Hey, everyone, you probably don’t know me, but I’ll be joining this next 48-Hour Ludum Dare this time!
After doing @OneGameAMonth for such a long time, I think I’m experienced enough to give Ludum Dare a try.

I’ll be making it completely from scratch with Game Maker 8 Pro, using a combination of Photoshop and Sketchbook Pro for my pixel art. I’ll also use FL Studio 10 with the Chipsounds VST for any music I’ll be making. I’ll be using Bfxr for my sfx, and with all of that out of the way, I’m hoping to have a good, clean Game Jam. Good luck to everyone!

So for my project, after much toiling, I was able to get the collisions, sword, GUI, basic enemy parent, health pickups, and the majority of the game designed and layed out in the editor! Not bad if I do say so myself. I also made and implemented my sounds and I composed a couple of tracks for the game. The game will be called “Beneath the Clouds,” to fit with the theme of “Beneath the Surface.” I’m going to get a bit more creative with the following enemies, including the minibosses and whatnot, as I can’t say that the main Skeleton enemy is super brilliant this time. Regardless, this project is showing promise!

I decided that I wasn’t happy with many of the bugs that people were reporting on my game, so I decided to do a post-compo release fixing most of the bugs, adding new music tracks and refinements to old music, a new movement system, and overall just more polish than before.
Since I changed too much to just update the original #LD48 page for the game, I’m just going to post the newest build here.

Hope you guys like the improvements!

Windows Build (Mediafire): http://bit.ly/1mtE5fo

I love my game.

My game is duck.exe.

Please play duck.exe. Look at it.

Man, isn’t that a good looking duck.exe?

In all seriousness, I had a really good time making this, and I hope people enjoy this as much as I did throughout this Ludum Dare Compo.

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=19980

I figured I might as well put myself in, officially, on here, once again. Theme voting is scaring me as always, since most of the themes I don’t like, but I guess that makes whatever I’m making more interesting.

As usual, I’ll be using GM8 (after trying GM: Studio and finding that it was broken software), FL Studio 10, Paint Tool Sai, and most likely Bfxr, since I’m too lazy to learn another program well enough for sound fx.

Anyway, happy creating to anyone involved, and I swear to god, Four Elements had better not win the theme voting…