Due to an unfortunately timed Fiesta (Moros y Cristianos) and other inconveniently timed prior commitments It’s going to be more like a 48minute rather than a 48hour challenge for me this time round.  My current plan is to use the first 24h for an intensive partying planning session and then try and cobble something together on the last day.  It’s going to have to be even simpler then usual but my personal aim is to try and make something better looking than my previous entries.

As for tools I’m going to stick with Flixel, SFXR and my trusty and dusty copy of Paint Shop Pro 5 (13 years young and still going strong ^^).

glhf

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Well I’ve submitted it so I suppose it’s finished. Sadly I ran out of time for a lot of the niceties I’d have liked to have added but it is playable. Although it is intentionally a bit evil so play with caution.  You need sound to hear the metal detector.  Have a go, see what ‘exciting’ things you can discover.

Here is a very uninteresting screen shot of my (slow+interupted) progress so far.   I’ve chosen metal detecting as my take on the theme of discovery. What will he discover next.  Beep beep, could it be a hoard of gold roman coins… Nope, it’s another rusty nail.  Oh the thrill of discovery.

G’night all.

Hello again all you crazy kids.  I’m really looking forward to having another crack at this.  I’m not particularly inspired by any of the themes(yet) but hey that’s democracy for you.  My first attempt was Murus for LD14 but it’s all change this time.  That was all done in stuffy old C and SDL . This time I’m embracing this new fandangled tubular internets thing and going to have a go at making my first flash game.  I shall be using some, none or all of the following  :  Flash Develop, Flixel, PaintShopPro5 (yeah what of it!), SFXR, Musagi and Codeheads bitmap font generator.

gl hf all

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Woo Yay and Hoopla. I’m finished.  That was fun but I’m knackered and really need some rest. Good luck to the rest of you, hope you all get finished. I’m looking forward to playing some of the games tomorrow.

Heres a link to the download : danblack_LD14_murus.zip

It’s windows only. Have a play. Hope you like it. It’s better than the screenshot suggests.

Very liquid based but that is all I can manage at this time on a Sunday Morning. Being up this early and not being at a carboot sale, it’s just not natural.  I predict a more substantial bacon based brunch later to address this unholy liquid / food imbalance. MORE NING ALL!

It may not look like much but It’s been a good day and it’s pretty much playable.   Lots of things to do tomorrow though, not least improve the graphics as it does look about as exciting as a crossword at the moment. Time for some rest now though.  Happy coding. See you all tomorrow.

Morning all from sunny Huddersfield.  It is actually sunny here for a change but sadly I can only see a tiny bit of the outside world from my prison for the next 48 hours, I mean delightfull cellar workspace.

It’s my first Ludum Dare and my first game competition so I’m not sure how I will get on but I’ll give it a go.  The theme seems a bit limited to me but that is probably my just limited saturday morning brain.  Anyway I just wanted to say hello and good luck all.  I’m looking forward to playing all the games, I just hope we don’t all make the same one ; )

P.S. No exciting breakfast photos here sadly as I’ve already eaten it.  I’ll try and remeber to take a photo tomorrow. Of tomorrows breakfast that is, not of todays breakfast. That would just be wrong! Back to the code face.