I did some last minute tinkering with the difficulty, and added some basic tutorial hints (displayed on your first play).  Getting the difficulty right was hard, and I suspect I may have gone too far towards the hard end of the scale.  But then these kind of games tend to rely on frequent deaths as part of their replayability.  I’m interested in what kind of comments I’ll get.

There are 5 endings by the way; 3 bad, 1 good, and 1 very good but rare.

LD entry link.

After the jump, a final food photo:

(more…)

Submitted.

The start of a sound handling system is in the source code, but I’ve decided not to implement it. I’m starting to break code while tinkering, so I think it’s time to call it a wrap and get some sleep. From version 0.6, many bugfixes of varying severity. No major gameplay changes.

Good luck to everyone still working!
-TF

Here is the link to the entry:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-17/?action=preview&uid=1655

Timelapse here:

YOU ARE ISLAND.
GO ISLAND GO!

Now to work on the game over screen!

One man.
One game.
Two hours left.
Two enemies left.
YEEEEAAAAH

Ok. I won’t have time to finish anything… the code is so spaghetti that I need a lot of glue…

But before the game… let’s see the food!

(more…)

2am, it is time for sleep.

here is the screenshot of where i got up to.

you can click around the procedurally generated world to have hovergirl teleport there. unfortunately no other gameplay was implemented. if you have firefox, go here to test it yourself. if i get time tommorrow morning i’ll make sure it works under webkit browsers (safari, chrome) and then add whatever features i can before the competition end. probably not many!

overall i’m quite happy with this as a technology demo of what is possible with just plain old javascript + images in the browser.

This feature took way too long to implement. I had to write a description of every single thing in the game. There are quite a few. The only thing it doesn’t do (and probably won’t for sake of time developing the find-the-exact-location algorithms) is give you infromation on structures already built onto an island. Excuse me — skyland. Yeah. That’s right. Ain’t no islands to see here.

Just about done.. I think I’ll skip making any sounds/music this time (so the game should work well in office setting as well).. I added “bubbles” that flow with the stream (the little dots). They help to visualize the fluid behavior a lot. I added lives and scoring and also a startup menu screen (not shown here). The hiscore is saved to the registry. So I’m pretty much there, or really close.

I think I might spent a few moments seeing if I can optimize some of the rendering code. For example, the fluid bitmap is updated every frame. With Bitmap.SetPixel for every pixel. So things like that may be a bit of a performance overhead.. Not sure if I’ll bother but we’ll see. Then there’s the packaging and uploading to do.

Easier to make than a video game!

Ingredients: pineapple, green pepper, red chili pepper and the usual

Well, it’s not as fun/finished as I’d hoped (no title screen, only one type of enemy)…  It’s just a very basic FPS where you fight off waves of smokey snake like creatures (all islands have smoke monsters, right?).  I’m about out of energy, just got to squeeze out a few sound effects, then I’ll call it done…

Well I have reached a point where I know that I will do more damage than good if I add anything else.

I have added all of the features I wanted and have packaged up all of the media(despite it turning into a massive pain)

Overall I was really pleased with Allegro, I will definitely use it in the future, allthough one bug that i couldnt seem to iron out, was that the level would simply not be there sometimes, no idea how to fix it, so the submission will have it in.

The water is much better now.

I also added a speech bubble, which introduces the game quite nicely, as well as start and ending screens:

Stan Casually Explains the severity of the current situation

I  improved the day->night transition, still not perfect, the stars stay too long, but the blend is nice

also changed the display to use a better bigger and bolder font, and moved them out of the centre of the screen.

Finished adding sounds.

Thanks And good luck to everyone who hasnt finished yet, good work to everyone who has.

Now to get some beer, and play some LD 17 games ( :

I got up about an hour ago.  I think i have  a good idea what my game will be now that I have slept on it.

I made some pizza for breakfast

My idea may be sunk. I need to find the centre of buoyancy of objects to make it work, and I’m just finding out how difficult that’s going to be. Time for a break and a visit to the LDers over at CB2.  Mealwhine, if you want to have a go, look at http://richard.brooksby.org/2010/04/24/ludum-dare-17-islands/ and for a laugh, walk forwards onto the second tile.

Technical details

• The character stays upright using a vector PID controller implementation of an inverted pendulum, like a Segway but in vector space.
• The objects float in the water with a buoyancy approximation that’s unfortunately too approximate to make my floating icebergs idea work properly.

The overall game was just going to be “get from A to B” by jumping from precarious floating object to other precarious floating object, such as ice blocks, lilos, rubber rings, etc.

If I can solve the buoyancy problem in the next hour or so I might get at least a prototype up.

-Youtube links-

Second level

Some stunts

———————-

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2355556/brave%20island%20diver.exe

about 3 hours of work <3

So i 100% finished the items now, you keep them from map to map and i actually fixed the torch (only works if you buy it) the spring (actually makes you jump higher) and the sword exists and kills pirates! I’ve also updated the HUD, you have 3 lives, and a health bar. that’s almost done, i just need to health bar to refill when you lose a life

screenshot:

After finishing up the health stuff it’ll be time for pirate spawning!

New build here

I now have a title screen, win/lose screens, and the game can reset itself nicely. Made a number of small changes for aesthetics (aligning text, cleaning up the intermediate zoom sand tiles, etc).

I’ve had enough play testing now, to decide that I needed to change the walls so they block both the glompers and the kiwis. So that’s done. I don’t want to make traps life-limited, so that means I’m getting close to done.

Quite a bit of CPU usage on my computer, but it seems stable and I don’t seem to be leaking memory (for once )

I just need to figure out what sound effects I need/can generate… Thumps and such when the player adds objects are easy enough, but if I add a sound when things get eaten, it will be getting played more or less continuously in midgame.

-TF

I’m pretty happy with how things have been going. There are some bugs in the engine (for instance, I can’t seem to get the monkeys to stand flat on the trees all the time) but overall the project has gone pretty smoothly. Barring any huge issues when porting to Windows, I should be able to finish with time to spare!