almost 3 hours in and all i have to show for it is this hud

my game idea is evolution choose your own adventure. this should be fun

As I prepare for sleep tonight, I ask myself:
“What did I accomplish today?”

Then I recall the duck hunt memes in the irc, taking 3 hours to make a 200×100 gui, and making some dev art.

Tomorrow I have the task of programming the game and improving art.

So now I ask myself:

“Why couldn’t the theme have been Duck Hunt?”

so I am scrapping all code I have done thusfar to make this easier but more tedious. that is all

Play evolver

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I am playing Overwatch while waiting for the theme to be announced. Stop by!

*working title

I got my concept done. An evil Professor has locked you in a room with many different stages of traps. It will work similarly to a boss fight, with one stage at a time. It will also be sort of bullet-hell, with lots of things flying around the screen.

what? no, I definitely did NOT just spend 4 hours working on a laser only to scrap it and do it in a different way. that would be stupid, right?

nope, I definitely spent 4 hours trying to make a laser follow the player. I was really close, but I scrapped it. I dont need to waste any more time on that. So now the laser just rotates around and alternates and speeds up. It’s like a mini boss fight.

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Don’t mind the debug numbers above the turret, I was using those for testing.

So next up is more traps for Professor Calloway to spring on you, and also a Professor Calloway boss fight hopefully. I’m off to bed now, good luck to everyone else!

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so Professor Calloway is in his Mech, where he shoots you and then charges you like a bull. This boss fight is gonna be great!

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Play it here

God, that was more difficult than it needed to be. I wasted lots of time on the same problems (I’ll talk about it in a Post-Mortem) but I’m finally done.

Note: My game requires that you download GMS2 to run. http://www.yoyogames.com/get2

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So I have a lot of ideas for very small games with this theme, but I don't want to use my entry on something that small. Is there any rule against making a mini game collection like mario party or something along those lines?

My game is complete. It ended up as probably my best and most polished game ever, especially for a LD game. I am glad I was able to compete in this LD, almost 6 years after my first. Play my game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/the-reverse-of-the-summit Make sure to comment so I can play yours too :)

My LD48 game, the Reverse of the Summit, has now been uploaded to itch.io with new features! The Reverse of the Summit is an twitchy endless runner game about skiing down a cave. Now featuring a shop to buy custom skins, and an online leaderboard! Download for Windows here!