Hey there,

Allright, so here’s what I did up until now. The problem is that I live in the Netherlands, so for me LD started at 3 o’clock in the morning on Saturday. I decided to stay up Friday night until the theme was announced but I had nothing to do until then, so I asked a friend over and we smoked some weed :3. When it was 3 o’clock we heard about the theme and came up with the weirdest game idea ever: You are a man who’s doing some soul searching. So you go into your own brain. Inside there it’s like a sidescrolling platformer. But the twist is that inside every level there is the next level at 1 10th the size and you’ve got the power to shrink yourself to 1 10th the size to enter the next level. The idea is that you keep digging deeper and deeper in your brain to find your deepest desire. And while you do that you walk around in constantly smaller and smaller worlds.

After coming up with that I went to bed. Today I woke up at noon, so I guess I missed quite some time (10 hours :O). But I’ll be fine :3

For now I’ll be lunching and setting up a twitch tv live stream and after that it’s time for some heavy coding ^^

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey hey,

I said I was going to set up a live stream. Sadly enough I hadn’t figured out how that works before LD, so after half an hour of frustration I decided to drop the idea. Then I tried making a timelapse with Camstudio, but it made my mouse flicker, so I decided that was stupid too. Result, no recording of my work whatsoever. Oh well… 😛

Luckily I did get some work done ^^. You now have a character that can walk through a room. And when you hold ‘A’ you shrink to 1/5 of your size and the world around you us huge. Releasing ‘A’ makes you grow back to normal size.

Now, to add new levels!

Cheers,

Maxim

I’ve been doing some Soul Searchin too and I’ve decided I needed a big latte and a cocos flavoured butter cookie thingy whatevs.

You think it still counts as coffee is there’s more foam than liquid? ^^

And now, back to work!

Cheers,

Maxim

Hello,

Things have been going pretty smooth ^^. I think my main mechanism of shrinking into smaller worlds works now. If you’re interested try it out:

Here!

Arrow keys to move. ‘A’ to shrink/unshrink.

(You can shrink down one level per room)

Everything works pretty fine until you reach about the 20th level. My guess is that you run out of float or double or long spaces (whatever as3 uses as ‘Number’ <- blegh!) causing stuff to go wrong. But I’ll figure out a way to solve that ^^.

Now it’s time to get myself some din dins :3

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey,

So, I just had a trip to the supermarket on my longboard. Sadly enough I hadn’t realized the world outside my house was dark, rainy, wet and disgusting (typically Dutch -_-). Result: my longboard is now dirty

Luckily some happy things occurred too. I am now in the possession of more food ^^. Here’s a picture of what I bought:

A loaf of bread, 2 bags of Casave Crisps, a Pizza and a little bucket of Fillet American ^^

Time to eat that pizza and then back to work!

Cheers,

Maxim

Hell yes! I’m makin’ them levels y’all!

Here’s a link to the latest build if you’re interested:

<Link!>

Or just look at this screenshot if you don’t have that much time 😛 (I know I don’t!)

Cheers,

Maxim

It’s time for sleep. Good night! ^^

Hey there!

I thought I’d figured something out for the graphical style, but it turned out to be stupid. So I’ve decided to stick with the style I previously had which is just black boxes (more colours coming soon ). Anyway, the game now has about 6 levels, go check it out:

<Soul Searchin 0.3>

Also, a brand new screenshot! Cause I know you lov em :3

It’s time for me to have a little lunch break!

Cheers,

Maxim

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Hey y’all,

I woke up a little late. But I found a solution for the graphics and for the story this morning under the shower, so that was great ^^. Now it’s time for some breakfast and then back to the working :3

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey,

I just finished devouring my lovely lunch ^^

4 sandwiches with Fillet Americain, Apricot jam, Peanut Butter and just Butter. Also a glass of milk :3

Now it’s time for me to start producing some more levels! Go, go, go!

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey guys,

It’s time for a little break. If you’re interested here’s what I’ve got until now:

<Soul Searchin 0.4>

Be right back :3

Cheers,

Maxim

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey everyone!

I was going to write this yesterday, but the server got really slow cause everyone was submitting their entries. Anyway, I finished my game an hour before the deadline! ^^

Check it out over here:

<Soul Searchin’ 1.0>

So yeah, I had a blast. LD was amazing and I’m totally joining the next one! :3

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey guys!

So yeah, Soul Searchin’ placed 4th overall :O which is a score I’m pretty pleased about ^^ thanks everyone who rated my entry!

I’ve decided to continue working on this game and to try and publish it. The new version’s got:

• A new world: the world of Fears (*tam tam taam!*)
• 2 new pieces of music (one for the world of Desires and one for the world of Fears)
• Better controls.
• A more haunting ending.
• And general small fixes :3

The post-compo version is as good as done. Right now, I’m looking for play testers who want to help me make this game even better and iron out the last little quirks.

Interested? Shoot me an email at: [email protected] /* */!

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey guys,

Here’s what I did until now. Last night I stayed up till 3:00 AM because I live in the Netherlands, so that’s when the theme got announced. I’d actually woken up that day at half past 1 so I could push my eating schedule a little back to actually make it till 3:00 :P. When I heard the theme I came up with a game idea and then I went to bed.

Initially I thought of making a game in which you as a character evolve, but I’d actually already done that once and I wagered probably 90 percent of the people would probably be doing such a thing. I wanted something that was a little more true to the concept of evolution. Here’s what I’ve come up with: you are a group of animals with a bunch of random stats for walking, jumping/flying, attacking and defending. You control all the characters of this group at once, but you can choose to control a specific part by ranking them in best (or worst) of a specific stats category. This way you can choose the once that are best at attacking and take them out for hunting. The cool part is that you can choose a specific group to mate and they’ll have babies whose stats are based on the chosen mating partners, this way you can steer in which way your species will evovle! The goal of the game is to survive as a species by whatever strategy you think is best. Maybe you’ll try and create a giant flock and protect everyone, or maybe you’ll only select the strongest (Spartan style!) and use them to run around the world and eat everything you find.

The game will be sortof birds-eye-view fake 3D-ish and it’ll be made in Flash. This compo I will try to focus more on art than I did last time and I’ll try to do something special with it 😉

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey guys,

So I woke up today at 9:30 and now I’m enjoying my breakfast ^^. It’s cornflakes and tea, which is what I’ve had for breakfast, I guess, my entire life. And my gawd do I love cornflakes and tea 😉

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey guys,

So yeah progress is going slow, but it’s coming. I’ve got some animals running around in a pack and attacking and stuff, it’s pretty neat :3

Anyway, here’s what I had for lunch:

4 sandwiches, one with cheese, one with apricot jam, one with peanut butter and one with plain butter. Also a glass of milk

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey guys,

It took some time, but I’m finally starting to see how my entry could turn into something cool ^^. Here’s what my game looks like now:

(I control the orange dog-like creatures and I’m fighting the weird plant dudes)

The game is going to be about surviving as a species. You run around, fight guys and collect food. By carefully selecting who gets to have children you control the evolutionary process of your species.

Now it’s time to make me some dinner!

Cheers,

Maxim

Hey guys,

I ate it some time ago, but this was my dinner ^^:

A Chinese sortof chicken vegetables kindof thing and a Hertog Jan! (best Dutch beer there is :D)

Cheers,

Maxim

Coffee is good. And so is my progress actually ^^

It’s the end of day 1 and it’s really time for sleep now!

Cheer,

Maxim