So the theme is “You are the monster”.

I actually prefer the themes that have more constraints than this one.

I’m probably going to have a hard time coming up with an original idea, but I’m still in!

A change in the toolset this time….

I’m going to try and build a mini-rendering-engine inspired by the awesome LodePNG http://lodev.org/lodepng/ one-file PNG reader.

and to try and make it as crossplatform-compatible as possible, it will probably be OpenGL ES based.

Which means I finally get to try out both OpenGL ES and Angle on windows!

Oh, yeah and the language used is C++, and Gimp+Wings3D+Blender for graphics, and if time allows audio using LMMS, Audacity and bfxr.

But it’s 03:32 AM here in Sweden and it’s time for me to dream up a fun idea!

I’m really starting to regret that I decided to build a mini-render-engine from “scratch” even if it will be fun to have in the future for other projects.

The obvious problem now is that due to the fact that the engine took waaay longer to implement than expected hardly any gameplay has been implemented and I’m still working on the base mechanics…

Hopefully I’ll get enough done for my fellow Ludum Dare’rs to be able to appreciate the game idea…

Oh… and I really have to fix the graphics :-/

Time to get some sleep. Some of the more obvious bugs are starting to elude me in my current state…

Good luck everyone!

Usually this post shows up some time after the theme has been announced, but who am I kidding, right?

Of course I’m going to participate!

So the tools I’m going to use this time are:

https://github.com/AlexMartinelle/PicoEngine

The Pico Engine is a mini-game engine I made during the Ludum Dare 33, to avoid having to redo all the boiler plate code every time I decide I want to make a C++ based LD project

It’s free and opensource so anyone can use it.

Code:Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition

Gfx: Gimp, Wings 3D, Blender

Sound (If I find the time to add sound-support to Pico-Engine): Audacity, Bfxr and LMMS.

Good luck everyone!

Felt a bit cocky today and didn’t set an alarm to wake up bright and early on my first day of Ludum Dare.

Big mistake.. I’ve lost something like 5 hours, more than intended, because of that :-/ (

But I’m finally starting make some progress. I’m using both themes but primarily “Two button controls” right now…

So at least the game is starting to look a bit better

Finally decided on a name that at least sort of honours the games predecessors

That will have to do for now

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=16225

So, based on the available ratings for my games, it seems that I’m improving steadily.

Theme, Audio, Fund, Mood and Humor show a steady improvement while my graphics skills and overall ratings are growing on average

(Outliers removed. I didn’t vote during 2 of the LD’s I’ve participated in and one was  a disaster…)

It would be really interesting to how I did compared to the other jammers as a percentage instead of an absolute number. Given that jammers can now opt out of categories.

Finally decided that I’m going to try to make a small game anyway.

I probably have about 6 more hours before I call it quits, so keep your fingers crossed

I’ve got this feeling that I won’t exactly tell the world about this project, but I’ve decided to make sort-of-a space invaders clone with shapeshifting ships underwater.

So a after 2 hours of works this is what I’ve got:

and I’ve just figured out what I want to make No pressure…

So here’s the obligatory “I’m in!” post!

I’m in!

Well at least some of the test objects are on screen now and basic camera functionality is up and running.

Now I just have to make ALL the game mechanics 😉

Oh, yeah and do something about the terrible graphics

Well... How could I resist entering the 15th anniversary of Ludum Dare. Of course I'm in! And I actually might even have an idea already :-)

Looking forward to trying out some really unique game ideas!

Hopefully the comments on Myrddin won't be too harsh...

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/myrddin

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/myrddin

10 compo games tested so far! That'll have to be all for a while. The quality both of the ideas and the execution of them seems to be high this time, or I might just have been lucky so far :-)

Unfortunately it is an annoyance that there's no sorting and compo/jam categorization on the main site.. There also seems to be more games than usual that have accidentally ended up in the Compo-section that don't seem to be able to switch to the Jam-section post-contents...

Keeping my fingers crossed that the voting-sorting algorithm gets implemented on ldjam.com soon...

I was really hoping for an entirely different theme, but what can you do...

Finally figured out something I'd like to make this time round :-)

So I'm in, and the game already has a name! Wreckage!

Most of the boilerplate code is now up and running. Some of the "real" graphics is in place, but the game's still not really playable... :-/

There we go... Finally done. It's amazing how much time the tiny details really take even when making a tiny tiny game :-)

Link to the wreckage :-)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/wreckage

Decided to make my job even harder then usual this time and jump out of my comfort zone. Figured... Why not learn Javascript and WebGL and try to make a game using that instead of your usual tools? :rofl:

So I've got the basic graphics rendering up and running now. Looks like I'm going for a bullet dodging type of game using a distance field renderer :scream:

So far "Dodge X" isn't exactly fun to play on the plus side I've had a lot of fun playing with the code :-)

I'm in but Rust is out! Just spent an insane amount of time trying to port my Pico::Engine to Rust+WebAssembly+WebGL... Sure it compiled for a while but sneaking around ever corner is another "cannot borrow as mutable" or reference error or a lifetime descriptor that needs to sprinkled through the entire code base... :(

Now the question is what I'm going to use... Either SDL or Pico::Engine me thinks...