Hello,

Here in France, it is 2:40 AM. I’m hungry and so does my partner Tenoch (or at least so did he. Now, he’s eating bread with pieces of butter. I guess. Given that he’s in Finland I can only imagine). We have almost finished our game (well, he has almost finished, since I’m writing weird things to post on the blog), whom name is quite easy to remember : SMOTSBOTJOACDG. Nice, isn’t it ?

Ok, actually we just call it SMOTS. This name comes from a messy story of jealous girls… Jealous muses, exactly. It takes place on a greek drama stage, and there is an incredible love story . But you’ll also find a coat stand, a cactus, cerberus and a whale. And several very cute girls. Tenoch-approved.

Well, I don’t want to spoil the whole thing.

Just wanted to say this was my first LD. Anyway it was very impressive ! I lost my partner on satudray night (he took the longest break of his life), so I coded alone from saturday to sunday 2:00 PM in a language I discovered on… friday. About 6 PM, I think. Finally it was OK, Tenoch is a nice geek and his code is well documented

Well, that was nice. And fun. Next time I may play the game in solo ! But first I’ll have to finish my presentation for tomorrow 8:00 AM, and eat, and… ah, maybe sleep a little. Just a little. Or not. Wait and see.

I hope you’ll enjoy smotsing.

Hello all !

LD#20 will be my semi-first Ludum Dare. I took Mini LD #14 in 2009, which had to be played in team, as Tenoch’s partner. I discovered a lot of new tools (including the Lua language) during the week-end but we managed to produce something interesting. We had a lot of fun, I loved this weird geek creative contest. So, this time I do it in solo, but I just want to have fun coding something unusual during 48 hours. No huge ambitions about the game I will produce.

It’s not the first time I take a sleep-time-eating contest with nothing — except fun — to gain at the end: I did the NaNoWriMo last november. Was long, fun and good. You may try that if you are tired of code contests, it is also an interesting challenge. Or you may try that even if you are not tired of anything.

Here is the little checklist so I remember what software I shall open on saturday morning :

• Language & Library: Lua on Löve. I like this because of the cute icon it is a powerful game engine, yet it is simple to use and cross-platform.
• IDE:TextWrangler for text editing. It was the lightest thing I could find that colored Lua source code.
• Graphics: paper, pencil, scanner, tablet and photoshop.
• Audio: little flat full of things that make little noises, little microphone, and Garageband.

Here I should put a photo of my cat, so that everybody would actually see this post, but someone else already had this idea… (and yes, my female brain noticed it immediately)

I loved Girl Games as a theme, so my “It’s dangerous” game will be cute. I decided. Here are a few screenshots of my graphics researches. Maybe I should focus on coding first, but I could not (my brain is not able to produce code too early in the morning).

An old man. What will be his role in the story ?

A healthy young man, weirdly dressed. I swear I've already seen his clothes before…

The thing which is the key of my game concept. It should be a beautiful rectangle.

OK. It’s 10 AM, my brain should be more efficient. Focus on coding now.

Eventually, I managed to photoshop something which fits my idea.

Weapon dispenser

Now I “just” have to finish the game, I guess. ^_^’

…since I spent a great part of my saturday being ill. Too much junk brain food kills the brain, I guess. In my postmortem, I will note that : only vegetables and real fruits allowed.

Anyway, I’m almost done, and with a few more hours to finish graphics and fix some strange epicyclic bugs, I will submit a nice little jam entry tomorrow. Now, time to sleep.

It is fun to write help content.

When I decided to enter miniLD #28 a very long week ago, I already had decided my concept: my mini-LD entry would be based on javascript, and, most important, on hexagons. Hexagonal tiling is the most classy regular tiling of the plane. And the most brainfucking too, when it comes to reproduce it in HTML/CSS and a few JS.

I’m going to do this mini LD with a partner in code too. He read my twitter news about mini #LD, but he didn’t want to go alone. So he took me. However I cannot introduce him, he did not create his account here yet.

During the last week-end, we managed to produce a hexagonal-tiled field generator of a gorgeous realism.

Green ! Rock ! Forest ! Meanders !

Yay ! Now, just… err, do something with it.

I’m thinking of a kind of memory game on these hexagonal tiles, which would help you gain resources. With these resources, you would do war things on the same plate. With 2 brains and a good night of sleep, we will finally get a more precise idea of  “war things”, I guess.

So, good night, and good code!

Tags: hexagon

My (male) partner is helping a friend of us to change houses, so I (weak female) am alone for coding at the moment. Thus I lost a lot of time creating a girly design that does not fit the theme at all. 😀

Anyway I wrote a few lines of code: I’ve done my memory idea for gathering “resources”. Like in Mass Effect 2 hacking passages, you see the symbols of the plate on mouseOver, until you click on a tile. Once you’ve clicked, you are in “hit” mode : if you can remember where the same other symbols where, you click on their tiles. If you find a different symbol or if you get 5 times the same one, the series ends and you earn X! resources.

I like this idea of a little “intellectual” challenge crossed with another more traditional game. I think I should add a limited-time dimension, with resources slowly decreasing or something, to stress the player.

But I have still no idea of what I could do with these resources. Maybe I could call them “Mana” and use them to cast some kinds of spells (yay! a war between magicians!)… And I still have to code a no-cheat system. For the moment, you can win the max amount of resources simply by clicking 5 times on the same tile. -_-

Hexagons ! Meanders ! Beautiful symbols ! Girly design !

You can try it out if you want!

Tags: girly, hexagon

We now have a little wizard who can walk in his hexagonal land. He can now cast spells, too.

Next step: give him another locomotion mean than the firebug console and a method name containing far too many letters…

A wizard! A river! A… firebug console!

 Next next step: fill this peaceful land with evil minions. *evil laugh* This wizard needs something to fight against, after all. >:)

You can check last changes on our brand new google code project, or directly test here.

Co-coder is not the enemy. (However, I commit faster.)

For the 5th game of my Mini Ludum Dare 32, I made a kitten generator (that uses a lot of CSS and a few JS).

I keep finding the 4 others game of this Mini LD are quite awful, but I’m very proud of this one, though it is very simple and doesn’t require anything else than a mouse (which is good for a cat game, uh?).

Meaôw!

And I’m quite satisfied from the namespace I’ve chosen for my jQuery events for this game, too.

My feline namespace

You can see it there before I submit my LD entry.

Tags: css, javascript, jQuery, kitten