Well, I’m here and ready to go. 48 hours seems like a VERY small amount of time, especially since coming off of pyweek earlier this month. This will be my first LD, and I’m quite excited.

I was looking over the food journals from last year, and all you people that have waffles and muffins and whatnot made for you by signifant others are jerks. My girlfriend won’t have anything to do with that kind of thing. If I don’t go shopping in the next two days it’s going to be a frosted mini-wheats filled journal for me…

Well, I should be on the list now that I have a post.  Good luck everyone!

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Well, even though I ate dinner very recently, I’m already eating again. Here we have frosted mini-wheats, a piece of french bread, and a banana. The notebook is covered in brainstorms about the theme.

Also, I bought this water jug today for the compo – I’ve already knocked out a few glasses, and I will try to take pictures as it progresses down. It is 2.5 gallons – I wonder how far I will get on it in 48 hours.

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Well, I got about 6 hours of sleep and feel pretty good. I decided to start the morning out right with some french toast and orange juice. Also, yes I put peanut butter on my french toast. No I am not crazy. Why yes, it is quite awesome, thank you for asking.

You may notice the attempted ‘LD’ done in powdered sugar. The L turned out pretty well, but the D is second rate at best.

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Player movement is in! You can accelerate around and it correctly limits your speed to a manageable number. If you go near the edge, the screen starts to move instead of you. I really like how it turned out. This coupled with the screen scrolling from last night gives a really good feel for the infinite level I was going for. ‘Zah!

I want to make a movie of it, but fraps apparently won’t record pygame windows that aren’t using opengl.

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I tried to install Pygame 1.8 because I wanted to use the new Surface.get_bounding_rect method, and the proverbial shit hit the fan. It hung, then panicked, then ended up nuking my original pygame install as well, so I uninstalled, restarted, and went downstairs to get some lunch. Behold! The fruits of my labor:

That’s a roast beef, salami, cheese, and lettuce sandwich on french bread, with a banana and some gatorade. Mmmmmmmmm.

Also, a water jug update. For reference, this was at 31 hours 47 minutes remaining.

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Shooting!

It doesn’t do anything at the moment, but you can shoot, so hooray!

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I took a really long break, which I’m now regretting, to watch battlestar galactica and make fajitas for dinner. I also broke out the coca cola for the first time, finishing almost half of a 2 liter of the wonderful, caffeinated beverage. I’m now back at the helm, ready to make a solid push before a quick nap and the final stretch.

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Ahhhh! After playing with weapon-less AI for so long it is as drastic change to have them actually shooting back now! I didn’t initially intend for this to be a hardcore shooting experience, but I’m liking it so far so that might be the final product…

I ironed out a LOT of bugs over the last few hours, and I’m making headway into the deeper gameplay I didn’t know if I would have time for. Exciting! I’ll probably leave sound and music out and blame it on my desire to keep it one single file. This will give me lots more time to work on the game. I’ll likely work on some music and sound after the compo (and without the 48 hour creation restriction) and roll them into the game later on.

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Well, I’ve accomplished a LOT tonight, but I wish I had done more. I’m not that tired, but I’m starting to make stupid mistakes, so I’m going to turn in and catch a few Zs before the big push tomorrow. As of this moment I have about 16 and a half hours left. I’ll probably sleep for 4-6, leaving me about 10 hours of solid coding to finish the game. Yikes. I still have 2 major gameplay items I want to add, and I have a couple other things I need to put in to give it that rushed-polish-feel. Worst case I will have to cut those gameplay parts out — the game is still fun, but they will really push it over the top.

We will see how people like my approach to minimalist. Hopefully it will get scored well, but I suspect that people are going to vote it down because of lack of sfx, music, and graphics anyway. Crossing my fingers for good votes.

Until tomorrow: adieu

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We are officially on the final stretch. 10 hours to go, loads to do. For breakfast today I made kolaches by rolling up cheesy breakfast sausages in croissant dough with some provolone. It sounds iffy, but it is in fact AMAZING and I suggest you try it. I had 8 to start with, but the camera didn’t save the picture or something and I had already eaten a few when I re-took this one. That is one of two big-rig amps on the right, and a clementine I stole from my roommate decorating the center.

Also, the jug. I thought I would get through more water, but whatev. I guess there are still 10 hours of nervous drinking to go, but I’ll probably be hammering caffeinated soda and/or gatorade instead.

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I’ve added a hints mechanism that pops up at the bottom of the screen giving gameplay tips as you play. It randomly shows a tip every 15 seconds, and only shows each time twice.

I also added a stats system, which you can view on the pause screen or when you lose. They don’t get you anything, but it is fun to see the breakdown of how everything went.

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I’ve accumulated some snacks for the final stretch. Some frosted mini-wheats, baby carrots, a banana, sunflower seeds, and some gatorade. The GF has offered to get some take out, so hopefully I’ll eat again tonight without have to waste time cooking.

And the jug

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1 hours 48 minutes remaining

Screenshots are in! I’ve tweaked the AI a lot and I really like where it is right now, although its pretty damn hard if you aren’t used to it. Next on the list is making an easy and medium mode :).

This was taken from inside the game:

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The GF brought me subway. Hooray!

And the obligatory jug shot:

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Here it is: http://keeyai.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-download_monitor/user_uploads/minimalist.zip

EDIT: 9:01 PM — I didn’t get to make the executable in time, and I haven’t even tested it, but here it is
http://keeyai.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-download_monitor/user_uploads/minimalist.exe

EDIT: 9:03 PM — Nope, it doesn’t work. You’ll have to use the source (it’s only 1 file, you should be file)

EDIT: after seeing the comments of people who either can’t or won’t install pygame, I made a windows executable. It is all the same code, just in an exe. Get it here.

Final Screenshot:

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Here is my time lapse vid. I put the webcam time lapse inside the screen one and synced them up as best as I could, so it looks best in fullscreen mode. You can get the high res version here (~6.5MB)

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The compo has been over for days, but I just drank the last cup from my 2.5 gallon jug I bought for LD. This is called ‘Closure’, ladies and gentlemen.

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Here is a windows executable I made after reading the comments from people who couldn’t wouldn’t install pygame. Sorry linux, I don’t even know where to start for you guys. It is the same version, with all the same limitations, just smashed into an exe.

EDIT: 4th times the charm :/ I think it has the right zip file linked now…

Minimalist

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In response to this comment, “What no one else has said so far is … what the hell kind of class names are those? “Thing”, “Dood”, “Baddie”, and “Shoostings”? =P”

Yeah, I really don’t normally code like that. Right at the beginning, I couldn’t think of a good base class name for what became the polygons. It wasn’t the player, and it wasn’t the enemies, because it was both. I ended up just putting ‘Thing’ there to get the ball rolling, and it all went downhill and into the gutter from there. After thing came Dood for player, then Baddies, Shoostings, and Lewt.

I talked briefly about this in IRC: It was pretty funny at first, but, since I don’t normally code like that, it got to be confusing and bug-inducing later on when I couldn’t remember if I spelled it lewt or loot, dood or dude, etc… Back in college I had fun telling stories / being clever with my variable names, but generally, I recommend picking a reasonable naming scheme and sticking to it, especially with a deadline no more than 48 hours away.

Still, thanks for noticing. I hope you got a kick out of it.

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