This compo looks very interesting, I will try to submit something this weekend. It will be my first try at rapid prototyping a game.

My tools are:

• Visual C++ Express
• Blender
• Gimp

Good luck to everyone.

Here is the workplace picture. I don’t really like the theme that much, but we’ll see what I can come up with. I’ll spend the next hour or so with game design.

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So I spent about an hour and a half on the game design and about two hours on the sw design. after about 5 pages of scribbling, below are the two important design documents 😛 game design concept tree on the left and uml class diagram on the right. Looks like there is going to be around 40 – 50 classes in this thing. Oh by the way I’ll try to do a platform / rpg game called “Kara Toprak“. It means “Black Earth” in Turkish :).

Our guy is a warrior sent to the caverns of hell by the Sultan to fight the evil iblis’es and djinns and various servents of Seytan himself. By force, and by magic…

Here is a snapshot of my log:

8.28.2009:
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8.20 PM
Just learned the theme. posting the workspace photo

8.36 PM
Joined IRC

9.35 PM
Initial game design ideas %50

10.01 PM
Game Design 1.0 completed. I am doing a platform/rpg game

11.39 PM
Sw Class Design %80 except IVisual tree. That means classes responsible for the game mechanics are now designed and seem quite flexible. Let’s see how coding turns out.

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Some sleep and breakfast is out of the way now

Coding starts at 8.15 am Sat.

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I have a ton of code to write, and i have no graphics at this point. Things are looking pretty hopeless. But I just stocked my energy drinks, water and candies, rewatched the keynote speech and am totally motivated.

It is gonna be a long night…

I am still terribly behind schedule, and  most probably won’t make it. But I have made minor progress. My sprite animation framework is implemented now. Still a long way to go.

And one more thing I learned… I really can’t pull “all nighters” anymore.

I am still continuing the work in good spirit but I am pretty sure, that i won’t make the deadline. Below is a screen shot.

still no enemy ai and less than 2 hrs left.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

Well OK, maybe not this picture how about a download link ?

I’m quite happy with the results.

• engine up and running and very small (< 1000 lines of code)
• used programmatic vector graphics and  “imported” pixel graphics
• added sound support for looping background music as well as one shot sound effects and “imported” sounds
• basic input, collision detection, win/lose condition checking done
• main menu screens, win screen works.
• levels can be designed in text editor

This can support quite a few genres: shoot’em ups, platformers, maze explorers, and puzzle’s come to mind

It’s worth repeating how much difference the Kaitila book made on my preparation and perspective on LD.

Earlier I was at the Seattle Gathering meeting new people so quick shout out to everyone there. I had to come home now but I’ll be there again tomorrow.

OK decided to build a kind of maze crawling / 2D doom type of a thing. I am happy with the theme too, although I am not quite sure yet how I am going to work the theme into the game. I brainstormed through a bunch of funny and a bunch of more serious unconventional weapon ideas. We’ll see.

I quickly added camera rotation to the engine and suddenly the feel has changed so much (I think in a good way)

I will try to add firing and some simple ai by the end of tonight. we’ll see how this goes.

Oh and good luck to everyone

See those little diamonds? they are bullets and they can kill. Not so unconventional yet I know.

some rudimentary AI is now in. so the enemies now can patrol when no one is around and attack when a threat is detected. This is it for tonight. Tomorrow morning I’ll start designing a proper level1

I have decided on the name of the game: Agents of YIELD

In the future the world is invaded by aliens and they over power all of our armies. But the international farming organization YIELD finds that the alien robots use an element in their circuitry that fails when it gets in touch with a corn seed. So they send one of their seeder robots to fight loaded with corn seeds. Agent Cornson…

Well I was watching some Agents of Shield yesterday and that gave me the idea

Other than healing packs and keys I have an initial gfx design for every other graphic element. And it started to look much more like a game now

I am happy with the progress. Before the end of day today, I intend to finish in game graphics and start a music piece for it.

If you have spare cycles or just want to step away from things for a moment how about shooting corn seeds at alien robots for a couple minutes and let me know what you think about:

• inputs: is rotation/walking too fast/slow?
• difficulty: are bullets too weak?
• level design
• graphics

Feel free to check my previous post for the background story of “Agents of YIELD” if you are into that sort of thing

Thanks in advance.

Just finished composing two little pieces of music. on for the title screen and one for in game. The in game piece is a derivative of the title theme to save time. added a few sfxr sound effects too.

Now I need to finish up any gameplay/feel issues and if time is left a nicer title screen

Added two new pieces of music that I built this morning and some sound effects and some minimalistic explosions to help with feedback of having bullets hit. Also added a not so great title screen.

here is the earlier gif which does not have the new explosions

In the remaining time I will look at maybe adding another level.

Here is a link to the beta if you wanna playtest

Wanted to try posting a gameplay video. Enjoy

Using my own C++ 2d game engine NFB. I am not as well prepared this time, but let’s see if I can still squeeze in a game here.

My previous LD game was from LD32: Agents of YIELD.

Got to a point where things work more or less coding wise. Now on to some graphics

I got some game code, some graphics for the hero, two classic mechanics to challenge the player. Let’s see if I can design some fun levels out of these ingredients:

Got 3 fairly carefully designed levels that should prove challenging enough. Let me know if it actually is fun Download (for Windows)

I need to still replace two previously used sprites and two musics but that’s for tomorrow. A gameplay gif is probably worth a thousand words: