Hi i am voxel i want to enter ludum dare i will make a game with graphics and sounds

If I had anyone to test with I could give you tell if multiplayer is working :3

Player character looks a bit *too* much like Bub/Bob but otherwise progress is .. happening

Depending on whether I go 2D or 3D I’ll be using:

Haxe with OpenFL; Asesprite

or

Unity; Blender

or

Quiet sobs of failure under the blanket of shame

MiniLD #59: ends May 31st. Theme: ‘Swap’

MiniLD #59 is over! Download an archive of all the spritesheets here

Download this spritesheet:

Redraw it however you like but keep it 128×128 pixels. Use it to make any kind of game you want. Towards the end of the jam, we all swap spritesheets, which means you have no idea what your game will end up looking like! Ludumdare.com doesn’t have a tidy way of facilitating swapping the spritesheets, so I’ve set up a simple submission form at http://swapshop.pixelsyntax.com

More details:

• If you can’t make a game, you can still submit a spritesheet for someone else to use at http://swapshop.pixelsyntax.com
• You can draw your sheet however you like. I recommend 16×16 pixel cells, but you can do whatever you want. Just remember that if someone’s game expects 16×16 sprites and yours are a different size, things are going to look (hopefully hilariously) wrong.
• Only PNG files are accepted for technical reasons (and the easiest way to get transparency working).
• You can download a random sprite sheet (at runtime if you like) from http://swapshop.pixelsyntax.com/api/randomImage
• I’ll post an archive of all the submitted images at some point, so your game can cycle between all the spritesheets or something fun
• Submitted images get random filenames. If you want everyone to know that you made a given spritesheet, you can put your name in the spritesheet somewhere.

Usual miniLD rules apply, whatever those are.

Started on the miniLD. My entry shall be known as ‘qong’ and win points for high levels of clever naming.

Initial mockup drawn in pixen:

First working prototype had a slight bug with ball spawning (click to view gif):

But that’s now a feature and a possible outcome of collecting a bonus during the game.

Game is mostly playable now with a win/lose state and some annoying sounds. A few physics quirks, mostly due to me abusing unity’s built in physics slightly (hard limiting velocities and paddle translations upset the collisions sometimes). Might add a tiny bit of polish tomorrow and submit

Here is my workspace. There are many like it, but this one is mine. As a veteran of a number of LudumDares, I have reduced my desktop objects to the bare minimum, each an essential ingredient in the fast food gamemaking frenzy that is LD. We’ll use CLOCK DIRECTION NOTATION for pointing out each object and describing it and its function. By the end of this post you will be a gamedeveloper expert*!

At 12 O’clock we have the computerised distraction device, used for viewing streams and twitter feeds of better gamedevs. I recommend you get one with at least two cables sticking out of it, as shown here.

2 O’clock is the MAGIC DIVINING CRYSTAL used to predict the theme back in the old days when it wasn’t predetermined by a secret cabal of shady gamedevelopers hiding behind the illusion of voter choice. Nowadays you require a crystal like this to prevent ectoludic energy vortexes sucking you into your own game around the 47.9 hour mark in the competition.

BARELY VISIBLE at 4 O’clock is a ninja stealth mouse the size of your head, used to click the refresh button at compo commencement to ensure no-one can load/see the theme on the website. Don’t go for anything too reliable, you’ll want to be able to blame your poor game art on this when you write your postmortem.

6 O’clock is a keyboard. Duh. You use it to ask for help in the #ludumdare irc channel. Remember to prefix all of your help requests with ‘ifire’ or ‘Sol_HSA’, the names of the two automated helpbots.

8 O’clock ALSO A KEYBOARD did I blow your mind? No. It’s a little keyboard, it only makes little songs. Perfect for a gamejam amirite? Without one of these you’ll be reduced to cheating and stealing your music like everyone else does. Even with one you’ll cheat and steal your music, but you’ll be able to deny it more convincingly.

9 O’clock is a notepad and mechanical pencil in case you want to write a letter to someone during the compo, explaining what a terrible theme was chosen and how you would have done so much better if only people hadn’t picked EVOLUTION again. Or write your last will, bequeathing your earthly possessions to me for writing such a helpful guide.

10 O’clock is a little USB hub. I don’t really know what it’s for.

11 O’clock is a knife. Used purely for self defence in the event of assassination attempts. You might think that’s UNLIKELY but this is LUDUMDARE we’re talking about here. Also if the dare is going REALLY BADLY and you hate your game and wonder why you even bother trying.. you can look at your knife and say ‘wow I have a cool knife, i can totally make a cool game’.

That’s all you need to know. Remember that success in ludumdare is all about having a nicely laid out desk and a computer with every game making tool known to man preinstalled. In fact you should spend the first 46 hours or so setting up your desk just like this, and the game will pretty much just make itself.

While you’re all going gaga over this LDs hilarious joke theme I think there’s a serious message that needs to be shared.

Also I’d like to point out that I’m currently on a lot of really strong painkillers which may have influenced me during this.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,

Please accept this as written declaration of intent to participate in all future Ludum Dare events, thus precluding the need for excessive repeat notification of my wish to participate in the finest of 48 game making competitions, Ludum Dare.

Should the rules change at some point in the future to include the tollage of an entrance fee, or the anti cheating system be upgraded to require urine analysis, this declaration still applies. In preparation I have stored a cache of urine soaked money in a plastic bag at waypoint zulu.

Kindest Regards,

Voxel