I’m in!

awesome!

Alma has reached the age of 16 months and she is looking more and more liker her dad, but she’ll turn out to be a programming retro gaming heavy metal enthusiast is yet to be determined, but so far so good. =)

The plan is to not have a plan and use kanbanflow to keep myself from going out of bounds..

Language: Haxe
IDE: Sublime Text 2
Libraries: An entity framework i wrote yesterday (http://www.nilswikberg.se/ld26/framework.zip)
Graphics: Fireworks
Sound: as3sfxr and sunvox

That is all.

Thought i’d write the post mortem while everything is fresh. =)

“Men not wearing hats” is a game about what happens if you take what you want with force, even if the people at the receiving end is small, both in size and power.

What went right

Story: It was quite hard to think up anything original about the theme. The first thing that came to mind was to either make something on a cellular level, or make the game about “an intestinal journey”. Starting a few hours late i browsed through the ld updates and realized that my initial ideas werent so original after all. I started thinking about other themes, but was a bit lost. Then it dawned on me. I need to get into the “emo-indie-mood”!

When in the “emo-mood” i quickly realized that the game should be about the exploitation of africa and the middle east. I made a quick sketch that displays the player and his world. The initial idea was to make the player take oil and diamonds from the tiny people to either side of him to power his factories.

Tech: Im quite pleased with the usage of lua to control the flow of the game. Resources have their own scripts, as do players and other avatars. I also quite enjoyed working with an component based system which allowed me to add scripts, animations and other things to various game objects without loosing myself in oop hell. =)

Graphics: I like the water and the platforms.

What went wrong

Story: The goal was that the player should be able to be nice by taking diamonds/oil, converting them into gold and then returning them to the men not wearing hats. And, you can do that (there is a bot with a red cross on it). The only problem is that they don’t care, which makes the game unwinnable and always results in a massacre. Come to think of it, this is what happens in the real world aswell?

Tech: Even though some things were a success, others were not. On the evening of the last day some of my physics components suddenly assigned themselves av friction value of “infinity” – which is a ery large number and made the game grind to a halt. However, i did not realized that this was the problem until a few hours later when i tried to rebuild the world from scratch a third time.

Music: I actually made  a song in FL studio, but when exporting it it seemed to have gotten lost on my harddrive, and i was not wise enough to save my work. So, no music.

Time: I was foolish enough to thing that having a 5 month old daughter would not affect me. I does, and if i had realized this in time i would have cut the scope of my game into half. I still managed to spend ~22 hours on the game itself but thoose hours did come at a prize (which i’m about to pay).

Graphics: The first placeholder graphics was stuck in place until the very last minute, and some even made it into “production”. Taking a break in the middle of the dare to work on graphics will be my approach the next time, because nothing is fun about creating walkcyckles during the last hour. *argh* =)

Testing: I played through this game for the first time this morning, after submitting it. I was allright i guess, but tweaking could have made this game nice.

Conclusion

Overall everything feels ok during the circumstances that were. It is the most complex game i ever built on an ld, and it should play on more than my own machine. I had forgotten how though an LD can be so the next time i’ll try to add “mental preparation” to my toolchain. =)

Please vote and comment! =)

I think I’m in. Just got a daughter three weeks ago, but I *might* be able to squeeze in ~4h during the weekend. =)

• Language: C#
• IDE: MonoDevelop
• Libraries: OpenTK, Mono, Monogame
• Graphics: Unsure
• Sound: as3sfxr

The mechanical spiderbot is coming along nicely, as well as some much needed BLOOD!

After struggling with ideas and scrapping (the unscrapping) some content i’ve finally made some actual progress! I got some basic collision detection done, as well as parallax scrolling (see vid) and a component system that seem to do the trick. Next step will be to drop in a few enemies and see to it that they die a horrible death. =)

I’m in!
I’ve been looking forward to this since the semi-fail in LD#20. REVENGE SHALL BE MINE!!!!11!one1!

• Language: C#
• IDE: Visual Studio 2010
• Libraries: OpenTK (opengl wrapper), and my own lib that just pushes vertexdata.
• Graphics: Unsure
• Sound: as3sfxr

After a devestating battle with VBO’s and mouse-input, I’m finally finished. Spent the last three hours on making a level, a song and some generated sfx to spice things up. All in all, I’m happy that I pulled through and I’m already looking forward to the next LD, especially since I wont have to learn new stuff (hate that). =)

Good work everyone! =)

*sleep*

Almost forgot, this is the thingy! -> http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?uid=2443

After spending the first day figuring out how to openGL thoose pesky 2d sprites, wooing myself with my first parallax scroll and screwing myself over by creating a buggy mapeditor in paint i was ready for day 2. This was the day everything would happen and.. yeah.. it didnt.

Engine : Complete, as in i wont work on it anymore.

Sound : Complete (that flashgeneratorthingy)

Music : Complete! (thumbjam)

Level: Ohhh.. noo..

Fun? Not so much. Tired? Very much so. Giving up? Never! (well, usually i do give up, but not this time..) =)

Just started to look into OpenGL so this’ll be interesting for sure. Since this is my first Ludum Dare i’ll try to finish something that’s not totally unplayable rather than aim high and fail miserably =)

• Language: C#
• IDE: Visual Studio 2010
• Libraries: OpenTK (opengl wrapper)
• Graphics: Fireworks
• Sound: as3sfxr