Hi,
This will be my first Ludum Dare, I’ve wanted to do it for a while but never previously had the time. I’ll be using HTML5 and the following libs/tools.
Can’t wait to see what the theme for LD22 is going to be and I hope I can finish in time.
benthepoet
When I realized I hadn’t really attempted a platforming game I decided to make this little venture. I’ve dubbed it ‘The Ram’. The premise behind this game is you’re a ram living in some mountainous region and looking for some green food to eat. The only problem is there’s all these purple blocks in the way and you have to push them out of the way to reach the food. I meaning for it to have a puzzle element in regards if you don’t move the blocks correctly you won’t be able to reach the food (and thus you’ll starve). I built this using my personal game lib, GIMP, and HTML5 Canvas / Javascript using Prototype. I should be able to push this up sometime tomorrow, I just need to add a couple levels and polish the player sprite.
Been at work for about half-an-hour developing an idea for the ‘Alone’ theme. Basically, I think I’m going to play the dinosaur card. The premise is simple, you’re the last dinosaur left (aliens are raining asteroids from the sky to try and kill you but won’t become extinct so easily). Basic shmup game, possibly with some beat’em up action if your plane gets shot down. Here’s the pixel art I’ve got so far.
The game is starting to come along. Meteorites fly towards the player now at randomly generated intervals. The distance counter is indicating how far away the comet is that you have to shoot down. Anyway, here’s a couple progress videos I’ve shot thus far tonight.
I’ve got most of the major stuff implemented now. Power-ups show at certain points depending on your kill chain. Rocks will kill your player now (you can only take 8 hits, may reduce that down to 6). Also implementing a special ‘cat-weapon’ if you’re skilled enough. Here’s a screenshot and the latest video.
I’ve finally got all the gameplay programming and assets done. Tested everything and it play pretty well, just need to code the boss to launch out a bullet storm, polish up the menu screens and I should be all set to upload. Latest video below.
After brushing up some code for optimization and polishing down the graphics, my game is finally complete. I give you Dino Pilot and The Lonely Skies. Don’t worry if the enemies are kind of sparse at the beginning, it ramps up quite a bit as you get closer to the boss. Check some screens below. Time for some rum now 
I figured out why I wasn’t getting sound from Firefox, it’s because I was missing the MIME type on my Nginx server. Got that straightened and found out that the game works great in Internet Explorer 9 also. So I went ahead and coded sound compatibility for all the major browsers. IE9 uses MP3 files for the audio and Chrome, Firefox, and Opera are all using the OGG files. Hopefully, I can get the game cleaned up even more over the holidays. But for now I think it’s great.