Turns out I made a mistake and have to redo the physics engine for the player… Disappointing but now I know not to do it again!

I’ll probably be playing some Smash 4 and learn Mewtwo in a break a few hours from now as all I need left is to finalize the combat, draw about 60 more pictures (most are just edits) and then write some music 😉

Crazy concept, I know. Most of my code is done so I’ll just be making art for the rest of the weapons as well as taking suggestions for randomly generated weapons. http://hitbox.tv/BtheDestroyer

So I’m almost done with my first game and got a REALLY good idea for another one. I’ll probably enter it in the Jam if possible 😉

http://www.hitbox.tv/BtheDestroyer
Currently making the remaining pictures for random weapon generation and listening to Smash Bros OST.

Hold on to your fedoras, people. http://www.hitbox.tv/BtheDestroyer

Gotta say, my favorite are the spiky things and the Mountain Dew.

I can never get enough of this swaggy desktop mod.

You can play my game here.
Here are some screenshots:

This is my second Ludum Dare and I didn’t see anything about a specific number.

So I was sitting there… wondering what to do.

“I could literally just make the player a monster…” But that was too boring.

“You could make it about the economy with monopolies and such…” Nah, would go over the heads of a few people and be too complicated.

What’s something that everyone on the internet sees and things ‘you monst-‘

“Got it.”

First formula with my game. One of the most complex I’ve had to make for something so simple, actually: The starting money you get depending on the difficulty.

I should explain, when you start the game, depending on how hard it is, you’ll be given more or less money so to device how much you get, I wrote this formula.

I started with a simple y=x^2 and noticed the immediate problems of
1. The player gets LESS money the easier it is.
2. the growth scale is broken so you get more exponentially (no way, exponents)

Then I changed it to be y=log(x) and it looked a bit better. No more crazy exponential growth. (I knew I took Calculus for something)

Of course, it’s still getting bigger as the difficulty gets higher, so I made it y=-1*log(x) and get an equation that starts high and ends low with a nice curve.

Next I made it a bit more complicated (squared an X here, did some random division there, multiply by a big number to inflate the result at the end) and get a fairly good graph.

Check out the graph and equation here

I know it could have been simpler, but I like having crazy long math done for something that seems pretty simple, ya know?

There’s 2 but the second one (actually, 3 but it’s all 1 slider) gives spoilers about the game so no spoiling the surprise!

It’ll move faster or slower depending on the difficulty (16 IRL seconds = 1 in-game hour by default)

Just tested my game to see if it was good or I should start over. Started getting points and felt really excited even though the game’s incredibly simple and kind of silly. Mission accomplished.

You all know the REAL monsters of the internet. (Does everyone get the foreshadowing now?)

http://puu.sh/jKiGO/4837318d6e.png

If you don’t know, my game’s called click-bait simulator so I made a graph to show how many views your posts have:

Watch me stream my gamedev: http://www.hitbox.tv/BtheDestroyer

Decided to just draw strings rather than using a Rich-Edit Text box. I also decided to add some Skills such as your blog’s Bandwidth that limits the number of people that can visit your blog’s posts.

I wonder how many people will groan at this:

Here’s the first message you get when you start the game of “Clickbait” which gives you some advice on yow to run your blog.

http://puu.sh/jKV2b/5787760a9f.png

So the blog post titles in ClickBait are randomly generated by taking 2 terms from a list of 250 terms.

In the 62,500 chance they’re both the same thing, I ended up getting: