I’m defiantly excited to finally be able to join everyone else in this Ludum Dare granted I finish my English homework today and have the weekend free. Its already the 21st here in NZ and I was worried for a moment that I had miss calculated when it would start 😀

I plan on using:

• Gamemaker Studio professional
• Serif Drawplus x6 and/or Gimp
• For music, maybe This Exquisite Forest but idk if this music is allowed for external use. I may modify it myself but does anyone know if this would be allowed in the Compo? Thanks anyone else know of a simple free music creator? I like to use ambient music in my games but any simple music creators would be nice to know about thanks.
• I’ll probably mix and make my sounds in audacity.

looking forward to building and playing some games

So, that’s it.

Here‘s my first ever Ludum Dare game (my second game ever)

Go play it 😉 you wont regret it (unfortunately only available on windows)

The game was submitted 2 mins before submission hour ended and I couldn’t find the compress to zip option on my PC 😛 oh well. I was very happy with how much I completed and all I really missed out on doing was adding villager upgrades, balancing the game play difficulty and a little bit of polishing however I’m quite surprised with how polished the sounds ended up sounding.

The ai turned out well with the rare glitch that causes the monster to just freeze. but its rare… (and fixable)

The fps is really only impacted by the background tiles drawing, so should be a simple fix and It runs above the limited fps for me anyway.

The best part is that I finished it within the 48 hours

After building a powerful village to deplete and kill the Trogg, turn the tables and fight back as the Trogg to eat all of your villagers to boost your score!

If you haven’t yet played Trogg please take a moment and see what score you can reach 😛

(If not only to feel the satisfaction of destroying your own village after defeating the Trogg)

Click Here to Play!

I ranked 14th equal overall in the compo when I wasn’t expecting to make it anywhere near a high rank.

I was already quite proud of what feedback I had received and the game came out better than expected.

My internet went down for 6 hours just before the results were announced and I didn’t believe my friend when he told me I came 14th.

I hope everyone else also found success this year in the ludum dare. I enjoyed playing many of the games submitted and will definatly try to participate in the future.

Thanks again to everyone who played and rated my game

here are my other ratings for those who are interested:

Hey I am definitely in for this ludum dare compo and am so excited 😀

LD 33 was my first Ludum dare and I placed 14th overall with 11th in the ‘fun’ category and quite pleasing results in the others too, the only issue I had with that Ludum dare is… that I missed a day of school because I live in NZ.

Thankfully at the time my parents were supportive of that decision, (as I had no real reason to be at school that day anyway 😛 ) but I don’t have to worry about it this time round due to the fact that school is now over for the year and I could literally spend as much time as I want to on the ludum dare.

As with last time I will use gamemaker studio with the built in sprite editor, serif draw plus or gimp for graphics and leshylabs.com/apps/sfMaker for sfx.

I have a few good ideas for mechanics for various themes and am ready to get started 😀

Now that I’ve taken a break I’d like to summarize my LD 😀

The last day has been an interesting one for me as I believe it has been for many. However, honestly I had no intention on participating in the ludum dare this weekend, and it was only after lunch yesterday I took a peek at the theme and was instantly inspired. The theme is one I have seen in many other game jams in the past but I have never been driven to participate. By the time I had started Gamemaker Studio, the first 26 hours of the compo was already passed so I thought I’d make something simple and just have a little fun with the theme.

A few hours later I was waist deep in code and quickly hacking together an online multiplayer server to serve as the core for a simple competitive platforming game. Last night I went to sleep with a menu and multiplayer sussed but was yet to even begin the core game play and had no idea where I would find the time. So with 4 hours sleep I pushed this morning to get a functioning game and managed to cobble together platforming mechanics, very simple random level generation and the win condition with only 20 mins before the deadline. It’s safe to say that while this isn’t my best work, I’m super proud that I was able to pull it together, and even though I was unable to add barely any of the features I had in mind, I believe this game has far more potential with a little work and look forward to playing around 😀

Furthermore I’m going to rest and get ready to hopefully play a heap of LD games over the coming days. I’m going to be running the online server for my game ‘Royal Rise’ continuously while I play other games, so I welcome you to try it out (Keeping in mind that I’m in New Zealand so there may be some latency). Good luck to those still pushing for the Jam!! I have already seen some awesome gifs of games I just cant wait to play

Anywho, I guess it would be appropriate to gift a couple gifs of my simple platform game:

Looking forward to getting to use the new site fully in the future.

Hi all I just uploaded the first episode of my Ludum Dare 37 gameplays:

My PC sounds like a Jet in the background, and I failed to elaborate as much as I had intended on my thoughts of the game but in an attempt to keep the video to a watchable length, I think its ok for my first attempt. If you have any suggestions as to games I should play please feel free to email me at camblurban@gmail.com

Hopefully I can also show my genuine reactions to all the games in episode two and not have to re record my gameplay of any due to technical issues, however all the games I played in EP 1 still deserved the video.

Game entries I played:
One Room Hotel by TerraCottaFrog
Correct Color by gogo199432
Jim is Moving Out! by stadoblech

My Ludum Dare entry:
Royal Rise (Multiplayer) by thebrickanator

Thanks for watching