Here’s a list of things I’m be using for the 37th Ludum Dare Jam! I’ll make sure to keep updating this list during the jam.

Libraries

• SFML – Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
• Thor – Extends SFML in some ways
• JSON for Modern C++ – Awesome library to read JSON files
• SmallGameFramework – My small base framework

Programming Tools

• C++ – The language
• CLion – JetBrains’ C++ IDE
• CMake – Meta build system
• MinGW-w64 – Compiler

Audio Tools

• Bfxr – Sound effects generator
• REAPER – Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
• cgMusic – Music generator
• Synth1 – Free VST synthesizer

Image Tools

• PhotoFiltre – Free and simple image editing tool

Other Tools

• cmder – Awesome command line replacement
• Git – The version control system

Streaming Tools

• OBS Studio – Streaming software
• Nginx – Streaming proxy
• StreamPro.io – Twitch overlay
• DroidCam – Capturing the Android camera feed

Check out Archaic Light! It takes less than 5 minutes to complete, so why not?

You might enjoy the ending!

Ludum Dare Page

GameJolt Page

This game was made in one day with the theme, ancient technology, in mind. I also used 8-bit styles from preference. Go check it out! You have nothing to lose! Or do you?

Click here to play now!

Ava, Marte and Morten have once again magically managed to finish an entry last minute! No LD game ever ends up quite as was initially expected, but nonetheless we seem to be able to tie things up in at least some sort of way by working into the submission hour every time!

Pucketeers of Atlantis ended up being a kind of game that I don’t think any one of us would really play regularly—a sports game—but we figured it might be fun to play with some ridiculous elements. Like a Mario Kart version of sports! And indeed, that does exists in the form of Mario Strikers, and watching some gameplay we realised that that series had already incorporated a lot of the ideas we had individually thought up. Yikes!

Passing a puck! Oh, and collect those boxes to get power-ups to activate!

Ouch! Exploding pucks! Dangerous. Very dangerous.

If you feel like playing a neverending game of explosive hockey with Atlantean robots as well as non-Atlantean human beings on your team while wearing ancient Atlantean hover boots, then this might be for you! Oh, and a friend. Or something like that.

It’s a two player game—no more, no less.

You also need at least one gamepad, but two would be recommended, since that’s a lot more fun. We realise this might lead fewer to play, but perhaps we chose the right LD for such a daring decision.

This game is based on having fun beating all the enemies and try to keep your life safe.

Enjoy it.

LINK

At the beginning of times, God was already messing with technology to make his creations. Use the most ancient tech to generate creatures and protect them from your mistakes.

Great fun was had making this game! You can check it here:

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=113185

Play game: Tatry: Story about Engineer

Hello again!

We posted an update earlier today with some very crude beginnings:

The trio is back! With sportsing!

We’ve now come a bit further, and 2/3 are asleep, and the last one is about to turn in as well. But how about a little update first?

Our first day has had work kind of separated so far.

Morten has been programming without any graphical assets:

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Ava has been working on those assets by animating a character without any character designs, just animating the rig and club:

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Marte has been trooping along despite feeling ill, designing some of these characters, explaining why the animations look a bit weird (getting up really fast after falling; floaty feet): they’ve got hover boots!

Woah! That hair. What’s with that? Well… Our idea is to make them very JRPG because our deal is to try and mix JRPG stereotypes with sport game stereotypes in a wonky way…

Maybe in the next update you’ll actually get to see what we have in mind for that ancient technology...

While doing other stuff in the morning I’ve spent some time at noon to setup my webcam, so that you can actually see me in the live stream. I think it adds a lot more personality to a stream and makes the boring wall of code often a bit more interesting. While using the built-in webcam of my notebook was very easy when I actually streamed from my notebook, it’s a whole other story when we talk about streaming from my new and shiny desktop PC while still using my notebook’s webcam.

Luckily technology is awesome and can help us out here – though I’ve to say that it’s a shame that there aren’t a lot more free solutions to certain things. Like a lot of the protocols are open and anyone could potentially implement them and there often are quite a few applications that can work kind of with it, but regarding usability, most application that are really simple and great cost money.

Anyways lets get back to the awesomeness. First I tried the video streaming that is built into VLC and it kind of worked, but it had odd glitches and hit the limits of my notebooks CPU. So I thought why not stream the webcam feed with Open Broadcaster Software, and so I did. However since OBS only supports the RTMP protocol, I had to setup an RTMP server on my desktop. Luckily Google is still a thing and I found the MonaServer in no time.

So here’s the final streaming setup:

Just come and see for yourself: