Wasn’t needed but I wanted both so I won’t need to eat until late lunchtime 😀

My game is going ok but at a bit of a slow pace, I had tooo much sleep last night as I got a headache in the evening and wanted to go sleep it off. Plus to top it off after getting up this morning I spent three hours trying to fix a bug that had a super simple fix Oh and my game only works as an exe not in html5 which is annoying.

I’m hoping soon all the scripting will be there so I can spend time on the art which I haven’t really touched yet except for making super quick placeholders. I’d really like it finished for the compo though and not the Jam

Tags: breakfast, foodphoto, LD #24, progress update

So it may be my last Ludum Dare meal…or maybe not? It all depends on these last five hours. I’m busy working away on the art after having made a simple but tasty baked bean pie

Which may look a little sloppy but I can assure you its tasty, and I’ve still got two thirds of it left so I can guess what’ll be reheated for tomorrow!

Anwyho the game, I ironed out a lot of the code related issues I had, I still have about 4 code issues I need to work on, three bugs and a lot of art. In the meantime here’s a puddle for your enjoyment!

The chances of another update before the compo is ended is slim, however if I don’t get everything finished my work shall leak into the Jam to make sure I have something finished

Tags: foodphoto, progress

Just popped outside to get some brownies from the local market along with a variety of cheeses and orange juice.

However I’m now back on track, just made a delicious bacon sandwich and it’s back on to working on the game, it’s going a little slow, but getting the game in place should be fairly quick, allowing me a day for the art (hopefully)

Tags: foodphoto

My game is coming along pretty well I’ve only got a few small coding/scripting things to do and there’s still another 4 hours left of the day so I’m pretty happy as usually lots of scripting stuff bleeds into my second day. It may be because I’ve chosen a simpler game this time round, meaning I didn’t get to make inverse paperboy, but I’m still having fun with the game I’m making

Had a lovely dinner planned for today as I’d popped some of my previously cooked and then frozen pulled pork in the fridge to defrost and I’ve now eaten it on some lovely onion and poppy seed bagels.

I imagine over the next few hours I should have all the script ironed out and I may even get to start on the images and menus tonight 😀

Tags: foodphoto

Only because it’s almost lunchtime of course! Although it’s just a late breakfast in my eyes. I wasn’t allowing myself to cook it until I at least did a couple of things this morning and crossed them off my list, and it took a while doing the two things I did, but now they’re ticked!

My big left over script thing is only really the highscore table as I’m having some issues with it, but otherwise I’ve only got polishing script and timing to balance, and then it’s all art to do.

So on with the art! Then I’ll show some screenshots/images later

Tags: foodphoto

With only six hours left I’ve just eaten up my dinner, which although samey to last night I changed it up a little by chopping up gherkins in the pulled pork while I heated it

The game is going well, just finished off all the art assets, now just re-aligning everything and fixing my remaining bugs, which hopefully I’ll smash all of them!

And to give an idea of my upcoming game here’s a little snippet

Tags: foodphoto

I’d love to stay and chat…write a long post however it’s coming on 3am over here so I’ll make it short.

I finished my game in time! Which is great, annoyingly it takes a while to upload things and take screenshots so I cut it quite close to the submission deadline, but it all got uploaded in time!

Annoyingly I keep looking at my game and seeing so many things that I’d love to fix, even after looking at a screenshot I can see two things that I’d love to change. But it’s time for bed now so here’s the title screen of my game along with a link below. You can currently play it via the power of the internet or download an executable.

 A trip along the railroad tracks

Good luck to all those taking part in the Jam!

So I’ve decided on my idea, like many others from the looks of it I wasn’t too inspired with “Minimalist” but I’ve decided to try something that I would feel fits the theme, meaning it’s very simple but I’ll try and make it as varied and big as I can Images to come later.

For now, check out the breakfast I had a few hours ago

Who can say no to crumpets with peanut butter! Well people that don’t like crumpets or peanut butter I suppose

Sadly I did have a little detour off the game as I stupidly spilt some boiling water on my thumbs…of all places my flipping thumbs

Tags: foodphoto, LD #26

Not that I wouldn’t be in

I’m always so thankful that the dates are given with lots of advance warning so I can make sure I have no conflicts, but then again the August LD generally takes place on the bank holiday weekend anyway so it’s very easy to tell when it happens.

As per usual I will be using GM to make the game.

Otherwise I’m trying to plan what on earth I’ll have for food for the LD weekend.

I’ve got my fingers crossed a good theme is chosen as although I kinda liked my game LD, I wasn’t a huge fan of the theme!

Not the biggest fan of the theme, there were some on the list that I would have preferred more. Plus with the 10 second theme it felt very close to my game I made for LD26.

Either way I’ve come up with an idea, although slightly annoyed with myself as I ended up preferring a game based around a shooter the most, even though I made one for LD23, and would rather do something a bit different.

Chugging along though, got the base game there, now I just need to add the 10 second-ness and polish to the script as well a life and score system.

Also this LD I’ve finally got my TV hooked up to my pc (not visible in the photo as it’s to the right) which although it’s a bit far away, it’s nice to one again have more monitor space!

In the mean time here is some chilli (turkey based), it was my lunch, it will also be my dinner, and my next lunch as well as dinner again, and I presume food for the next few days on as there’s TONS of it

Also need to start thinking of what kind of visual style I want, art won’t really start until tomorrow but I suppose I should think of what it could look like.

Tags: foodphoto, LD27

More chilli! And of course a little update, after spending what felt like a few hours earlier trying to get some stuff working it really didn’t!

However after then changing the way I’d do it, I’ve now got it all working to a certain extent, at least the main portion of the game that ties it to the theme anyway which is great! Now just get it playing like it should tonight, and then tomorrow will be designated purely for art.

For now however you can revel in my placeholder sprites from my past LD games, it’s great to have a library of placeholder items so I can quickly pop stuff together.

Tags: foodphoto, LD27

First meal that isn’t snacky or chilli!

The game is coming along, annoyingly I’m still doing a few script bits and bobs, hopefully they’ll be out of the way soon though. Was stressing out over a few problems to find out it was due to me being stupid and not putting an object in a room, as well as not paying attention to the order of actions. Haven’t really thought about the look yet either which will need to start being done soon as I need to start putting things in with only 14 hours left!

I’m not really sleepy, as I had a very nice 5 hours sleep on the sofa, but my brain isn’t really functioning at full capacity, which is usually why it’s best for me to just draw right now. Hopefully soon the stuff I’m working on will be complete .__.

Tags: foodphoto, LD27

So another Ludum Dare has passed, also another Ludum Dare where I wasn’t a huge fan of the theme.

Either way it’s over and my game is complete thanks to it being a bank holiday weekend!

I present to you Warped, my take on the theme of 10 seconds. Warped was created in game maker and I also used sfxr and musagi for the sound and music.

Warped is the story of a guy who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, something seems to have malfunctioned, changing his surroundings, himself and many other things every 10 seconds.

For reference there are five environments (each with five or so environmental specific items), five enemy types, five players as well as 5 weapons types for yourself and the enemies. They’ve all been created as if they were from a set. I would have loved to have even more assets for the game to choose from but from spending a very large amount of time on the ones I created I believe I would still be working right now if I decided to make more.

At heart it’s an ever changing shooter (to a certain extent) and I had a lot of fun working on it…except for when I spent a few hours on trying to figure something out and getting nowhere. I did miss the compo entry which is what I was aiming for originally, but the game demanded more assets than I could create in the designated time -sleep and I decided not to cut any (what was I thinking!). I ended up using an extra 10 hours from the jam to get everything else sorted, although I probably could have done the work in 5 hours extra but I wanted to fix a few bugs here and there that took some head scratching. Either way I didn’t make the compo and that makes me angry, but I hope you like my game and I’ll try to get a post mortem done soon!

Enjoy,

Catherine Woolley

Tags: LD27

I’ll admit I don’t like the theme, like many others it would seem.

However after many hours of trying to figure out what to do (waaaay too many hours) I decided a few hours ago what I’ll do, and I’m going to attempt to add Facebook sharing to it as well which I haven’t attempted before.

The game will be fairly simplistic though, I had some ideas that I liked but were too complex for a weekend so decided to go with a simpler one, although not as cool as Cptalbertwesker’s idea!

Anywho finally got round to making myself some breakfast after cleaning the kitchen up for making dinner later, and made myself some porridge, which is pretty much oatmeal for those outside of the UK

Also finally got two monitors on my desk, sadly my graphics card can’t handle three monitors as then I’d use the TV in the living room as well, but ya can’t have everything

Tags: foodphoto, LD28

Dinner time has been and gone and I decided to go with making enchiladas again this Ludum Dare.

The game is ok…probably not what you’d call a game though, really a minigame, and sadly the main function of it, cannot completely function correctly, which is the uploading of an image. Instead I’m probably going to have to make do with taking a screenshot in game that saves to where the game lives and then give the chance of posting within the game itself.

It does feel like I should have just spent the weekend doing what also needs to be done as I’m stressing out enough as it is. But for now I’ll make the game look pretty and then upload it.

I feel I probably shoulda gone with my fast food/coffee shop idea instead of the one I went with.

Tags: foodphoto, LD28

Hello all!

Taking part again as per usual, hoping I’ll like the theme this time round!

Engine/Editor: Game Maker: Studio with GML and a little D&D

Art: Old copy of CS2 and my lovely Wacom that isn’t dead yet….

Music & Sound: bfxr, myself and anything around the house that is useful!

The food creating is starting now:

And then I just want to tidy my desk a little before the big sleep.

I’ll be posting on the blog again as usual along with on my Twitter

Looking forward to seeing what everyone creates!

As per usual I work up when the theme was announced, and slowly drifted back to sleep why looking up definitions and having a think, well I officially got up a couple of hours ago and started work on my game, and fleshed out my idea which I’m quite happy with the route I’ve gone.

Although I’m hoping my ideas aren’t a little too generic this time round and that it might be similar to other people’s games.

So I’m up and away!

I’ve also just popped the chilli from last night in a container for the fridge, made absolutely loads, I’m gonna have my lunch sorted for next week!

Now back onto the game and then it’ll be breakfast time soon!

Tags: desktop pic, foodphoto, ld29

Started getting hungry so decided to have a little breakfast!

Potato cakes and a nice cup of tea

Tags: breakfast, foodphoto, ld29

Progress is going well on the game, had a slight hitch that I was caught up on, but got it sorted now so I get to eat my lunch. Which happens to be a jacket potato with the chilli I made last night.

Still got lots to do though and as per usual I’m planning on getting as much script finished today and get the majority of art done tomorrow.

Full steam ahead.

So it’s almost the end of Saturday, things have gone well so far, perhaps a little slower than I like, and the idea of getting all my script done for the end of today is pretty much out the window. But hopefully I can get it done as quickly as I can to give as much time for art as possible.

As I never got round to baking my bread it’s chilli and tortilla chips for dinner, but it’s also quite a late dinner, I’ve just been so busy trying to fix annoying issues that the time flew by without me realising!