Suese

That’s right,  the one and only Suese is competing in Ludum Dare 22 and he’s hoping to make you all regret it!

Good luck everyone, and may the best competitor ROCK!

For competition formality here is a list of tools Suese will be using, including personal libraries.

Suese will be using FlashDevelop and ActionScript 3, and ScITE to develop the code.  He may be using one or all of a few personal libraries created previous to the competition: AS3 ANSI Music Player (plays classic ANSI music),  AS3 FANSI Buffer (for classic ANSI graphics in AS3),  and QuickLINK (a multi-language data serialization, storage, manipulation and reporting library for interfacing with PHP and MySQL servers).  See  http://danmckinnon.net/ludum_dare_tools/ for the source code to those personal libraries.

Suese usually either uses GIMP or MushII to develop graphics.  He prefers run-time generated sound effects and music but may sometimes use Ubuntu Studio (a large suite of tools), his electronic drum kit, keyboard, and a combination therein to accomplish these goals.   Suese runs Ubuntu 10 and Windows XP inside a VirtualBox.  He’ll be recording his progress with GTK CamStudio.

Suese

The stage is set with 5 hours left and this Suese is already gettin’ loose like a Canadian goose.

Competition area is cleaned, sterilized, and good to go. This Suese is ready to operate. Time to get this man a patient!

Good luck everyone!

Screenshots - 4 hours before competition.

Desktop - 4 Hours before competition

There's a good reason I enjoy these competitions.

Suese

Suese

HOLY PLATFORMERS BATMAN.

The next Ludum Dare should have not only a random theme but a random genre too.

Who else likes this?

Sometimes my obsession with details has no limit. The font I chose to be an integral part of my game’s design for some reason lacked a Zero and a One character, so I had to design my own that fit into the font. Is this over-zealous or do you think it’s important too?

The font I selected lacked a 1 or a 0, so I added them...

This Suese has rode the caboose all the way to spruce moose town to present to you…

Command War

http://danmckinnon.net/mld33/

Online multi-player hexagon turn-based strategy!

Some tutorial-tantalizers for you…

Click here for full tutorial on 1 screen

Click here to play

Hello,

I am joining Ludum Dare 23.

I will be using Flash Develop and Flym. If networking is involved I will also be using some base-code I have dubbed ‘quick-link’ available at http://danmckinnon.net/quicklink/

Cheers.

Video Asteroids - 10 hour Ludum Dare 23 warmup Jam - By Suese

Strategy / simulation game by Suese

Build, breed, and prosper!

Click here to play

Tiny Civilization by Suese

W00t,  Can’t believe I finished my entry.   It’s a lot more complicated than I originally intended or imagined.   If I had more time I would have added on-screen tutorial and a way of browsing family trees and the history log.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 2:17 am and is filed under LD #23. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

HATE ON LITTLE ROUND WORLDS
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Until today I didn’t even know such a genre of game existed, little round planet games. Today I learned and at first I thought it was innovative… then I played 3,000 games about little round worlds. I wish I was in-the-know about the culture behind these themes.

Last competition platformers bit the big one, this one it’s little ROUND shooters.

Strategy / simulation by Suese

Click here to play / rate.

Tiny Civilization

For those of you that were really big fans of Tiny Civilization I have made some updates and added some polish.  Most notably some colour, a tutorial and some hot-keys for speeding up and slowing down the simulation.   Read the tutorial for the new hot keys.    Also more skills have been added and displayed to add more depth to game-play.  Some other minor tweaks to gameplay and bug-fixes too.

Strategy / simulation game.

Click here to play.

Tiny Civilization - Colour Edition

Enjoy!

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 6:50 pm and is filed under LD #23. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

My hats really go off to the people who are able to play and test 100 games.

I’m sure there are lots of folks that are trying to rate quickly, but as for me, I put a lot of effort into my game and I want everyone to take a few minutes with my game, so I’m putting a lot of time into everyone else’s games. 10 – 20 minutes each.

Rating 50 games was more challenging than making a game in 48 hours. It takes a lot of mental stamina to break down a game and critique it 100 times over. The first 25 were pretty easy, but after that each game seems to be a slug-fest to my brain.

Hats off to Gold Coolness.

A new indy-friendly game console has been fully funded by over 8 times the original goal setting the stage for a new major industry upset to enter the TV console gaming market. Get excited my friends because YOU could be developing games for the TV in as little as 8 months!

OUYA Video game console will be released in March 2013.

This Suese will be heading to L.A. for the Launch Party (in March tba?) as a game developer to promote my own games.

I am looking for some fellow game hackers who might want to join my team and make some smash retro-active titles to be marketed on the OUYA at launch.

Our games will have an honoured ‘Founder’ emblem in the market place, so this truly is an exciting opportunity to be a part of console gaming history.

Remember the good ol’ days? When programming was so easy to get your hands onto that the average 5 year old could learn to program? What ever happened to that?
Now it seems every tool kit out there is designed to add more features and require over 100 lines of template or overhead code just to write a simple Hello World.
Well, I thought up a way to bring back the good ol’ days.

Introducing Retrocard.

Familiar toolboxes are designed to make Retrocard very approachable.

Retrocard is a computer constructor set for the web, designed to gently introduce newbies to programming in a creative and social environment.

Anyone with an internet connection and Adobe Flash can quickly create their own ‘cards’. Think of a card like a paint program with buttons and labels. With buttons you can make your card do a plethora of interesting different things from linking to a friends card to playing a musical tune you wrote. All of this with an approachable zero programming overhead. No templates. As for Hello world? Just double click on a button, click ‘edit script’, and write ‘ Say “Hello World” ‘

Making and sharing your own adventure game is quite a snap with Retrocard.

Will Retrocard be ready for Ludum Dare on Dec 14th? Well, I intend to have a beta release ready by Wedneday the 12th. Will that be good enough for Ludum Dare? Maybe. You will be welcome to try!

Look forward to an update on Wedneday the 12th

Thanks

This entry was posted on Monday, December 10th, 2012 at 3:45 pm and is filed under LD #25. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I should mention that I am in.    Tools:  As3, FlashDevelop, Gimp, and my Atari 2600 sound chip emulator located at:   http://danmckinnon.net/downloads/tia_sound.zip  If I do anything server-related it will be PHP w/ MySQL.  I almost forgot.   I may use Flod for music.  Cheers.

Well..  this sucks.   My computer is crashing pretty hard-core.   I’ve isolated the problem to something fishy with my USB slots and now have everything plugged into the front of my computer.   I may have temporarily neutralized the problem,  but now I have a fresh desktop install with a new operating system and none of my dev tools installed.  Bah-hum-bug, this sucks.

I almost forgot to post this for people to use.

Want something different and more compact than SFXR for your AS3/Flash game?  Try my Atari 2600 TIA sound chip emulator.

Click here to download

This code was originally written by Ron Fries,  and ported from C to AS3 by me, The Suese.

It was very simple to port and I want everyone to be able to enjoy.

Oh yeah!  Don’t forget to let me know if you use the code in your game.

Enjoy!

Despite some serious computer woes,  a sudden required OS change and a loss of my entire tool chain I’ve managed to get a few things back up and running before I head to bed.

No 10 monitor, 4-computer set-ups here.  Just an old junky computer made from various salvaged parts with broken USB; one very nice wide-screen hand-me-down monitor; an old PS-2 Keyboard I salvaged from a junk pile;  the cheapest mouse I could buy;  some hand-me-down speakers;  a pen and paper from the dollar store; some dice from the dollar store; some cards from the dollar store; some pizza money and a Ludum Dare T-Shirt with my name on it.   Even my desk and chair are hand-me-downs.

The Ludum Dare T-Shirt was the most expensive and highest quality thing here.

Yes that is a Ludum Dare T-Shirt with my name on the back.

Last April, for Ludum Dare #23, I made Tiny Civilization with this very set-up.  I intend to make a great game that pushes my limits and places in the Top 10% again.

Good night and good luck.

This entry was posted on Friday, December 14th, 2012 at 8:15 am and is filed under LD #25. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.