And again, I missed the compo. I mean, as a father of two (very loud and always-hungry) critters I have to organize a compo like this (put the kids at grandma’s house, for instance)… next compo is in december, right? I hope I can manage to get out of here and have a nice coding+fast food weekend at my office, then

However, my plan for ‘Evolution’ was to create a small arcade life sim where you can put items on the field that benefits some creatures (+strength, +size etc.) while others try to eat, breed, hunt or flee. Eventually every creature dies and will be eaten by others. I planned to have generic missions like: “Kill all red creatures” and that the player is able to create different ecological niches, like water, sand, rock… blue creatures would be strong in the water while weak on land, reds are cannibals that live on rocks etc. Oh well so many ideas and no time…

I love abstract prototypes where gameplay is priority, probably the game would never have any fancy graphics, just vectors and color codes… well. all that is not going to happen! Here’s what I have so far (not much, but nice) and what’s never going to be finished! It’s not interactive and you shouldn’t let it run forever, as it has no boundaries in terms of object size and population count. Although I tried to balance it to more likely be a deadly world, “life” sometimes explodes!

Need to get to the kitchen now, I have a few hungry mouths to feed. *sigh*

PS: don’t get me wrong. I love my kids.

PPS: but if you want to be able to attend to LD compos as you like, USE CONDOMS!

Tags: evolution

A small update to adress what has been written in the comments for my game:
– you can skip the intro now
– the text popups are now properly displayed
new version here

I will keep the main link (Web) to link to the original LD48 release.
Thanks to all developers for this awesome weekend!
I’ve already played and rated a lot of great games – but I doubt I’ll be able to test/rate every single one of the 18k 23k games haha!

It gets existential. Again.
The idea is to let you play through a bunch of Mini”games”, each taking 10 Seconds to solve and each one illustrating a chapter of one/your life: impregnation, birth, life and death. In the end I want the game to evaluate your choices and playing style. I hope I’ll get there, time is getting short…

I’m done with the first two minigames. Here’s a first look of game 1:

I hope some friends will join me today to draw better graphics and to compose some music, so I can focus on the code. If they join, this will be a JAM-entry. If not, I’ll try to finish the game alone and submit it as a COMPO-entry…

So keep up the great work boys and girls!
I’m looking forward to all your great submissions!

cheers
finefin

Hi, we’re Canupa – Nemo, Gregor and friends – from Berlin. Most probably (if nothing completely catastrophic happens) we’re going to make a game for LD-Jam!

So, we
– have a crazy idea
– have time
– and we’re not ill (like the last time)

Currently thinking about how to flesh out (hint!) the idea, painting, brainstorming and so on…

We’re looking forward to all the great games that will be made this weekend!

Let’s go!

While I’m working on the prototype/mechanics, Nemo takes care of the graphics.

And because you can’t just code the whole day, I’ve made some music for our game.

But now back to the code…

We finished the game!
It was fun! I’m tired.
We hope you like it.

Here’s an animated gif:

and the assets sheet

and here’s our Jam Entry – good night and have fun

cheers
finefin

Here’s a bugfixed and enhanced version of our button-clicker game Hospital Trash.

Changes:
– preloader
– typos in news section fixed
– reset-clock-bug fixed

Happy clicking!

cheers
finefin

Dear fellow Ludum Dare jammers, I hope you all are doing well!

Back in 2015 I made an album for LD 33 - get it here https://finefin.bandcamp.com You can still grab it, use it, cut, remix it.

But well, this was 5 years ago so I decided to KEEP IT ALIVE and do it again! The tracks that I am going to create this weekend will be sketchy and probably quite short, as I try to make as many as I can. I will pay attention on keeping them loopable, though, and I plan to publish the album on bandcamp on monday.

In the meantime, if you want to listen to some finished tracks that I made, check out https://soundcloud.com/justfinefin - and if you find something here that fits your game, feel free to grab it (use it, cut, remix it) as everything is released under a creative commons license.

And if you use my music, I'd love to hear from you and play the games, of course. I will also add a link to your games in the album description.

Allright! Let's do this!

Today I composed seven (7!) game music tracks with Nanostudio 2. So if you finish your jam game on monday and find yourself in need of some music, you are free to use my music in any way you like (cut it to pieces, slow it down, whatever).

I'm really tired now but I was having a lot of fun - tomorrow I'll try to pull at least 3 more tracks out of the hat. After that I will need some time for mastering and maybe preparing some ready-to-use loops for you.

Good night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvlj55SVXDk

... so, if you don't have time for making your own music, listen to this!

https://finefin.bandcamp.com/album/ld46-keep-it-alive

After spending the whole weekend with making game music *hint hint https://finefin.bandcamp.com/ I remembered that I need to submit a game in order to rate other games.

So I will try to make a little text adventure, you can be very fast with Twine ;)