I’m pumped about entering the Jam this month!

Not sure what software I’ll be using yet. Depends on the theme!

I’m in! My partner and I will be entering the Jam.

Here’s our tools:

Code: XNA

Audio: SFXR/MixCraft

Grahpics: GraphicsGale/PhotoShopCS5/IllustratorCS5/Paint.net(or just MS Paint)

We look forward to everyone’s games!

GLHFTK

Just under 5 and a half hours until my first Ludum Dare takes place! My partner and I are pretty excited. I just got back from buying groceries for the weekend. Also just ate McDonalds. So I’m pretty pumped up. And by pumped up, I mean I probably have a clogged artery now. At any rate, we’re excited and I just wanted to say Good Luck to everyone in both the LD48 and LD72! Drink plenty of Nerd, never sleep, eat snack cakes, and most importantly, don’t vote Kittens.

We’re only an hour and a half away from the games! Just thought I’d update with a pic of my personal workspace. I can’t show you my teammates yet because, well, he isn’t here yet. Haha. Enjoy.
#LD72

That’s right.

Things are goin’ pretty well for the two of us right now.

We took the first hour or so to blast out some ideas and finally decide on one.

We’re both Chronolapsing and I’m also livestreaming one of my monitors. It’s pretty fun so far. We’ve got a lot of the game planned out already. I’ve just got to design everything while he… codes. Duh, right? Well, just wanted to say that we’re still goin’ strong and that we’ve only procrastinated once! …okay, twice. But we’re still workin! Yataa!

This is what we look like! And…

..here is my screen. ORIGINAL CONTENT, DO NOT STEAL.

lol.

GL errbody.

Ludum Dare started at 8pm in my time, and it is now 6:10am. We’ve been working pretty diligently at this and have gotten a lot accomplished. We have our overall game idea fleshed out along with somewhat of a story. We have most of our gameplay figured out as well. It just comes down to getting it done in time. We’ve made excellent progress thus far though. I, for one, am getting a little better with Graphics Gale (even though I still suck). I’m horrible at pixel art, but I’m working on it. Here are some more screen shots of us working tonight:

And…

Some art!

We’ll be going to bed soon. Gonna get some sleep to refuel our batteries. But, for now, we still work.

GLHFTK!

Got about 5 to 6 hours of sleep. Now for showering and then straight back to work. Will post screens later today.

I don’t like milk in my cereal.

Anyways.. It’s day two of the Jam. My teammate went home around 8am (12 hours after the Jam started) and that’s when I went to sleep. We both slept until about 1pm, which is actually an hour later than what we wanted. But oh well. We still have a ton of stuff to get finished, but allow me to fill you in on what’s been done so far:

– Have our levels looking pretty decent. Got some fancy 2.5D stuff goin’ on.

– We know what all characters are gonna be in the game, I’ve just gotta get ’em done. Which I have one almost completely done. Animations take too long imo.

– Movement is down. Just gotta work on attacking and jumping. As well as making enemies.

I think there’s more that we did, I just can’t remember because I just woke up. SWEET. My teammate just called and is on his way brining me McDonalds! Yataa! Well, buy for now folks! I’ll post some screens here soon enough!

If anyone is interested, check it out: http://www.livestream.com/screamrawr ..

BUT BE WARNED. MUTE THE VIDEO. For some reason, it likes to loop the same 3 seconds of sound over and over again.

Anyways, come watch me art!

Time for another update! We’re waiting until 8pm here so that we can order pizza using a coupon that I have. We’re starving!

Oh, right. Games.

Things are going pretty well. I’ve been working on sprites all day while my teammate has been fixing some bugs and trying to make the game playable. He’s currently working on dialog things and conversations and pseudo-cutscenes, etc. We’re hoping to get everything done by tomorrow night. Even though we’re entering the Jam, we won’t have the full three days because my teammate works on Monday until 5pm and the Jam ends at 8pm. So we’ll be hopefully polishing off stuff by then.

Here’s some screens!

..so here we are! Things are looking up! We got stuff movin, and attacking, and dying, and burning, and exploding, and running, and gettin’ scared, and even freaking out at times. It’s great stuff I tell ya. It’s currently 6:35am here. We’ve been working since about 3pm yesterday. That’s a little over 16 hours straight.  So we’ve made a lot of progress, but there’s just as much, if not more, that needs to be done before Monday. So, I’m back to work but please, let me leave you with some pictures!

See you all soon!

We just filled, I mean literally filled, our game full of NPCs that start shuffling every time they move.

Done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8&ob=av3e

Just a quick update. We’ve decided how we want to finish the game and should be able to reach our goal. Well, let’s hope we do anyways because we still have to add sound! Ah! At any rate. I know I haven’t given any screenshots of our game yet, so here is a tiny one of some debug stuff.

Just a glimpse.

Well, we finished! It was a blast. Don’t have a whole lot of time at the moment, but we will def have time lapse vidoes up soon.
Good luck to everyone who entered!

Hey everyone! We’ve finally got our time lapse videos up!

For our programming timelapse, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cU2_m4gkz8&feature=youtu.be

For our art timelapse, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb6UBkAgrfg&feature=plcp&context=C3854edbUDOEgsToPDskJvdVApGT52a5yIinw4kVse

Please play and rate us here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7415

We hope you enjoy!

Tags: timelapse

So there are only 4 days left to rate. We’ve been trying to rate whenver we get the time, and so far we’ve rated 26% of the games out there. But there are still more! We’re going to keep trying to rate more and more games out there!

And everyone else should do the same! You can start by trying our entry: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7415

Good luck to everyone!

And we are very happy with how we did! We did pretty well and even placed in a few categories. We are very pleased with this since this was our first LD and all. To everyone else who enetered, great job! The games that placed were amazing and many of the games that we played were great too, even though some of them didn’t place. We regret that we were unable to play all of the games, but we’re sure that they were great too!

Overall, we had a blast and look forward to the next LD that we are able to take part in. Hopefully, we’ll see everyone in April!

Greetings!

I’ll be entering the Jam with my teammate/roommate/friend!
This will only be our second LD, but we are super excited.

The first LD we entered was LD22 when the theme was Alone (sidenote, please downvote Abandoned, I don’t want to do the same thing twice. D:)
We ended up tieing for 7th place overall with our lovely entry, Party Quest: Never Go it Alone.
Link: ( http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7415)

We hope to just have fun this time no matter what place we get!

We haven’t decided if we’re using Flash or XNA yet, but we’ll let you know when the time comes.
For art, I’ll probably use Photoshop, Illustrator, Graphics Gale, Sai, and whatever else I need.
Audio, I dunno. Probably the software that’s suggested by the site.

More details eventually!

Remember kids, HFGLTK! 😀

-ScreamRawr and Jif

So my teammate still isn’t home. :/

I’m taking part in the Jam with my roommate (we were partners last LD we entered as well), but he still isn’t home from a baseball game he went to with his work.

So I’ve spent the time setting my computer up, setting up the timelapsing, the live streaming (http://www.livestream.com/screamrawr) and so forth.

I have mixed feelings about the theme being Evolution. I knew I was going to have problems with it if it were chosen.

It were chosen.

I guess just getting out of the Pokemon mentality is going to be tough for a lot of people. I also feel like a lot of people are going to misuse the term “Evolution”. But, I am also expecting some of LD’s finest games to come from this since the theme has been long time coming.

Needless to say, I’ve had an hour to myself to start rolling up some ideas to pitch to my teammate when he finally gets home. I’ve got two right now, and one of them is pretty well thought out. I’ve written probably about a page and a half for my teammate, (I guess I could just call him by his name, Jif) to read.

Welp! Good luck everyone! I am really looking forward to this weekend.

~ScreamRawr

P.S.) I’m tired already. D:

Hey LDers! This is update number 2, coming your way!

So Jif finally made it home and we got straight to work on brainstorming ideas. I mentioned in my last update that I had been working on some ideas while he was gone. Well, he was doing the same.

When we finally sat down and started to discuss, we found out that we both came up with the same basic idea.  We’ve merged them together, tweaked it, and lo and behold, our ideas have, wait for it, EVOLVED into something truly amazing. We’re both excited about this idea. We’re hard at work on it right now and we hope all goes well!

I’ll reveal more about our ideas a little later on. But for now, I have a few pictures for you.

He finally arrives!

But then we worked!

And now he’s implementing!

See you guys next time!

~ScreamRawr & Jif