Only a few days left to vote and comment on Mini LD #20! Have fun!

Ok, I decided to invest some time to change my game a little bit. Most important, the guys are now able to drink beer! Therefore I modelled a can with the very uncommen brand: BEER

But it is not only the beer drinking (the ‘punishment’ if you lost all your money) I actually changed the concept around the ‘blackjack’-scenario. Now it is more ongoing. You have money and decide how much you want to bet in a ‘match’ if you win you double, if not you lose it.And so forth…

Beside that I wanted to make the game more ‘game-like’ with an ‘esc’-key popup (resume,restart,exit) and a main-menu with instructions (that are for sure still very confusing), exit, infos etc. Actually I planned to change the mutant-fishes to real ones but I am too lazy now and somehow I feel cofortable now with my friends:’Hungry Eye’,'Hungry Eye’,'Glitshi’,etc (Who knows what kind of new fishes deep water horizion will produce…) . I added some birds that fly around, a wave sound and one nice fish (you can’t grab). Well,…actually as I wrote this down I wonder why this took me another 2 days and it is still such a boring game . It was for sure fun and I will upload it to a gaming-platform (the first time since my very first game ) and the people teact! (The first one I showed it was not very nice , but I don’t care!)

Here are the links:

WEBSTART WINDOWS .EXE

Ah here a beer-action-scene:

Actually I also planned to have gunshooting towards the opponet’s boat and fightings but first I rigged the models really poor for real animations and 2nd it’s enough now. I still have one game to finish and want to start something new…

It was a pleasure. Looking forward to the next LD,

ToM

My first official attempt at making an entry resulted in this flash thing: http://danik.gotdns.org/flash/crystals/index.html The crystals are randomly generated to be unique. The goal of the game I had in mind was to collect the crystals using the mouse as a magnet, but I didn’t have enough time by far this weekend to pull it off, so I just ended up with this little “demo”.

Crystals screenshot

A huge thank you to GBGames for following up on our requests for voting. You are one classy dude and the entire Ludum Dare community gives you a giant group hug.

Gratefully,
- BMcF

My apologies for the delay! I did not intend for MiniLD to just stop.

It is time for the entrants to vote!

Voting is now open! Since it was delayed, I hope it can run for a bit more than a week to give people who aren’t paying attention a chance to see that MiniLD voting is happening in the first place.

Delays aside, this MiniLD was off the hook, as I expected! There were 24 submitted entries (is that a record for a MiniLD?)! We had one entry finished in hours! We had games about fishing, games about poop, and games about spaceships. We had 2D games and 3D games. We had artistic games and mindlessly entertaining games. All in all, I’m very pleased with the quantity and quality of games made with the theme Greed and the special rule “Only one of each”.

So get voting, MiniLDers! Celebrate your awesomeness!

EDIT: Voting will end on August 2nd, so make sure you’ve got your votes in!

(EDIT: Woo hoo, we got voting! Thanks so much, you made my day. I officially owe you one, GBGames. I tip my proverbial hat to you.)

First off let me say I love Ludum Dare, and the few people that did bother to foster a sense of community between peers during the last compo were wonderful. But honestly, the silence was deafening this weekend and for me it felt like we all just worked alone. Sure there was some nice IRC chatter, and sure the host did have a power failure and wasn’t able to participate. It was not his fault at all.

What do YOU think? Was the sense of community “brothers-in-arms” that you got out of Mini LD #20 what you expected? Did you, like me, want more? Did it feel disorganized? Like a ghost town? Did you feel part of a community or did you feel like you were alone in your efforts? Did you wish for a bigger “pat on the back”?

A think a flameless discourse regarding how the minis could be better run would be helpful for the community – but I don’t want a troll fest so before you get angry please note that I do hold each and every one of my fellow coders in very high regard.

Much respect,

BMcF

I finished porting Greedy Towlr to webkit- and mozilla-based browsers.  The entry page is http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-20/?action=preview&uid=687

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/542690

This is non-compo version with a few small bugs fixed. If you’d like to go there and give this little piece of avangard a score it deserves, Satan would be peased.

Just wondering when we can look forward to a
results page like this one from MINI LD#19:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/mini-ld-19/

I’ve been loving trying out everyone’s games and
can’t wait to see how it all pans out! How do we vote?

Well, I finally finished today. (Earlier today, but now I’m just making the post.) I’m pretty happy with what I’ve done, and I’m going to improve the single-player, put in some built-in help, and hopefully do something cool with it like make some money. It’s made in Flash and pure AS3, with tons of BitmapDatas. Play it here, and make sure to read at least some of the info first or it probably won’t make sense.

You can leave any comments here until the compo opens for voting, assuming it’ll do that.

Wow folks, there were some amazing games made this weekend!

I’m seriously blown away by some of the really “art” games. In particular, I love the wireframe graphics and story of low self esteem told by Via Dolorosa and the awesome graphics in Jetpack Get. I was disturbed as cancer by Covetous and really liked the art style of Want Everything.

Everyone did a fantastic job and even the games I didn’t mention are worth checking out! You can see all the entries at the Mini LD #20 compo page.

Thanks all, I had a lot of fun, and I learned a lot coding my first game compo entry ever.

See you next month for LD48 #18!

- Breakdance McFunkypants

I was happily working at 3AM when a power outage struck. My UPS kept my desktop alive for a few minutes. My laptop battery ran out within the hour. For a good chunk of my waking hours, I couldn’t work on the code. To top it off, one of the candles almost became a roaring fire somehow, so once I put that out, it was completely dark except for intermittent lightning, which meant I couldn’t even work on design.

In the morning, I went to a backup location which still had power, and I continued.

It’s now an hour after the “deadline”, and I don’t have a finished game yet. There’s some game play, but there’s no challenge or enemy.

The old man can pick up items, use the unique fishing pole to reel in unique items in hard-to-reach areas, such as the unique flask and unique spatula, as well as the unique gate key, which opens the unique gate.

The world is one giant image, and collision detection uses a black and white version of that image.

I’m exhausted, and I’m having trouble seeing how to proceed. Do I work on the monkey thief? I originally envisioned him jumping around the map, and if you encountered him, he could hit you, sending you all the way back to your home, and you’d lose one of your items. To implement that vision, I need (1) basic AI, (2) unique movement code, (3) a special game state for getting hit by the guy, and (4) a way to avoid/defeat him. Making each usable item unique has been time-consuming, and I’ve only made two so far! Doing all of the above is probably going to need another weekend.

OK so here’s my crappy game. hobo at #pygame called it ghetto to the max, so I decided to keep the name.

Anyway the reason it’s so terrible is I spent 5 hours in #pygame asking questions and trying to solve to stupidest of problems.

Description: A game where a ufo that fails at getting minerals, and clones itself every time it moves.

I'm just going to submit this "game" and get on with my life. LOL

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/cl536bvs5fb3uxw/GhettoToTheMax.zip

Requires python and pygame. Run game.py to play.

Here goes my game, my first on in the Ludum Dare.

GREED-O-RAMA SCREENSHOT

It is called GREED-O-RAMA, and was made on Lua, using Löve!
So bad i didn’t had the time to put the music on =(

I tried to make a classical point chase game with a little psychological approach. The in-game instructions explains more.

Link to download the game: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2850120/GREED-O-RAMA.love
Link to get the engine (necessary for playing): http://love2d.org/

PS:  I’m Editing the post to make it more clear. The first version was terrible! =P

Hi all, this is my first Ludum Dare entry.

I tried to make a fishing game that, instead of catching fishes, you catch treasure. You have to fish more treasures than the other boat, but be careful not to exceed the maximum weight allowed, otherwise you will sink. “Return” to fish and “Backspace” to stop fishing and compare the weight of your boat with the other one.

The game is not finished (for example, the treasures that you catch are not visible on the screen), but the time is over, so that is it =(

It was made using PyGame. The source code is available at http://github.com/diegodukao/mini_ludum_dare20.

See ya

I had to go into work on both Saturday and Sunday, but in the time between I put together this little number.

Covetous

I got a lot of influence from Increpare, especially when it came to the sound.

At first I wanted there to be more focus on the choice in the end, between letting the boy live or tearing out of him to be free.  But by the time I got to the ripping scene it had became a game of anger, and the correct answer became very obvious.  There was so much time put into the story of the parasite and not the boy, which is why the game was led into that direction.

I’m very pleased with the way it was presented.  The no-duplicate policy for this mini-dare caught me off guard at first.  I was forced to put the flesh into different positions that I might not have before, so I’m that rule existed. 

I hope you guys play it with an open mind and get something out of it.  Thank you!

If the web version on the compo page doesn’t work this should hopefully work better.

Here it is, my first Ludumdare entry. I went with a side scrolling platformer type game built in Flash with Actionscript 2.0.

I’ve uploaded it to my blog, here: http://hellfangvidya.blogspot.com/2010/07/greed-my-mini-ludumdare-20-entry.html

You play as the personification of greed and must try to move through the levels without being pushed off screen. You can eat items scattered around to increase your score but they will also make you heavier, thus making it more difficult to progress through the level. Being too greedy may result in you not being able to jump over an obstactle.

All edible items are unique, there are about 16 different items with different weights and properties. Sometimes the player character will request a certain kind of item at the end of a level and bonus points can be obtained by eating an item that matches it’s description.

Might be a few bugs still, I haven’t tested it much (it’s pretty hard :\) but it’s releasable at least.

The final (5th) level has a fishing theme.

A few people in chat did not know how to post their game for the competition (me included). All you have to do is sign in, then go here:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-20/

Good luck everybody!

This was the first time I participated, thanks in advance to anyone who at least gives this game a shot. Since no-object-repeating rule was too crippling I decided to approach this project with a very light hart. It was made in 8 hours of sloooow work, and you can notice how artwork suffers in last few screens, in the end I even had to pinch a photograph from internet. Although very minimalistic, the game hides a compelling  storyline.

I’ll upload source when I feel like it right now I need some sleep (its 3:18 AM).

PLAY GAME HERE:

http://milos.misija.com/ludumdare/game.html

Here are some screenshots of beautiful prerendered scenery.