I’m new to the whole Ludum Dare scene but my buddy that’s done the jam a few times has encouraged me to try it out and I finally caved. I think I’m a little late to be posting that I’m in now… but anyway.
Language: AS3
Engine: Flash
Graphics: Photoshop CS4
Audio: … errr… to be decided, I’ve never made my own audio
Good luck everybody!
This will be my second time entering the dare, last time I learnt a lot of harsh lessons and I'm determined to see I don't repeat them.
Best of luck to all that are entering as well
Here's what i've got so far, i'm reusing some old graphics but I still think they look nice.
So I've finally finished, and with uploading and submitting out of the way I can finally relax and begin the ever important step of dissecting my approach, mentality and mistakes made during the Jam.
Last Jam I learned a lot about time management, three days is not a lot of time when you have to program AND create game assets and so I am VERY glad I decided to create a lot of the data structure and boiler plate code a week before hand, this code helped a great deal in giving some organisation to the mess that was thrown in during the compo.
Lessons learned this time around are one, UI based, whilst creating my entry I had no idea what or where anything I made for the user to see needed to be placed, and this lead to a large delay that could be worked on. And two, despite me trying to cut back on the scope of my game I have still opted to create a game that was a tad too unrealistic, "Aliens vs Rng" is a game that uses Randomly generated Dialog for it's humor and as such needs a large library of text to call upon so the player doesn't quickly exhaust all of his options, which is exactly what will happen in my game as I was only able to put in three complete dialog trees which will entertain for all of 10 seconds.
Well I hope others did better than myself and take the time to reflect and improve further, Best of luck.
Will destroy life on purpose?
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/aliens-vs-rng
I said beep beep i'ma sheep!
And with that, it's time for the last minute wave of shameless self promotion for those last few votes! But unlike the masses I will not be... oops! Oh no... I've "accidentally" dropped my game link and a snazzy screenshot... how careless of me.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/aliens-vs-rng
The big Four Zero is upon us, and before it officially begins we must prepare for the battle ahead.
will be using Javascript and any open source tools I run across to make assets.
Good luck to all