Okay so basically I had my birthday weekend, and turned 39. Was busy from Friday all the way to yesterday. I was going to shoehorn my game into the theme for the jam, however, even that time got usurped.

I’d still like some feedback on it thus far, so I’m posting a link, so when you get bored or done with jam games, why not try my asteroids game. It is in HTML5 and javascript, so you need a compatible browser and javascript on.

Thanks,
Uhfgood

Play my asteroids game here! Instructions on page, uses html5 + javascript

P.S. I have a laptop with an intel i7 and running windows 7 home, and tested this on firefox and internet explorer, they seem to run well for me, but YMMV. If it runs poorly or slowly please consider the possibility it’s either your computer, browser, or the fact you may be running other programs or things in other tabs – first, and then report to me afterward, thanks (I only say this because I’ve had people tell me something doesn’t work in firefox, and then it does for me so I have no way to reproduce the bug, not to mention eventually it works for them anyways without me doing anything, meaning there’s a number of factors involved that doesn’t have to do with my [lack of] programming skills)

These are almost too shameful to post, but I will do so any way, just to show I’m making progress.

I decided to do everything in gimp, so it’s just like 10 screens. These two took me over an hour.

I decided I would go with a choose-your-own-adventure type game. It’s about a dog who lost his bone! There’s even two surprise endings! So now that I have the story all written up, I’ve decided to start on my implementation.

Here is the intro text:

One day you are walking by a white house on Oak Street. Looking at a small dog that seems a little sad. As you look at him longer and longer you suddenly feel your body start to transform, soon your hands turn to paws and then you’re sitting on the porch of your white house, looking at a man walking down Oak street. You realize what drew you to the dog was the sad look on his face, and now you know why. You’ve lost your bone! Well you can always look for it.

Will have screenshots forthwith

Depending on a few things I’m either going Unity (2d) or adventure game studio. AGS means less people will be able to play. Unity means I won’t be making a standard point-and-click adventure game.

BTW for you Unity users — if you’re just doing 2d there’s a 2d library called FUTILE that’s pretty cool —

http://struct.ca/futile/

Or maybe you didn’t?

It looks like I’m actually going to be able to participate.

That’s right. You don’t need to check your eyesight as you did read that correctly.

I’ll state it again I’m actually going to be able to participate.

October Challenge won.

Okay so I didn’t get an alpha done so I owe 6 people a buck. Hopefully with paypal.

So if you guys have paypal give me a paypal address. If you don’t, we’ll probably have to do via mail. (Or come to some other arrangement, voxel mentioned me writing an OC post-mortem in lieu of a dollar).

GBGames

voxel – Not paid in full (updated Monday Nov 5th, 2012) – refused dollar –
“voxel> Uhfgood: I dont want your money”
“voxel> i dont want you to bring me down by sending my cash”
“voxel> Uhfgood, I want you to hold onto the dollar so that I can always mention that you owe me a dollar”

SethR – Paid in full (updated Sunday Nov 4th, 2012)

NeiloGD – Paid in full (updated Friday Nov 2nd, 2012)

ratking – Paid in full (refused a dollar, but paid 1.00 for a game from his site (updated Friday Nov 2nd, 2012)

Raimonds – Paid in full (updated Thursday Nov 8th, 2012)

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Jedi – had agreed instead of me sending him a dollar that I buy a copy of his first released game, which I agreed to do.

Still not 100% but getting there –

Click the image to watch the video.

Here it is, folks sloping tiles! — It works, now all I need is gravity and jumping.

Link to the bet.

Okay so for those not familiar with the bet… I bet people 1 dollar (US) that I could make my October Challenge game to alpha by the end of the month.  If I lose I would pay each person who took me up on it 1 US Dollar – in addition to giving them free copies of the finished game as well as all the updates from alpha to finish for free.  If I won each of you who participated would pay me a dollar and you would still get all the updates as well as the finished game for a buck.  As I see it it’s a win/win for everyone.  I had only 7 people take me up on the offer.  I think I know why… it’s because I intimated that I would only use paypal.  Well  I’ve since looked at a number of options and can say that you do not have to pay via paypal should you lose.  We will work something out, I’ll either get something that will only take a buck, or we’ll use good old fashioned snail mail, or whatever is convenient for you.  If you win we will also work something out there too — it might mean only get a dollar bill through the mail from the U.S.  In any case don’t feel you can’t participate because of lack of paypal.  Also if you can’t do it digitally I will take paper money in your currency of choice… but that’s if you can’t do it digitally.

if you want to follow the game’s progress just go to my website by clicking HERE!

If you want to read the original Challenge post  CLICK HERE!

P.S. I’m still open for accepting participants — just leave a comment to this post to make it official.

Thanks,

Keith aka Uhfgood

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=53  — here is my compo game.  My original idea was to have the player and enemy (or enemies) evolve with each level, however because of my limited time I was only able to get this done.  True If I had participated in the Jam I would have gotten something more playable done.  But I didn’t want to do the jam I wanted to participate in the actual compo.

For those of you that know me I would appreciate it if you would play and vote (and it’s okay to vote poorly, it doesn’t really bother me)  The important thing is that I entered.  For those of you that DON’T know me, don’t feel obligated to play it since it will probably disappoint you 😉

Now if we can only get the rules to allow every entrant both a compo and a jam entry it would be cool.

That was going to be my next plan, even though I didn’t have much for the compo, I wanted to actually take the same game add more stuff and then submit it to the jam AT THE SAME TIME AS THE COMPO VERSION — It would have been cool because I actually got in something on the compo, and then at the same time the people who played the games would have had more fun with the jam version.

I made a pretty crappy entry probably worse than most of them out there.  But I was so proud to put forth an effort into making something in about 2 hours and actually submitting it that I didn’t realize that I had to click a submit link.  Not only that but I had missed the submission period (that I didn’t even know there was).  A long time ago you could put final in your tags on the post for your game or whatever and it was submitted but i guess since it’s so big that now an official submission process was created.  I was feeling pretty good until I just learned that I can’t submit a compo entry because it’s too late.

I don’t want to enter the jam, I wanted to enter the compo and then play and rate some games.

So much for f*(#ing participation

Technically speaking there’s not much here, but at least I got it done and made an effort to do an entry.

there are only 2 levels and you use the keyboard.  I leave it up to you to figure out how it works, think of it as a towlr exercise

You need LÖVE 2d game engine to play this.  Unzip anywhere double click the .love file