You can play the minimal RTS game here

I’m in and I’m using the same tools as last time, which means:
LibGDX, Eclipse, GitHub, Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, bfxr, Audacity, WolframTones, Autotracker-Bu, Arbaro, Structure Synth and maybe Spline

Short gameplay video of my entry
Play and Rate here!

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=7570

hiding in the bushes…

13h left for gameplay…

got some sheeps with a sheepish AI…

Third time for me!

Depending on the theme… I’ll again be using:

LibGDX, Eclipse, GitHub, Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, bfxr, Audacity, WolframTones, Autotracker-Bu, Arbaro, Structure Synth

Here is a small gameplay video of my ludum dare compo entry Backyard Pirates:

Play and Rate:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=rate&uid=7570

Video:

Some of you suggested a post competition multiplayer version. Multiplayer is new for me, but I’ll try to get something together… :)

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=7570

The AI is a bit lacking but they make it up with numbers…

just need some actual gameplay…

I’m in! Won’t have too much time, but I will try to make something playable!

Depending on the theme… I’ll be using:

LibGDX, Eclipse, GitHub, Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, bfxr, Audacity, WolframTones, Autotracker-Bu, Arbaro, Structure Synth

Christmas Sharks!!!

Play and Rate Aurea Oceanus here

Play Christmas Version here

Merry Christmas everyone!

Here is a full playthrough video of Aurea Oceanus!

Sharks at 00:49 and 04:01

Play it here!

Play it here

This was my first ludum dare entry. I made a underwater surival game. Here is the mini post mortem:

What went right

Framework: I made some games with libGDX before, so this was a good choice for me. I used the experimental model loader extension but besides being experimental everything worked as expected.

Models: I used Blender for the modeling and texturing. All textures are created and baked in Blender. Because of my limited modelling abilities and time constraints the models are kinda low poly but this fits quite well to the overall art style. For the animations of the shark and the seaweed I used a simple wobble vertex shader. This was a huge time saver!

Sound: I recorded the sound effects with my phone or BFXR and added some slomo effects and additional bass with Audacity. This worked quite well. For the music I used some generated tunes of autotracker bottomup and exported them to midi. I imported the midi to LMMS and used a funky synth. Some additional slomo effects in Audacity resulted in the final ambient music.

Mood: FPS + Fog + Sharks +  dark ambient sound = WIN!

What went wrong

Game play: The overall game play is to simple. I got no real idea, so I just started a FPS with no real game play target. The initial primary goal was to collect stuff in a limited time constraint. This was to simple, so I added sharks to the game.

Collision detection: Spend way to much time on this one. I did something wrong with the model export. The collision center of all models had a wrong offset… The final collision detection is still kinda hacky in the final entry… :/

Overall I’m happy with the result. Good mood in the game and I learnt something along the way. See you next time!

Nearly done! Maybe someone can test the game for last minute changes?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39448/gdx/ld22/ld22_play_v3.jar

Intro Screen + sound + game name = awesome!

Alone with sharks!

Luckily for our deep sea tourist those sharks don’t have a brain yet…