All weekend I’ve been dreading animating my main character, a dinosaur with a top hat and a monocle. He’s British. But I think it came out awesome! I’m no animator, so very happy with how it turned out. Look at that monocle sway!

My game is a family of Dinosaurs that have ran out of milk for their tea. Darrell, a ‘special’ dinosaur, offers to go, and he has to cause as little damage as possible. Here’s some early gameplay. Lots of particles and screen shake!

Lots left to do, and I’m taking a few hours off to watch the F1. Tonight will be quite the stretch! Best of luck to all still in. Don’t give up!!!

Afternoon from the UK! A solid 6 hours into development, spent a couple on watching F1, and I have a solid idea, a bunch of art and some core mechanics.

You play as an as yet unnamed chefs assistant, given the task of cleaning a disgusting kitchen before it opens. Unfortunately your only weapon is your equally disgusting flatulence. Manage your pressure and stink meters to create a range of different toots, each with different effects and visuals, but don’t push too hard for too long. Wouldn’t want to shart your pants now would you?

Here’s a tease. 😀 Having fun with this one. It’s so stupid.

Morning Devs.

Just starting my second day here in the UK and last night I made good headway on an important feature.

The main control hub is going to be the laptop, so here’s the interface for hiring elves. Each elf has a different personality and good/bad traits.

So this is my 5th Ludum dare! Last year I finished 25th overall so have a lot of pressure to give a repeat performance.

My idea is for a tycoon game where you have 24 days ’til Christmas to produce as many presents as possible. Fits the theme well and is festive so i’m happy.

You’ll manage elves, choose which presents to build and generally run the workshop. Score is based on happiness you receive through the present you manage to deliver on Xmas.

I’m very pleased with how it’s going, although i feel i may have over-scoped. Onwards!

*Repost as the gif wouldn’t run last time!*

Greeny here, back for my third Ludum Dare!

Last year I wasn’t too keen on the theme but i’m super excited this time around. I’ll let the gif below introduce you to my game 😀

Now some context. You play as the Kraken and some bastard pirates are trying to steal treasure of your island. With your tentacle (ragdoll physics) you have to smash them out the water. The physics are a little off and need work, but already it’s a lot of fun as it’s so unpredictable. If the pirates get away with the treasure you loose.

There’s lots of room for me to take this so im VERY excited: i think it would be perfect for touch screen gaming. Lots more to do, but the premise and main physics are there. Now to add gameplay and polish. Video here for those that want a closer look

Best of luck to all those still in, and if you feel like dropping out DONT! Keep going and submit what you have!

Good Luck LD!

-Greeny

Second post here for The Red Button.

Gameplay is coming along great! Had a problem with collisions earlier but other than that it’s all gone really smooth

Here’s a gif of gameplay. Take note that the gif has slowed game play down; you can see the timer runs down slowly. Gameplay is much faster than this.

The Red Button Gameplay

The goal is to reach the red button before the 10 seconds is up. You have 2 jumps, normal jump and a super jump that you have limited access to. When you super-jump you leave particles behind.

Game play is going to really fast paced, meat boy style hopefully, and unforgiving. I’m going to be adding traps and other things you have to avoid. I’m currently planning 4 or 5 worlds each with 5 levels so should have a fare bit to go at. Once I have all levels posted I will be adding the demo to my site for download.

Follow @greeny_games for updates 😀

LD 1st timer here! Pretty excited to finally take part and here’s an early look at what i’m making.

The Red Button is going to be a platform where you have 10 seconds to reach the end of the level and press the red button otherwise you go KABOOM! Simple premise, lots of replay value trying to get beat your times and simple graphics. I’m going for all black with game items in white with red accents.

I was going to try create a fully animated character but won’t have time so i’m going to simple use a cube as the player :D.

Here’s some early in-game screenshots:

The Red Button is created in Game Maker Studio, has full controller support, cool sound thanks to sfxr and has a 1024×768 resolution. Having lots of fun creating this so hope you like my 1st ever entry!

-Greeny