I have a very simple tile system in place. I thought I would have simple gameplay by this point, but I’ve run into a problem where my recursive flood fill is blowing the as3 stack. I’m too tired to figure out what I’m doing wrong, so I think I’m going to call it a night and look at it with fresh eyes tomorrow.
So this Ludum Dare, I happen to be travelling … on a train to Rome today, touristing in the evening, then flying out to Melbourne via Hong Kong. Wifi access will be sporadic. I won’t always have power for my laptop … but I might as well give it a shot. Chances are, all I’ll submit are a few photos of airline food, but I may even make a game if the power on the aircraft works.
Ciao for now !
Idea:
Big flame chases little hero and throws fireballs at him. Fireballs set flames to the level, so the hero must constantly run. Little hero uses supersoaker to put down an fireball, soak it with water and kick back at the big flame to put it out. He can also use it to fire-proof some parts of the level.
Deployment:
C++, STL, OpenGL, OpenAL
This is my 3rd attempt at LudumDare, all previous ones failed because i wanted my code to be too pretty. This time its kludge time, wish me luck 
Tags: idea
Well, I saw that a lot of people wanted to make games where you run from an advancing wall of doom, so I decided to make a game where you are an advancing wall of doom.
My Wall of Doom is busy conquering the planet, and nomming on all the tasty people and cities that he can find along the way. Controllable gameplay will consist solely of using his nose-beam (which shoots lasers, not mucus) to blow up people, tanks, planes, and buildings. He will move forwards inexorably, and the camera will track him. Whenever he comes up to piles of debris or whatnot, he will scoop it up in his giant mouth, and make loud “OM NOM NOM” noises. The more stuff you eat, the more money you get to upgrade his nose laser, and to heal him. If I have time, you might also be able to get a mortar on his head, or smaller automated face-lasers. But likely I won’t have time.
Here’s the sprite sheet for my main character: (pardon the white padding)
He can walk around already, and he even blinks at random. It’s not a game yet, though, I’d better get cracking.
Tags: wrong
Well, the game is, as a skeleton, complete. I think now it’s time to begin reiterating until I get something balanced and fun. But I doubt I will be spending much time on this one. Is it possible to participate with two games? I guess not.
I forgot to take a picture of my breakfast. Whatever.
I’ve got the basic thing up and running. There’s an attract mode which pretty much displays nothing (just the scrolling background), and the play mode. Player can move around and is stopped when she hits the edge of the playable area. Animation not in yet.
Tags: motivation
So the theme is advancing wall of doom Lets get started on ideas
So, I wake up, photograph my computer, check the theme (oh f*ck, it’s Advancing Wall of Doom), proceed to have breakfast, and now I’m here, out of ideas. This is bad, Jane. This is very bad.
Got up to find out it was Wall of Doom, tried to think about it but fell asleep again, no inspriration other than tetris dreams!
Up just had my Weetabix breakfast and drinking a cup of tea, I’ve sketched the game design, back of napkin stuff. Now drink tea and code! ;o)
So I ended up staying awake on IRC till 4am to see what the theme was. Advancing wall of doom, eh? Well, I was rooting for Bosses, but at least this beats Rain. Nobody wanted rain.
(and by nobody I mean me)
So, after tossing about some dumb ideas I’m going to go for a platformer. Details are still emerging in my mind, and while they emerge, I draw tank tracks. Hooray!
It’s 9:30 now, I haven’t been to sleep, I’m not tired and I don’t have anything importatnt I gotta do today. These are I think excellent conditions! We’ll see how long I last…
Breakfast soon, once I get these things spinning.
Tags: graphics
I’m about to have some “Thin Mint” ice cream and go to sleep. But I’m pretty happy with my progress.
As you can guess, my game involves a wall of Tetrominoes. But that’s all I will reveal so far. It’s also about mass extinction.
I’m trying something different this time. I put some of the gameplay tuning numbers into a config file (which is not that new), but I’m also checking the file time every time the game loop updates, and reload if it changes. I might set this to only happen in debug builds, but it doesn’t seem to slow anything down so far. The cool thing is that now I can tune my gameplay values in real-time, just changing the number and saving the file. This was inspired by Ben Garney’s clever google spreadsheet trick over at CoderHump (worst blog name ever). So far I only have one value, how fast the game scrolls, but we’ll see.
I waaaaay overslept. Oh well. I have an Idea and I best get to it.
Get Ready for……
Shroud of Terror: The Journey of Billy Watson!
I will be working on my 2.4 GHZ Black Mac laptop and CS4.
Collisions, pushing, dragging are all working. Time to add some bunnies, methinks.
Whatever. This was what I was thinking of. I just don’t want to see a real wall advancing.
The game is mostly complete too.
OH MY GOD THAT’S MAGMA!
More soon.
Does not like theme. (Like I do not like theme every time I wake up on LD.)
But whatever. I think about it.
Tags: ugh
Eating and thinking of walls and dooms.
I will survive.
