Whew! I managed to finish it in time. Or most of it, at least. Again I didn't have enough time to add any audio, which I'm a bit angry about. Some animations were also a bit rushed. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with how it all turned out. Now it's time to rest, tomorrow I'll start playing your games!
What is everyone using to make gifs of your games? This is the first gif I ever made:
... and it took me way too much work using OBS + VLC + Gimp. I know I could automate the VLC part of it (and perhaps the Gimp part too, if I wanted to write a custom Python script), but I guess there has to be an easy and good way to do it instead.
I didn't have as much time for playing and rating as I would have liked. During the first week I've played and rated 21 games. Today's my day off, so I'm going to try and at least double that before the rating time is over. I have a long list of games I wanted to try, but if you want you can leave a link to your game for me to play. And of course I would appreciate it if you tried my game as well:
Since I didn't have much time to work on my game, I'll be opting out of the compo. After maybe 8 hours total of work I have something with barely any gameplay. Well, maybe I'll find some time next week to work on it and submit it for the Extra category. Good luck y'all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1WTVj9BI4g
Well. Once again I didn't have much time to work on my LD entry, but since I skipped submitting to the previous two, this time I made sure I'd have something done. It may not be much, but I'm happy with what I've done in such a short time. Plus I'll keep my motivation going by adding more stuff in post-LD updates. ;)
In case you wanted to get a list of games you've already rated, it is kinda hidden under tabs in the list of all submitted games. You can access it from this link https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/my/grades or by going to the Main Page -> All Games button -> Me tab -> My grades tab.
... and there's still a lot of games below 20 ratings. Why don't we see if we can do something about that? ;)
A lot of backend stuff done, not a lot of gameplay. We'll see if I can finish it tomorrow.
Of course I didn't make nearly as much as I intended, but that's always the case. And I am proud of what I've managed to do. So, here it is:
Not a whole lot of gameplay, but I was going for a rather relaxing experience this time. I was considering not uploading it for Compo and doing more stuff for the Jam, but here we are. Maybe one day we'll get a way to take part in both with two separate versions of a game. :)
For a specific definition of "complete". It's unbalanced. It's unoptimized as hell. But it is! :D
I'll probably have to do some optimization in case people have problems with running it in the browser, but that can wait. It's 03:00, it's time to rest. :)
I haven't touched Godot since last LD and I got really rusty. I've still got several pesky bugs to squash, so I'm not gonna finish my entry in time for the compo. But there's always the Jam, right? :D
So, long story short, I'm doing as much as I can today, but I'm finishing it tomorrow. It's either that or entering buggy mess with no graphics and no audio. I think the first option will work better. ;)
Whew, that was a lot of work! Though it certainly doesn't look like it. 😁 Tomorrow I'll work on the audiovisual side of the game a bit. Once it looks and feels alright, I'll see if I can implement some of those scope creep ideas I've thrown out of my head and into the notepad. But for today, it's time to rest. Good luck to all of you still going today! o7
With greatly reduced scope, and barely... But I've made it! Given I had zero practice for a year, it's a miracle. :D
Now that the builds are ready, it's time to use the submission hour to do the finishing touches - screenshots, game description page, etc.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/valiant-stars
To everyone who submitted to compo, well done! And to the jammers - can't wait to see what you guys come up with! But since it's 3AM, I'll finish the descriptions and I'll finally go get some sleep. See you tomorrow!