Friend of mine mentioned Ludum Dare’s October contest and I blogged about it. I found the idea of completing *and selling* challenging and most interesting. I stepped in the bandwagon on 22nd day, so it’s bit over one week time for me to do the game.

I chose to put together a tactical game. It is turn-based, features hopefully interesting decisions. And there’s some zombie dwarves. Add some pixel art by me and I believe I have a great mix together.

I have managed to complete several key features (couple of dwarves, simple cutscene/dialogue system, enemy apperance, taking actions and such). There’s still much to do (handling game loop, entering new locations, spawning enemies, dwarf art and such) but I’m confident that this will be just fine.

Since the challenge is also about *selling a copy*, I decided that I would put the game on sale right away. I wrote a pre-order blog post and see if people are willing to support this. I put the price tag $1 to the game knewing that paypal will take most of it, and the tax man rest, but at least it’s what this contest was about.

Will report more later.