So far I’ve stolen the graphics (and sounds) from my old ludum dare entry and I intend to update it when I got some actual gameplay. At the moment you can run around, jump and avoid stars. Nothing happens when you collide with them or fall outside – yet, but that will happen soon I hope.
lunch: eggs with creamed smoked roe and hot chocolate
Tags: first screenshot, foodphoto, progress update, screenshot
second screenshot
Still temporary graphics from old game, your animal(the dude) can either shoot lasers(the rat) at incoming enemies (the stars) or dash-kill them. More superpower are on the way and also mating and evolving. In short, the game is a mix between two previous ld games: loupton and diamond hollow.
food
third screen
The rat is temporary graphics for a random animal that you can mate with. The goal is to include a few different animals with different powers and mate between them. The different powers I got so far are deadly skunk explosion that has to be charged and some form of eye laser/electrical fur-ball. I’m going to go with evolution points and some form of reaction/slowmo effect as a power too. I guess mating with different supower powered animals could result in differnet superpowered offsprings, but at the current difficulty it’s hard surviving a wave. Perhaps I should rethink the one hit one kill gameplay.
Next on the todo list is the evolve menu and grahics but that will have to be done tomorrow. It’s 3 am here and I’m surprisingly not tired.
new graphics
I’m trying out a new look on my games. Thanks to artrage it’s pretty easy to get a artsy look. It’s a shame that the character pictures doesn’t look as good when scaled down (from artrage images) as the level do. Oh well…
Tags: artsy, cat, progress update
the game
SO…. the game is “complete”. You can select between 3 different animals to play as with 3 different powers. The cat can cough up furballs, the skunk can drop smelly bombs and the labrat get extra evolution points for being experimented on. You fight of scribbles/spaghetti monsters and sometimes they drop bombs that explode. If you kill enough enemies you can evolve gaining faster moments, better powers, more health etc. However, to keep on surviving as a species you must mate with other animals and get children.
the evolve menu
Now I need to spend the rest of the time to polish it up and make the menu system comprehensible and intuitive and not ugly.
delicious food
Okay, I’m in. I’ll be creating a beat ’em up like game where you control a goat like evil character that beats up civilians in order to get the attention of the heroes so you can fight them and win.
Dr. Horrible the game should be made and it fits the theme, just saying…
Tags: awesome, dr. horrible the game, idea
okay.. got some early screenshots where I play around some with the tech and size of things
first screenshot
and a gameplay sketch based on this test:
looks good
There are silhouettes in the background with a batlike signal when the heroes are about to arrive and a planet/world circling to keep the player on top as he walks around beating up innocent civilians.
Yeah.. I think I’m going with this.
Tags: first screenshot
Added a level, still no actual gameplay…
During the day you can roam free and hurt innocent people
but during the night the heroes come…
Tags: screenshot, screenshots
ok… no gameplay whatsoever and no heroes or villains in the game so far, but I got a background with a day/night cycle. I should probably be spending my time on the game than the actual background…
The day
During the night the furry four comes to the rescue
Tags: background image, day night cycle, no gameplay whatsoever, screenshot
It’s been a while since I posted last, so here the current progress…
Testing the object rendering, seems to be working fine so far
Got a bit tired of all the sinus and cosinus calculations so I sketched out all the game states that I need
After buying on of these, I just had to add joystick support to my game:
old school controller
the rabbit and the goat with unified keyboard+ joystick system
I needed a hurt, die and block animation before I can add Captain Woof, so I decided to add another attack, in the form of a charge. It’s kinda fun, in a sadistic way, to charge and slaughter a bunch of cute rabbits.
Charge!
Next up, food for me and captain woof for the game!
Finally the game is done, now it’s time for polish and tying it all together in a pretty package.
Epic battle between the evil goat and on of the furry four!
but there is still much to do before the deadline, looks like an alnighter…
stuff to do…
There are a lot of things that I would like to add and change, and I guess that ‘s part of the process, perhaps I’ll make a post compo version adding the stuff that I want to add and fixing the gameplay bugs that are irritating, but anyway… the game is done!
make sure to hit the dog when he’s happy…
Play it here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=1135
or if you feel lazy 
Tags: timelapse
I found that I couldn’t compile the timelapse as my resolution was too big for mencoder. Going through the images one by one to downscale every one was not going to happen. All the automated softwares I found was either adfilled, couldn’t be installed on a 64-bit windows or crashed with my dataset. So I took a couple of hours out of my freetime and wrote a simple console application to take care of it.
The usage is pretty easy, write a xml file that tells it what to do
<batch>
<actions>
<resize width="2048" height="1546" />
<save/>
</actions>
</batch>And the just call it:
ImBatch.exe <input pattern> commands.xml <output folder>and it will do all the work.
So with that said, here it is in all it’s glory: https://github.com/sirGustav/ImBatch
I’m in, though my time this weekend is severely limited, so I’ll probably be making a platformer based on my incomplete haxe game.