FINISHED!

I’ve already wanted to participate in LD two or three times but every single time either lack of time of the inner procrastinating monster stood in the way. This time of course I had tons of other stuff to do again but decided there was no way something could stop me now.

And it hasn’t! Created in the last freaking 7 hours since that’s all I could manage to have access to the computer on a tool I’ve never touched in my life before, I present you Ten Zero-Zero, a tale of Blue – a man with a dream to become the first blue man to run 100 metres in under ten seconds. I know it’s not perfect but I’m still unspeakably proud of it and considering the time and tools that I had at hand, I just want to kiss my LCD

Play it here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=22823

With burning-eyes farewell,

Tigro 😀

12 hours into the second day already and I thought about quitting only seven hundred times.

Something catchy like “I planned a sequel to The Last of Us but in the end I have a fucking pong”.

…and raise you a game in which you have to play four games simultaneously to win.

So after playing thousands of games the plots of which were centered around bacons starting an uprising, I’m confident to say that one of the most interesting ones was “The Bacon Uprising” by this Tigro guy (any similarities between his and my username are absolutely coincidental). So yeah, you should check it out:

While bacon uprising is more and more prevalent of a theme in modern indie games, this man managed to squeeze more of the topic providing a captivating plot and 16 hours of juicy gameplay. Grab it while it’s free, rumor has it it’s gonna be greenlit soon and increase in price to $80 with DRM.

Everybody seems to be using some wise-sounding latin shit for their titles so I decided to jump on the bandwagon. My creative process was generally divided into six phases, each of which can be shortened to a quote banging in my head back then so that’s how I’m going to present them:

Phase #1, Saturday morning
“Am I going to make a sequel to The Last of Us or would Uncharted be enough?”

Oh the horror of coming up with an idea. Using my previous experience, I decided to distinguish three main ideas I may have and then THROW THEM ALL TO SHIT. Because that’s exactly what the other billion people thought. Not being the fan of the theme (by the way, everybody hates it so who the hell voted for it, eh?), I decided to just go wild and think something so absurdly over the top that it be interesting in itself. And so the idea of bacon strips starting an uprising against humans to be a pig once again was born.

Phase #2, most of Saturday until evening
“Which will look better on the walls of the yacht I’ll buy with the money from my masterpiece – pounds or dollars?”

I did pretty much nothing, watching track and field and shit. Cause I got this, right? All is right in the world.

Phase #3, Saturday late evening and night
“What’s the meaning of life?”

It struck me. There were overwhelming piles of stuff to be done and as soon as something was done, the other went to hell. The most creative phase cause some 50% of the ideas changed labels from “crucial to the project” to “you know what? Fuck it”. Finished the first of the four minigames you’re playing and started to lay the foundations for the second one. All using placeholders cause I’ll have plenty of time to do graphics the next day, ain’t I? OK, so lemme just polish the second minigame a bit mo… BAM, 5 AM ON THE CLOCK BITCH, SCRAM TO YOUR BED YOU DUMB FUCK, CHOP CHOP.

Phase #4, Sunday morning till ~2PM
“Which is less painful – a razor or a handful of pills?”

Zombie right from the morning. Devastated by how much of everything is still untouched. Yet another 25% of things get thrown to garbage cause there is no way I’ll be able to finish them. Think about quitting every five minutes, stop counting after the nine thousandth idea to give up and decide to force myself through it and see where it leads. The second minigame is finished, the third starts to look like a game.

Phase #5, Sunday afternoon
“OK, it all starts to fall in pl… JESUS FUCKING CHRIST IN A SANDWICH THERE ARE NO GRAPHICS YET”

Power through the remainig minigames, the penalties for making mistakes set to more or less random and non-consistent figures. What was meant to be a candidate for Venus de Milo of our times is a steaming pile of shit fixed to a humpback whale using duct tape and bonobo monkeys. Fire up Illustrator and get to graphics. Fuck the menus, lemme make them in one minute. The art looks inconsistent as can be, combining smooth vector edges of bacon strips and ugly tiled background but I don’t have time for this, let’s just pack it all together… YEAH RIGHT MOTHERFUCKER, WHAT ABOUT THE SOUND. Fire up Garage Band and make something souding bearably to fill the silence. OK, ready to pack it up again – I think…

Phase #6, Sunday evening
“At least it works”

That’s pretty much the whole thought process after being able to finally submit. The whole process was painful as fuck, the results but a mere percent of what I wanted them to be but it works so hey – that’s something!

Hope you enjoyed the honest poste restante. If you wish to check out what came out of this fight, remember to check out The Bacon Uprising:

Like… really. #27 in humor, wtf :O My plan was to suck just a little bit less than last time and to try to fit in the top 100 of any category and even this seemed like a bold prediction. The final outcome surpassed all my expectations, hopes and wishes. Thank you very much to everyone for their kind words in the comments and generous ratings, I’m happy to see some of you dig that kind of humour as well

To wrap up, here’s a bacon strip riding a pig. Because why the fuck not.