Hello LD comunity, this is my first post and my first LD compo. Have been wanting to do something like this forever

So a month ago, I broke my procrastination habits, made an account on the site, and started following the community. You guys seem an awesome bunch ^_^

I will be using:

Coding: Flashdevelop with AS3

Graphics: Flash CS6, Paint.NET

APIs: (depending on the game I want to do) Starling, Away3D or the good old native displaylist. If needed might also use Greensock’s awesome Tweening libraries.

Sound & Music: I have no idea what I’ll use for this. Unfortunately for me, usually my brother handles any sounds an music I need for projects with Ableton.
I am thinking to use some of the sound/music generator apps people have been suggesting on the website, if I don’t learn some Ableton basics until then :).

Good luck everyone and …

Potato power!!!

So I decided on a game idea.

The game statement is: You are an entity that is trying to survive and escape a sidescrolling 2D  level.
Not much story yet, I know, but I am not focusing on this part yet.

The “twist” is that you need food to survive,

• you collect food,
• loose food if damaged
• and use food in different parts of the level.

So there is also a resource management aspect to the gameplay. I am still flusing out the core so I might change some bits, but I am finally happy that I have an idea.

Here is a mockup to describe a mid-game section and available gameplay.

The “minimalism” side should be in the graphics, interaction and the core mechanics. So reduce the input and mechanics so that they strictly serve the purpose. For example I won’t have a jump action, instead I will have ladders or elevators in places that a jump is needed.

A small update.

Ok, so although I wanted to avoid any full collision detection algorithms, I decided to create my own player<–>level collision system. This game won’t have any complicated collisions, but instead of making something “just for this” and later one to decide to change the movement in game, I rather make a more generic system.

One of my self challenges for this 1st Ludum Dare, is to try to make everything from scratch, at least gameplay wise. So no game-engines on this one.

-mihnea

Tags: collision detection, from scratch

Unfortunately I had to be away from development for the last 26 hours. My game is not nearly done, but I don’t want to give up. So I am swapping to the Jam.

I hope it’s “legal” within the LD rules to swap now.

If it’s not … I am still gonna do this game :).

Hello game developers,

This will be my second Ludum Dare and I hope to actually finish the game and submit it this time :). I’ll be participating in the compo.

I will make the game in Actionscript3 for either Web or Desktop (or both).

The tools:

• FlashDevelop, SDK: either Starling or Away3D depending on type of game, also some gamepad library as I really want to add gamepad support.
• Flash CC for graphics, animation (if have time) and level design
• Paint.net (maybe Gimp if I wanna go all advanced and stuff :P)
• Audiotool for audio if I manage to get that far.
• Dragonbones for animations IF I need to do any advanced one.

I’m alone with my 1y10m old son this weekend so I will “query” him for some inspiration :)), also the in-laws might lend a hand

Let’s jam people !!!

Hello ludum darers, I am in for the compo, this is my second LD ever, after a 1st failed one 4 years ago. I will be using: - Unity - Blender3d - Visual Studio - Paint.net - Audiotool, audacity for any music & sound editing.

I am 4 years wiser, with 4 years more experience, hopefully this time I will make it till the end. But this time I have my almost 4 year old son for motivation :hugging:

Good Luck everyone and don't forget to sleep, eat healthy and have some fun :hearteyescat:

... and I think is a good thing :)

So I think this is a good thing that people are trying to make something different than the usual flat world. And I've seen many screens and streams within ldjam with really nice planetoid worlds. I know that I struggled a bit to get my head around having the gameworld like that.

Anyway, here is also a screenshot of my current progress for the game Planet Hoppers. I still haven't completly figure out the gameplay but right now I am glad it works and looks nice and I am more focused towards making a good technical prototype for small planets exploration ... and hopping :stuckouttongue:

6 hours already into the event and I just barely put together a few ideas. Will go into a morning walk to get some coffe and clear out my head and decide on what to do.

I will be using: - Unity with VS2017 - Blender - Paint.net

I also figured out that the more game ideas the worse it is to decide. Heh, maybe someone should make a game about that :))

Have fun everyone and good luck.

Saw the theme, looks .... interesting, going to think of a few ideas and off to bed :-) Will be using: - Unity3D with VS - Paint.net/Gimp - Blender3D - Notepad.

Aiming for the Compo, will settle for the jam if I don't finish in 2 days. Also ... seems like Quill18 already has 2k live viewers