2 years ago I made Santa explode millions of times!

It was for LD 34.

I really like my game and I still enjoy to play it today !

The controls are not easy to catch (as it’s a left/right 90° rotation) but I’d like you to make a try.

Once you get it, the game is really fun.

Download on itch.io:

https://dmekersa.itch.io/santa-goes-to-town

Some screen shots:

Here is the Change log:

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Release:    LD34c (15 December 2017)
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- Add keyboard support
  (space to start / left-right arrows to rotate Santa direction)
- Updated help screen
- Version displayed on Menu screen

Noooo Christmas will be saved!!!

My entry is now available on OS X!

Try it now:

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=3553

Santa needs you to deliver the gifts… Otherwise, no Christmas these year!

Try it now  (Windows build, light and fully playable)

LD Entry (to rate it) : 
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=3553

I’m quite happy with what I have today. A playable game, with (poor) 3D isometric visuals, coded with the great Love2D framework.

The theme I stick is “Two button controls“, and I’m sure my control mode (mouse buttons used to rotate the character direction…) will make people mad!

The game is quite trash as the Santa is dying a lot! Not sure to get my ESRB rating under 18…

I will, today, continue to add some content and levels to reach 10 levels then polish the menu, and other stuffs.

Here are the first levels :

Au passage, avec un jour de retard, un petit encouragement en vidéo pour les français qui veulent tenter le LD… et particulièrement pour ceux qui ne savent pas programmer

(a shot french video I made to encourage people to try the LD even with no programming skill :))

I still don’t know what to do after half a day.

But I improved my engine with some objects, floor levels… I have something in mind regarding “two buttons control” but not sure it will be fun. I’ll give a try.

For now, I’m almost spending all my time making the isometric assets, I’m so bad and no experience with this. I will limit the visuals to avoid waste my time.

Hey folk,

I’m in for LD34.

I will, again, work with Love2D.

I prepared a tiny 3D Isometric engin (around 50 lines of code…) :

https://github.com/dmekersa/love-3Diso

I submit yesterday but forgot to mention it here!

Play SCRAMBLE SLUG Now! Comments welcome…

Please test my game here : http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=3553

A whole arcade game on one screen:
– Land off with your space ship
– Cross the space and avoid enemy probes
– Fly over the town, beware of the rockets!
– Drive an armored Jeep to penetrate the enemy base!
– Walk with your gun in the enemy territory to destroy the nuclear core!!

How to play:
– Press space to land off
– Use arrows keys: left to reduce speed, up/down to move, right to increase speed
– Press X to fire, C to drop a bomb
– Destroy the fuel tanks or you’ll run out of fuel!
– In the Jeep, press up + X to fire at the roof
– At walk, press up to jump, fire a bomb on the core to win

The game is hard, but it’s by purpose! Enjoy!

Making of:
– This game was made in 15 hours with Love2D on a Mac Book Pro
– Every line of code (around 1000) is made from scratch
– I’m 43 years old, and my real work is to produce video games…
– I’m a big fan of retro gaming, so the game is inspired by retro games
– Sounds from SFXR, art made with PyxelEdit

I did it!

I created an entire game in one screen. Around 1000 lines of code (Lua / Love2D), all from scratch, with 3 very different games phases: shoot them up, side view car rush (Metal Slug like), and platformer!

It tooks me around 15 hours of work. Amazing…

Now I need to package the game for submission… Stay tuned.

A lot of progress here with collisions, explosions, sounds, logo…

Let me disclose the idea: A scramble game (horizontal shmup) + a basic Metal Slug, on one screen divided in 5 levels (linked, if you reach the right of level 1 you start at level 2…).

Very playable and very fun. Quite proud…

Level 1 and 2 are running. The level 1 is basically just the land off of the ship.

I have a ship (the hero!), a basic land off animation, moving probes, bullets (from the ship and from the mighty probes), bombs, and I’m able to destroy the probes and detect ship collisions.

Level 4 will be in a Jeep and level 5 at feet with a gun!

Entire game on one screen??? And what about entire code in one file?? That’s what I do haha! 500 lines of code so far.

Hey there, I’m a professional game creator and consultant based in South of France.

I’m in for the 3rd time (but with gaps between each of my contributions…).

I will jam for around 10-20 hours during the 48 hours, as usual.
Will use Love2D this time with a minimal amount of code…

Thanks for your attention :).

I have a Mac, so focusing on Mac OS X and Web games. I have some advices on rates to give from my 7yo daughter and my wonderful wife.

Don’t forget to try my game: Mini Car Racing!
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=3553