Hey everyone!
This is my first time in the competition as well. I will be using Flash Punk for my submission, Paint.Net for graphics and sfxr/audacity/LMMS for audio. This is my first time using Flash Punk as well so this should be a complete trainwreck. Looking forward to finding out the theme and not getting enough sleep this weekend.
My idea is probably one you will be seeing a lot of: Roaming around in space, visiting planets.
I also want to add side scrolling level within the levels themselves for extra “Discovery”.
Also, as the title suggests, the planets are Compact Discs/CDs so I can have a little fun with that concept.
Right now I have basic overworld movement and collision with planets being detected – woot!
Well … yeah…
Since starting at 2am this morning I’ve managed to get a few things done. The overworld is coming together – planets are spinning and being put in various places. Spawn points are… spawning…
Enemies don’t do anything yet because I need to finish the terrible movement in the player first. The movement works at least though.
Not bad for 7 hours I think…
Yay! Fixed the movement on my player somewhat and added particles.
I declare my game to be the prettiest ever! <3
Benefits of being with your parents for Christmas:
Easy access to food.
Disadvantages to being at your parents’ for Christmas:
Not like I can go for food anywhere else….
Game is coming along nicely btw.
Starting to think this game might be halfway decent.
Got arrows pointing to the various planets. A circle saying how close the enemies have to be to shoot. A hub graphic and better all around controls…. and a background … is that all I’ve really done in the last 4 hours or so?
Argh…
Finally felt ok with what I have to post a playable demo: http://sarah.draknek.org/Games/CompactDiscovery/
Not getting much done at the moment. I think I need a break and then to hack my way through the rest of the stuff I have planned.
Back to work and I have a checklist (minus putting in a whole other half of the game but oh well…):
1. Pause Button
2. Money
3. Hub Menu
4. Upgrades
5. Mining
6. Planet Properties
7. Turrets for Hub
8. Quest
9. Main Menu
10. Instruction Menu
11. Music
12. Sound Effects
13. Prettier Graphics
//If I have time
14. Different Types of Enemies
15. Better Controls
Place your bets now!!! How many I’ll get done and in which order!!!
You can now collect money from enemies among other small tweaks.
Controls:
Mouse to Move, Click to Fire.
Press P to Pause/Unpause.
Press Space to Enter Hub/Exit Hub.
Each planet will now randomly spawn money, enemies or allow you to mine it.
There is a mining bar at the bottom. The amount you can mine depends on how big the planet is.
There are random spawn points throughout the world. Planets and generic spawn points will no longer appear right next to the hub.
Planet and spawn points will be randomly reset when you visit the hub. Your health will be recharged at the hub when you enter it. You can choose to sell your mined Carbon for money at the hub.
…Still can’t die yet though… I should put that in at some point.
Controls:
Mouse to Move, Click to Fire.
Press P to Pause/Unpause.
Press Space to Enter Hub/Exit Hub/Mine Planets
Click “Sell Carbon” to Sell Mined Resources (On Hub Menu)
I’m satisfied with my game as it is. The game isn’t going to win the competition – but that isn’t what this was about for me. I made a game, by myself, in less than 48 hours and it’s one that I am proud to submit.
http://sarah.draknek.org/Games/CompactDiscovery/
There’s still a bunch of stuff to improve on it at a later date (as listed on the page) but I’m very pleased.
This has been a great experience and I will definitely take part again in the competition at some point in the future.
Good luck to the rest of you that are still going!
First time I’ve seen a timelapse of my own work before… kinda interesting.
http://sarah.draknek.org/Games/CompactDiscovery/MostRecent/
I will be using this link to host the newest versions of Compact Discovery until the end of the competition judging. After that I’ll be merging the original LD submission with the newer copy.
Well it’s been awhile since my last attempt at LD but here we go!
Windows 7
Actionscript 3 with Flashpunk
Sfxr and perhaps LMMS
… and hopefully a good idea!
Thanks to the unfortunate time zones I’ll be sleeping when the competition kicks off. So here’s the short-term plan:
Long-term Plan:
Bring it on!
“You are the villain” eh? An interesting theme.
Nothing jumps to mind immediately which will be a good thing in the long run.
Let’s go!
Alrighty, got myself an idea. Going to try out a game about crushing flowers under the boot of villainy.
I should be able to get the first part of the game done fairly quickly and see if it is playable.
Hope everyone else is doing alright!
Been working at the game for 2.5 hours now.
The idea for the game is starting to become more concrete.
You are a troll. This particular troll will turn to stone in sunlight. The sun is powered by flowers and the damn things just keep on growing!
Smash up those plants and stop the sun from waking up!
I’ve got a basic level, a moving and jumping red block (representing the player), collidable ground and plants.
The plants themselves are animated already to grow from a small seed.
ToDo List:
Quick update. Health on the plants is now represented:
ToDo List: