Hi, this is my first LD, and really my first game compo since the Minigame compo in 2003 (where I submitted the only 1k NES game).  I enjoy programming contests and I’m trying to get better at making games, so I’m really looking forward to it!

I’ll be using MTASC and swfmill (and likely Inkscape and Gimp) to work in Flash, maintaining swf v7 compatibility.  This due at least somewhat to the idealistic desire to have the game work in gnash.  I’ve been working on a few games in this environment for about a month, so it’s at the top of my mind.

I hope to enjoy playing y’all’s games!

As is now traditional, my desk, and surrounding Space.

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So here’s the thought:  Top down, player has the ability to cause any enemy within some radius to explode, destroying everything nearby.  Has some set number of times he can do this per screen.  So by variously waiting on or luring enemies, can kill the excess enemies and break down walls to progress.

Well, while I wait for a debug gnash to compile (trying to track down where this freeze on mouseover is coming from), here’s a shot of my current state 5 hours in:

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Yes, placeholders, but enemies can explode and take out others (and the player, the burnt green square in this shot).  About 10 hours worth of code behind this, looking forward to actually putting some levels together tomorrow.

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I have 11 levels of my game complete, thought I’d put it up for someone to poke at.  Still placeholder graphics, time will tell if I get around to fixing those at all.
Clickable link!

I’ve submitted Master Exploder. I learned that a design requiring a large number of interesting levels is a bad choice for LD. I also learned that I’m capable of putting out at least recognizable graphics. There’s some hours left, but I’m exhausted and the game does everything I’d wanted it to.

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This will be my second LD, I enjoyed the last one a lot. Here’s my desk, same set up as last time, just a lousier photo and more junk.

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One day in and no progress on game design. But I did get Rosegarden + Fluidsynth set up and recorded a few little tunes which will probably not have a game to contain them:
Peppy title
Goings On
Theme?
Obligatory Game Over

Well, I came up with an idea I’m not too happy with, but I did get it finished!

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-19/?action=preview&uid=2520

Complete with music and sound effects. Graphics done from a bunch of photos, makes the whole thing feel really weird.

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Gonna try to give it another go. Really have no idea what I’ll use, depending on the theme it’ll be something very simple. Not too well prepared this time, I just started a new job (doing game stuff for reals) so I’ve been busy.

My last two attempts:

And the desk, similar to previous years but now located in California:

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