Just a quick note to let people know that I’ve finished the post-compo version of The Triumph of Time from LD14. It has many more levels, a tutorial and a level editor, and hopefully a more forgiving difficulty curve. I’ve also implemented many of the suggestions people have been making.
It’s up on my web page, where I’ll also be posting updates to it.
And the theme is….
TIME
Rules:
Focus as much as you want on the soundpack, or not at all.Several people seem to be attempting beat-based music games, so for your convenience, here are the tempos of each song in the sample pack (not including the noise/static tracks):
Kontinuum – Pulsar – 170bpm
Destroysound – Maggies Circle Acid – 140bpm
Kontinuum – Safe, Asleep In The Library – 140bpm
Kontinuum – Sphere – 170bpm
They were all exported directly from a host audio program and so should sync up perfectly at those tempos.
Really excited to see how what you guys turn out. Have fun!
FIXED PACKAGE DOWNLOAD (see Update 5) – 10MB – final
Plot: Try to beat the best speed category (#1)
How: Strafe jumping (a.k.a. bunny jumping, etc.). Run like hell and time your jumps.
Controls: A, S, D, W, Space (Press Escape to exit, Alt+Enter to switch between fullscreen and windowed)
Post a screenshot with your score if you win!
It’s actually more fun to play it than what it seems from these lame screenshots.
WARNING: Don’t play more than 10 minutes straight or it will mess up your brain.
Enjoy!
-Martín
Tags: brain damage, final, psychedelic, quake3, run, strafe jump
My idea: As a constructor/economic specialist something you need to gather resources in order to win the game. Unfortunately other citizens already build their houses on the best spots directly beside the wood you so desperately need. Now you need to gather time energy which allows you to jump back in time and build whereever you want to build before anyone else can.
And this how the game looks like at the moment:
What development tools am I using? The same as last Mini LD and last LD48, FreePascal with ElysionLegacy (a small wrapper around some functions of SDL + SDL_Image + SDL_TTF + SDLMixer)
How do I use the sound pack? I will use it for some background music.
Am I finishing in time? I sure hope so. There are still a few hours left.
Here’s what a not-quite-final version of my entry looks like. The game is fully playable and probably won’t change a whole lot now in the 8 hours or so that are left.
You can try it here.
I also figured that a hey let’s playtest each other’s games mailing list would probably be cool to have? link.
[I’m posting this on behalf of increpare, who’s currently unable to access his LD account]
download:
Windows
OSX 10.5+ (Intel)
Source
controls: mouse
Tags: final
Allright, it’s final or as final as it can get. If you haven’t read my previous post, here’s the short description: You are a constructor who can travel through time with the only goal to make as much money as possible.
Download here: Stoney_MiniLD9_TimeTravelConstructor.zip (15,7 MB; Windows Binary + Source)
This was my first LD, but it sure won’t be the last. This was fun as hell.
You have 10 seconds to save everyone! GO GO GO GO GO!
Play in browser: link
Windows exe:YouHaveToSaveEveryoneButThereIsntMuchTime.exe
Source:YouHaveToSaveEveryoneButThereIsntMuchTime_Source.rar (requires FlashDevelop and FlexSDK)
Tired of a tetris that give you headaches ? tired of a tetris that show fancy pics as background ? tired of question ? play timeTris ! a tetris that clocks are the pieces, and in the hard mode … hummm not sure you can handle …
screenshots
Each of the moving buttons plays a different sound. They create ripples in time to the music they generate.
More of an interactive screensaver than a game. I didn’t even come close to adding the time travel mechanic I wanted to, and even then there wouldn’t have been any gameplay.
Update:
Win32 executable
Linux executable
Needs a fairly decent machine to run sensibly: sorry!
Tags: final
Busy weekend for me. I just got started a about 2 hours ago. But I’m going to have more time to work on it tommorow so even though I won’t exactly line up with the official start time, I’ll see what I can get done in 48 hours.
Here’s what I’ve got so far — it’s not really going to be a game, more of a music-toy. “JamClock” the clock that rocks. Oh yeah.
I’m in the same boat as jovac – decided last minute to put something small together. It looks like it’s gonna take longer than I thought – I spent most of my night fixing some broken collision code in my framework… Anyway, should have a late entry to upload sometime tomorrow, with any luck!
a bit too late… but here it finally is. it’s an experiment i always wanted to make.. – i’ve actually worked on this already before the weekend, but it didn’t came along so well… so, i’ve just decided to finish something small for now (the actual plaything was made during this weekend, so i hope that shouldn’t be much of a problem…).
thanks to destroysound’s soundpack, i’ve started to play around with these wav files, and with less straight rhythms, and it was fun :D. thanks for these loops!
but, hmm, there are still some bugs left… (random sound hangers, and even crashes – please let me know).
but it’s already early morning here. if needed, i’ll try to fix things when possible later…
…
download is here (win32 )
Tags: final
Well, I only had about 10 hours or so to work on this this weekend. But it’s coming along really nicely:
In fact, rather than release something that’s barely functional but a good idea, I think this has enough potential that I’m going to keep working on it and release it when it’s finished. I know I’m onto something when I can’t bring myself to hit ESC and go back to the code, instead I keep going just one more time around. Plus it causes hallucinations, which is cool (Not like that — try staring intently at any slowly rotating pattern for 20 minutes and then look away).
Basically, it’s a multitrack solo jam recorder. You need a guitar (or other instrument) for it to be any use. The innermost loop is the drums, next one out is the bassline, next is the lead, then the outside ring is the rhythm. The whole thing rotates at a specified BPM. The drums don’t change, but each time around it randomly picks a ring for you to play (if it’s the bassline, it drops your recorded input by an octave, fmod is great, it makes stuff like that easy).
And that’s pretty much it. It basically works, but all the options (like bpm and which loop to load) are hard-coded and it needs menu screens and a few more options and stuff before it’s really useful, and I’m hoping to add a “fakebook” style chord mode where you can put in some chords just so you can tell where you are. And the wheel never stops.
It’ll probably take me a week or two to finish this up, knowing how little free time I have ahead. Anyways, thanks a bunch to destroysound for hosting this, great topic and great idea with the samples.
Just finished my posthumous MiniLD entry! Next time I’ll try to make my mind up about entering a lot sooner, heh.
You can play it here! The goal is to survive as long as possible.
Tags: final
I read somewhere that firefox caps the actual framerate of flash apps to keep CPU usage under control; even if you get 60fps on your own machine there’s a good chance other people won’t.
I had some problems with Microsoft, so I statically linked everything and now it should work.
Built in less than 48hs… it’s just a relinked version.
Plot: Try to beat the best speed category (#1)
How: Strafe jumping (a.k.a. bunny jumping, etc.). Run like hell and time your jumps.
Controls: A, S, D, W, Space (Press Escape to exit, Alt+Enter to switch between fullscreen and windowed)
Enjoy!
Tags: brain damage, final, psychedelic, quake3, run, strafe jump
Increpare, can you give some details about the date of Mini-LD #10? I want to produce some stuff to be (mini)reviewed 😀
also: pausing the game at the beginning of each level quickly solved my problems from the previous version!
…so well done in many ways!