Breakfast is muesli with greek yogurt and honey, and a cup of tea.

Last night I went to bed concerned about the lack of progress I had made, however this morning I found I’m advancing quite quickly, so I guess I did make a lot of progress on the ‘scaffolding’ code after all. Or maybe I’m just less tired. 😛

Also I made a (-n awful) piece of music for my game. It really sucks though so I might not leave it in.

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Lunch was nothing special, just sandwiches.

Dessert was nice though: ice cream on a stick. And the photo also shows my desk area :o.

My game now has an intro , too bad it still pretty much lacks a game.

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I decided to steal an idea from the 7DRL people for the October mini LD: while I will announce the rules sometime on October 2, the contest starts whenever you want in October. Just post a message right before you start and than post your game at most 48 hours after that.

2009…

200 years ago Charles Darwin was born, 150 years ago he published “The Origin of Species”.

400 years ago Galileo was the first to gaze into the heavens with a telescope.

To help commemorate these important birthdays for Science, your task will be to write a game that’s not only fun, but also educational. Bonus points for teaching us about astronomy or biology (or astrobiology ).

Collaboration with non-programmer scientist friends is allowed and encouraged.

As I mentioned in my previous post, there is no fixed deadline this time; post a message just before you start and then post your game at the latest 48 hours after your announcement post. However since much of the fun of Ludum Dare is hacking along side others, I propose next weekend (9-12 October) as the preferred period.

Finally, since one of the really cool things with the real LDs that we (or I at least) miss during the minis is feedback, as compo host I’ll commit to reviewing all the games posted. (Unless there are a bazillion entries in which case I’ll review the first 20 or so.)

Unfortunately I lost my home internet connection so I’m not online as much as I’d like, but feel free to contact me either in a comment or by email (nils dot fagerburg at gmail) if you need any clarification.

Happy hacking!

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Submit Entries Here:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-13/

View Entries Here:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-13/?action=preview

MiniLD 13 is almost at an end, but you still have a few days left to decide to make an awesome educational game.

The October MiniLD is now over (as is October). Thanks to all who participated!

I’ll post mini reviews of all the entries soon.

Didn’t you always wonder what would happen if you’d cross Mondrian with Simon Says?

I made Piet for another jam (the theme was “minimalism”), and decided to put it in the play store with some ads for the October Challenge. Since I didn’t have a dev account before, I guess I need to earn $26 to win the challenge.

Since Piet, the game I originally submitted for the October challenge has yet to earn a single penny (and cost me $25 to submit to the play store), I doubled down and made another game. Odds are I won’t make anything with this one either, but at least now each game only cost me $12.5 😛

Meet Galaxy Launch. It’s not quite as pretty as Piet, but it’s a whole lot more fun to play.

Free for Android in the the Play Store:

This fascinating game involves simulating individual agents interacting in artificial markets to improve their well-being.

You win by submitting a paper and being allowed to graduate.

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