It adds chickens and egg sandwiches, and a bunch of other fixes. Play the Compo version!

The reaction to my little game was much better than I anticipated! Thank you all for your nice comments.

In this new version, I have fixed some of the most common complaints:

• Controls: Now the X button opens a menu which lets you choose the item to place. You can also overwrite items without using the erase tool if you want to.
• Balance: No more Bread Machine > All Also, the output machine’s cost increase with each new machine in the world. Use the Conveyor belts!
• New items: Chickens and Eggs machines
• Also: A bunch of small fixes and improvements.

I hope you enjoy it! I’ll try to keep working on this game a little bit every weekend until I clear through my TODO list. Suggestions regarding the balance are highly appreciated. And as always, if you got a high score, send me the screenshot!

• Play the Compo version!
• Play the Post-Compo version!

Not a game yet, but after 4 hours, I have an idea down and the main mechanic implemented.

Funny thing is, I was thinking about this game for the whole week. I was lucky that the theme fits the idea that I want to implement so perfectly.

So the idea is this: a top-down action game. Normal stuff: walls, enemies that shoot you, weapons. I was thinking about something a bit like the air combat of Xenonauts.

But here is the twist: the rooms and dungeons that you fight in are generated randomly, based on your geocoordinates! Is the current level too easy? Go to a nearby coffee shop and see if you can find something better. Need a green key? Somewhere in the way between your house and your supermarket, there may be a dungeon containing it.

Your world and the game world, connected.

Now to make that game happen!

This was a fun Ludum Dare. I think I really nailed the theme with my game, “Layers”. A few people were having difficulty playing the game, so I decided to make a video to give an introduction to it. I also tacked the timelapse at the end of the video:

Have fun!

Please play and leave a comment for layers. I am planning on making a video of some of my favorite entries in a week or two, once works lets up a bit.

Have fun!

To all new and old participants using Unity:

Congratulations on finishing your game! Please remember that Unity can make
Native binaries for Mac and Linux! It is just a click away:

File > Buildsettings > PC, mac and linux standalone > target platform > build.

Don’t make Just a web version, many browser/system combinations don’t play very well with Unity’s web Plug-in.

Thank you, and hope to play your games soon!

(This is a reminder from a message that I posted last LD)

Welcome to Layers!

Layers is my long-desired QiX clone. I hope the relation with the theme is pretty obvious once you start playing. The game is basically feature-complete now, except for sound. The input method can use some work as well.

You can get the game here:
https://github.com/caranha/LD29/releases/tag/Prototype2

The game plays a little better on Touch surfaces than it does on PC, but it is quite playable in both platforms.

Please let me know what you think! 😀

Finally, I got the “main” gameplay loop working! I still need a bunch of stuff in the game lifecycle (such as loading levels, menus, game over, etc), but the game is at a point where it is possible to at least test the input.

What game? I am making a QiX clone – I think that the QiX mechanic (you have to cut away the play area) is very closely tied with this theme.

Have a screenshot:

If you want to try it out, you can find the binaries (for desktop and android devices) here:
https://github.com/caranha/LD29/releases

Thank you!

After a bunch of problems, I finally managed to get the very basic mechanics of my game down. Here is a screenshot:

There is still a lot to do before this can become a game, but I’m happy that I’m finally getting into my rhythm. I’m not completely sure if my control scheme is good, so I need to put out a prototype as soon as possible.

Back to coding!

AAARgh. When updating libGDX from 0.9.9, I also had to update eclipse in order to install Gradle and Android support.

Problem is: the new Eclipse is losing the context menu intermittently: mouse right click will just stop working from time to time, with no apparent reason (no error messages, nothing).

If anyone has any idea on how to solve this, I would be very thankful. It is really a bother trying to work like this, and I can’t get my project to trivially work in former versions…

Thanks for any help!