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Hello world

LD13LD #13 - Roads - 2008 03. Dec 2008 路 11:12 UTC · 36 hours before compo start by swergas · 0

Hi I’m Swergas, a French student in IT, and I’m new to Ludum Dare ! I will try to participate to this weekend’s competition. I’ve previously coded several Flash games and I’m learning to code with the SDL lib in C++. So if I manage to gather enough time this weekend to participate, my submission will be either in C++ or in haXe, I’m not decided yet (I think it will depend on the theme). See you !

Comments

urth
04. Dec 2008 路 19:16 UTC
Why not do your entry in Flash. Flash is an accepted development tool.
05. Dec 2008 路 12:15 UTC
simply because i want to use 100% opensource tools 馃槈

A road and a crane

LD13LD #13 - Roads - 2008 06. Dec 2008 路 16:23 UTC · 40 hours after compo start by swergas · 0

Here is the idea behind my entry : you’re a car with a crane on it and you have to fill the gaps on the road, so that the vehicles behind you don’t get stuck. The gameplay is that you have to approach the gaps enough to fill them, without falling into them. And of course each gap you miss (which leaves the screen) makes you lose a life, points or whatever.

Here’s a screen :

and here is the game in its current state.

Potholes [FINAL]

LD13LD #13 - Roads - 2008 08. Dec 2008 路 00:09 UTC · 3 days after compo start by swergas · 0

So here it is, my entry is called Potholes and you can play it here, dowload it here, and get the sources here. Have fun !

Tags: final, LD13 - Roads, potholes, roads

Comments

08. Dec 2008 路 00:42 UTC
That is…incredibly difficult. But plenty polished. Nice!
08. Dec 2008 路 01:39 UTC
hard indeed :/ but quite polished…but hard…and…I guess you could make something more manageable out of it…but if you like it as it is, then so be it :)
08. Dec 2008 路 13:05 UTC
Thanks a lot for your comments :) actually I noticed only today that the game was too hard :/ During the LD I’ve spent a lot of time on playtesting it. So when I tweaked the difficulty on the end of the remaining time, it didn’t come to my mind that I was already quite good at the game. As for the gameplay, the idea was that the player would have to approach the potholes enough to fill them, but not too much to fall into them. So I thought that it would be more fun to learn how to master a game where both the crane and the vehicle are controlled by the mouse, rather than for example the combination cursor keys / mouse.

Potholes Timelapse

LD13LD #13 - Roads - 2008 10. Dec 2008 路 14:51 UTC · 5 days after compo start by swergas · 0

After a quite a lot of hassle, I succeeded in making my timelapse (and the bash script to go with \o/). Stream it here at 25fps (here for avi download), and here at 8fps (here for avi download). The script I created to make the videos from the images is here (hope this helps). Next step if I have the motivation : make an update to the game (mainly to fix the difficulty problem), and write a postmortem ^^

Comments

12. Dec 2008 路 07:00 UTC
Thanks for sharing this, it’s very awesome! 馃榾

LD19

Hi

LD19LD #19 - Discovery - 2010 18. Dec 2010 路 00:04 UTC · 24 hours after compo start by swergas · 0

2nd LD for me, the last one was 2 years ago :) I’ll code in I don’t know which language yet and use open source software only. Just discovered the theme huhuh. But before coding… sleep ! (It’s 3am here)

edit: oops.. forgot that I had some homework and other irl stuff.. sorry I can’t participate.