Comments on: Mini LD13: It’s Educational

By: Puppytron | increpare games

Puppytron | increpare games — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:59:06 +0000

[...] Puppytron If you absolutely must have some context, see this.A game made for the minild educational compo. [...]

By: Literacy Damacy – Postmortem — [refrag]

Literacy Damacy – Postmortem — [refrag] — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:36:36 +0000

[...] Ludum Dare 48 hour Game “Competition”. The topic announced for this month was “It’s Educational!” A different element for this month was that the game could be developed over any 48hr period [...]

By: Almost

Almost — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:38:08 +0000

Yeah, he said any time during the month, so long as you limit yourself to 48 hours.

By: ramkin

ramkin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:40:51 +0000

Is the compo still on?

By: Serilyn

Serilyn — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:59:25 +0000

I’m going to try making a game that teaches about genetics this weekend, starting now!

By: Superfeeder

Superfeeder — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:40:17 +0000

The entries discussed so far seem to be concerned mostly with the sciences. I’m going to try to make a game within the realm of the humanities this weekend. See you guys Sunday

By: axcho

axcho — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:46:56 +0000

I didn’t try making a game last weekend, but I still might try making one next weekend! I’ve been thinking about how I might make a protein-folding game in 48 hours…

By: dertom

dertom — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:18:29 +0000

Hehe,…well! Actually I have to admit that I failed (in the sense of ld). First problem for me was the theme. I wasn’t quite sure how to do the eductional in the game. I wanted to build up a story that let you learn during the game all the planets of the universe. Problem was that it was to ambitous and I wanted to write reusable code which slowed down the things also. To make a long story short I wasn’t able to finish in 48h…(as always! really have to rethink by strategy(again)) Nevertheless I’m on a good way and try to finish my “game”. Don’t want to provide something unread just to show I made something…
(For those who want to see some screenshot: http://thomas.trocha.com/wp/?p=485

Byebye and good luck to the other ones.

ToM

By: Almost

Almost — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:50:27 +0000

Any more entries almost done? I thought I saw a bunch more “I’m in” comments than I now see entries..

By: Almost

Almost — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:37:18 +0000

Thanks
I currently am using FlashDevelop and the Flex SDK. I downloaded flixel too, but have mostly just used it as example code for how to do stuff so far.
I’ll check out some of the tutorials that you linked to on your blog.

By: dertom

dertom — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:27:19 +0000

Ok…I will start now! I think it is really a challange to build the bridge between education and fun / game. For me it was (beside coding) most of the time two contrary tthings…. .

I’m going to use jMonkeyEngine and blender

Good luck everyone, ToM

By: axcho

axcho — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:44:02 +0000

Almost, good luck with starting Flash! I don’t know which route you’re going with it, but I actually just wrote up a quick guide on where to start if you want to learn Flash game programming with only free tools. I’d recommend FlashDevelop and the Flixel engine, which is what I’ve been using lately.

You can find the guide on my blog here, with links to the most helpful tutorials:
http://evolutionlive.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-to-start-with-as3-flashdevelop.html

Good luck!

By: Almost

Almost — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:27:21 +0000

I’m going to try to make something this weekend, starting right about now. I also feel like trying to learn flash in a short time; this’ll be the first game I’ve made with it, hopefully things work out..

By: Spydog

Spydog — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:20:20 +0000

Nevermind, I’ve got it working now thanks to a Game Jolt chat conversation with mjau.

By: Spydog

Spydog — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:15:40 +0000

I think I might enter this but I won’t be starting until tommorow (the “preferred period”). I’ll post another comment when/if I actually begin working on a game.

Also, I signed up for an account and want to know how long it normally takes to process the email and send me back a password. The “check your email now” message was apparently rather misleading, as about 20 minutes have elapsed since I entered the account info (name/email) and I have yet to recieve anything. I’m just making sure of this so that I don’t rush in and make a game and then discover that I can’t enter it because I can’t log in. Can somebody help me with this? Thanks!

By: dertom

dertom — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:57:53 +0000

discouraged,…lol! Okok…so no content! You are right! That is part of the fun of LD! Real nice graphics

By: nilsf

nilsf — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:38:50 +0000

Reuse of content (and code for that matter) is discouraged but allowed.

By: dertom

dertom — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:49:21 +0000

Well, actually that was what I’m trying to do! Don’t know an other way to contact the host! As long as there comes no “official” statement of nilsf I will use the normal LD-rules! Problem for me is, if I want to make something educational I need minimum a texture (e.g. worldmap) to be educational…. Ach,…I will see! I think I will start tomorrow!

By: HybridMind

HybridMind — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:22:24 +0000

The normal LD rules can be modified by the host of the mini-LD. It is best to check with them on what (if any) rules they may be relaxing or re-specifying.

By: dertom

dertom — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:32:16 +0000

Actually I have no idea what to do on friday! Educational….lol! Not a single clue! Ok still some time! Until then…cu