Hola, just wanted to show you our result of the global game jam (cologne) to the theme ‘extinction’.
The game is called ‘Cure’ and your task is to kill viruses and bacteria inside your body. 😀 We used Unity3d to create this 2D game. Have a look and very much fun at the upcoming miniLD.
Finally I finished my Warmup-Game “Incredible Wizard Worms” – It is about two little guys that have to transport crates from the lowest to the uppest platform. Why wizards? Cause they use particles, wooooohoooooo *lol* Honestly no rocket-science,… 😀
This Warmup was very important, I struggled at very basic things but solved most of it. I put most of the elements in the game I might use upcoming LD and therefore feel well prepared!
So yes, I’m in. I will try to finish in 48h but won’t have a problem to go for the jam if I struggled somewhere. I’m using gamekit, blender,gimp and lmms. This is my gamekit-codebase I will base my LD-Entry on.
I can just encourage (as Grungi Ankhfire before) the unity people: Please release Windows-Standalone-Versions as well, so Linux-People can play their games using wine (at least try to).
Again I realized how good it can be to just let LD be LD and go outside for a walk.
I planned the next steps and what I want to achieve for today. What I got so far:
You can see my basic-character sitting lazy on the mushroom-house while I’m trying to work….nenene
What I want to achieve till the end of this day:
As I already said, I’m not sure if I can finish for the compo, but really want to finish at least for the jam….
Actually it is like every time, a month before LD I think I won’t participate because I have another project running and the history shows that doing a LD inbetween is most likely the death for the current project….
Ach, to make a long story short:”I’m in using gamekit/runtime using lua for multiplatform-dev win/lin/osx/android. All done in blender…”
Go “Chain Reaction” Go!
Ok, what I got so far?
Wow, that’s it? lol! From the beginning it was clear that I want to go for the Jam to have a bit more time…let’s see if the gameplay how I thought will work out…
Here a screenshot. Very chaotic of course:
Oh my, just out of curiosity if one or two games are already submitted I couldn’t believe to see 53(!) games!?! 😀
Crazy people…. 😀 Ok, if you know you won’t have time today!? Hmm, seems that there are people that won’t neglect real live for LD? What is wrong with you 😀
Ok, here is my current state:
The game is actually quite simple! On the left side you see the elements you should click on the screen. And since the time is running, do it as fast as possible.
Sounds simple and it is. I start with static elements. On the screenshot the elements rotate. I will make it more and more difficult. More Elements and different distractions.
That sould be “minimalistic” enough to fit the theme…. I will try to add some sort of server that will keep the scores. Hope to get that far, but I’m optimistic….
Later I will try to release the game on android and blackberry as well, as it makes more fun with a touch-device than using the mouse. At the moment I have some serious performance issues on android (argh)…but that will need to wait until the jam is finished.
Ahja, forgot to say: I’m in!
Soo,..still working on the core-code. Until now you can see Dummy-Objects run a long a path. You can select Objects marked as selectable. And you can have different levels that are restartable 😀 Yeah, restartable. Sounds easy but took me also some time
Puh, writing this, I think, “Wow for that I needed 14h?” Whatever, I go for the jam, so there is still time. @home I already thought about how the level could look like. Level Design will be made 100% Blender. Let’s see where it ends…
Now, I listen to the match of my favorite football team on the radio and since I won’t be able to concentrate on coding during the match I will do some modelling! 95ole
Actually I wanted to post this the last night but my internet went down,…
My game is about flying with a super special vehicle in the underground to undo the sins of the past and get out fracking fluid, atomic waste and such since it started to come up against….
Actually the theme fits to some of my personal concerns about the non-sense of depositing toxic waste in the earth thinking this will stay there forever…who can be so crazy to allow this?
Day 1 wasn’t that bad even though I have some real life and sleepiness in-between.
What you can see on the screenshot is my working environment with a debug-view of my game on the right and the scene itself on the left. For day one it was just blender and the internal editor feeding my personal gamekit-fork (ogre3d+bullet+…).
What is working already?
The core mechanic works, like flying around in the cave, if flying near enough to the toxic waste(yellow) to be able to pump it into the vehicle(yellow) until the tank exceeds, give it back to some kind of storage to have the tank empty again.
I hope I can finish this jam-game. Still I’m full of hope!!! “Keep it simple! Just keep it simple,Tom!!!” 😀
…to think I could finish. But to push myself a little bit I’ll show you my little test-island with my little isle-inhabitans and my monster. Most of the time was spent to get those little people some mind in its mesh-head so it wanders around the isle but flees from the monster(the player).
Now I start with my basic gameplay. Catch and kill the little guys for score. Avoid them to run in the water, cause they will drown.
Let’s see 😀
