what I need are some enemies! that’s all that’s left. I need to add proper enemy patterns. Also sleep, It’s 10pm here and still 6h to go.

nice weather

Ludum  Dare 26 was my first compo even though I’ve making games for many years. It was a lot of fun and quite tiring. Though I love to make games sometimes it’s difficult to find motivation or even, sometimes, you have so many ideas you end up not doing any of them. Just like with writer’s I think the best advice is to just write anything, or, in my case, just make a game. And LD is perfect for that.

The first steps

I choose a project that would challenge me as a coder, so I went for 3D in almost pure C++/OGL. It would have been very easy to do this game with Unity and probably it would have been a better, more complete game. But that wouldn’t have been any fun to create for me, and in the end that’s what I wanted (quite selfish, I know). I think the result was not that bad and the comments have been very constructive. After all interaction with others creators is the best part of LD.

the result

But the real reason for this post was to share a post compo version of my game Please Survive. Just polishes it a bit, adds obviously missing features like collision with enemies and a few new effects. A direct link here.

Spend the night alone in a classroom in this Jam entry, the classroom!

 
This is my 4th time participating, this time I did all alone. My idea was “if PT can do an horror game in a hallway I can do it in a room”. Of course this a Jam and I’m no artist so this is not specially scary, but I like the results. Thank god for MagicaVoxel or all artistic-impaired types like myself would have no chance!

For this jam I wanted to improve my weakest point, art. I put a lot of effort and I'm quite happy with the result so far, but I'm reaaaaly slow. Now I need to make the game, I hope I can finish something!

Being a coder creating art for my prototypes has always been difficult, so many ideas I ended up discarding because I knew I couldn't create art decent enough if I couldn't find anyone to help. So I've been practicing for a while now and wanted to challenge myself in this Jam. I'm happy with the result but I'm so slow that I couldn't finish in time for the Compo and I submitted for the Jam. The game is missing a few crucial things that would make the story easier to understand, as well as a few planned extra enemies and a lot of polishing, but I'll be happy if you all can try it.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/cursed-samurai