Hey there, and greetings to all of you!
This’ll also be my first time joining LD. Quite a few people I know have been participating in LD, and this time, I’ll see what I can manage to do as well!
What I’ll be using (most probably):
– Eclipse with a Ruby plugin, so I’ll code in Ruby
– Flash, Photoshop and/or Paint + my tablet for graphics
– and Gosu (cause Gosu + Ruby is great!)
Have fun people
When I heard about the theme, this was the picture that got in my head (or at least something like lava where you have to escape). Doing good so far (still having to calibrate, as the monsters are still too strong right now :D)
that’s how it is: if you decide to code on the last day without sleep and get to bed early the day before, then it is no wonder if you feel like crap after getting up early if you normally don’t.
I still have to travel, since i’m visiting my parents
I need coffee. now 😛
This is the final version of my game, ‘Defend your castle’ (I know, not the very best title in the world) against a lot of monsters, which represent the wall of doom. Well, can you manage to survive until the very last level? Use missiles to kill the monsters and walls to repel them. Or use the hammer guys (but those are expensive, at least at the beginning). Don’t forget to upgrade your units, and squeeze the money out of your civilians, providing you have some
Ten levels for you to play. I forgot to make an intro as well as to make credits.
*edit*I should have made at least one picture for explanations. Sorry. So:
Missiles are $100, Walls $500 and Soldiers $1000 (kinda hard to see)
You can raise the tax to get more money, but that cuts down your peoples growth.
You need a few people, should you really get to the last level, since money isn’t everything
The monsters will kill your population if they reach the castle
Soldiers only walk on their path
This game is mouse control only
BTW, the rainbulb can’t be beaten by soldiers or missiles, so you have to go with the last defense that you got; and there are monsters which will just walk over your barriers
Stupid by me: i should have limited the number of walls, since it’s O(n) in calculations
Win version download here
Mac version download here
Timelapse screencast here
Have fun!
Damn it, jlnr 😀
I guess I’m in this time as well. Actually didn’t plan to, because I had stuff to do, and tomorrow there’ll be a party, but jlnr managed to hypnotoad me or something, and now I’m too pumped up for programming that I won’t be able to stop. Party with darkened eyes, woohoo!
First pics and first foodstuffs. Japan is quite convenient with its bentou, though the boxes themselves are a waste of resources. I also wanted to make a timelapse, but the camera of the MacBookPro isn’t working. Hmm. What now…
Jlnr! When I meet you the next time, I’ll get a giant hammer and smash you into 2D! ^^
Have fun, everyone!
taking a break for food! Unfortunately I bought noodles with octopus, and I hate those. Getting out, buy something else, losing time? hahaha no way
Left computer is only for entertainment (a megaman vid), and on the right one you see a first draft. only gonna get better 😀
have fun, everyone!
Tired. Sleep deprived because I had to get up early in the morning (was other stuff). Hands. shaking. Fooooooood. Spent too much time for the shitty background. Meh
Food: rice + beef. Keeps stomach full
just got back from hanging out with friends, and now I’m pumped for the last few meters till the finish line! The game is basically done, all that’s missing is the most important part: the fun :D. because right now, there’s just a god mode, and no attacking enemies. well, 11 hours to go!
Also missing is the sound, but that’s a more minor thing compared to the attacking enemies
haha, and that’s the food for the last hours. i consider myself happy having a 24h McD right around the corner 😀
So, at all, have fun and good luck for finishing the games!
Just finishing enemies right now, which means there will be even time for some sounds. Weeee!
Pro:
– Even though I wasn’t planning to take part, I still did and don’t regret it
– Managed to create a new game!
– LD is always kinda fun, and coding with Gosu is allowing to code in Ruby very fast
– Created a shooting game with a lot of enemy fire. And the flower effects went surprisingly well
– very happy that the radar worked correctly!
Contra:
– when I was creating sound effects, they didn’t sound right and I took them out again. That was lost time. should have made bgm instead
– shouldn’t have made the enemies’ movement “random” :D. So some of them are having flowers, others don’t
– i know, the shootings are kinda crazy, but they aren’t crazy enough! ^^ should have been MUCH more
– i didn’t wanted to use wingdings as enemies, but, you know, no time and such. i also wanted to have them animated, but that would have taken even more time
– there’s a big performance problem if you get to the end. Reminder for myself: don’t make the collision calculations in the laser shots if you create around 360 every second, lasting for at least 10 seconds each
– i also wanted to add a possibility to move left and right, but having the calculations in euclidic dimensions crashed my brain at hour 42 😀
So, this LD was a nice experience again! To all alpha-testers and fellow programmers: have fun!
I have the following question: unfortunately I used Wingdings as enemy graphics, and those are not allowed in the rules. I didn’t know about that, but that also means that I disqualified myself.
Question: is it still ok to change the graphics now? I don’t want to be a spoilsport, so I have these to offer, intentionally making them worse to indicate that
Old graphics
new graphics
So do you think this is ok? Elsewise I will take back my entry by also deleting the links
pythong
Heya folks! Time for LD again I guess. Grabbed my stuff, emptied my fridge and went to university to work overnight cause there’s no way I could work at home. The theme is islands? So I’m gonna (try to) go with:
– Gosu and Ruby for programming
– Photoshop and my tablet for graphics
– Trying to make a timelapse with photobooth and a screencast with chronolapse
– For sounds, sfxr and gonna try LMMS
Here’s a pic of the current workspace
And I’m a really smart guy. Packed food, but forgot my toothbrush and stuff. Yay, gonna be happy tomorrow when my breath will hinder me at programming.
Have fun everyone!
well, no real progress over here. at least i got this funny spritesheet to show
Here you go with a screencast. Also wanted to do a real timelapse, but my second computer didn’t want to take pics of me over time 
Granted, this took a while, and the respective challenges are also over already, we still wanted to share this with you: We submitted a game to the app store, and after 10 long days of wait it has passed Apple criteria. YAY!
So we present you: iQueens for iPhone!
It’s a puzzle game based on chess figures. There are three modes to choose from. A puzzle of the first mode is shown here:
In this (very simple) tutorial level you have to place 2 Queens on the board so that every single field is attacked. In later levels of this mode fields get more complex and you will have a different set of figures.
The second mode is commonly known as the 8 queens puzzle, where you don’t try to control the board, but try to set figures so that they do NOT attack each other. This mode will be included in the first update which we already submitted, but have to wait for (again) due to Apple’s policies.
The third mode is known as the Knight’s Tour. Will be included at the start of the next year.
So if you want to give it a try, it’s being offered for 99cents in the app store. Have fun!
i guess i’m in. woke up at 4am to check the theme and went straight back to bed, hoping for ideas in my dreams ^^.
let’s get started!
Scrambled eggs for breakfast, but still no good ideas. Had one idea about a kid sent to bed by its mother, but after the lights go out, the kid discovers the house at night. Platformer. Silhouettes only, one-color background, only eyes of protagonist and enemies visible. End boss: silhouette of mother, looking more like a tyranno, but if the boss has been beaten, the light turn on again the kid is sent to bed again.
It’s too much work and I don’t think I’d be able to code a working final boss from scratch with the framework I wanna work with. For the next LD I guess I’m gonna re-learn using flash 😛
A bit more than 30 hours left and nothing to show exept the image above. Idea: finished. What I want as intro/tutorial: finished. What else do I have? Crappy psd-files and about 15% of the code. No music and no sounds yet.
Gotta pull an all-nighter!
i was actually kinda discouraged yesterday evening, having only less than 20 % of the planned code and hardly anything else. so i decided to stay awake and started doodling…and here’s the ingame result! (without bgr of course). having this even made me continue coding, and that’s a nice feeling you get when you see stuff work 
So there it was again, LudumDare. I shouldn’t have been working at the same time, as there were lots of distractions, and I should get together with other people again to have more motivation 😛
At first, the theme seemed to me like a revival of ‘Exploration’, LD 16. A peek to wikipedia showed me that ‘Discovery’ can be taken as that, but also as ‘to discover something new, not in the sense of exploring’. So I really tried to do that, not going into the direction of exploring (large areas) at all.
the idea came fast. it’s similar to a minigame that you can find in Pokemon Pearl/Diamond, where I spend hours running around. Then the rest was coding and a lot of drawing.
Coding is luckily not the problem. Ruby is very fast to write, Gosu nice to use, and the rest is up to me. No time -> hardcode. There actually is hardly any code, about 600 lines and that’s it. But the drawings ate up a lot of time. I also didn’t managed to do all the drawings. I wanted to have more, to animate everything slightly, and (of course) I also wanted to colour everything. Especially the win/lose-screens lack text, colour and animation. I probably could have done it with a bit more time
So that was it again! let’s have a nice time judging and playing around!