Back from voting! Enemies as weapons is a great theme. I can see myself coming up with something really interesting for that. But I have a better idea. I thought of something gnarley for “technology in the wrong time period” last night, so I think I’ll make one of those anyway. Who’s going to stop me, huh?

My plan requires a bunch of public domain government recordings as material so it wouldn’t have been eligible for the main compo anyway. Can’t lawyer the rules too much now that we have the Jam rules. But I’ll still gun for 48 hours.

Main goal this weekend is to finish a thing with Unity. I haven’t done a lot with it so I’ll be working with some tutorials and junk given to me by my good bro allen. I’ll also probably be using Audacity or Goldwave, PSP7 and 3dsmax.

Good luck, everyone.

Play me!

I forgot that my internet has been going down for eight hours a day in the evenings this week for some reason. Normally I’d kinda like that because usually no internet means more productivity, but since I have no idea what I am doing in Unity or with 3D modeling or any of this it’s kind of affecting my schedule. Still, got my basics set up and some atmosphere happening.

Okay, I’m in. But I’m hungry. I’m going to make bread.
Messing about with this dough has given me time to  think about the theme and I’ve gone through a couple of ideas before settling on one that’ll be fun to make. It’s a game which relies on online user generated content, so it’s probably going to be a complete clusterfuck, but I’m looking forward to giving it a go (since I’m pretty much a total newb when it comes to database crap, etc.).

My current goal is to get the basic save/load script working before this thing comes out of the oven.

Feeling a little ahead of schedule I decided to spend a bunch of time reproducing the LoZ tileset, overworld and interior, plus a couple of additions. Here’s an in-game shot of a screen loaded from the server.

Still a few hours left tonight. Hoping to get all the graphics and database crap and everything totally done so that I’ll have a whole 24 hours for game logic.

Oh, what’s my game actually about? Hacking and slashing as you build the whole world with other people (yeah, there is a basic grief control system). The map is currently about 1,500,000,000 screens… I might need to adjust that. And I should probably think about adding some sort of teleport function. And work on a title.

In the morning I’ll do a title screen and some more enemies if I have the time (and maybe readdress the player’s movement now that I have mouse editing, which I’m probably going to keep). But for now I’m pretty tired. Check out this WIP build if you want (and make some screens, if you want!):

http://klikscene.com/flash/ld20.html

Summary: it’s LoZ, but everybody can edit the world.

Heading to the airport later today for a 14-hour international flight. Sounds GREAT for LDing, too bad qantas doesn’t have power for my laptop on their A330s. So this is me signing off. Maybe I’ll finish something for the jam, but I might build a smokehouse instead. To bacon in.

I do.

I think about you day and night.

It’s only right.

To think about the girl you love.

And hold her tight.

So happy togeeetheeeeeeeeeer.

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