I’m in! This is gonna be my first LudumDare #LD48.  I’ve been reading and prepping the heck out of myself for this weekend but, the thought of not knowing what you are gonna make really is starting to make me nervous.  Since it is my first time, I am gonna do my best to keep it simple and stick to my guns as far as what I know best.  KISS, keep it simple stupid.  Maybe I can stick to that but, here we go!

After what seems like a whirlwind of headaches I have something to show for it.  Being my first time I have have to say I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into, and now I know why the warm-up exists.  I started and changed about 3 ideas before I finally settled on this one and and it is coming together brilliantly

My first idea was to make a game about a Vet for monsters that would use magic to get super small and fight the diseases “Beneath the surface” I got the platforming down and did some cool stuff with the tiles, it wasn’t working for me.

So I started over….at about 10 am the next day I had this.

This time it was the same idea but instead of a platformer it would be a 2d brawler which I’ve actually made before but this still wasn’t quite fitting what I wanted.

Around 2pm I threw my hands in the air almost ready to give up, I conceded to playing some League of Legends and Diablo 3, and maybe that’s just what I needed…Ideas started spamming my brain and I got to animating and drawing the concept characters right away.  And now I have a working basic game with “cheat” physics and “pretend” logic, its almost like you have to be able to come up with ideas of how to make it look like its doing something extremely complex while just tricking the eyes by doing something much more basic.  Man I love Masks haha.

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE! I got a whole day of animating and background design ahead of me :S

Phaux Out!

There were a lot of hurdles in this one, I really wish I was able to finish it.  Next time I will probably not change my mind six times before finally working on a final product haha. 

I definately had fun with Endless beast and I hope everyone gives it at least a single play through.  Haha.

Better luck next time for me and everyone else that couldn’t make it to the end.

Okay so this will end up being my second attempt at Ludum Dare.  My first attempt was for the “Under the surface” theme where I created an endless runner where you played as a hell hound who dove into the ground to avoid obstacles.  Needless to say, it was a complete failure.  It was playable but the project itself was easily abandoned.  “This” time however I’m coming out more refreshed and ready. I participated in the weekend warm-up which turned out to be a success for me even though I don’t quite have a finished game.  I produced something that I am proud of and will be uploading it before the end of the week.  I’ll edit this when I get home from work so I can give you all a sneak peak.

On to this weekend.

The Tools I will be using are:

– FlashDevelop

– Adobe Flash

– bfxr

– inudge(if I have time)

Here is the thing.  I’m not doing this to race against the clock this time I am going to make small achievable goals and stick to them.  First I will come up with a concept.  Following that I will come up with all things that would be required to make said concept work. (I’m going to be brutal and make this as small a list as possible) Next I will probably code a simple framework and then I will make art assets as I go a long to keep me inspired.  Once I have a playable platform I will move onto menus(probably start/restart) to begin with.  If I can do all that I will move onto sound with the bfxr. (I love that tool) If I can finish the sounds I will more than likely work on more assets long before I get to making a sound track for the game.  (post compo?)

I wish you all the best of luck in achieving your goals.  To the victor goes the spoils.

Little Bit Studios

-Heath