H+8

We’ve been working on our game for about eight hours, and it is time for a screen shot ! Our robot only has ten seconds of energy and must reach the end of the level using the batteries. We plan to add loads of items and interactive elements, such as lasers, doors, etc. You can already see a deadly acid lake, which doesn’t totally work yet.

Tags: fulmen, pyglet, python, screenshot

Our entry for the jam is done but only 2 people seem to have played it… probably because there is no windows executable. Python and pyglet are really awesome tools and are cross-platforms, but most players don’t want to download additional libs just to play a game.

Unfortunately, I’m only using Linux… So I am asking the awesome LD community: is there someone who could turn our game into an executable ? That would be really great.

Edit: thanks to shinD, windows users can now play the game!

Tags: executable, help, pyglet, python

It’s been more than one week since the end of the last LD and we haven’t made a postmortem or a post about our game yet. Here it is!

This was our first Ludum Dare (and finished game) but we are really proud of what we made in 72 hours. It was a great experience, very fun, and we are thinking about making a new version of the game with more content.

Our game

One of Reload levels

Reload is about a crazy scientist who creates a robot to conquer the world. However, this robot is only a few centimeters tall and has 10 seconds of battery. Through a puzzle/platform level design where speed is as important as reflexion, the player must reach a teleporter without dying.

We implemented several elements the last day, such as turrets and fans. Our artist did a really good job by animating all the possible states of the robot. About three hours before the end, we decided to add an intro and a boss. We did not have time to make a boss, but we have an introduction scene featuring a crazy scientist!

The introduction scene of the game

What went right:

• We had loads of ideas about the theme. We were 3 but we decided on the theme in the first few minutes, and we were immediately ready to work.
• Our team (a developer + an artist + a game designer and audio creator) worked very well.
• The first hours were very productive. In less than 8 hours, we already had a playable game.
• There wasn’t any big bug that took me hours to fix. They were a some bugs, but they got fixed really easily.
• My sister cooked waffles for us. You need energy to create a video game.
• We had a lot of fun

What went wrong:

• I did not have a computer with windows so I had to ask for help to make a windows version of the game. Happily, the LD community is the best and someone created a windows executable within an hour.
• I thing that we didn’t work very much the second day, but we really needed to rest.
• Our second developer would have been useful, but he could not be here in time

Can’t wait for the next LD!

Tags: fulmen, LD27, postmortem, reload

After a few hours working on our game, we got a psychopath killing punks in a library. Why ? We don’t know yet.

Punks everywhere!

Tags: fulmen, pyglet, python

Fulmen Studio is in for the third time ! We will still be using python and pyglet (hopefully this time we’ll make a windows version of our game) and jamming from Lille.

Our team did not change and is composed of:

• pymiro, graphist and art designer
• baddakka, level and game designer
• fargen, developper and taking care of the communication of the game (not sure it is useful)
• rokary, our composer but we are not sure he will be here
• myself, zn01wr, lead developper

Good luck!