Here’s the time-lapse for my game.

If you haven’t played it yet, click here!

Here’s a time-lapse for my entry. It’s probably not very exciting, but I’m posting it anyway.
Play the game here

Here a short time lapse over the three days.

I was the one who made the unusually challenging 10 Second Paper Flight. This will probably be a hectic Ludum Dare for me since I’ll be at a Christmas Party on the Saturday and work on the Monday, but what the hell, I like making games and I can use some of Saturday to plan something interesting.

Anyways, I plan to use the following tools:

• GitHub (Source Control, my first ever solo project to use source control :O)
• HaxeFlixel (Game Libraries)
• Paint.Net (Graphics)
• Tiled (Possible Level Design)
• iNudge (Possible music)
• Bfxr (Sound Effects)

My plans/advice so far for the jam, based on last Ludum Dare:

• Plan well.
• Constantly show your progress.
• Graphics and Music are just as important as the game itself.
• Know how and where you will distribute your game.
• Everyone likes Time Lapse vids
• Follow the 621 (Sleep, Food and Clean Yourself :P)

Everyone have a good Ludum Dare!

It requires python and ffmpeg. It’s not very fully featured yet, but it might be useful to someone.

Check it out on github:

https://github.com/springtangent/screenlapse

I want to create a timelapse video with screenshots showing what I’m doing during. I’m on OS X and made this script to help me do that: screencapture.rb

You pass a directory as argument, that directory is created and every 5 seconds a screenshot is saved there. The script can be killed and when running it again with the same directory, it will continue saving screenshots, in another “session” folder.

Covers about 20 hours of actual work, most of which spent with a warm cat on my lap.

Post-mortem coming soon!!

Edit: thanks Galman for helping with the embed!

I’m very happy to introduce you gLapse 0.2, the visual GNU/Linux tool to take screenshots at fixed intervals and make time lapse videos of your compo progress. If you didn’t knew gLapse you can check out more information about this tool in my first post. At this moment, gLapse is available in English, Spanish and German.

Changelog

• Configurable video quality (very bad, bad, normal, good, best).
• Synchronized screenshots output and video input folders.
• Changes default screenshots output folder.
• Adds German translation (thanks to Superyoshi).
• Improves GUI usability.

Download

• gLapse 0.2 Debian package
• gLapse 0.2 source package

Feedback and new translations are hugely welcome, if you find any problems I would be grateful if yould report them in the issues section. Hope you like it and find it useful for the next compo!

I decided that for this LD I wanted to do a Timelapse. I wanted a timelapse program that

• Ran natively on Linux.
• Produces a screen shot of the desktop with an image of my webcam inline – not the other way round.
• Be something that I can start in a terminal and forget about.
• Not spit out a movie at the end and decide on what format or quality it should be – instead it should give me a bunch of images in a numbered sequence that I can then concatenate with ffmpeg or something myself.

So I wrote PyCatcher, poking it for half an hour every day for the past week. I got my webcam displaying inline last night, so while it’s not as feature rich as I have planned it does work.

If this sound relevant to ones interests you can grab it here- http://github.com/Fiona/pycatcher/tree/master

This Ludum Dare I’ll be using PyCatcher for timelapse and writing my game in Python/Pygame using my Pygame-Fenix library to aid development.