Hello World!

This is my first LudumDare, and I will be doing the Jam.

I’ll try to keep posting my progress, and also I want to see what new ideas you guys have

Tools:

Unity3d – Graphics Gale – Inkscape – LMMS (Hopefully).

Cheers and Good Luck!

First thing I did when I saw the theme was to search on google, my mind was blank… later I had an idea of the Roman Technology and how they used it and I got the idea for a Tower Defence/Action/Upgrade game (I’m not really sure about what genre it is but I like it XD).

I did some drafts and here I’m an making a roman themed game.

I began coding in Unity when I had a precise idea of what I wanted, and I had been coding like 11~13 hours since.

I think I can finish before the Jam deadline,

Here’s a preview.

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It needs more polish but all important mechanics are implemented and the desing is ~80% done.

Hopefully I can make a decent pixel art.

I continued doing some programming for the upgrade menu and fixing some states (I’m using state machine to control the game state, ex: Main Menu, Play Mode, Upgrade Menu, …).

There’s not much code left to do so I’m doing the art assets.

I did some drafts in pixel art and it looked horrible so I changed it to minimalistic. It seens like its quicker and easier to do so I might be on time.

A very simple walk cycle I did on Inkscape.

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Obligatory .GIF of current progress.

Still lots of work to do, but I think I can make it before the deadline!

Hope to see something unique and polished from the other devs

PS: Please don’t mind the Charizards XD.

Well I finished it!. Yay

I had a lot of game art to do so I managed to finish the animations for 3 enemies and reskin the upgrades menu and play state menus.

And also I found that I know how to make icons quickly!. That helped me making the UIs fast enough so I could do some other stuff like implementing music and sound (Thank you! Unity Assets Store), and implementing a save game (I’m not really sure if it works well, I hope it doesn’t crash XD).

Overall today I did a little bit of programming and a lot of art and post-production stuff (Publishing, Taking Screens, Making Icons).

Here are some previews and the link

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Now its time to give feedback!. Happy voting!

I was in the last LD, so here we go again :). Happy Jamming.

Just updated my little battery game, fixed some bugs and changed some stuff from the feedback I got. Thank you all of you who took the time to play it.

If you wish to play it https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/take-my-charge

About the game

Take my charge is a philosophical game where you have to solve puzzle and explore deep into the dreams of an advanced AI.

What went well

• Game finished.
• Sound effects that relate to the mood.
• Managed to write a cohesive story.
• Simplicity on art made me spend less time on it and more onto polish.
• Easy design led to quick development (All features were done in ~5hr).
• Some cuts on the game design did not affect the gameplay.

What went wrong

• Spend the first day working on another game, them realized the scope was to high.
• Wanted to do compo, but decided to polish it further for a better release.
• Physics sometimes feels a bit clunky. (Should use Unity physics only for collision detection)
• Camera follow is slow and offsets too high on the Y axis from the player. (Spend ~3h on this and after release solved it by putting the camera as a child of player).

Conclusion

I got caught on the first idea I got and spend a valuable day on it, I should have done more planning before compromising. But at the end I managed to make something simple with a great user experience and I’m proud of that.

Next time I’ll try be more careful on what idea I decide to work on.