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Another Ludum Dare, another rollercoaster of emotions. 
“Quest” is my take on a minimal RPG. No equipment, story, characters, or stats. You just manage the three most important values, health, mana, and money.
I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out, especially the sprites. Each jam I do those prove to be the most fun part for me. This was my first LD with sound, so that added a whole new dimension, which was really cool.
Half way done and I have most of the core systems down. I still don’t have a name yet, but the game is an RPG where you manage the three most important numbers, health, mana, and money. There’s not much to do right now, but everything is laid out to allow me to (somewhat quickly) add content. With 24 hours to go, I’m feeling fairly optimistic. You can play it here.
So with voting coming to a close soon, I’m very eagerly awaiting the close of my very first Ludum Dare. Overall, I’m happy with the result of my game, Minion’s Defense, even if the list below says otherwise. I’m astounded by the amount of feedback I’ve gotten, and I think this entry makes for a very good baseline for proceeding competitions. This post-mortem is a bit late from what I’ve seen of others, but I really wanted to let the game slip out of my mind for a few weeks and revisit it with rejuvenated eyes. So onto the list!
All this said, I’m already super excited for the next Ludum Dare. I’ll probably be doing my next entry in Java as I’m trying to get into android development. I’m very much looking forward to applying these lessons and making an even better game. See you then and thanks for reading!
I’m also posting this on my blog, scott.mcb.ee, where I’ll (when I can remember) be posting about a different town building game I’m starting. Check it out if you want!
I’m not exactly sure where my entry is going, but it’s getting there fairly quickly.
I’m usually the worst at starting a project and not finishing it, so I’m going to try to use the October Challenge to finally get something out the door. That something is a game I’ve been working on and off on called Tumble Tooth.
In Tumble Tooth, you need to direct a tooth out of a sewer. The catch is that you don’t have any control over the tooth itself. Instead, you need to rotate the entire world, challenging you to avoid obstacles and most importantly, keep your sense of direction.
The plan is to release both a web Flash version and an Android version. So far, I’ve been pretty good about making a mobile build as up to date as the web build, sometimes even putting it as the preferred version, but there’s still so much work I’d like to do, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep up. The tasks I’d like to get in before the end of the month include:
Any extra time will be spent on content and puzzle mechanics.
Tonight, I spent some time just going back through the source code to re familiarize myself with everything. The real important gain was that I finished working on an trigger-event system to toggle visibility and collision on parts of the level. This essentially allows part of the sewers to go “behind” other parts, and really opens up what I can do with level design.
You can follow my progress at mcb.ee and @mscottmcbee, both of which are pretty empty at the moment. mcb.ee will be reposts of updates I make here for now, but I’ll try to keep it up to date after October
