Yesterday I sat on my sofa surfing on my tablet and wondered if there are any game creation competitions this year. After a short search I found Ludum Dare. I remember that I heard of it before. And yes, it is this weekend and still more than 33 hours to go! I browsed around the homepage and decided to participate.

10 Seconds is not an easy topic, but an idea came to my mind: A tune which is about 10 seconds long was cut into pieces and scrambled. The player has to arrange the pieces in the correct sequence. So I started this project and played a little tune on my ukulele, tested HTML5 Audio and so on. After a few hours of programming I was confident this could work. Below is a screenshot how it could look like.

A first impression how it looks like

At the moment I am working on the play logic. But I still need to create:

• Title screen with level selection
• Some tunes and cut them into appropiate fragments
• A hint system
• Maybe an inprovised title tune (not scrambled)?

I don’t want to get any musical copyright issues, so all tunes will be traditionals played by me on my instruments where copyight has ended long ago, but I think this would also be interesting with modern music.

I hope to get this running, since I like the idea very much.

The “10 Seconds” theme relates only to the length of the tunes. I don’t want to use it as time limit or otherwise, but I hope it is ok to fit the theme.

By the way it runs in the browser (HTML5 and Javascript). Probably not on mobile devices, but I will check this when I am done.

My Game is finished now. I hope you enjoy it. I am pretty proud of the result although I wasn’t able to include:

• The hint system in case you are stuck
• Points (reduced by used Hints)
• More Tunes

But hey, there are still some hours left. Maybe I’ll…

I have done some extra polish to the game. Now it includes

• A title music. An improvisation over the E bluesscale on my bass
• A hint system using won points
• points
• Some more tunes

This was my second ludum dare and it was quite different from the last one.

This time I teamed up with my family. During breakfast I mentioned the theme and my 7 years old daughter came up with a game idea. Since I wanted to involve her into the game creation process she created most of the drawings seen in the game. I am proud that we where able to finish this project since there is usually not so much time on the weekend for programming when you have family and 7 year old children cannot focus on drawing the whole day.

Keep in mind that the graphics and game idea is done by my daughter when you try the game.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=27446

This is how it looks like when you draw your graphics on paper. The title sceen was however drawn by me…