Hi, I’m new here. I’ve been lurking and playing ld games for a few years, but this is the first time I’ve put up.

My entry is far from done. If you’d like source or the work in progress, here’s my release page.

The 48 hour deadline has been great. I don’t have much gameplay, but I do have things working under Windows, which is a great relief. I didn’t leave Ubuntu until earlier this evening, and never having done python dev on windows I was certain this would be my downfall. Thankfully, py2exe is pretty much the most awesome thing ever and Cython is great for wrapping GL, so tie it all together with Box2D and pygame and I have something that looks game-like.

I’ve made plenty of mistakes already. Most notably, I wrote physics and a quadtree before convincing myself I was being ridiculous. Now Box2D is in an all is happy. I had great organization and coding discipline for the first 3 hours; now everything is mush. But a game! Tomorrow I might actually have a finished sort-of game! Hooray! I suppose the rest of you have been on this emotional rollercoaster before.

Official Download Link

The Crab-eating Macaque is pedestrian, but the Bird-eating Macaque, he’s top shelf in the respectable cryptozoologist’s trophy cabinet. Naysayers on the Wikipedia say that Crab-eating Macaques also prey on vertebrates (including bird chicks and nesting female birds), implying that sightings of Bird-eating Macaques are simple misidentifications. But the respectable cryptozoologists know better; best stay nimble, well-fed, and out of their way.

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I’m done, yay! I’d say this is more toy than game. When it came to writing a score display and a proper win mechanic I ran out of time and steam. That said, there is a lose mechanic; you can recover by pressing R to restart everything. I also fear that if the game runs too long without a restart it may slow to a crawl or crash. But I’m done, in something like 47 hours, so hurrah!

Now to check out the rest of the entries. Many thanks to our host for giving me a goal I could actually hit and many thanks to the rest of you for providing an inspiring bit of competition.

Tags: final

Yay I got something done. It’s not a game yet, but it is posted and should run in Your Favorite Modern Browser. Going to sleep for now, but if I’m well-behaved tomorrow I’ll release new versions as I work. When each new release is just a git push away, what excuse do I have?

First screenshot!

I added some simple diffusion for a vaguely watery appearance. I intended the player’s dot to be a boat, but with this palette it looks more like an island in the making.