Still far from done, now with sound effects and tons and tons of tweaks. Levels are still crap.
Someone complained that the game is too easy, and well, it sort of is, because the levels are crap. I made the change that if you don’t pop the partycles fast enough, they will burst in a deadly manner as demonstrated in this screenshot. RC1 available here
Sunday 12:20
Done sleeping. Tried to think last night on how to make this gamey and chain reactiony enough, but didn’t come up with something. So I need to decide if I should scrap it and do something else, try for it and see, or just give up. Giving up is the far easiest choice, but not very fun.
Been looking a bit at the progress of other games, level of completeness varies quite a lot it seems. Though most are further ahead than me, obviously.
Sunday 12:55
Worked a little, added some planets and the appearance of a jump gate. So took a screenshot showing this minimal thing.
The red thing is the ship beacon, the blue things are planets, the big yellow thing a sun, and the strip of greenish lights are the gate.
Tags: log, screenshot
It may look the same but the gameplay is much more fun now.
I’m still spending most of my time hawking the IRC and tinkering with my playlist… I’ve managed to write a little todo list of the most important things remaining, but so far only one (out of 8 or so) has been ticked off. No signs of actual gameplay or chain reactions yet, but they’re next on the list. All gfx are still placeholder and will hopefully be entirely replaced by the end of it. If I spend more than another 4-5 hours without having the gameplay “pretty much done” then I’ll be in serious trouble. I need at least 5 hours for content creation and then a healthy bunch for final tweaking as well. Tick tock.
I had a hard time coming up with an idea, so shelved it for a while, but then something came to me. Basically, I am making a zuma style game with a space invaders theme. There are some interesting twists I plan on integrating, and all in all it might turn out to be a pretty fun little arcade game. I had some fun making some decent art and getting the basic code framework set up. At this point you can win, although it’s got a long way to go. You can shoot the invaders with different colored bullets, if the colors match the invader is destroyed; otherwise the bullet bounces back. What’s missing is the invader ai, and of course, the chain reactions themselves. When an invader dies, he is going to coat nearby invaders with magnetized energy causing them to be drawn together. If the color matches on any colliding invaders, they will also explode
I actually do like my art, although it’s a bit too primary color. I’ll probably experiment with different shades of stuff, and add some more gradient to the palettes. If I finish the game first and have time left over
Alright, I haven’t even made any real game-play with 19 hours to go. Ive been screwing with ODE for the last 12 hours straight or so, and I have got it working perfect I believe. Now I have to dump the messy code into something 1/2 usable so I can make a crude map format for levels. We will see :'(
I’ve finally got a screen shot to show, though, it’s nowhere near as impressive as a lot of other peoples. Still trying to get my game mechanics where I want them to be.
Oh well, at least I’m getting some where. I pissed most of the day away just laying around acting like I was thinking.
Tags: screenshot
Well day 1 had ended with a nice source to change my origonal source to my new idea, which is basically the same, loads of progress yesterday, hope I do as much today with only about 5 hours.
Here’s the next screenshot of my paramecium game. A microscope-slide-type background has been added, the animation has been fixed, multiple cells can exist, the mouse now works, and there’s a neat new mouse pointer graphic!
The paramecium you play follows the mouse pointer, and ‘swims’ when you move it or click the left mouse button (“swim”).
Time to add some gameplay… but before or after sleep?
Here’s my game over screen. Once again, it looks the same as every other screenshot I’ve made.
I’ve had this section done for a good while (and everything finished but the Play), so I figured I’d share it with you all. I particularly like the Creepy font.
Tags: titlephoto
Woke up this morning after some nice sleep.
I added the solve code, menu screens, tuned up the editor and level names. It’s always nice to have that simple stuff out of the way in the middle, since in the end you always need to tune things a bit. The simple stuff usually takes quite some time, so don’t leave it for the last minutes!
I see that my game is not that chain reactionary, but it’s playable and i can spend most of the day coming up with levels and maybe some new elements.
Nice stuff is coming up from you guys (and gals). Hope to see a lot of finished entries!
Tags: Endurion, LD10 - Chain Reaction
Woo, after a refreshing sleep (And one hour longer than I wanted, cursed oversleeping) I managed to get a lot done again. I added the last remaining items I needed to add for gameplay, I added some limits to the placement of the chain links, and I finalized my level file layout. Now I need to work on a nice game menu, level transition and make some actual levels. All in all, it’s going pretty nicely.
I have this peculiar bug when I compile my game in release mode where my last placed link overrides the second last placed link, regardless of location, if this second last link is a wood link and the last link is a breaker link. And now it actually seems to crash in release mode. I’ll have to check that out now I think. Weird stuff.
– Deepflame
I ate these lovely dishes quite some time ago, but I have been far too busy with my code to even process and upload the photos. At least I took them in the first place!
Sadly, these will be the last of these that you will see from me. The digicam has just now left with some tourists on their way to Mexico.. Oh well, they need it more than I do.
Tags: foodphoto
Ok, here is my first screenshot. I have been wrestling a lot with the underlying code, so things have been a bit slow. Plus I have to re-familiarize myself with a number of graphics tools.
The premise of this game is that you have a flying island high above a windswept planet. On your island you must gather the precious gas resource and defeat your rivals for control over it all. You have the choice of whether to build gas gathering buildings, defensive turrets (pictured), offensive missiles, or stability buildings.
The chain reaction is that when your island is hit with missiles neighboring areas begin to weaken. If there is too much weight on a weakened area from your buildings, whole parts of your island may crumble.
Ok, time for some shuteye and then the final push!
So, another night spent trying to sleep, another extended morning spent sleeping.. Oh well, I worked out pretty much everything I need to do to make this into a (hopefully fun) game, I think. Woke up today feeling pretty bad though, but I hope that’ll pass once I eat some food:
I’ll go eat this now while humming the “I love egg” song.
Not much progress yet, but at least I have an idea what to make now. I’m using overlapping tiles:
Okay my entry is here:
http://cs.uku.fi/~ralaatik/boostcraft11.zip (~500 kb, win32).
I can’t work on the game today so I have to submit what I have. Did all nighter on it (Yawn..) My timelog is in the zip. If you want to check it..
Visually it looks quite a lot like my last game ld9 game, bumpcraft. Had to pick this simplistic graphics style again because I really had only 24 hours to spend on it. Hope you like it.
Tags: boostcraft, chain reaction, final, LD #10 - Chain Reaction - 2007, rale
I’ve got some small bugs to work out, but I think I’m on track for a release before the deadline. Whew 😉
