So I've been a long time lurker and have always wanted to take part in a jam. I'm thinking this one might just be the one! Not sure whether I'll pull in some friends or have at it solo... It's been a long time since I wrote some code for my own fun.

Tools: - Godot, LIBGDX, or Unity (not entirely sure yet) - Audactiy - Paint.net, GIMP, Piskel, Pixlr - Various other things....

Should be a good time!

So I'm almost 24 hours in and I have a good solid start on the concept and code but still working on a name.... Its a Tetris type of game where the blocks spawn from the center and you stack the on either of the sides of a square play area. The blocks still "fall down" but you are able to rotate the screen around the center of the play area. I have a play area I can rotate. All of the blocks in their basic form are in and I can move them around. I struggling getting blocks to rotate correctly with my data choice so I think I'm going to end up hard coding the rotations which I was trying to avoid :frowning2: I can also detect collisions but not lines yet but I don't foresee that being an issue.

Hopefully I'll make some progress after grabbing some dinner and I can spend tomorrow bug testing, polish, and sound! I'm just hoping once I get the rotations and the meshing down that the game actually plays well! :fingers_crossed:

I may not have gotten as far as I would have liked to today but its not a bad go of this for my first jam.

For tomorrow: - Fix line detection and dropping pieces (do I only do horizontal lines or do I do vertical lines and drop the "stragglers" down... - Play with some game rules (do I allow rotation pieces or do I pick a random rotation and only rotate the screen) - Menu Screen - Sound - Bug squashing

I'm not sure how fun it is but I'm liking it so far. Wish I would have had the full time to actually work on this. Sucks how life gets in the way of coding games! Probably end up putting this in the Jame instead of the Compo

Well I can't believe I completed my first ever Ludum Dare! I entered the compo, though I'm not expecting a lot from it. It may not be the pretties pig at the fair but I did enjoy the challenge and think I might have to pop back for LD43!

For those interested, I present to you Quatris!