Well I’m a first time LD48 nub, but I’m still looking forward to the compo and I know I’m gonna have great fun!
Good luck to everyone – esp. to my other fellow Construct 2 users!
Long live the indie gaming community – the true cradle of modern gaming creativity 
Well I’ve spent all day today since the announcement of the theme working on my game. So far I’ve made reasonable progress, I have the base game going, now I just have to figure out how you win it! It’s a bit of a classic formula, but with the evolution theme heavily ingrained into the game play. Every single “bit dna” the player picks up with evolve the player just a little bit.
Wow, just finished submitting my first LD compo entry. It was a hard weekend, but I enjoyed every minute of it! It didn’t feel like a great deal of time, but I’m pretty happy personally with the game I produced. I put it together with Construct 2, which has just had it’s 100th release, and has a ton of new features including literally dozens of amazing HTML5 shader effects which I’ve also incorporated into may game. I went for the retro feel, retro games have always been my favourite – just secretly
The funny thing about this whole experience is that making the game itself took 50% of the time, the remainder got eaten up by quite dumb peripheral things like getting the menus going, sprites, and sounds! Uploading to Kongregate was also a bit troublesome although I got there in the end. Overall it’s been a great first LD. Having seen some amazing creations already, I doubt I’ll make it anywhere, but being part of this incredibly intensive, creative hub has been rewarding enough – go strong fellow indie devs!
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Here’s my final submission:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=15255
(Best viewed in Chrome)
Hi Guys, is there a way to sort through the game types? (e.g. web, unity, windows, etc?)
Hi All, is there a maximum limit of votes and comments that a submitted game can have?
I tried to leave some replies to comments on my game today, but even though I’ve signed in it says “must be signed in to vote”! wtf!?
I submitted our first ever game to the Win 8 store last night.
If anything else, I can say I’ve submitted a game to a store before in my life now, which is a major personal milestone.
If I can make $1 from this whole exercise then it will be yet another milestone
Anyway next mission is to figure out how to release to the iOS app store!
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That thing friends, was the trial mode, which would allow me to lock levels of the game that players would need to pay for.
So, it means I can’t get my $1, and complete the Oct challenge – arghhhh!!!
On the bright side, there have been a few downloads, without any additional marketing (which I don’t have a clue about anyway).
Anyway, resubmitted a new release which should turn on trial mode, but in the mean time, if you have Win 8 and you’d like to have the game for free, go for it!
Plz, plz, plz help out another Ludum Dare brother, give me some upvotes and rave reviews on the Windows Store, I’ll be sure to return the favor!
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/battleship-islands/5e25ffd2-2cb0-4708-b88a-4bdc61f19107
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Right on the last day, I think I’ve finally made $1+ from the Oct Challenge on the Windows Store
So wow, this was my first game sold ever – thanks to all of you who have given me encouragement and support, even if it was simply going to the links – it all helped heaps!!! And good luck to everyone – I’m trying to give as many upvotes as possible too.
If haven’t already, and you’re a win 8 user, please take a look at my link and leave a nice upvote hehe!
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-US/app/battleship-islands/5e25ffd2-2cb0-4708-b88a-4bdc61f19107