This will be my first Ludum Dare, but I hope to learn alot from it.

FYI, this is Finals Week for my school, so its going to be very tricky juggling school work and the 48 hour challenge.

Good luck to everyone!

The school I am at has a live webcam that users can control, and I will be working within its view.
http://www.uat.edu/life_on_campus/web_cams.aspx

(The one named commons is the one I will be at. First to guess who I am wins an Internet.)

Anyone care to start making their predictions on what theme will take this year’s competition? Place your bets ladies and gentlemen!

I am making a Pirates-like game, but using procedurally generated islands. Just a fun trader sim/tycoon.

I am a huge fan of Sid Meier’s Pirates, so I took inspiration from his game. I however am not very good with 2d math, so I decided to wait to do the movement and battles for last, in case I won’t have time.

Most of the features aren’t implemented, but if anyone wants to try it, it is working…

http://www.box.net/shared/7y9dcpyj8m

Can we get a sound off on how everyone enjoyed their LDs? Personally, I had a blast and learned more about programming in the past 48 then the past 2 weeks. If you learned something, or something held you back, state it here!

I went for a quick and easy 4 hour game due to time restraints. It is made in the shape and setup for an Iphone, but currently just works on Windows. If anyone is interested in porting it to the Iphone, let me know!

http://www.box.net/shared/2lvarxg4yv

I will be travelling this weekend, up the east coast from Maryland to Maine, and I will be coding the game in transit. My time worked will be sparse, and I don’t expect to make a large game. I do expect that I will have audio in my upcoming jam game, and possibly even netcode!

Using: LOVE Engine

IDE: Notepad + +

I will be using Lua, the Love Engine, and Notepad ++. I am going to attempt to make a game using solely primitives and particles. No sprites/bitmaps. I got the idea from the Love MMO (http://www.quelsolaar.com/) by Eskil Steenberg. I figure Love Engine = Love MMO right?

Okay so… Its gonna be a game about building skyscrapers out of bugs. You gotta watch out for the flying birds. You can only build at night in the cover of darkness, because the isolation bugs feel when in hidden depths at night.You must cooperate with the rain, which causes the birds to go into a panic, thus allowing you to clone your bugs and grow your skyscraper. If your lucky, you can trap a bird by covering it with bugs and making it claustrophobic, thus using your enemy as a weapon. When your skyscraper is attacked by birds, your bugs can occasionally cheat death by using a parachute. The game takes place in the 1400s, so parachutes are technology in the wrong time period. Eventually, your bugs will evolve, allowing you to beat the birds at their own game.

You win the game when you reach the double zombie rainbow. Only to realize it was all a dream. This ending will completely destroy any shred of hope the player has of the game having a resolution, creating a non-standard game over.

Anyone care to make another?

Ya. The basic concept I am running with is an RTS where each enemy type is based in a material, much like Pokemon or other element based games. Upon defeating enemies, the player can then build weapons based in their material type. Uh, thats about it for now.

2 screens for the price of one!

Two screens attached. So far I have the random map generation system, the player group generation, and enemy type generations completed. Art wise I have completed the first few of the background tiles. I decided to make them look like a board game tile (like Catan). Hopefully that will aid to my lack of art talent.

Here is a sample of what I am working on. i don’t feel like packaging it, so if you don’t have Love, go fetch http://love2d.org/

This is a working demo of player movement, map generation, and the menu system. More to come later today.

http://depositfiles.com/files/yqrm49bzk

I wish I was an artist.

I have around 150 different enemy types, but at this point, I am representing them all by circle primitives. The circle size represents their level, the circle color represents their health. It should turn out nicely, but I need to think of a way to show enemy types without throwing text everywhere.

And not in the quirky LÖVE sort of way either.

Seriously, these game jams are alot of fun, and Ludum is a wonderful example of online community presence. Every time I compete in one, I expect some great games, only to be blown away by the sheer magnificence of skill and imagination everyone here possesses. I am proud to count myself as one of you, and will certainly be around for as long as possible.

That is all.

I will only compete if the theme starts with a certain letter (I will be omitting the letter for its safety)

As usual, I will be using the Love Engine, Gimp, and Notepad ++

I would like to reserve a Mini-LD in November. I added myself to the wiki, but I know its currently being mutilated by those nasty spam-bots. It was empty on the wiki, but I wanted to post here to ensure I get it. I am hosting a local Phoenix game jam in November, and would like to spread that love into the LD community.

I will be very busy this weekend. However, I am confident that I have built up enough of a game framework in previous LDs to at least compete in the Jam category. On the 30th, myself and a few other regular LD’ers will be spectating/speaking at a local TEDx event. With that said, I will be able to commit at least some of my Sunday, and possibly Monday for a Jam entry. Best of luck to everyone!