So, as I’m going with Phaser (again), I decided to get my simple template together actually before the compo and then not waste hours on end trying to get transpiling and all the other things to work 😀

If anyone else is in need of a Phaser Template that allows you to use ES6 and comes with some Phaser states (Boot, Preload, Mainmenu and Game) and a single cursor-key-movable sprite, then here you go!

https://github.com/hunttis/phaser-ld-template

Getting ready for LD25.  I’m using GameMaker again for this one.

Most of my GM projects tend to have some similar things in them.  In order to get something more out of my LD experience, I don’t want to continually re-write the same sort of code from scratch with each project.

Compo rules say that you can use “all publicly available libraries and middleware”, so I’m considering bundling up some useful things and creating a “stub project”, that will be like the equivalent of library/middleware in GameMaker-speak, so that I don’t waste precious minutes during the compo writing the same sort of code I always write in any GameMaker game, and can put as much of my 48hrs into creativity and design.  Conveniently, this will also serve as my Warmup project this time around. Now, granted, I can only get some much done in the next couple days leading up to LD25, but over time if I continue to maintain this project it could turn into something pretty cool.

I’ll probably maintain this and add to it for future LD48 (and other game jams).  So my first question is: What to throw into this thing?

Some thoughts:

1. A system of rooms that provides a generic Title Screen, Instructions Screen, and Game World, along with navigational objects and such that switch between them.
2. Scripts for handling keyboard input (or other controls, such as mouse or gamepad or whatever).
3. Handy math functions that aren’t built into GameMaker already (such as ???)
4. A hierarchy of pseudo-abstract classes to facilitate implementation of common design patterns for Player, Enemy, Terrain, and Pickup objects.  For example, a common way of implementing a Player is to have a parent Player object, and separate objects for the Player_dead, Player_hurt, and other states.  These would be empty, or mostly-empty, to facilitate development of *whatever* type of game you wanted to make with GameMaker, but would help by providing a little bit of structure to the project.
5. Code that supports cool visual effects (as I come up with them, over time), such as motion blur, typewriter text, or who knows what.
6. “Engine” code for platforms, physics, or whatever.
7. I’m open to ideas.

What would you like to see? Drop a comment, be specific.

A long time ago I’ve done this template for flixel, to simplify things… So I’m publishing it for anyone that wants to use it. =D

The project comes with a preloader class (that extends FlxPreloader) and a main class (that extends FlxGame). Also, the library itself is already included in the template.

Just put it in your Flash Develop/Projects folder (it must be uncompressed).

Download link

I’ve spent a little time creating some template code for the next LD event, after failing at LD #17. I wanted to share this, in case any other Linux devs can benefit.

My template doesn’t do much, which is sort of the point given the nature of Ludum Dare. I wanted to gather up some basic functionality that I consider to be fair to use, and probably already available to many other LD’ers using existing game engines like OGRE, etc. Using this I hope to be able to get a quicker start during the events.

I’m using Linux, C++, CMake, SFML, GLee, OpenGL, and OpenAL. Here are the features I’m going for:

• Get a window up on the screen. Admittedly, this isn’t too hard thanks to SFML.
• Load music / sound files from disk, and play them.
• Load UV texture-mapped 3D objects exported from Blender (http://blender.org/) and display them using OpenGL VBOs. The Blender export script I’ve created is included.
• Render bitmapped fonts using image files loaded from disk.
• Build either a Linux or Windows executable by changing a CMake flag (I have a mingw32 cross compilation set up, installed).

You can download my template here: ld48_template.tar.gz

If you can use this, or have time to build the sample app and give me some feedback, that would be awesome. Thanks!

-Windsor

P.S. I just read PoV’s post about packaging Linux applications. I’ll have to put some of those techniques to use in the next version of my template.

Bit late I suppose, but just to make things clear I’m using a really simple template for Slick apps which does nothing but opens up a window and listens to key events, that I’ve done beforehand. You’re welcome to it, of course, but I doubt anybody will find much need for it :>