We have a working player, simple enemy, great art and marvelous audio in the game after the first day of jamming.
Tomorrow it is a content day. We are aiming for world filled with paths and connections all around – Dark Souls style.
I’ll also try to get Oculus Rift DK2 support, but I don’t have Unity pro license on this computer so I need to see what I can do about that. 8]
The game is nearing completion! We have two enemies, six weapons and a huge connected cavern world to explore!
Our jam game is ready: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=12944
Admire these screencaps, play it and see if you can survive in the connected dungeons. I’ll go to sleep, I have work tomorrow! (Ludum Dare should be a national vacation week)
Our hero uses the sticky surface of a lollipop to overcome his obstacles!
We’ll sleep first, and then do a final polishing phase after work. All the planned features are in!
Now we’ll just have to do Windows, Linux, Web and Oculus Rift builds.
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=12944
We finally got around doing builds for all the platforms including Oculus Rift.
I hope you enjoy the game, we had a blast making it alive!
This time I am going safe with tools that I already know well: 3D Unity game with VR support.
Unity
Oculus Utilites
Blender
Photoshop
Substance Designer & Painter
Bfxr
Audacity
Ice Cream
Our capsule bad guy looking for innocent targets. (Don’t tell him that they don’t come until tomorrow)
After small brainstorming sessions we settled on this name.
Btw. If you wish to do gifs like this I recommend GifCam.
Our artist finally finished last animations. Now we are putting them in.
Edit: Click images for gifs. For some reason they are not animating in dashboard.
Unwelcome Presence has outstayed his visit.
I recorded a complete run of our jam game. If you like what you see consider stopping the video and experiencing it yourself by playing & rating the entry~!
I wanted to see if I can make my game’s mechanics easier to follow by responding to the feedback I have gotten so far.
Changes done so far:
Game feels already a lot better. I am not updating the jam version, ofcourse, that remains untouched for eternity. But I am planning on releasing the game on Oculus Share and I’ll do these fixes for that version. Our animator also wants to fix some animations she did in a rush, our hideous run needs some more love.
If you haven’t tried the game yet here it is.
I made some post jam updates to Unwelcome Presence to prepare it for Oculus Share release. You can check the progress of the update here.
Keep in mind that game doesn’t require Oculus Rift, so you can still enjoy it with your old fashioned 21:9 4k IPS monitor.
This Ludum Dare also marks three years of one game a month challenge for me. Time to step outside of my comfort zone and really try new stuff. For couple of last LD I have played too safe.
I’ll be gearing up for this LD with:
I just woke up, couldn’t do the usual 4am start because of Christmas party yesterday. Now all fresh and rest I am ready to Jam.
I will live streaming my development this time at: http://www.twitch.tv/samulijaaskelainen
This is my 10th LD, first time streaming, time to expand my horizons.
Very quick entry this time. I only had a few hours to work due having a busy weekend, still you can’t skip Ludum Dare, can’t you? 😛
I was supposed to code gameplay, but somehow I got distacted by screen space reflections and ended up tweaking myself a shiny room.
The game is about siblings sharing a room and fighting for space. You color the room with toys to mark your territory.