Making a game about a thing that has to eat all its friends to survive.

The physics is looking pretty solid, but like usual I’m waiting to the last minute to gameify it all.

What was supposed to be a quick appstore-cash-in port, kind of dragged on for a couple months. But I’m finally done. I had a serious case of feature creep.

There’s tons of new stuff. Mainly shooting, seeing as how that was the only fun part of the original Oregon Trail. Also, in a cruel twist, you now have to carry the gold from El Dorado back home.

The game’s site is: solongoregon.captain-games.com

Couldn’t have done it without the ridiculous forced brain-explosion that is LD.  So if anyone here would like a promo code, shoot me a message.

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Apologies in advance if your favorite island wasn’t included.

Quite happy with how this turned out. It was originally intended to be no fun at all, but I think it’s somewhat fun.

Nantucket == Ovechkin.

Good progress today. Tomorrow will be mostly sound.

Still searching for a good name for this. A marriage of ‘islands’ and ‘hockey’. Stop me before I call it Hockey Island.

zzzzz

Took a brainstorming nap, got up and decided not to make a Twilight themed game. I am truly sorry.

Instead, I am making a hockey game with the theme ‘islands’. Wacky!

I spent all day thinking of a name and Horse Racing is my best idea.

I’m a little late, but had a late start, and I’ve been constantly distracted by the Olympics this weekend. That’s where the idea came from, watching speed skating.

It’s kind of silly. Just bet on which horse you think will win. 1,2,3,4.

I wish could have used more of those lovely blues. The sound and music is the best part in my semi-sane sleep deprived opinion.

link to download page:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-16/?action=preview&uid=505

Thanks for playing. It’s been great fun making this

Very happy with how this turned out, even though it’s stretching the theme a tad.

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Now time for a nap, then up to try some of the other entries.

Next up, some semblance of gameplay.

and dysentery. Musn’t forget dysentery.

This is my first LD, oh joy!

My plan is to make an Oregon Trail style game in which you are searching for the lost city of El Dorado.

I will be using my trusty ‘ol favorites: C++, HGE, Box2D, Photoshop, beer.

Here is a picture of my design doc