@lizzywanders and I made a game about an aardvark. And a manatee. Also there’s an island. Play it here!

Unicycle Messenger is about a bike messenger on a unicycle! Check out this shitty low quality gif where I suck at the game!

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=4159

Evening all!

Here’s a short summary of my day and what I have accomplished. If it sounds vague it might probably definitely be because of tiredness

• Woke up at 10:45AM.
• Rode a bit on my bicycle, went to thrift store.
• Had chicken wings for lunch.
• Started coding after some brainstorming.
• Decided I wanted to do a game about bike messengers.
• Started making game about bike messengers.
• Recorded some Vines of said game. [1] [2]
• Took some screenshots:

BREAKING NEWS

I’m in.

So yes, this will be fun because I have exams on tuesday and thursday, but there is no way I’m going to let that ruin my 7 Ludum Dare streak.

Programming:

• Game Maker 8

Graphics:

• Photoshop CS6
• Paint.NET
• Flash Pro CS6 (Possibly)

Music & SFX:

• Ableton Live 8
• SFXR
• Microphone
• Audacity

Hey folks!

Thanks for the awesome weekend as usual, you are all amazing! I too finished my game. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! Here’s the link:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=4159

-Sanguine

Hey folks!

I’ll be participating in Ludum Dare yet again, even though I have to prepare for finals. 2cool4school I guess! I’ll be using my usual game jam setup again:

Programming: Game Maker 8.0

GFX: Paint.NET/Flash CS4/Photoshop CS5

SFX: SFXR/my Roland SH-201 synthesizer

Music: LSDj running on GBC/DS running GBC emulator running LSDJ/Ableton Live

See you this weekend folks!

This is my post-mortem for my Ludum Dare 25 game, Kleptomaniac. Kleptomaniac is a topdown-stealth game, you can check it out here.

What went well:

• I did some small things that really saved time. I made a special object corner for the walls, so that it automatically sets to the right corner dynamically. If I had to manually do this it would have costed me a lot of time.
• Level design, I mostly did level design in Paint.NET and then I would turn it into a level in about an hour. This went pretty quickly which was pretty good.
• Planning my time, I did all my code on Saturday and the art, SFX and music on Sunday.

What went wrong:

• The controls aren’t the best. It would be better if I had just used WASD instead of WS + Mouse. I realized this at a late stage in the compo, with only a few hours to spare and while implementing it wasn’t hard, it broke a lot of my collision code and so I decided that I wanted to stay with WASD.
• The music is slightly repetitive, around the fifth level it gets annoying, so I should have probably made 2 soundtracks instead of just one. I really need to learn this, because it is something I do 9/10 times.
• Making the story, the story was honestly the last thing I did. I had all my levels done and I had to change a lot of objectives just to make my story right. After all it is still a shitty story.

Overall I think the game turned out okay. It’s definitely not the best game I ever made but people seem to be enjoying it apart from a few little things here and there. I probably won’t start working on a post-compo version, because I don’t really feel like it.

Yes.

So as I wrote in my last blogpost, I decided upon making a stealth game.

That’s why I got started today on getting all the mechanics in the actual game. There is no featurecreep at all and there is a surprisingly low amount of features. It’s a rather minimalistic stealth game now that I look at it, but I think it is minimalistic in a good way.

After getting the mechanics in I started on level design. I first drew them out on Paint.NET and then transferred them over to the Game Maker Room Editor. Here are some of the level sketches:

And here they are in the game:

It all looks rather boring because the game lacks any sort of art. Tomorrow that will change and I will have a decent stealth game!

So, waking up at 7 AM and finding out the theme was pretty do-able. After a bit of wondering I decided I really wanted to make a stealth game, so I did. The game will be a combination between Hitman, Hotline Miami & Monaco is Mine.

Here is a WIP screenshot:

Ludum Dare upcoming! My fifth LD already! This is my I’m in post!

Tools

Programming: Game Maker 8

Art: Paint.NET

Music: Ableton Live + my trustworthy Roland SH-201 synthesizer

Those are generally the things I tend to use. I hope that my fifth Ludum Dare will be just as awesome, or perhaps even more awesome as my previous Dares!

See you in the IRC!

–Sanguine

After lots of design choices I concluded it would be better to have one archnemesis instead of multiple of them. Here is a screenshot:

So I decided my game would be a procedural exploration horror game. And every horror game needs darkness!