Also, I don’t like open themes like this. And this one is the worst I’ve ever seen – it’s basically as good as no theme at all – make any game and have an old man say “it’s dangerous to go along take blah” and it will perfectly fit the theme. So yeah. Having watched a play-through of the first 20 minutes or so of the original Zelda (shamefully have to admit I never saw the game before) I do have a vague idea though (“remake Zelda” ). Any finally knowing about this game is one good thing I can take from this LD

So anyway, the plan is to fix up my C+Allegro framework to latest versions of everything and use it. And right now I’m writing a custom Blender export script from scratch, for Blender 2.5. Took me some time to figure out where to place the addon… so hopefully I can speed up a bit now. Here’s a screenshot of my progress so far:

my great progress...

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gameplay

http://allefant.com/zombies_by_allefant.zip

What I have left for tomorrow is: Different kinds of monsters. Then using the weak monsters (the only ones you can really fight on your own) as weapons against the stronger monsters, beat the final boss.

If I had the time I could also add actual graphics and sound effects and music. And more gameplay effects like more varied monsters and more varied attacks. Alas, I have to work all Monday, so have to get up right around when LD ends – so I lose the last 6 hours or so. I also stupidly slept for the first 6 hours of the compo because I stayed up right until the theme was announced. And I’ll sleep another 6 hours now since I’m too tired to go on.

The screenshot below is how far I am right now after about 2 hours and also how the final graphics will look. It shows the wizard and some enemy creatures.

As always I ran out of time to actually implement much gameplay, but there’s more than in my previous 3D entries. There’s 18 taxi orders, displayed as little boxes in the upper left corner. And there’s 7 docking stations, each one with a different color. Passengers will have their destination color in a triangle above there head and need to be delivered before time runs out.

(Clicking image should open a video of the game on Youtube.)

Anyway, the game ideas is, you are the blue guy who is an airship taxi driver and has to drive customers (the yellow guy) from island to island.

• Camera control
• Airship control (the airship is the  flat box with steering wheel in the screenshot)
• Vertex colors
• OpenGL fixed-pipeline vertex-lighting
• A second island
• Clouds
• HUD display

What I’m still missing:

• Gameplay
• Collision detection
• More and better models
• Textures (won’t have time)
• Audio (won’t have time)
• Skybox (won’t have time)

Behold, I can display my island now:

http://allefant.googlepages.com/TheGreatWaveoffKanagawa.zip

readme

Since I was too tired to write a readme at the end of the compo, guess I can put one here

Cursor Left/Right: Lean backwards/forwards

At the top of the screen, there’s a blue wave icon and a yellow hat icon showing the relative position of you and the advancing wall of doom. The goal is to ride the wave to the right and manage to land at the wooden dock at the end without the big wave reaching you.

There’s no randomness at all, the 6th level is quite easy after some practice – can be done without ever missing a wave and winning it far ahead of the big one. Guess it’s the problem of playtesting your own game for 48 hours straight… you’re bound to be almost perfect at it… or actually, I’m still kinda bad at it: video of level 6

Ah, and the cursor up key can be used to flutter your arms and fly up a bit, it helps landing on the dock. If you surf past the dock it’s usually over (but you can move backwards by turning upwards more than 90 degree so if you were fast enough…)

Used media

Also should say something about the used stuff:

The title picture is obviously just that painting and not made by me – considering how the game is all made after the picture that should be ok

The music/sounds are kinda cheated… both the music and the only sound effect are made in LMMS. The melody is out of some .mid. And the samples are all stock samples as I had no time to fire up sfxr and make instruments and wave noise in it…

Everything else is drawn by hand in Gimp, color-sampling (and for the wood structure also tracing) various pictures of the same painter.

Code is almost totally from scratch – only the initial versions of image.py and text.py are from the last pyweek.

Getting it to run

Under Windows, just clicking one of the two .bat files (windowed/fullscreen) should work. In theory not even Python needs to be installed… but some msvc dll might be missing if you don’t.

Under Linux, execute main.py. Needs pygame and pyopengl to work.

Under OSX, I have no idea.

And I managed to encode and upload a gameplay video i made yesterday while half asleep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWRXimhigvk

(removed embedded link as that seems to be an admin-only feature of wordpress (?))

Here is the final entry: http://allefant.googlepages.com/OwlbyAllefantsourceandwin32.zip

It should contain now an “owl.exe” which supposedly will work without python/pygame/pyopengl. It’s made using bbfreeze. No idea if it actually works. If you have the three dependencies, then running run.py should work instead.

Not really done, but I’m too tired to do anything anymore. It’s possible to reach the top, just recorded a video of it, will post it later. It’s way too hard/tedious in any case. In the end, I wasted too much time on little things (like getting the 3d-wrap-around done) and spent way too little time on the actual gameplay and level design. Oh well, still was lots of fun, I coded more-or-less non-stop

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Oh, nice comments..  editing here as a reply. A few things:

If you run into a cat while carrying a block, it will respawn at its original position. So you can always get the map back to its original state.. just can be somewhat tedious

The tunnel cat jump is rather easy, harder jumps are waiting further up. The three mice below it should give you a hint about the solution

If you don’t want to repeat the two times of tedious block-building in the beginning, open up “data/The Tower.txt” in a text editor, then find the “P” in line 79 (and don’t ready any lines below to avoid spoilers ), and replace it with a “.”. Then go to line 30 or wherever you want and replace a “.” by a “P” After tunnel cat some more difficult jumps and two less tedious blocks puzzles await, so if you actually played until up there, it might be worth it

Anyway, need some sleep first. And food.. which is cooking right now.. and now done and photographed. Some kind of noodles and the last rest of coca cola which was still left in the bottle. And the small animal normally sitting on top of my computer wanted to be in the picture as well.

And my final food pic which I moved from the final post to here, so it won’t show in the grid:

(drumroll)

A platformer.

You play an owl, and start at the bottom of The Tower. Then you have to jump up all the way to the top of The Tower. What I got so far is:

• A blue screen, and an Owl made out of a few colored GL_TRIANGLE_FAN and a few GL_LINE_LOOP.

What I need to do next:

• Make vector-brick tiles for the tower.
• Draw a monster (kittens).
• Code (display of level geometry, platformer controls, collision detection, monster behavior)
• Draw a level (The Tower).

Optional, if I have time left:

• Animate owl and kitten.
• Some extra tiles besides the brick.
• Sound/Music