Ok i’m in, i’ll enjoy sleeping next week once again…. But I’m in ! There is a first time for everything, even LD … So as i’m working barely 7/7 on my game engine (through GMS) i may use it for the jam, and mix it with some random level generation scripts and i’ll try to elaborate a funny gameplay This way i can test my stuff with a fresh gameplay and cool additions :] That will be a good train and opportunity to test new stuff !!! Hope i’ll stay alive until the end !

I think of a 2D platform/shootem’up with Metal Slug elements, randomized, probably local multiplayer if i have time ; maybe low res with generation made at each screen change, or high-res with a random map taking the whole screen, that may be playable low res, or maybe both… I’ll see how it renders, how it’s fun, and how much time is left when i’ll have to choose ( if only i’m organized/realistic to have to Does it seems respecting the theme and rules ? Does it seems realistic ? I’ll edit somewhere to edit news about it soon. I’ll be using :

GMS, Spriter, AutotileSet, bfxr, Irfanview and…. noooooo not gimp i uninstalled gimp 12hours ago because it drives me mad and it’s crashing really often… But now i don’t really know any other good alternative. If you have an idea let me know ! (i mean free stuff don’t talk me about adobe please) Maybe MyPaint ? it gives great results i think… Ha and i’m alone, right now, maybe i’ll be joined by a friend for visuals 😉

So for  now i can link my older stuff :

http://freaknarf.itch.io/

and

http://gamejolt.com/profile/knarf/383161/ (not the same games are on those 2 links)

Cheers !

Knarf

Tags: LDJAM 31

Good news everyone ! My entry  ” deathmetalslug ” is ranked #667 of 22055 on IndieDB , this may be a lucky number to me ! Quite pretty isn’t it ?

Please everyone celebrate this with me and give me feedback ! Do you think i deserve this great occult rank ? Try the game and tell me !

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=46874

Thank you LD guys, IDB guys and SATAN  hahahaha

CHEERS !

KNARF

HI EVERYONE !

As these are the last minutes to do it (that’s the way I do),this may be the time to tell about feelings i had about this jam, and tell about some of the best games i tried !!! More than  one hundred rated and I can’t quit aha thanks to everyone involved, this was great to feel part of it and have feedback on my own work.

First : here are some randomely ordered entries that i felt in love :

Juoi :  http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=23493

Great bossfight, licked graphics and sound :] One of the first that impressed me. Remind me of Metal Slug alien Boss :]

Cosmonaut Without Hands : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=14848

Excellent gameplay graphics and Sfx, reminded me SMB but with an original evolutive Gameplay. Sometimes hard :] goodgoodgood.

Pengie : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=8631

Good simple gameplay, very smooth and polished. Kill animals + shit on screen = fun. And it was made by Duke’s daddy :]

SumoBall! : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=16232

If you liked Kirby’s Pinball on Gameboy, you’ve got to play this :] Haaaa nostalgia…

Extreme Stick Fighter Ultimate 3i : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=21790

2 Player WTF

Viper Twins (Alpha) : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=1913

2 Player WTF + Great megadrive style graphics !

Run Bzzt, Run ! : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=29418

Super licked graphics and gameplay good oldscool Platformer and once again perfectly exploited theme !!

ROCKROCKET : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=46642

Very good visual style and ambiance !

That Dangerous Bridge : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=10863

and

Yibbits : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=27018

Have 2 original gameplays exploiting simple platform style and theme perfectly. They both have licked visuals, but in different style.

and to finish some good looking “idle game”, with a weird background : bacteria culture :

Together In Thousands : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=45083

I could find more but time is REALLY running out now, and i’ll like to throw this bottle before it ends ;

To end with this all, big thanks to this everyone involved here, everyone who took part and gave me feedback, every idea, detail and problem is studied carefully to release a good descent game 😉 and everyone that had guts to support me because i think i’m quite horrible when stuck to Game Maker like I did :] Thanks to everyone, and may I add a link to my game ? Yes, it was one of my favorite too ;)))

DEATHMETALSLUG : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=46874

Last chance to try it before the jam ends folks !!!

EVERYONE IS A WINNER

CHEERS!

KNARF.

Hi ! As submissions are now over for MiniLD maybe should i post here a short debrief about what i did : I wanted to make progression / improvement on my current project DMS (random initials mode…), and add game mechanics. I was thinking about a storyline that fitted with the back to the future stuff (super inspired nazis coming back from the dark side of the moon…sorry for such bad taste)…

Gameplay now seems barely OK and stable to me so maybe should i yearn some feedback ? Here it is :

http://ludumdare.com/compo/minild-56/?action=preview&uid=46874

Start the shit

What was used :

Game Maker Studio
Gimp
Bfxr
Autotilegen

What was planned to be used :

Reaper : i didn’t manage to take time for music
Spriter : i prefered make it low-res (320×224) for now because Spriter needs really more work/time than i think everytime i want to use it… Or maybe am i too slow.

What features were planned :

Better use of test mode and level building (i spent too much time doing shit with this)

Level design : i don’t like game maker’s level editor and i hope to have my own working soon, so pooped levels to try mechanics and stuff but time spent on it is reduced to minimum. It just shows gameplay and features, but has no polish/real meaning. Still i enjoy destroying everything on my way and make to to game over screen so i think it may be OK. No end level but you can try to score.

Art : a lot of stuff i did draw, that could explain a bit the story or get visuals more attractive, was not integrated. I like hand drawing (sorry trees) and had no time to make it low res (as i was first planning to make stuff on spriter). In the same vein, i wanted to make a short intro that was not made…

Music : i had ideas but recorded nothing … anyway i tried some famitracker loops but did not included in the last working version.

That was a good concept, too bad i did not make a new game from scratch, because now that it’s over i think about ideas i could have made with it, and something fresh would have been great. The reason i did not make something this way is probably because i’m a bit stressed with making something out of my project, on wich i spend too much time. Now, after + or – 6 month fulltime learning GML  (i said goodbye to slavery for a time…) by myself, i’ll try to slow down a bit, maybe i’ll better find some shitty work for food ; i don’t want with too much hope to alienate myself, but i need feedback on what i’m making because i still do hope to release a good stuff someday,stuff that people will know and enjoy to play. But i may go right through the wall with a smile if nobody tells me that i’m building a useless shit that will lead me nowhere.

Sorry for being boring, that came from the heart Cheers !

 
kNarf

Hi everyone !

This is DESERVER post-mortem, also my first one.

Very interesting themes, it was very inspiring from the start ! even the game’s tittle was set before it even begins. Lynch-like stuff + Chinese Astrology really gave good/weird ideas from the start !

Maybe a little too much because at very first i didn’t know if i was going to try to make a braid-platformer-like thing, an adventure game with weird storyline (i would love to make one someday), and it ended as often, as an old school shmup !!!

This was decided because :

I’m currently working on this game style since month now with no regards for others, and i have my “game-engine” (made with GMS) project barely working ;

So while i’m updating this engine made at first for the last 2 LDJAM events, why not trying it with a different approach and gameplay ?

I first tried some lines of code, very basic, before the jam started. Some very simple “sinus” function to make some AI movement like classics, i mean Parodius/Xenon 2 etc… This worked from the start, the simpliest stays the simpliest, so i told myself hey ho let’s go.

What went right :

I tried stick to the plan this time and not to implement improvised stuff.

Starting from the end forced me have a workflow/limits.

I made a post Mortem.

Good occasion to take a fresh breath.

I’m ok with the tittle

What went bad :

Barely nothing, perfect week i was super-lucky and made super awesome things.

Music was a mess but that’s how i have fun.

I’m bad at level-designing and wasted some-time because of the use of a non stable engine at the start (mine!) instead

Undpredictable things.

Still needs polish.Always needs polish.Forever needs polish.

Wish i had more time to fully exploit theme But hey ! i have time !!!

And it all began like this :

and you can try here as everytime i’m yearning for feedback suggestions and opinions… Give a shout !

Cheers :]

Franck.

Of course I’ll try Compo this time !

And i’ll use GMS and see for other stuff

Cheers !

AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!GOOD NIGHT MAD PEOPLE!

Hi guys

Let’s start with this “I’m in !” post !

So i’m planning to use Pro Motion, Gimp, hopefully Spriter and Autotilegen, GMS, Sfxr/bfxr, and try this LMMS stuff that really looks/sound good to me…

When i saw the theme first SNK’s “King of the Monsters” came to my mind, even if i did not think it was a really good game overall. Then some other monster fighting games like Rampage, some games like AvsP… But most of the games i think of are fighting games.

That would be nice to make one like that but i don’t want to experiment too much, so i’ll stick with something closer from what i’m trying to make usually.

I also thought about P. Robertson awesome “Super Dino Boys”, and stared at it with my early coffee. Of Course every animation he makes would be the best videogame ever made… And I’m not able to make such awesome PA :] But I think this will be very inspiring anyway. Now let’s darken some paper and start the madness…

Good luck everyone !

Cheers

I was close to forget this formality …

As time is already running out i’ll try to make this post quite short…

I’m in !! and i feel super hyped up because one of my favorite (and one of the greatest) gamedev out there was super nice when we met and offered me a chance to make it in MT Studio…

What a strange, and great feeling, more and more intense

I’ll use some of these tools :

LMMS/Reaper

Bfxr/Sfxr

AutotileGen/Pro-Motion/GIMP/Spriter who knows

Game Maker Superawesomestudio

Bitbucket/Maybe some baddly written “lib” half-lost from past unfinished games for inspiration … (ahem.Should i do that without guilt for compo?)

Some paper and a pen…

I hope everyone will have fun, and i’m very proud and happy to be able to make it with such talented and approachable gamedev guys. I said it would be short.

Good luck everyone !

PS : excuse my translation mistakes, i hope this was readable

Cheers !

\o/ Hi !

I’m in for the Jam

Tools :

GMS

Pro-Motion

Bfxr

Reaper
Maybe more like GIMP,Autotilegen,Spartan,Spriter,LMMS …Good luck, and have fun !Cheers !