After the first five-six hours or so I’ve gotten the basic gameplay working. The game design is a turn-based strategy game where you control a kingdom fighting yet another Dark Lord and his advancing wall of darkness and orcs*. I wanted the wall to bulge inwards when it hits a city, but LOVEs polygons don’t seem to like being concave very much.
* Does not contain any actual orcs, or any kind of graphics yet!
Off to a pretty good start programming wise, nothing to show yet, but hey, have some sprite sheets.
Wall o’ Doom
Blotty -loveable main character
I wanted to toss a food pic in here but it turns out I don’t have the right usb cable for my camera. Why can’t they all just use a universal plug?
I’m doing a strategy take on the theme. You use your resources to conquer the cities on the map. Any cities you control builds a wall between themselves, that the other army can’t cross.
I’m afraid I’ve bitten off more then I can chew. With wife, kids, and such, I don’t think I’ll have enough time to complete it. Originally the idea has a little turn based battle happening for control of any give city, but I definitely won’t have time to complete what will turn out to be two games. Of course, I’m only 4 programming hours in, so who knows what will happen.
Getting a late start here, due to a power outtage. >:(
I’m going to be using wonderfl to code a sort of life sim. Is anyone else using wonderfl?
Tags: peak
The game is now playable and has a working end condition. It’s not much fun yet, but that’s OK. Download source.
map collision, object detection, wsad and arrow key keyboard support done
analog / digital joypad support comming in next, then its off to make a camera, and finally start to polish this thing into a game
OK, with 33 hours remaining, hamburger’s finally going to start thinking about getting started.
“Advancing wall of doom” is a pretty morbid theme, guys. I feel compelled to make a game about the original wall of doom, that one that is advancing upon us all – death, of course!
I picture myself on my deathbed, waves in my head slowly shrinking to whispers, then nothing. I have a little bit of energy left in me, but not enough to run the whole machine of my body. Should I focus it in my eyes, to see my loved ones around me? Or in my ears, to hear what they’re saying? Or in my hands, to feel when they hold them? Or should I focus all my energy inside my head, to keep those waves alive?
Is this a game? I hope so. I’m going to try to run with it. If you have any suggestions, please make them. 
Tags: advancing wall of doom, concept, death, deathbed, dying
If they could be happy with anything, ofc… 
Finally got a functioning game! You control the bug, and you have to get to the top by jumping on the ledges. Oh, and don’t get hit by falling cans.
Tags: gameplay
Framework working and some initial test code is also in place (the object placement there, rest is just fooling around!). And no, there’s not even the wall yet.
It’s got C-Power(tm). I never really eat breakfast anyway, but unwrapping oranges is fun.
Physics are mostly done, and a jetpack to boot! Gotta work out some weird sticking problems and do better collision response. Added some simple particle effects for the jetpack.
Off to lunch now.
Random board generation is ready to go, with controllable piece density:
I’ve decided to enter my first LD, we’ll see what it brings. So far I’ve got a quite playable bouncing ball that’s being chased by an autoscroll. Next is to add traps and special kinds of tile.
Here’s a shot. There will be a deadly wall of spikes on the left…
When I heard about the theme, this was the picture that got in my head (or at least something like lava where you have to escape). Doing good so far (still having to calibrate, as the monsters are still too strong right now :D)
Didn’t take a pic of meal a few hours ago.. but here’s one from evening meal:
Morning coffee leftovers (with fresh milk) heated in microwave.. again a Karelian pie, this time with some tasty meat aspic on top. The tomatoes are there just to fool you again.
Tags: food
What I’ve noticed during the programming of this game: I code too “cleanly”. I waste time with making stuff be in seperate files and stuff. I got like, 17 files or so and what I got now is this
Tags: tigs
Fortunately, I came up with some simple idea. So I started working on assets. This is what is done so far. I don’t think I will need more. Now onto basic engine.
Oh yes, I will mysteriously reveal my progress, in a very mysterious way. This way, you can all see what I’m up to, but not! Anyway, the gameplay is working pretty well now, and it’s not turning out too badly. There are still a few things I can add, but I’m pretty happy with the progress so far. Here’s a screenshot.
Tags: journal
So, I “cleverly” avoided making a saving system with something that actually turned out becoming harder than just regular saving: Level passwords. Each level has it’s own password, and if you enter the password into the menu, it goes to that level. Seen it before, right? Well, I took it to the next level.
The next level would be file writing. After quitting each level, it will tell you the password of the level. Then, it asks you if you want to save that password onto password.txt. If you say yes, it will write the password of the current level to password.txt, otherwise it won’t. Then, in the password section of the menu that allows to to go to a level, it will show the default password as whatever it reads in password.txt. Thus, the password default is the most previously saved-at level. Convenient. Unfortunately, this took a huge chunk of development time – I’m still working on level 3.
Also, I ate a pizza slice for lunch. I don’t have a camera, so no pic. 
What’s a Ludum Dare contest without a lunch? Off to eat my noodles!
Oh, and baldies can now throw double cans.
