I hope

I’m going solo with Adobe AIR, possibly Starling, I’ll have the game embedded in the web page

You can play a demo here:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/656353

So far no challanges or levels, I’ll try to add those tomorrow.

Let me know what you think!

Against my better judgement, I'm in!

My favourite gamejam so far! At first I didn't like the theme at all, then I realised that I could take it to mean political power and an idea began to form (thanks shower!).

Since I'm a programmer I wanted to spend the majority of time programming. So I decided to make a 2D simulation of a totalitarian state with different actors who influence each other.

When I saw the first simulated citizens wandering around and having kids, I was really excited.

The art was to be as simple as possible, to allow me to focus on gameplay, but I think it turned out pretty nice as I limited the palette to just one color (red) and shades of grey.

I got stuck for quite a while on nice blood effect. Particle effects in Unity felt a bit out of style (or I don't know how to use them properly). I used 4 copies of the same sprite, rotated and scaled in code, layered over each other. To make the center part darker I had to use a custom shader, which seems like overkill for such a small effect. (maybe also why Unity keeps randomly crashing).

Saturday evening I had playable prototype and on Sunday I added the police and then spent a lot of time on a nice tutorial. I added soundtrack from my friend and brother-in-law CR Hougaard and some sound effects I found online. I tried to make everything fit the dark mood of the game.

Definitely recommend sticking to 2D, it really leaves more time for tuning and polishing.

Overall I'm glad I participated again!

Feedback is always appriciated.

I just recorded a short gameplay session. Yay!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6yyIpqyMhU

play/rate here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/powerless-1