Hey everyone, first time participating in this, I'm really quite curious how this will go. I've been programming some little things in Python as a hobby, but haven't really done much in terms of gamemaking, especially with graphics, so this is gonna be interesting for sure. I'm gonna be using
Python 3
Paint.net
Audacity
Besides that, probably way too much coffee :D
Have fun everyone!
"Your life is currency"
This thing hauted me all night. It's 11:30, just finished my breakfast. Gotta be honest, not really feeling the theme, but oh well.
I've got more coffee, let's see if an idea presents itself :D
Soo, 3 hours of work done. Nothing pretty to show yet, but I have programmed a working main menu, ingame menu, high-score screen and player movement. Also a sort of "scrolling" background.
Getting somewhere, but now it's time for lunch. And more coffee. Alot more :D
8 Hours of work into my first LD.
Status:
Time for some dinner, then another hour or two.
Behold a game about a frog who's name definetly isn't pepe ;)
https://gfycat.com/AdeptGleamingKangaroo
PS: Don't spend two hours trying to make a healthbar that doesn't work. Just display a number :)
Sooo, long day. But the base mechanics are in place, as are working menu structures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1UPApCNX-s&feature=youtu.be
Imagine a garden texture and some obstacles in there ;)
The general idea is, you are one very hungry frog and must eat various critters around the garden to stay alive as long as you can. The longer you do, the less things to eat you will find and the harder they will be to catch.
To help, you will be able to purchase various specials, but you have to give up some of your health for it. Though those might come in handy later.
Pretty happy with what I have so far, we'll see what tomorrow brings. Don't stay up to long people! Breaks help :)
Edit: somehow the video doesn't play when embedded. Here's the link again
Link: https://youtu.be/R1UPApCNX-s
Edit 2: And now the link that shouldn't embed does lol. I'm too tired for this I guess.
Well damn, what a thing. First LD I took part in, first ever game I made. Learned quite a lot in the last two days I have to say.
Number 1 thing: if you get stuck, take a break. Even when time is short. Don't be like me and spend 2 and a bit hours on making a health bar that never worked :D
Overall this was pretty fun though, I will surely join again.
But oh my god, my code looks like a monster. A lot of the time I knew what I was doing is is definetly not how your supposed to do things, and often even sort of know how to do it better. But being an inexperienced hobbyist programmer, I at some point threw all good coding habits in the wind and made it quick and dirty. Methods made on the first day all have proper docstrings, the others, well, hmmmmm....
But, in the end, I made something that is a game, it does fulfill the theme, just barely and not very creative, but it does, and I made it from scratch. Within 48 hours.
Well, to be exact, according to my stopwatch, 23 hours, 22 minutes and 56 seconds of actual work :D
And, despite the code being a monster, the game being kinda crappy overall, I'm proud of what I made. And I had fun doing it. Mostly. :D
Anyway, sleep. I'll leave you with a gif of
"Hungry Frog"
https://gfycat.com/ImprobableCarefulCutworm