I’ll be competing in my first LD this weekend with the help of the Gamebox ruby framework. The source is available at http://github.com/shawn42/gamebox . Depending on the game, I may use other libraries posted at http://github.com/shawn42
I’ll probably use cfxr for sound clips, pixen for some pixel art, and lots and lots of vim.
Best of luck to everyone!
First screen shot of Island Hopping. The artwork will be replaced in the final version. The basic idea is to fly around and rescue people from rising waters and exploding volcanoes, and whatever other islandy things I have time for.
It uses chipmunk for physics and Gamebox and Rubygame.
Island Hopping
Tags: game, image, screenshot
I squeaked in a few hours to write a game this weekend. I’m glad I did; I had a lot of fun writing this in Ruby and Gamebox.
I made more of a simulation-toy than a game, but I enjoy playing it and am happy with how it turned out.
I can’t wait to start playing all the other entries.
Check out Seed Life here
I’ve really enjoyed adding to Seed Life.
Windows | Mac | Source links
I’ve already received great feedback from friends and LD comments. I’ve implemented some of them:
post-compo additions:
future plans:
Thanks for a great LD! Keep playing those games.
Obligatory we’re in post: A bunch of friends are entering the jam across multiple locations… \o/
We’ll be using:
“Beneath the Surface”… brainstorming time!
After only having a few hours to work on this, I’m really happy with how PixelMonster turned out.
PixelMonster is a puzzle platformer where the character absorbs the color from nearby pixels to make it to the next level. I’ll spend some time in the next few days adding more levels and tweaking I’m sure. I wrote it using Gosu and a custom ECS framework that I wrote in Ruby.
As always, this LD has been a blast! I can’t wait to play some games!
The entry page can be found here and a gfycat video can be found here
Tags: ruby