So this is my first ludum dare. I heard about it through the game design club at my school. I’ve only recently tried my hand at making a game, using Python/Pygame to do it(should probably learn c++). This has been a bit of a struggle, but maybe through doing this challenge it could motivate me to learn some more and get something done.

My game is going pretty good so far I’ve gotten over some major hurdles and stumbling blocks that I had before the jam, and now should be ready to move forward. Tomorrow I’ll finish up the player controls, make some more entities, and start on assets; may take awhile but should be pretty straight forward.

Code: Python and pygame library, built on a previous game I tried making

Tonights progress: made game, entity, scene, and player classes, implemented ‘sprite’ drawing/rendering, split program into separae files

Game Idea:

Locked in a bedroom during night

dream ‘monsters’ appear as player enters the bed and falls asleep

defeating a monster moves on to next stage

pretty simple but I should be able to handle it.

note: will try to post pictures and art later

Samuel Jasmer

Here’s what I’ve got so far.

I feel like I’ve wasted a bunch of time trying to rework one of my previously existing programs, when I could’ve just used it from the start and changed what I needed. Well here’s the results so far. The art will most likely change but getting animations to work in pygame has been baffling to me for months now, so I’ll see what I can do.

Samuel Jasmer