My game is going nowhere so rather than giving up completely or forcing myself to continue something that is not going to be finished or be any fun even if it was, I’m starting over from scratch.

It’s kind of late but for LD #3 I made a playable (if rudimentary) pygame entry starting 7 hours before the deadline so it’s not impossible.

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Still needs some things to kill.

Now I’m sure about it ! my wife is a cannibal !! she wants to make me fat so I can be more tasty, look how much food she is cooking for me !!

Tags: cannibal, food, foodphoto, foodpic, LD #15 - Caverns - 2009, tasty

When all else fails and you’re out of ideas…

…flying whales! XD

Okay, I made some progress, but first, snacks!

then stress-testing the physics…

.. and finally a cavern I made while playing…

Now I’m fed up with snacks and gonna go and make me a dinner with at least some nutritional content

Tags: foodphoto, screenshot

See the yellow sphere? That’s the driver of the tank, out to get those blue minerals. Both the driver and the tank respect the walls of the level now. The driver can get in and out of the tank, but only from the front. I should probably do something to make it clear to the player. If I have time, of course.

I still need to implement mineral collection, and then it is time for the monster lair to hold and release monsters. After that, a way for you to stop the monsters from coming out after the driver when he’s outside of the protection of the tank.

Then sound, then better looking graphics.

If I have time, of course. B-\

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A quick update, my baddies can now fire their guns. And they can kill you!

My next task is to code up some explosions, and then terrain. Explosions shouldn’t take long, as they are simply graphical.

After that, terrain! Then I actually have a game! Yow!

—Mr. Dude

Screeny

Barely excusable as a game, its not fun but I thought I’d rather submit something than nothing.

Didnt really get into the theme, started a day late blah blah.

Zip: XOUTLD15

http://d-games.co.cc/LD15%20-%20Cave%20Invader.exe

I have a prototype! No screenshot, just an exe. This is not the game,  it’s just what the game is so far,and I need it tested! Test away, people!

Ok… Finally got the buildings to fall into the cavern. I’m having massive issues because I’ve got grids 90 degrees off from each other, and not all my grids are the same size. Definately next time I’d use a master class which stores EVERYPIECE OF DATA that ANY type of cell could want so that I only had one NxN array instead of 7 or 8…

Haven’t touched the building selector yet, or recolored the buildings for the other players. No chance I’ll get to sound I think… I’ll be lucky if I finish a UI and have an AI which does more than place random moves. Here’s a current screenshot though.

-TF

Working title is now “F equals ma”.

I wasn’t too happy with the square cave that I had going before, so I’ve replaced it with a randomly generated cave system. Now I just need some reason to explore.

Play in browser here.

I got my first test environment working in the penguin game!

Test it out (needs unity3d browser plugin):  http://deadpanda.com/lj/ld15test.html

Completed the filter,  also added the main tower object. I made the map brighter, the dark color was really hard on the eyes, once I implemented the color filter. I also have a normal tower and a factory done, now I need a HUD/GUI to make them buildable.

I find the green color relaxing. Now I’m off to play some basketball, I’ll be back in ~2h and see if I can still make a game of this.

I’ve got another playable billed uploaded along with another gameplay video for the passively curious:

Play version 0.3 here (Flash)

Watch gameplay video of version 0.3 here (YouTube)

A suitably themed main menu

Concept:
You are an extremely angry cavern. You awaken one day to find many creatures living inside of you. This pisses you off! You have a short amount of time on each level to use your cavern weapons to destroy as many creatures as you can. Kill multiple creatures with one attack to earn combo points and kill rare bonus creatures for extra score! Compete online with global leaderboards.

Controls:

• Use your mouse to click on your weapons (stalactites, geyers, etc.)
• Kill as many creatures as you can within the time limit.
• Kill all the creatures for a big bonus!

A few more screenshots with captions after the READ MORE…

Activating a geyser to score a sweet bonus!

Grabbed another bonus with a stalactite!

Global leaderboards are tied in!

Tags: angry, as3, bats, cavemen, caverns, caves, flash, highscorse, leaderboards, mochi, screenshot, stalactites, video

I lost motivation, so the game has been cut short.

Fetch.

Tags: final, LD #15 - Caverns - 2009, motivation, Windows

So far, I have what appears to be a working game. I only have one level, but they are hard to make. Essentially it’s about a Leprechaun who get’s captured and must escape.

Celtic Cavern

Tags: 2D, celtic, leprecaun, leprechaun

I think I have everything in there I need to now (including a second trick). I just want tohave a go at redoing the character and fixing up the UI a little before I call it ‘finished’

backflip alongside lava at really fast mph... how did I even come up with this?

playable after the link:

[WP_UnityObject src="http://www.sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/ludum/LD15_web09.unity3d" width="560" height="420"/]

Tags: caverns, hoverboards, LD #15 - Caverns - 2009, unity

New playable build. Got the building selector working a lot faster than I expected. Now I need to (in the order it’s likely to happen):
– Recolor Buildings so they are unique for each player
– Add tracking for the Player’s Cash (Left side of screen) and Points (Right side of screen)
– Come up with a score mechanism :eep:
– Script some type of AI to replace players 2-4. Generally thinking here, player 2 will always place the largest building he can afford on the least stressed square. Player 3 will 25% of the time place a support, rest of the time place a building on a low-stress square. Player 4 will try to collapse the human player’s buildings into the cavern… but obviously none of this has been implemented yet.
Screenie:

-TF

I am still terribly behind schedule, and  most probably won’t make it. But I have made minor progress. My sprite animation framework is implemented now. Still a long way to go.

And one more thing I learned… I really can’t pull “all nighters” anymore.

After eating a large bag of candy to wake me up, I added all my graphics to the game(programmer art!). I also added collectable gems for extra points

My game(now with Graphics!)