Hey you Ludumdareans!
My buddy (it was his idea to join) will be focusing on the artwork and I’ll do most of the programming. We’ll be using Unity Pro 4.6 and C#.
I thought all of the final round themes were pretty interesting so that’s promising. I’m excited, can’t wait to get started!
Have fun everyone 
Junuxx
We’re making a sand castle building game. Beach, waves wiping out your hard work, kids, seashells, flotsam, King Crabs and pesky seagulls.
The terrain is represented as a heightmap of rectangular boxes (we call them pins) on a grid. We considered full 3D voxels at first, but concluded that we’d need too many to get the level of detail we wanted. By merging the voxels from one vertical stack into one object, we save a lot of resources. We still need to find out what the performance is going to be like once the waves start rolling though…
Progress on Saturday night
Inspiration/reference images from our initial brainstorm:
Wave physics
More wave physics
Inspiration
Pin-based heightmap
Color and art style inspiration
Box terrain
Incoming waves and wet sand
Still tweaking, but I’m starting to like the behavior of our waves!
Will your sand castle be able to withstand the relentless tide?