, I have decided to try going crazy an write the game in my most favorite programming language, common lisp.

I have decided to use ecl and SDL, combining those two into small library that I plan to use to make the game for this ludum dare. As per compo rules, here are the source for the library. It does not contain whole SDL only most useful features, so if you find anything useful to add, feel free to do it. One might ask, why yet another lisp SDL wrapper? Well, I just like to make my libraries, for the sole reason that I find working within my libraries fastest (because I know where is what and I can easily add more stuff to the library).

Anyways, here is a picture of the tech demo (included with sources):

Tech demo of my lisp wrapper library over SDL.

And the download for sources: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1501162/eclSDL.tar.gz

If you have found any bugs, please comment under this article :).

PS: If you wanna try the tech demo, extract the library, fire up ecl and then input (load “init.lisp”). That will make you a shining new executable to run

After about an hour of programming and drawing with gimp, first results:

Maze generation complete.

I havent progressed that much since last screenshot, however I added some ai units in the game already, plus I recorded a video of how it looks in the game.

This is scaaaaryyyyy

Link to the video:  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1501162/ld-3.ogv

The project is going slowly but surely. Apart from profound testing, only things missing are

1. Controls UI
2. More enemies and units types
3. Implement traps
4. Losing condition
5. Small Story
6. Menus
7. Music & Sound Effects

in the order of importance.

What things are implemented:

• Enemy AI – enemy will search your dungeon until he find enough gold in treasuries then he will quickly double back from it
• Monster AI – monsters will roam around randomly waiting for some foolish heroes to show up
• Actual combat with stats and special cases (such as Ghost can’t be harmed by anyone but wizard and he will dead lock any other enemies in place for your stronger units to show up)
• Dungeon generation (solvable, done by backtracking tunneling)
• Generating chests (these are your lifeline. If you run out of gold, nobody will go to your dungeon and you will fail)

Here is the game in action: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1501162/ld-4.ogv

Time for yet another update on my game. Written some very neat ui stuff, although no buttons yet.

Added things since last update:

• On hover status info, telling you what is on the tile.
• If enemy/your unit is stacked with other units of the same type,  the count will be shown of how many units of that type are stacked there.
• Mana/Gold information on the top of the screen.
• Mana, so far, grows constantly by 10 points every second + number of active heroes on map * 3 – number of active monsters * 2 (however, if you kill a hero you get one time boost 35).

As always, here is a video of it in action: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1501162/ld-8.ogv

Well, I am pleasantry surprised how well the first 24 hours of ludum dare went. I managed to do few things and do them well:

• Rendering complete
• AI complete
• Controls 50% done
• Graphics about 25% done
• Play testing 5% done
• Windows compatibility ??%

Screenshot of th current state:

Result of the first 24 hours of the Ludum Dare

And for the fans of video action, here is the latest build of the game on video: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1501162/ld-14.ogv

Now, I must catch some sleep and finish this beast tomorrow!

It’s 2:45 am, I have exam at 9:00 am and I am just finished with my ludum dare 25. In this post I would like to summarize what went well and what went wrong.

What went well:

• Lisp – great language, easy to work with in emacs, fast testing
• Ecl – great lisp compiler, compiles to c and then directly to the machine code
• Theme – fun to work with

What went wrong:

• Windows – I spent 5 hours getting mingw running, compiling ecl and my game under it
• No sounds / music – I can’t make anything decent, especially at such short notice

All in all, it was awesome fun. I hope you will enjoy my little game of strategy and evil.

Dungeon Inc.

In this game, you play recently graduated devil who has been entrusted with controlling a dungeon. Beware, heroes will come and ransack it, so guard it with monsters well.

This is how it looks.

Download link: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=5123

I am glad I managed to finish it in time. Phew. Feels good.