I have assembled a group of people to work on the ludum dare jam! This will be the first LD for all of us so we decided to work together and do the 72 hour competition. Next time some of us will make our own games in the 48 hour contest.

Tools:

Java

LWJGL

Awwww… This was not one of the themes I was hoping for… I guess I will have to work on a new idea… Back to the drawing board!

We have an idea here (Finally)! And it managed to include space! That’s all I can say for now because I need to get to making the idea real!

The 3d Engine is almost done, so today I hope to get to programming the actual game! OpenGL 3.2 will be required to run the game.

Were more the 24 hours into the Jam now. We still don’t have any playable content because of shader errors that plague our engine.

Looks like I free this weekend, so I’ll be competing in the compo! Unless of course I convince a friend or two to work with me… then we’ll do the jam.

Tools:

Language: Java

IDE: Eclipse

Libraries: LWJGL, and possibly a .obj consolidator model loader a friend wrote and gave me a while back. (I’m guessing this counts as a person library) EDIT: It also does binary model loading

Art: Blender/GIMP/Paint.NET

And I think that’s it!

So… I’ve written 933 lines of code for the engine (not including the shaders, which right now are just pass through right now anyway…) and I just got it displaying loaded models. I’ll hopefully be able to catch up to others soon. My concept for a game is coming along, but it’s not quite there yet.

Here’s a screenshot:

(Obviously this is an unshaded stanford bunny)

Well changing what I was making 15 hours in was a bad idea… Looks like I really far behind now. Static object work, but dynamic objects still don’t, which is a problem… Hopefully I’ll get them working soon so I can have a worthwhile screenshot.

Things are finally beginning to come together!

(The graphics are stand-in. Waiting until later to finish them up.)

I’m close to being done! Unfortunately I have lots of stuff piling up in real life, which requires my attention… This might be the end. I’ll keep trying though!

Here’s a picture of my progress:

I think it’s unlikely I’ll finish… but I’ve finished almost everything… just need to make the AI work (maybe almost wasn’t the right word) and tune up everything.

Well… Here is a screenshot of my progress:

For the first time in a while I’ll be doing the compo instead of the jam. Instead of writing my own engine I’ll be using Unity.

As far as the game goes, I think I’ll be making a classic turn based rouge-like. I’ll probably post more details once I figure them out.

I’ve decided to make a pretty classic turn based rouge like. The twist is that there are no spells or attacks. Instead, the player must progress through levels by defeating enemies with argumentation. Words are the player’s unconventional weapon.

The first thing I decided to do was dungeon generation since it seemed like one of the harder problems to tackle and I wanted to solve it before I get too tired. It’s sort of broken right now though. Hallways don’t always end up in the right location…

Here’s a screenshot of the debug map. The green areas are walls and blue areas are walk-able:

Just fixed the remaining bugs with my dungeon generator.

Here’s a screen:

I just finished my first graphics pass (just did the terrain tiles). I also improved my level generator somewhat by adding walls and room types.

Here’s a screenshot:

I’m planning on using C this time around