{"author_name":"Jogy34","cat":"LD #27","comments":[],"epoch":1377404340,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"39575","p_author":"Jogy34","p_authorkey":"10685","p_urlkey":"75194","p_title":"19 Hours to go and almost done","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377404340","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10685","us_name":"Jogy34","us_username":"jogy34-2","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

I was going to post on my progress at 24 hours left but I ended up being busy with stuff I didn’t want to do that didn’t have anything to do with my game and lost an hour or two then got distracted with fixing bugs.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I’ve got pretty much all of my needed game functionality done except for an actual objective, basic story line, and instructions page. That all I should be able to complete in an hour or two, after that it’s just making my game pretty and adding more things. Here’s a few screen shots of what I have right now:<\/p>\n

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Top Left: Start Screen
Top Right: Planet Select screen with Deith highlighted
Bottom Left: Planet Region (level) select screen with a region highlighted
Bottom Right: Basic Game play<\/p><\/div>\n

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The premiss of my game is that 10 seconds were physically stolen from Deith (an earth-like planet). They were the most important 10 seconds in\u00a0 the planet’s history (probably going to be when life was first created). You take the role of a space traveller with an advanced blue box for a space ship that just happened to watch the time being stolen which you then proceeded to destroy what was stealing the time. When you destroyed the thing that was stealing the time, all of it was dispersed and landed all over the solar system. You have to go to each planet to retriever the 10 seconds.<\/p>\n

I’m really happy with how the planetary selection and planet region selection screens came out, they work perfectly. I finally got all of the collisions situated the best I’m going to be able to in the time left. To create the levels I’m using a custom structure based generator. Each planet will have its own tile map so although the structure of each structure will look the same the appearance will be altered. I could use a lot more structures but that’s something I’m going to add to when I’m stuck on something or I finish everything that’s above it on the list. Since I hate creating art for a character (I’m not a good artist as I’m sure you can tell) I’ll probably just make the character sprite (currently the black box in the screen shot) a fancy blue box (your space ship). I have no sounds currently but I have no way to make them so I’ll probably end up going to freesound.org for my sounds. I would much prefer to make my own sounds though so if anyone knows any free sound creation software for linux ubuntu then please let me know.<\/p>\n

One last thing, my good laptop broke on me a few weeks ago so I’m using my bad laptop to code and it can barely create a JVM so I have no clue what the actual speed of my game and character are, for me it’s excruciatingly slow.<\/p>\n

Also, probably going to try to pull an all nighter. I tried yesterday but ended up going to sleep when I go frustrated at 3:30 in the morning.<\/p>","time":"August 24th, 2013 11:19 pm","title":"19 Hours to go and almost done"}