Seriously. I love making fonts in Swankypaint.  I’ll do a tutorial later (for use in love2d, maybe in other things.)

Swankypaint is very Deluxe Paint like, if you know that. And if you do know it, the keystrokes are in your fingers already, and… yeah. Just. It rules.

So here is a screenshot (there is a bit more game than screenshot, but I love the font.)

I love Swanky Paint and it’s ability to make fonts.

I should probably mention that ‘Team (” ‘ is mostly me.  The other member of Team (” is not actually involved with this game, this is just all me this weekend.

That may explain some of the problems people had seeing the stream.

Now, my 4g – no packet loss.  Anyway.  Not important.  I can go back to 4G if I need to. Right now, tho, I have… to figure out what to work on next.

It’s not a game yet, but at least the basic movement areas are handled, and now it’s on to _gameplay_ (which is admittedly a bit late.)  That said I’m ok with where I am right now given the allergies.

Screenshot:

WOTOF

— postmortem on that packet loss: Yeah, I’ve got 3% on the 4G.  I’m just gonna have packet loss today, so I’ll call off the streaming.  I’ll record some things in a bit, perhaps, toward the end when there is more playstuff. Or when I am drawering with swankage paint.

in the readme:

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Ludum Dare 25 entry

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Well, there isn’t a theme announced yet, but I’m gonna go ahead and set up the
defaults so I can get going when there is one. In 3 hours.

Yes, I already slept. It was reported my sleep quality was 27% or so, but I
had a really, really good dream. It involved Revision prep, my parents, and
Moleman2. At one point in the dream version of Moleman 2, Gargaj and I were
talking and I was wearing corpse paint. And my parents weren’t phased.
Also, a bit later (the corpse paint changed quite a bit during the filming,
which seemed to span a 2 minute period. You know. Dreams.) the corpse paint
changed to have a Finnish flag prominently on my forehead, and a more faded
us flag over my nose area. Well. Much more faded. I liked it. Then my
parents went off to the stage area with someone to watch some demos while I
talked to folks, and I caught up with them a bit later and my mom wanted to
see this dress thing in a case so she started taking it out and I helped her,
and then she held it up and it looked nice and we discussed making things and
demos and what we do at parties and it was all very cool.

This of course all started with dreaming/thinking about LD themes.

So this time, Leblane and I will do the Jam, rather than just LD by myself.

We will use Löve2d, I’ll do gfx in SwankyPaint, and from there, we’ll just see what develops.

I am not 100% sure where the heck we’ll be actually working, and I have an interruption 12 hours into the jam, so… yes! this will be fun to time manage, and that always is a challenge for me anyway.

Anyway, let’s see how it goes (:

So that plan! The one from before?  Yeah that one.

SCRAPPED!  \m/

Because I’m doing Laravel at work and want to keep working with it this weekend, I’ll be doing backend stuff in Laravel and Leblane will be doing some form of Javascriptage frontend thing, and that’s how it’s gonna go.

Music / Sound FX: still the same plan, I think – I did ping one guy about his interest but haven’t heard back or anything, so… either that or WordPress has decided it hates communication and thus I don’t know he doens’t know I haven’t seen his reply.  And I … hmm maybe I can find that somewhere… anyway! Stuff by autotracker / sfxr;  graphics I will do in SwankyPaint.

And now, to go prepare a bit more, then sleep; we won’t start at the start/announcement because that’s 4 am and it’s just stupid to stay up and get 2 hours in before crashing.  So we’ll meet at 8:30 and go to my office at 9 and start in on it.

W007age to everyone and \m/

Awake, “why no sound from speakers/must call Leblane and find out theme… why no… ok fix that later”

call Leblane “You are the Monster”

“Oh! A game about [a non-favorite politician] … let’s not do that”

Initial preparation to get to office and… off to office! Leblane called and “where are you” so … GO GO GO

Team (” has commenced to produce a plan and we are working on things now.

Team (” had trouble turning the alarm off at work and also had some other delays but planning phase is over and we’re on our way, and I’ve got boilerplate and stuff.

Code now

LeBlane has spent the day trying to get sprites to work, and now has that going, and we have a ‘city’ thing.

The backend now has city data and … well it has the data, returning it isn’t in yet, but will be first thing.

Go home, sleep, fix backend, then LeBlane will get here a bit later and we’ll see where we get before noon.

So Leblane has been having serious issues with the javascript framework that he was using, to the point where basically an hour ago I went and looked to see if there were others that could basically replace it very quickly… and he decided on one, and 20 minutes later he has more than the last day and a half. So, yeah,”f* pixie.”

I think I found a bug in something in Laravel, dealing with enums, but got around it; fairly sure it’s a bug, very little documentation – I guess most folks aren’t using enums in their database tables.  Bizzarre, they’re very useful, but then… yeah.

Much discussion of php’s peculiarities.

I did some gfx.

Game coming along, but, yeah, major setback with the javascript canvas framework thing.

So we’re going to close down for today, and quite frankly, we probably will not work on things tommorrow.

I learned quite a bit about Laravel, which was the point of my doing my Laravel bit.

Leblane has learned, as he says, “what javascript platform NOT to use.”

Also, to be sure that the tools that are chosen are up for the task BEFORE the jam.

Still, it’s all gone well.  I’m mainly saying we should stop now because I have laundry to do and because I’ve lost some motivation as I haven’t really been able to contribute much for a while, other than graphics… which aren’t bad (I have a rather nice ‘room’ setup that we needed for the buildings.)

It hasn’t gone FANTASTIC, though (:  And we’ll prepare for the next one, or similar.

You know, I should put the pictures I drew between coding bits up. So they’re somewhere (:

Lil’ guys (called ‘Smileys’ and ‘Frownies’)  (and work stages)

The ‘room’ graphic; various things would be put in front (chairs, beds, office furniture, plants, shop tables, etc.)

Loads more to do with the gfx to get it going for the game, and we really needed more ‘game’ before I spent more time on the gfx.

Somehow I will manage to take the time to do this over the weekend, despite the “work” workload.

As there is server stuff that must be done at 8 am, and that’s 4 hours after the announcement, and the server stuff may not exactly work out considering that… yeah just… let’s not go there.

So the short version is: _IF_ the server stuff takes all day: I’m not in, because I’m doing server stuff.

_IF_ it doesn’t, then, we’ll see, because I have to prepare for that, and not LD. And. Yeah.

The amount of “suck” here is quite high and I’m going home now.

So the maintenance crap is over, I’ve taken a nap, and have my… tasklist.

This doesn’t do markdown, does it (:

Well anyway:

– SIMPLE game.

– Keep Simple.

– Get finished.

Idea is … pretty much someone elses, and I’ll be trying to NOT expand on it til the game is ready to be expanded AND there’s time.

Now the problem: I dunno what to use for the language/platform and I’m thinking ‘javascript/canvas’ but that is step 1. Decide, and go. I am also thinking ‘haxe’ but that is ‘learn a new language’ during it and um no. And of course I’d prefer sticking with lo:ve but – yeah that isn’t web/browser and I should do web as it can be used with work stuff that needs to be done. So. DECISION:RESEARCH now.

So I actually am not sure if this will be team (” or not but… anyway.

We are in, and it’s Leblane, Halides, and I, on Pico-8.

And I should have gone to bed instead of doing what I was doing … so now the announcement is in a half hour and – no. Sleep. Leblane calling when he wakes up. If he does not have the flu, we move to Klubi, and we begin.

Considering Leblane is sick and I spent too much time talking to people today it’s not … it looks better than what it should to be honest.

We’ll see what tommorrow brings, the ‘ship’ data is correct (thus the 17 and 41 debug lines) but yes, there’s a lot more to do.

Leblane is still sick, Halides hasn’t been about so dunno about the sounds yet, but I did get the movement done. Do need to construct the rooms/doors, and then the big part: there are no puzzles yet.

Which is a bit of an issue with 24 hours to go but well.

Maybe I will try to do the phone dialer before I sleep, unsure.  (Yes, there are 3 of us, therefore it is Jam, not single person compo, if anyone thought it wasn’t you are silly (:  )

That dial took less time than the movement and similar.

Of course, I’m not sure how to indicate _ZERO_ here, as apparently US/Canadian phones have the Zero in a different spot than UK or European phones.  Maybe I’ll put the … yes that’s what I’ll do.

(the word ‘I’ was left at the end, I have no idea, thus I shall edit the line to be much longer and say I am removing the extraneous ‘I.’)

I am trying to reach Leblane to inform him of a sudden realization of how the game should change (making it less ‘escape’ and more … it works as an idea for me.)  BUT, he does not answer so I shall post here instead and just go with it:

All you want to do is make tea.

Hi Arthur.

So 4 hours to go and Leblane got a menu and Halides got music / sfx and I have movement and all I have to do now is:

add the actual game part.

But it sort of looks a bit like I might be able to do that… let’s see