Just started to look into OpenGL so this’ll be interesting for sure. Since this is my first Ludum Dare i’ll try to finish something that’s not totally unplayable rather than aim high and fail miserably =)
After spending the first day figuring out how to openGL thoose pesky 2d sprites, wooing myself with my first parallax scroll and screwing myself over by creating a buggy mapeditor in paint i was ready for day 2. This was the day everything would happen and.. yeah.. it didnt.
Engine : Complete, as in i wont work on it anymore.
Sound : Complete (that flashgeneratorthingy)
Music : Complete! (thumbjam)
Level: Ohhh.. noo..
Fun? Not so much. Tired? Very much so. Giving up? Never! (well, usually i do give up, but not this time..) =)
After a devestating battle with VBO’s and mouse-input, I’m finally finished. Spent the last three hours on making a level, a song and some generated sfx to spice things up. All in all, I’m happy that I pulled through and I’m already looking forward to the next LD, especially since I wont have to learn new stuff (hate that). =)
Good work everyone! =)
*sleep*
Almost forgot, this is the thingy! -> http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?uid=2443
I’m in!
I’ve been looking forward to this since the semi-fail in LD#20. REVENGE SHALL BE MINE!!!!11!one1!
After struggling with ideas and scrapping (the unscrapping) some content i’ve finally made some actual progress! I got some basic collision detection done, as well as parallax scrolling (see vid) and a component system that seem to do the trick. Next step will be to drop in a few enemies and see to it that they die a horrible death. =)
The mechanical spiderbot is coming along nicely, as well as some much needed BLOOD!
Tags: blood
I think I’m in. Just got a daughter three weeks ago, but I *might* be able to squeeze in ~4h during the weekend. =)
I’m in!
My daughter Alma has turned 5 months now but she’s not yet ready to take care of herself, so I’ll be putting in ~8h a day on this. =)
Language: C#, Lua
IDE: Visual Studio
Libraries: XNA, Farseer(?) and my own entity framework
Graphics: Fireworks
Sound: as3sfxr
Thought i’d write the post mortem while everything is fresh. =)
“Men not wearing hats” is a game about what happens if you take what you want with force, even if the people at the receiving end is small, both in size and power.
Story: It was quite hard to think up anything original about the theme. The first thing that came to mind was to either make something on a cellular level, or make the game about “an intestinal journey”. Starting a few hours late i browsed through the ld updates and realized that my initial ideas werent so original after all. I started thinking about other themes, but was a bit lost. Then it dawned on me. I need to get into the “emo-indie-mood”!
When in the “emo-mood” i quickly realized that the game should be about the exploitation of africa and the middle east. I made a quick sketch that displays the player and his world. The initial idea was to make the player take oil and diamonds from the tiny people to either side of him to power his factories.
Tech: Im quite pleased with the usage of lua to control the flow of the game. Resources have their own scripts, as do players and other avatars. I also quite enjoyed working with an component based system which allowed me to add scripts, animations and other things to various game objects without loosing myself in oop hell. =)
Graphics: I like the water and the platforms.
Story: The goal was that the player should be able to be nice by taking diamonds/oil, converting them into gold and then returning them to the men not wearing hats. And, you can do that (there is a bot with a red cross on it). The only problem is that they don’t care, which makes the game unwinnable and always results in a massacre. Come to think of it, this is what happens in the real world aswell?
Tech: Even though some things were a success, others were not. On the evening of the last day some of my physics components suddenly assigned themselves av friction value of “infinity” – which is a ery large number and made the game grind to a halt. However, i did not realized that this was the problem until a few hours later when i tried to rebuild the world from scratch a third time.
Music: I actually made a song in FL studio, but when exporting it it seemed to have gotten lost on my harddrive, and i was not wise enough to save my work. So, no music.
Time: I was foolish enough to thing that having a 5 month old daughter would not affect me. I does, and if i had realized this in time i would have cut the scope of my game into half. I still managed to spend ~22 hours on the game itself but thoose hours did come at a prize (which i’m about to pay).
Graphics: The first placeholder graphics was stuck in place until the very last minute, and some even made it into “production”. Taking a break in the middle of the dare to work on graphics will be my approach the next time, because nothing is fun about creating walkcyckles during the last hour. *argh* =)
Testing: I played through this game for the first time this morning, after submitting it. I was allright i guess, but tweaking could have made this game nice.
Overall everything feels ok during the circumstances that were. It is the most complex game i ever built on an ld, and it should play on more than my own machine. I had forgotten how though an LD can be so the next time i’ll try to add “mental preparation” to my toolchain. =)
Tags: death, post-mortem
This is a list of all games that have web,html(5),flash,swf in them and can (probaby) be played in a browser. Nice to have if you only got minutes to spare and want to rate a few games. =)
“Vesta: Galactic Convict Colony
[web] Professor McSteen, and the shrinking machine
A Minecraftesque Adventure a`Â la Rogue
All That Are Lost Will Be Found
An Attempt at Meta Puzzle Design
Ant, Bee, Cow, Pig and Spider BOSS
Buggy, Tank and Missile Launcher!!!
caveman defending his cave from aliens while monoliths drop down from the sky
Colossal Creature crushes Tiny Town
Congratulations Doc, it’s a shrink ray!
Crunk’s key chase in Tiny Land!
Dr. Biology’s Educational Game
Epic Robot Battle For Territory
Extraordinarily Awesome Petroleum Male Child!
Fill that jar! now put some crumbs in it!
Fooling Yourself in Moderation
I Will Burn The Earth Down For You
Immune System (virus vs. antibodies game)
Incredible Story of All Living Things
It’s a crazy tiny world after all !
It’s a Small World: The F.P.S.
Little boy controls american Drone
Max Stardust in “Asteroids and Stuff”
Most of us live in a tiny world
Mr. Butter and the Infinite Bread
Mr. Dibbins and the Island of Lore
Robots Are Red, Violets Are Blue
So Many Tiny Worlds, So Little Time
Spaceman Biff vs The Red Robots
Spermatozoon vs. Zombies (tiny world defence)
Stampede at the Crooked Thorax Ranch
Super World of Progress Achievement
The Small World of Professor Strange
The Tiny World of the butterfly
The Tiny, Unknown and Unimportant World
This Planet Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us
Tiny Contamination, well almost
Tiny God : Small Diety, Big Pantheon
Tiny World: The Musical: The Game
Unusable Man and the Orbs of Exponential Growth
I’m in!
Alma has turned 1 year old and is still not ready to take care of herself (god damnit!) so I’ll be putting about ~10 hours per day into this. =)
Language: Lua
IDE: Visual Studio
Libraries: MOAI and some small helpers to make everything go component-system-boom! (i’ll add them later)
Graphics: Fireworks
Sound: as3sfxr
I’m really looking forward putting MOAI to the test. I’ve been doing some experiments and so far it looks good. Other goals for this dare is
That’s about it. Good luck all!
I’m in!
awesome!
Alma has reached the age of 16 months and she is looking more and more liker her dad, but she’ll turn out to be a programming retro gaming heavy metal enthusiast is yet to be determined, but so far so good. =)
The plan is to not have a plan and use kanbanflow to keep myself from going out of bounds..
Language: Haxe
IDE: Sublime Text 2
Libraries: An entity framework i wrote yesterday (http://www.nilswikberg.se/ld26/framework.zip)
Graphics: Fireworks
Sound: as3sfxr and sunvox
That is all.
Since I have no time on my hands (and feet) I did not really plan to make a game, but when the theme was announced I could not help my self to give it a try. =)
I Present to you, the developers conundrum! A puzzle game so hard, or easy that it might take forever or no time at all to finish it!
About the development: 3 hours of haxe and fireworks.
What went right: Pretty much everything
What went wrong: Could have spent more time on the ascii art..
That’s all folks!
url: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=2443
//nilstastic
Alma is turning three this fall an I’m participating in my 8’th ludum dare. Sometimes we’ll play super mario on the wii but most of her gaming time is spent feeding various animals on the iPad. Since we’re expecting another kid this fall I’m not that optimistic that I’ll be able to participate in the next jam but hosting a real world gathering here in Stockholm will probably create enough good memories to get me through the winter. =)
So, the plan this time is to use trello and try to keep things as simple as possible.
Language: Haxe
IDE: Flashdevelop
Libraries: A not so pretty entity framework I rewrote this week.
Graphics: Fireworks!
Sound: as3sfxr and sunvox
And here’s the link to the gathering in Stockholm, we still have a few spots left! =)
I finally got the time to do another LD, last time around was LD30 so I'm really looking forward to make a kind-of-nice-but-pretty-horrible-game in 48 hours!
Tools + pico-8! + patience
While browsing through the old site (trying to get the old username back) I noticed that I've posted a picture of my daughter every ld I've been in, and since it's been a few years quite a lot of things have happened. Hopefully I'll be able to keep this up until she's old enough to join herself. =)
Got it working, moving on to making it a bit smoother. =)
Testing out the drawing routine, the idea is to be able to have a lot of crusaders while beeing able to manipulate the background. Hopefully it'll make my lemmings+rougelike possible =)
I've added detection against the dynamic background and things are looking up. Next step is to try and implement some sort of digging and bridge building mechanic.
One thing I always seem to spend too much time on is blood, so I'm probably going to leave this as it is until I get to the death-animation part.
The debug feature of being able to dig with the mouse is kind of fun and I think I'll keep it. I also got a "playable" version up and running, give it a go if you got time to spare. =)
Btw, how did you embed the video?