Ludum Dare 36 | October Challenge 2014 | MiniLd #54 | Ludum Dare 30 |
I’m almost dead, but I finally got to make something slightly playable before the Jam ended XD
This is my first time soloing so I’m very happy with the results! 😀 (not with the game, my game is really really really crappy XD)
This masterpiece couldn’t make it to the actual game XD
The game (which I called EgyptGeddon) is a sidescroller about pyramids, artifacts & aliens, so if you feel curious you can try it here 😉
I’m terribly slow, so the compo was out of the question, but I’d like to finish something playable for the Jam ^_^U
I had planned making a sidescroler in which the main character (an archeologist) finds an egyptian artifact with superpowers, then the pyramids start taking off like starships and the world goes to hell. I didn’t realized at first, but I probably should have tried something simpler XD
Right now I’ve got only lots of placeholders, a working menu and some horrible & broken gameplay intent. And 19,5 hours to go, yay! XD
Yeah, not the best name but Apocalipto was already taken, so it was this one or Egypsis
Yeah, not the best name but Apocalipto was already taken, so it was this one or Egypsis
Also, bugs, bugs everywhere XD
Let’s have fun until the end of the Jam! 😀
All right, after 3 hours spinning around the theme, I have probably overthought enough XD
I think I’ll take a short 10 min break before my head explodes for real XD After that I’ll start making one of the ideas I was considering, probably a sidescroller with egyptian artifacts 
This will be my second Ludum Dare! 😀 Long time since 1st one, I missed it a lot! ^_^
This is my first time soloing so I’ll try going for the compo, but probably will end making the jam route (that is if I get to finish at all XD)
I’ll make a 2D game (I love big pixels ^_^) but apart from that I’m not planning anything else, I’ll wait for the theme and let’s see what kind of game I can imagine! 😀
I’ll be using:
-Engine: GameMaker: Studio (tought I’ll probably use notepad++ for code)
-Graphics: Aseprite (maybe also Gimp and/or Photoshop)
-Sounds: Bfxr + Audacity
-Music: FamiTracker and/or MuLab (+Audacity), maybe I’ll use some automatic generated music from http://abundant-music.com/ as a base. This will be my first try making music, so maybe I’ll end just using royalty free chiptunes XD
-Recording/video editing (for timelapse): CamStudioPortable + VirtualdubMod
-Version control: Git + BitBucket
It’s a pity that LD ratings won’t work as usual for this LD, but there is no problem without a solution, so I think I will also join the Itch Dare ( https://itch.io/jam/itch-dare ) to be able to rate games and so
Everybody, good luck and let’s have fun!! 😀
October ended, but luckily we managed to publish the game in time! We are really happy!! 😀
We worked on the game we developed for the past 30 Ludum Dare entry http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=38790
People encouraged us so much that we decided to give it a try and try to finish the game for selling as the october challenge suggested
Game intro
A bit of gameplay :)
As it was too much work for only a month, we decided that the best option we had was to finish a pair of stages and then upload the game. We also told the possible buyers that the game is in expansion (we plan to develop three more stages), and that while it’s unfinished they can buy the game on sale (i.e. 1$ instead of its final price, that will be 5$).
Desktop version (Windows/Linux/Mac) in itch.io
Android version on Google Playstore
I’m very happy to say that there are already several buyers (I didn’t expect people to buy the game before we did a bit of promo at least ^^), and if everything’s going ok we’ll try to allocate the game in some more stores, like OUYA store and Steam
Thank you for the jump-start, Ludum Dare friends! And good luck for all of you too! ^o^
Hey! How are you doing! ;D
I’ve finished recompressing & uploading the video, and I thought that maybe someone could enjoy watching it, so here you go ^^
But beware!! There are spoilers in the video! D:
So if you haven’t already played it, you can click here and download it (and rate it as well while you’re at it ^^).
Best wishes!
JJ
We get to finish in time! 😀 😀 😀
It was a crazy weekend! XD
We all 5 in team worked really hard, sleeping the least and nonstop programming, drawing, making music & sounds (and fighting some almost indestructible bugs XD) but we had a really great time! 😀
For most of us it was the first Ludum Dare, and although we would have loved having more time to polish the game, we are very satisfied: D
We wanted to pay homage to the NES. So both the music (made with FamiTracker) and graphics (sprites with a maximum of 6 colors, 3 color tiles, etc.) and the kind of game tries to imitate the games of that great console.
We had a really good time , we are exhausted but very happy ^^
I hope all of you had as much fun as we did! 😀 See you in the next Ludum Dare! 😀
Our previous post:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/08/20/we-are-in-d-3/
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/08/23/connected-worlds-wip/
Our game:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=38790
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SPANISH (Our team is mostly Spanish, so we’d like to translate this post for Spanish speakers ^^)
¡Conseguimos acabar a tiempo! 😀 😀 😀
¡Ha sido un fin de semana loquÃsimo! XD
Hemos estado trabajando a piñón los 5 del equipo, durmiendo lo mÃnimo y sin parar de programar, hacer gráficos y sonido y pelearnos con bugs casi indestructibles, pero nos lo hemos pasado genial 😀
Para la mayorÃa de nosotros ha sido nuestro primer Ludum Dare, y aunque nos gustarÃa haber tenido más tiempo para pulir el juego, estamos muy Satisfechos 😀
Hemos querido hacer un homenaje a la NES. Tanto la música (hecha con FamiTracker) como los gráficos (sprites de 6 colores máximo, tiles de 3 colores, etcétera) como el tipo de juego intentan imitar los juegos de esa gran consola.
Nos lo hemos pasado fenomenal, estamos derrengados pero muy muy contentos ^^
¡Esperamos que todos os lo hayáis pasado tan bien como nosotros! 😀 ¡Nos veremos en el próximo Ludum Dare! 😀
Nuestros post anteriores:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/08/20/we-are-in-d-3/
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/08/23/connected-worlds-wip/
Nuestro juego:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=38790
Connect Worlds…Â Well, at the beginning some of us hated the theme, but after several hours working on it, we think it’s not so bad, maybe even we like it
Here is an image of the current graphics.
It’s 10:22 here (17:22 in Japan, one of the team mebers is there XD), and must go find some food for breakfast to be able to continue, I’ll continue informing XD
Hi all!
We are joining the Ludum Dare Jam! Our team:
– DanPelGar -> Programmer, Musician & Sound editor
– Virako -> Programmer & Analyst
– Otaruk -> Pixel artist & Graphic Designer
– Xanday -> Pixel Artist & Programmer
– JJHaggar -> Pixel Artist & Programmer
Most of us are new to this event, and we are really excited about it! ^^ Hope we got something playable in time! XD
Code/Text editors:
– Vim
– Eclipse
– Notepad++
Language & Framework:
– Java
– LibGDX
Image/Maps editing:
– GraphicsGale (pixel art / sprite animation)
– Tiled (tile map editor)
– TexturePacker (texture packer XD)
– Gimp
– Photoshop
Music & sounds:
– FamiTracker
– Audacity
Distance Teamwork (some of us are on different countries):
– GitHub
– Google Hangout / Skype
– Trello
– Google Docs
– Email
Good luck to everyone, and have lots of fun!! ;D
JJ