This will be my third Ludum Dare, and this time I’m probably going to challenge myself more. My game for my last ludum dare was insanely simple and low stress compared to my first ludum dare with my second LD being done nearly 7 hours earlier than my first one.
I’ve also been working on a little Javascript library, so I’ll probably use Javascript this time around, and the usual GIMP 2 or Paint.NET for making amateur art.
A while ago somebody had posted a lot of tools for generating sound effects to use in games, and I had bookmarked one of them because I thought it was pretty neat so I’m reposting it!
I’ve made the mistake of having an inventory system in my game, so I’ve been awkwardly struggling with that almost the entire time! At least I also have a stick figure moving across the screen (with no redrawing background)…
Or at least hopefully.
So I’ve been working on this little game for about 10+ hours now, and I’ve been really proud of myself for the progress I’m making! I got the inventory working, enemies, a template for adding items and other enemies into the game super easily!
At first I was going to have a medieval dungeon crawl game, but now I have a science-fiction dungeon crawl game. However, some of the items like Swords and Plate Armor are way behind their time so I should probably change them…
What I have so far!
I know black walls are kind of boring, and I know the art isn’t very good but I’m going to keep all of it because I still feel like I have a lot more to do besides try to fix my bad pixel art.
Looking through the blog posts throughout the day I’ve seen everybody make really amazing stuff with amazing progress, and I’m excited to try out some of the games!
I managed to finish my third Ludum Dare game: Super Alien Dungeon! This game is a vast improvement compared to my previous Ludum Dare games!
It’s my 4th Ludum Dare!
Once again I’m excited for the 2 day fun-work fest!
Language: Java (or Javascript?)
IDE: Netbeans (or Notepad++?)
Drawings: Paint.NET
Sounds: Audacity or taken from freesfk.co.uk
Music: Used with permissions and found through google/soundcloud
Feel free to look through the source code of previous games or use anything from my github account
I am really enjoying my progress with my game so far! Since I don’t know how to make smancy .gifs like the people who are more talented devs than me, I will post some pictures!
The player
An enemy
An enemy preparing to shoot
Frame from attacking animation
Screenshot from the game
Just a few more things to do for the enemy’s behavior and then I can get some serious level-building/random polishing in for tomorrow!
I’m making a game where you are a creature living underground trying to feed your pet sheep!
I’ve gotten mostly everything I wanted to get done finished. Also, I got some schmancy gifs showing off my awesome amateur animations.
Burrowing underground
Capturing enemies
Now I can make more levels and maybe get some sound effects in. So far, this has been my favorite Ludum Dare!
Hello Ludum Dare community! Ludum Dare 30, a big number for it, is coming around soon! This month is also a big month for the The Arbitrary Game Jam with it’s one year anniversary, the first TAG being hosted August last year.
I invite all of you to come and join it! The whole idea behind TAG is that the winner of the last jam will host the next event, picking one of the themes that aren’t randomly generated and creating any bonus rules. This helps small and talented indie companies and game developers get traffic to their sites.
This month the TAG Jam is hosted by hilgames. The random themes are ‘Second Rate’, and ‘Cementation’, with the host chosen theme ‘Storm’
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.”
– Leonard Bernstein
Time for another one! As always I’ll be using Javascript, typed from Notepad++, Paint.NET for pictures and Audacity for sound.
Have you ever wanted to play as a pilot with instant trans-galactic teleportation powers assigned with piloting your ships to avoid intergalactic space heads of death?
Well now you can!
Command tons of spaceships at once!
Click the screenshot to play!
Oh my, it’s time for another Ludum Dare! This is my sixth time and I have really enjoyed learning more and more about programming and game development every time I participate!
Java!
Paint.NET & Gimp!!
Audacity & maybe Anvil Studio? & evosfxr !!!
Hopefully this time I won’t have to scrap everything and restart half way through!
All right 7th Ludum Dare!
I’m going to use the Jmonkeyengine because we’re supposed to try something new.
Using Paint.NET and Audacity and this little adapter thing I bought for my computer to record sounds from the electric guitar I have.
Let’s have another fun weekend!
We’re making a game where you kill things and use them (or parts of them) as weapons! It’s menu based combat at it’s finest. We probably made the structure it too complex for what it is, but it looks like a game.
We have cutscenes.
We have a world map of the areas
We have really neat menu combat with really empty menus
We have flashy transitions
And effects that happen when you hit the spacebar at just the right time.
Overall it’s going pretty good. We should probably balance it though.
It’s almost time for yet another Ludum Dare!
I have been participating in this since sophmore year in high school, but this is my first time doing it in college!
Unfortunately, Ludum Dare lands directly on the weekend before my first finals week. I will still try to participate, but I’m not going to put as much time into it,
I have always used Java and Javascript/HTML5 for my games, but I might decide to use Unity and Blender for a slick 3D game this time around. I attempted to do 3D modeling last time, but I got too ambitious and had to scrap everything, making a small game to replace it all.
Hype hype.
So my game starts with you as a seed and then you become a big tree monster and eat people
grr monster
Right now the sapling form can hide from predators (that will be made later) until you can grow big and strong
(I removed the .gif because it was ugly)
Progress is going slow to say the least
On the bright side, I have two phases of my game nearly done.
I’ve recently started trying to make the game take more advantage of the 3D space, because up until half an hour ago the game behaved more like a 2D game with 3D models.
Flying as a seed
Growing!
a bunny
Goodnight all!
My first game made with Unity is finally (sort of) completed.
This is definitely not my best submission, but now I’m more familiar with a new tool, and I did make a cool tree model for it. (I was told it looks like broccoli though)
Good job everybody! Play my game here.
Its another Ludum Dare time!
I always love participating and I feel like I learn something new every time. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like I’ll have much time over the weekend but I will still try.
Since I didn’t really like my last entry that used Unity, I want to try again because Unity is very popular and it looks like it has a lot of potential if one can use it well.
I will also try using fellow Ludum Dare participant’s timelapse tool ProLapse for making a timelapse because they’re fun and I haven’t made one in a while.
Good luck everybody!