This is my first time doing this, I will be doing the compo because I feel that I have a better chance due to the fact that I am alone. Unfortunately I have to work on Saturday so, I will do my best with my free time.

Language: C#, I will also be using XNA 4.0 so guess what IDE I will be using…

IDE: Visual Studios 2010, that’s right you guessed it!

Graphics: Gimp, because who doesn’t like Gimp?

Audio: Bfxr and maybe something else I am not sure.

Good luck to the rest of you.

Because I had to work on Saturday really took a huge chunk of my schedule, but I am glad to announce that I am about 60% finished with my game. I call it BUILD THAT TOWER!, and here’s a screen cap:

It is a game where you are a species who just crawled out of the mud and you have a rival who just did the same, the exact same time you did. A large entity commands you both to build a large tower to please it. All I need to do left is add research, messages, AI, sound, and a few graphical things, I wanted to add military and strategic fighting but that was just too overwhelming. I am afraid that it might get blown out of the water by some of these graphical games, well this is a strategy game that might take you 20 minutes to finish.

This is my 2nd go into the LD, last time I had to work on the Friday and Saturday so I had to move to the Jam. This time I have to work on the Saturday, so we will see.

Language: C#

Engine: XNA

Graphics: GIMP or MS paint

Audio: My own voice, we will see how this one will go.

I will (hopefully) post pictures of game progress and paper notes of the game. I also want to do a time lapse video of it, just record myself and speed it up and show it to you guys. Good luck to everyone!

I went to a hockey game when the theme got announced, so I got to do a little catching up. Although I did get a lot of time to think about my game.

My game is called DM’s Rule, if you don’t know what DM stands for, go ask your local D&D nerd. It is a game based on a D&D format. You are a DM and you have to set monsters up for our adventures, maybe traps (but that’s if I have time, or maybe after the compo.) I thought of doing it real time, but that would take a lot more time than I have. The game will be going on turn by turn and rolling a 20 sided die for combat. Here are some pictures of my notes and a screen shot of the game.

Lucky for me, work was dead today so I had plenty of time to work on this game. After about a good 4-5 hours fixing this spawning bug, I am working on the moves and the turns. I calculated how long each part of the game is going to take, I know that’s bad because it doesn’t come out what it actually is but anyways. It will take me about a good 9 hours to finish this game. If I don’t finish for the compo then it’s off to the jam… again. Things to finish are: minion moving, AI, menus, and polishing. AI will take the longest. Here is a recent pic of the game.

All of the objects, the Goal, E’s, and Start, are movable by the mouse. It made me almost cry with joy at work when I discovered how easy it was to snap the things to the grid. Well it’s time for bed. It’s late and my head hurts.

P.S. I am sorry for any spelling or grammar errors, I am tired.

I was working on my game, you know nothing special. I decided to look over at what line of code I was working on and it turns out it was line 666, and the command on that code is very funny to what I am doing.

DM’s Rule is now in. After a combined ~6 hours working on an AI bug, where I had to trash and redo it, and I got to spend another good 2 hours on that, it turns out that I forgot to replace an X with an Y… so yeah. It leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because I couldn’t put in all the things I wanted to put in. Oh well I guess. I thought about trashing this game and making a new one, “My last game made me so upset so I decided to punch some kittens/goats” But I stuck with this one instead.

Hello.

I don’t know if this was already a Jam idea, or if there are rules for it. But I thought it would be fun to kinda make a jam out of it, well for me it was fun. I heard about how some of the people waiting in line to see Indie game the movie for 4 hours decided to do a little game jam to pass the time. I had the idea to do kinda the same thing but at work. Now my job can be very uneventful at some times, so I made this game at work.

I call it Push the block. I am aiming for that creepy kinda feel with an emotional attachment to it. All you do in this game is push a block across this landscape.

I wanted to put in a proper back drop in it, but I might do it later. I will finish it for the CRA game jam going on right now, I may as well right?

P.S.

Do you want it to be a happy ending where it says, “You win!”, a sad ending where it says “You Lose!”, or a mystery?