Plan to use: Unity3D free (C#), FL Studio (well, lets see…), sfxr, InkScape, Paint.NET, jEdit, Fraps

Probably will have more time to think / plan / design than to actually code. Is that a good thing?

Tags: C++, tools, unity3d

I thought something like a “tamagotchi” would be great. You could nurture it until it can evolve to the next level. Then I thought about which creature (beside teens) behaves that way… of course: viruses! I decided for a *computer* virus rather than a “real world” virus, because then I can get bonkers on how that little fella would look 😀

To get stuff for nurturing it (i. e. code snippets or similar) you must send it down the data highway and shoot code, firewalls, etc.

Let´s see if that is as much fun when it´s done as it is now in my mind!

Tags: design, game, idea

find here the video: http://youtu.be/99–8Xh1fU0

And here a small screenie:

Tags: ld24, progress, screenshot, unity3d

Find retro inspiration here: http://www.slayradio.org

Tags: inspiration, music, radio, retro

Find the video of v0.2 on YouTube: http://youtu.be/-hzI1prmSVs

New stuff:

• the player´s character (a green virus! what surprise!) is now animated.
• the player can rotate/turn the camera left and right.
• some red enemies rotate and wait for the player to shoot them.
• at the far end of the level there is an exit waiting.

To do stuff:

• Camera moves out of the level walls – ugly, must fix!
• Enemies want to shoot player badly. Must implement this.
• Maybe some health bar for the virus? (Do viruses in reality have … health?! Wondering….)
• Dead enemies must drop “source code artifacts” -> for feeding the virus, so that it can evolve / mutate / grow / level up
• Some UI for main menu etc (think I will use generic Unity-GUI – ugly, but times running out)
• Some funny background story.
• More levels.
• UI for choosing the power-ups of the morphed virus.
• Outro.
• Now: empty the bottle of beer, then sleep a little.

Screenie of “Morph, Virus, Morph!”  v0.2

Morph, Virus, Morph! v0.2

Tags: game, ld24, progress, screenshot, status, TODO, unity3d, youtube

Hello, you happy people!

I decided that the game´s done for now, since I realistically won´t have time to do much more on monday evening.

You find the binaries here:
http://codemachinery.net/files/LudumDare24/MorphVirusMorph_Bin_v0.3-final.zip

And the sources here:
http://codemachinery.net/files/LudumDare24/MorphVirusMorph_Src_v0.3-final.zip

BTW: that´s the first time, I actually composed music for a game myself. In the past I always used to fetch nice CC tracks from other people. Hopefully the sound does not make your ears bleed 😀

Morph, Virus, Morph!

…and now for something totally different: me.sleep().

Happy coding & cu  next time?! 😉

Tags: compo, done, game, ld24, submitted, unity3d

…aehem… still in warmup mode.

Ok. So after many moons I returned to participate in the Ludum Dare Jam once again. Soon I will finish another fine exemplary of experimental game art. Then the world will rejoice.

And afterwards I can continue finishing Watchdogs™.

Behold, oh mortals, the venue of work where my sweat will run aplenty:

metacozm sweatshop

BTW the chosen tools of my venture should be these:

• Unity3D (pro 4.5) with a lot of free and commercial plugins (don´t know yet which ones of them I will use…)
• FL Studio (I think I will install the latest version along the way… right now I have version 10 installed) and (of course) sfxr (or bfxr on Mac)
• maybe InkScape, Paint.NET,  and theGimp
• maybe Blender
• maybe IcoFX
• maybe “ArtRage” (which came along my smalll Wacom graphics tablet)
• Fraps and/or Audials (to capture some ingame videos)
• (usually) many (free) sound, music, graphics, and fonts assets from the vast lands of the internets (of course I will give detailed credits whenever and whereever I do so)

Let the jam commence!

(Well actually at my place it will be middle in the night when LD30 starts… 3 a. m. So I will sleep then. But don´t worry! You don´t have to wait until I´m awake. Just start on your own. I will blend in some hours later with freshly brewn coffee in my mouth.)

Tags: im in, jam, LD30, tools, warmup, watchdogs

Sleep. Coffee. Food. All done.

Now work hard and fast. And good.

Just want to share a few scribbles on the conceived game concept.

Game title: MAN versus MACHINE

MvM – concept of conductor paths

MvM – gameplay concept

MvM – human traits

Tags: conceptart, LD30, manversusmachine, progress

Taking part in the jam which is a welcome opportunity to get my #1GAM entry for August finished.
As usual my tools rack consists of:

• Unity3d 5.1.2f1 pro (…currently still downloading), C#
• InkScape, Paint.NET, Gimp
• FLStudio 11, sfxr, ccMixter.org, Freesound.org
• Blender, Substance Painter
• Maybe Fraps to capture a video and Audials to convert it.

What will be the result? Some delicious webbuild that will get uploaded to my itch.io site at: http://jireugi.itch.io/
Bon Appetit!

Tags: #1GAM, jam, LD33, tools

Tags: food

My monster is modelled so far. Still needs to be texture painted, rigged, animated, and imported to Unity3D.

(Don´t worry, it doesn´t need legs.)

Tags: blender, LD33, monster, progress, screenshot

The monster is inside u-u-unity…
But still not rigged, not animated. And then I need to model two-legged food which runs away. And assemble some nice burping sfx. And so on. Much to do.

Tags: LD33, monster, progress, screenshot, unity3d

Argh… the monster got me. It´s the cold monster, yes, a very bad cold caught me, made me suffer badly with a sore throat, headache, fever and constantly running nose. The only way to survive was to sleep long and only dream of making a great LD game…
*sob* Maybe next time…

Tags: failstory, Im out, LD33

So I tried to participate in the LD33 jam.
What went wrong? I got sick on that weekend, could not finish.
What went well? Mostly everything until I got sick.

Well… obviously one cannot choose the time when illness hits.
But since I had to finish a game anyway for my 1GAM commitment, I finished what I had begun for LD33 and ta-da: you can find the result on my itch.io page. Enjoy!

Tags: LD33, recap

…then {
I´ll be
using {

• Unity3D (5.4)
• Paint.NET
• (maybe) Blender && if (Blender) then also Substance Painter
• Audacity && freesound.org
• sfxr
• if (a muse catches me) then FL Studio else ccmixter.org

}
} else {
not;
}

GottaSleepOver(this);

Meet Bunu.

Tags: LD36

Sadly, I don´t think I have time to finish this today… buhu, Bunu.

Tags: LD36