Well, I’ve never made a single buck out of anything, really, and now I’m gonna try doing it with… a shader 😛 I can’t tell you too much yet, but it looks pretty cool, I won’t say unique but definetly interesting, and I’m just gonna try and make a game out of it and see what happens!

If I have anything more constructive to show I’ll show it here, after you’ve given me a dollar 😛

Good luck to all other particicicipants!

Well, I’ll have to find out if I’m actually at home that weekend, but if so I will join in! I’m not going to do a video on account of lack of WebCam (In addition, I don’t think you’re going to like my cut-and-paste AMV things… find Gemberkoekje on YouTube if you’re into that)

Anyway, I’ll use CinderLib, probably some PhotoShop – it’ll be my first entry, and it’s quite likely I’ll fail in many ways – but hey, if you don’t try you don’t succeed!

Well, see you there, good luck to all, and have me play some awesome games in the christmas weeks!

Irony dictated that I had planned a holiday with my friends in that weekend. Oh well, better luck next year! Good luck to you all!

Hey there, I’m hoping the makers of the Ludum Dare Website are reading this, if not and you happen to know them, please send them this way 😛

As I mentioned earlier, I haven’t been able to make last Ludum Dare, unfortunately. I do, however, like to look at the games.

At this point, it’s a little awkward. While I can understand, for caching/speed issues, that the game list pages are fixed, it’s somewhat unfortunate the game pages itself don’t come with any navigation.

What I would like is 3 seperate buttons or links: A forward and a back button, so one can speed through the different games a little more quickly, and a Random button which will present the user with a random game. I don’t even really care whether Jam games are standard included or not, but it would become so much easier to run around different games, trying to find the hidden gems before jurying is done.

For your Consideration,

Arie ‘Gemberkoekje’ Hofland.

There we go; looks about how I’d imagined it.

There are a few bugs, most notably that the seeds have a tendency to go right too much.. Need to fix that one

Oh yeah, also, there’s zero interaction….. so it’s not really a game…

Anyway, I’ll try and fix it tomorrow, see if I can’t make something for you to download.

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Alright, let’s see if I can knock something out this weekend.

Theme: Tiny Plants Jump!
Language: Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
Engine: CinderLib (http://libcinder.org/)
Graphics: Either procedurally generated or knocked out of gimp or paint.net – can’t remember which one I used before 😛

For the record, I got no clue yet what I’m gonna make, so it may fail altogether, but I hope to at least have something silly. Without sound, most likely.

Well, here’s my first Screenshot!

They are procedurally generated plant! life! thingies… Still needs some work, but I’m having fun bugging about 😛

Well there we go:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23-warmup/?action=preview&uid=5952

As mentioned, not much in the way of interaction, I think I’ll keep that part for the actual challenge next week.

So, hope you like it, love to hear your comments (Whether it works at all would be fab XD)

– Gemberkoekje

Here’s a massive tutorial for a Hack&Slash RPG, in Unity3D. Now, I don’t think you can even FOLLOW this tutorial in 48 hours, let alone make something unique, but you may be able to pick up some pointers for your game!

http://www.burgzergarcade.com/hack-slash-rpg-unity3d-game-engine-tutorial

Hey there,

I had an idea for a rule change considering the Compo.

Many people are good at one thing, while bad at others.
Game Designers may have very good stories, but buggy games, or games made in higher level programs like GameMaker.
Game Programmers may have solid games, in well-established low-level programs like C++, but are usually very poor at making graphics.
Artists may have very nice art, but will need to use programs like Game-, RPG- or Adventure Maker.

Here’s my suggestion:
When submitting your game, you are presented by a number of checkboxes:

• Graphics,
• Coding,
• Music/Sound.

(Perhaps more, but these 3 seem most important)

If you check the Graphics checkbox, you abide to the rule that all graphics are made by you. It also means people judging you can give you a grade for graphics.
If you check the Coding checkbox, you abide to a new rule not to use programs like Game Maker or Quest3D or Flash (Which programs are banned can be debatable) to make your game, and only use a real coding language and at most a basic library. This includes a grading for coding.
If you check the Music/Sound checkbox, you abide to the rule that all music and sounds are made by you. It also means people judging you can give you a grade for Music or sounds.

For each checkbox, not checking it means more lenient rules, but also not being graded on the subject at hand. This would allow coders to use spritesets, unless they want to make their own programmer art (I’m all for programmer art by the way), and people not to bother with making their own sounds and music if they don’t want to.

For the Overall grading, I’d say put any opted-out grading to a standard 1. This way, the overall champ will still be the one making the best package, but it will allow people put off by the strict rules on graphics and sounds to make and show a game as well.

This is mostly just a brainstorm, and a post ment to set up a debate. I’m more then happy to abide by the rules, and I will, but I hope this post will at least make some people think and wonder whether this would be better or not.

And before someone mentions it: Yes, anyone could join the Jam instead. But the Jam hasn’t the same magic as the Compo.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23-warmup/?action=preview&uid=5952

UPDATE ! UPDATE ! UPDATE ! UPDATE

Now includes:
Small improvements on the movement and mutation of seeds
A small GUI: A left click now creates a plant or a seed!

Ok, I’m quite confident I can turn Cinder to my whims when it’s about Graphics and Input.

But I also know the sound system Cinder uses is utterly… well, it doesn’t work very well.

So, from today onward, I’m using Bass (http://www.un4seen.com/) and this post will present anyone with a little cheat sheet on how to use it.

[stextbox id=”grey” caption=”Bass Cheat Sheet”]

//INIT
HSTREAM str;

// check the correct BASS was loaded
if (HIWORD(BASS_GetVersion())!=BASSVERSION) {
//MessageBox(0,”An incorrect version of BASS.DLL was loaded”,0,MB_ICONERROR);
}
if (!BASS_Init(-1,44100,BASS_DEVICE_3D,win,NULL)) {
EndDialog(win,0);
}

//LOAD SOUND EFFECTS:
{
char file[MAX_PATH]=”C:\\WAVEFILE.wav”;
HSAMPLE sam;
if (sam=BASS_SampleLoad(FALSE,file,0,0,3,BASS_SAMPLE_OVER_POS)) {
samc++;
sams=(HSAMPLE*)realloc((void*)sams,samc*sizeof(*sams));
sams[samc-1]=sam;
SLM(LB_ADDSTRING,0,strrchr(file,’\\’)+1);
}
}

//PLAY SOUND EFFECTS:
int s=GETSAM();
if (s!=LB_ERR) {
// play the sample (at default rate, volume=50%, random pan position)
HCHANNEL ch=BASS_SampleGetChannel(sams[s],FALSE);
BASS_ChannelSetAttribute(ch,BASS_ATTRIB_VOL,0.5f);
BASS_ChannelSetAttribute(ch,BASS_ATTRIB_PAN,((rand()%201)-100)/100.f);
if (!BASS_ChannelPlay(ch,FALSE))
{
//Error(“Can’t play sample”);
}
}

//LOAD MUSIC:
{
char file[MAX_PATH]=”C:\\MP3FILE.mp3″;
if (str=BASS_StreamCreateFile(FALSE,file,0,0,0)) {
strc++;
strs=(HSTREAM*)realloc((void*)strs,strc*sizeof(*strs));
strs[strc-1]=str;
STLM(LB_ADDSTRING,0,strrchr(file,’\\’)+1);
}
}

//PLAY MUSIC:
s=GETSTR();
if (s!=LB_ERR)
if (!BASS_ChannelPlay(strs[s],FALSE)){ // play the stream (continue from current position)
int nauw = 1;
int bla = nauw;
int t = bla + 2;
// Error(“Can’t play stream”);
}

//MEMORY MANAGEMENT/DELETION:

// BASS_SampleFree(c->channel);
// BASS_MusicFree(c->channel);
// BASS_StreamFree(c->channel);

//3D:
/*
// INIT:

// Initialize the default output device with 3D support
if (!BASS_Init(-1,44100,BASS_DEVICE_3D,win,NULL)) {
Error(“Can’t initialize output device”);
EndDialog(win,0);
return 0;
}

// Use meters as distance unit, real world rolloff, real doppler effect
BASS_Set3DFactors(1,1,1);

//LOAD:
BASS_SampleLoad(FALSE,file,0,0,1,BASS_SAMPLE_LOOP|BASS_SAMPLE_3D|BASS_SAMPLE_MONO)

//USE:
BASS_ChannelSet3DPosition(channel,position,orientation,velocity);
BASS_Apply3D();
*/

[/stextbox]

Because I love you so much:

1. Bugfixing
2. Graphics
3. Menu/Titlescreen
4. Sound

Once that all works I may add some more features, dependent on the time left.

I’ll release later tonight, but here’s 2 screenshots my friend made:

(For the record – He’s purely and only my beta tester, I made the whole game)

And we’re off:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=5952

Everyone please play my game

You know what that is? That is OneSeed running – albeit badly – on my IPAD

Watch this space