This is my first time entering Ludum Dare and I hope it’s not my last.

Tools:

Game maker

SFXR

Like others I have started to program, fiddle around with ideas and wonder why the heck people voted for tiny world. This is what I came up with:

Not too bad for 2 hours. The character can walk around and do double jumps! 😀

Yip I’ve added a space ship to my game, with fuel, coal and a map!

Before I made a space station now I’ve made caves and water!

I noticed my charater looks like a bird.

Are these the ruins of a lost civilisation?

There are now speech bubbles telling you how to play the game!

Yes here is a test version of my game, hope you enjoy it!

http://www.mediafire.com/?8dom53xzsogdgc7

(to return from a planet to the spaceship press ‘c’ while on the planet)

Smallish update, fixed some bugs, set amount of fuel needed to win to 100 and I added 2 new planets to the omega solar system.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?z1ik2p70iejth6h

Yes I have begun work on the machine in the ship that looks like a stargate! It is to be in fact a shrinker that can shrink planets and yourself. However it needs fixing! Go find its parts, scattered throughout the universe!

I have also added Credits and a death notification.

http://www.mediafire.com/?219cdssxom2du73

I have now finished the shrinker system which allows you to shrink worlds, store them and visit them!

http://www.mediafire.com/?o8miv0oyf8sosd9

I have now added enemies to my game, this makes it slightly more harder. Try and find their weaknesses!

http://www.mediafire.com/?6mx5w6r1u12wnry

Here is the last update before I submit my game. I  have added sound, an intro menu and a Tank environment controller.

http://www.mediafire.com/?x88sa2qx9wlkg29

I have finished my game: Away from home!

Check it out: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=12069

Trying to make and original I’m in post is hard…

Doesn’t matter, I’m in!

This is the second time I will have joined and I will be using game maker again this time. I will probably also use other programs. Hopefully we get a good theme and hopefully I will come closer to being first! (239th last year).

Just doing a quick update to show what I have done:

Hmm, looks like minecraft (blasted), the marble is temp.

The marble jumps!

I hope I do better this year than last year!

I must admit, I may not be getting very far as we are 5.5 hours into the competiton 😛

Anyway, Trees!

Looks even more like MC now…

Just so you know I’m trying to find ways to make this less minecraft-ish.

Creatures will most likely be in the next picture

Yeah so my other game was getting very complicated, laggy and buggy and it was to complex for me to do so I decided to switch to another game. I lost about 14 hours of work so I will have to catch up.

Me flying around the room.

A cacoon (known as the genepod) is forming around me.

The genepod menu. Provided you have enough food you can mutate.

I got most of my inspiration from the the theme itself and from the Zerg (star craft).

Yip this is my third time, hope a great theme wins!

I’ll be using Game maker lite and most likely SFXR.

Unfortunately I will be missing for 8 hours or so but hopefully it wont be too much of a hindrance!

Also inspired by Sorceress

I vote +1 way too much. Basically I vote 1 on things I like, 0 on things that aren’t the best and -1 on things I really don’t like.

Construction – This could be quite fun, making games like MC, Terraria, a Tetris like game, TDs, Strats. The possiblilities are amazing!

End of the world – Many games have this as a plot line so it’s not a very specific theme however it would be easy to make any game in this theme.

Ghosts – Way too specific, there would be too many games that are alike.

Guardian – Being/having a guardian in a game could make it quite interesting. Also not many may know this but Guardian was LD #1s theme in 2002

Inverse world – This would be interesting as we will have a chance to make physics work in bizarre ways!

Mirrors – This could defintiely push many of us to create a unique and origanal game with the odd mechanics of mirrors.

Outer Space – This is an average theme however I wouldn’t call it bad even though is broad.

Quarantine – This makes me think of alien and zombie infections, cures, hospitals, doctors, building quarantines and such, many opportunities.

Salavge – I really want this one to win, the thought of salvaging broken down planes, vehicles, buildings and the the such makes me really want to play a game like that.

Symbiosis – Sym-what? *looks up* I suppose this is an ok theme… Not any ideas right now on it.

Trapped – been used already in escape, the only difference? One can be trapped and escape but one doesn’t necessarily need to be trapped to escape. This is an ok theme but I wouldn’t like it to be used again.

Unstoppable –  This would definitely be a challenge mechanic to properly code into a game with it being OP or something.

I hope there will be better themes to come!