Sorry, I’m super embarrassed but I have to confess my failure.

The truth is few things have caused it and I’m really disappointed, I still believe in my idea.

That’s why I’ll try to finish my game in the future (now is bad time for me, I hope I’ll be able to get to it before LD#31).

Well, I also want to congratulate all of you who succeeded, especially a friend of mine, Ramori, who just started his adventure with Ludum Dare.

I’m also keeping my fingers crossed for those who are still making those final touches for the Jam.

See you during the LD #31!

Hey!

After having a small-one-jam break, I’m in for the LD #30 ! Yahoo!

I’m using, as usual, Love2D, GIMP, sfxr, some neat libraries for Love2D (ANaL for animation, Love-debug and also a network library).

Also, potentially I can touch GP5, TuxGuitar, MilkyTracker and Inkscape.

Today I started pretty late and after 2-3 hours of work I have 200 lines of code and a working “Angry bird” clone

The game is about beetles! The idea is that we classically throw animals into buildings but here’s the twist: something went wrong and our game universe got expanded: somehow we met another thrower! And moreover: he’s trying to destroy our home! So we need to hurry and destroy him before he destroys us!

The mechanics is a mix of “Angry birds” and “Scorched”. We’ll see how will it blend

Beetles attacking :)

So, after 8 hours I have the concept and basic gameplay.

The idea is that you have 1 button to operate the whole starship (!). But it obviously isn’t a simulator, more like simplified sidescroller.

I still need graphics, menus, some level design etc. The game will be much simpler than my other ones but I think I can finish it

See you soon!

Oops, seems like someone’s not luck today!

Well, I’m starting extremely late this time but I decided to give it a try.

It’ll be more like 12h compo for me though.

(tomorrow I need to get back to making game professionally – that’s right! thanks to LD I got my dream job and it is my first compo I’m entering as a Game Programmer 😀 )

I’ll use Game Maker or Love2d environment (as I’m out of time).

Also, as usual, I’ll bring my favourite set of tools, that is sfxr, Notepad++ (or ST) Guitar Pro and Gimp.

Please keep your fingers crossed for me

And also good luck to everyone participating!

As usual… after a perfect Saturday, Sunday destroyed whole project I lost 4 hours because of music (my first experience with trackers, failure…), in the end I decided I’ll end up without one. It’s already 9 PM and I have to make hero’s animations and level changing system

I won’t have time to fix this menu :P

But, at least, my game earned a name: SF-1 😀 (from Special Force – 1, and no, not from the gene)

Argh, so many time today spent on doing nothing! It’s more than 3/4 of compo and I’m still short on assets!

I’m getting to make music now! Have about an hour for that… Maybe start from Mission Impossible tune

That’s mostly how falling into North Korea’s gonna look like!

Wow, 7 hours and I have my 2nd level almost scripted. Now to code epilogue and I can already start making graphics! Oh, and I apologize but I won’t deliver timelapse this time. Tool has crashed

Wow, it’s a lot… erm… rectangles!

2,5 hours of work – time for the first screenie.

It’s a scene when my commando is falling from the sky – a must-be scene for every spy game

Now that’s what I call “a bullet hell”

As I mentioned before, I’m in! Fourth time in a row And I hope I’ll keep going!

My environment is, of course, Love2D and all its libraries on its wiki. For sure, I’ll use my favourite AnAL and lovedebug.lua for development. Also I would like to make myself the right of using libraries written by me during past compos 😉 It’s very unlikely though as I’m, as usual, working on a completely different kind of game.

The game itself is about a one-man special US forces, like Sam Fisher or Snake (hmm, Snake is kind of more complex, just stay with Sam Fisher ). The gameplay will be more common, there’ll be a bit of Metal Gear, Splinter Cell, Uberleben, even Bit.trip Runner. The agent is on his mission in N Korea and he is a bit, well, short on time. I won’t spoil more. The game will be short (longer than 10 seconds though 😉 ), intense and full of explosions! And, as usual, I’m working on a nice twist! Frogmaster approves!

Okay guys, I’ve managed to finish before LD48 deadline. I post it that late because I had some problems with compressing timelapse video.

That is my third Ludum Dare in a row and, I think, progress is noticeable. Which please me a lot.

But still, I have a lot to learn – I’ve fallen again in that pifall with shortening my game just before deadline. I had prepared much more things than I was able to implement. Again. But this time I’ve managed to provide a PLAYABLE version. That’s something!

What is also great is that my code is neat. I really like it: it is easy to understand, clean and flexible. I’m proud of it!

The other thing is that, besides code, there’s nothing more in the game – because of concept, there is literally no graphics. And no music either as I was afraid to play with it on Ubuntu (I’m still not familliar with this system).

But, after all, I made a complete, working cRPG with character development, fighting, dialogues, history and its universe, closed in 4×3 pixels. Beat that! 😀

Mini Epic Adventure

timelapse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxwTh4-UlE

Also (I’m curious if anybody finds it):

I’m totally in!

This time I’m aiming at making the game playable. This means I promised myself not to do any unnecessary assets before I don’t have a fun prototype. I’ve made this mistake twice and I hope I’ve finally learnt something

Anyway, I’ll be experimenting with Ubuntu. I’m pretty sure that I’ll choose:

Engine: Love2d

Tools: Sublime Text, gimp, inkscape, blender, sfxr, Audacity, TuxGuitar/any other simple music program

If the theme fits, I can do something in Unity or Atanua

I also have my fingers crossed for all You, guys! Have fun!

Wow~! #21 in “Innovations”! I’m in Top Scores! Totally didn’t expect that! Was dreaming about top 200 in any category, and I have also reach #188 in “Graphics”, wow!

Thank You guys for playing my game and voting, despite of how uncompleted it was. Now I feel really obliged to finish post-compo version (which is going to be very freaked out ). The bad news is that it probably won’t take place until February. I’m really jaded with school stuff right now

See You during LD25, with the aim to deploy a completed game this time! Also congratulation on every single game on this LD! It was fun to play Your games!

It’s this beatiful time when I should list my achievements and mistakes

So… overall I’m proud of my new child. Being evil is more fun that I thought. I got a decent number of ideas and stories.

What about idea I chose? Hmm, it was a bit awesomer (more awesome?) while in planning phase, thought I personally can get joy from it (I’ve done level 2 – the new, bug free one –  in 3 different ways, can You? ). The worst thing is that I ran out of time. Again. I couldn’t focus on important things because of small details. Again. I do make the same mistakes all and all again, despite experience. What a shame! Well, third time’s a charm, let’s hope

But still: I learned Box2d, made a decent sprite and level managers, made my first bitmap font and I have my first love2d game I really love it and i will definitely make some more stuff in Lua. So… I’m also pretty proud of things I achieved

Oh, and the post-compo version is coming! For real now! See You ingame! Bon appetit and till the next time!