LOOK AT THEM

so many!

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WALLPAPERS

Uses the source code to ROM CHECK FAIL by Farbs.

Riffs on Pac-Man Without a Cause by Sergio Cornaga.

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entry page

Framework/tools:

• Stego
• Greasemonkey’s Music Generator
• BFXR
• Chronolapse

This post is boring. Here, look at something silly:

319 games by over a hundred people! Quite a few Ludum Dare games are in it!

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed games and helped compile them! The process went much more smoothly than I ever would have expected it to!

Check it out! Play some crazy games! Maybe help seed the torrent!

Yesterday on Twitter @bentosmile asked why there is no Pirate Kart for the IGF competition. (The Pirate Karts are compilations of tons of tiny games that we’ve done a few times now over at Glorious Trainwrecks Dot Com)

This was a VERY GOOD QUESTION.

So we are making one! All games welcome!

Here’s the event page over on GLORIOUS TRAINWRECKS DOT COM. http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/1966 with a little bit of a FAQ.

If you would like some of your games (made for a Ludum Dare or otherwise) to get into the IGF COMPO FOR FREE as part of this, send ‘em over via email: <mike at meyermike dot com> !!! (you might want to mention how I should credit you if it isn’t immediately obvious from the sender name) If this wasn’t so last minute we’d have set up some kind of submission form and tried to gather screenshots and descriptions, but even though this is kind of half-assed I think it’s a wonderful thing!

Deadline-wise: I’ll try to get everything in I can, but there’s conversion work I need to do for a bunch of them so as we near the IGF submission deadline on Monday night the odds of making it in get lower and lower. So try to get it to me by Sunday night if you can!

We have a lot of games already! I lost count somewhere around 120!!!

Spread the word!

While you can subscribe to an RSS feed of comments on a blog entry, the LD website doesn’t have anything like that for comments on your game. So I made a bookmarklet that uses some Yahoo Pipes magic to make one!

WordPress wants to mangle it so I can’t give it to you directly in this blog post, but you can get it and see instructions for using it over here.

It is a bit fragile in that it is looking for particular bits of html, so if the site changes a little it will probably break horribly, but so far so good!

GET IT HERE

This is getting ridiculous!

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Ludum Dare is getting popular! It's getting hard make out the games in these wallpapers!

Here’s a zip file containing the wallpapers in various sizes and the Python script that generates them (requires PIL).

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I’ll be back in around 11 hours to add the jam games!

Update: The list of all games has been split into multiple pages, so the script no longer works.

Robots!

Splodeys! (that look crappy in stills but I like how it looks in motion)

Death!

It just got to a point where it is fully playable (minus the “you win” screen), but it has only one level, only one type of enemy and no audio. Working on all that now!

14 LD games so far! (if you count the minilds)

I had lots of fun making those! And it’s nearly time to start the next one!

Framework: I have an AS3 framework (Stego) that has grown out of doing events like these. I will most likely use that once again, but Unity is always tempting. If I had any confidence in my ability to generate 3d assets, that’s probably what I would use.

Music: GreaseMonkey’s music generator worked pretty nicely when I used it in LD19, so odds are I will be using that again.

Sound Effects: BFXR.

Timelapse: Keeyai’s Chronolapse.

Two games in one weekend!?: This Ludum Dare coincides with Klik of the Month Klub #50! So I will try taking a break in the middle of Ludum Dare to make a separate game in only 2 hours! Or… well, I’m contemplating doing something crazy and trying to make a bunch of two-hour games over LD’s 48 hours and bundling them up as one entry! Probably too crazy. Then again, I did make 10 games in one weekend for the last Pirate Kart, so maybe not? We’ll see what kind of ideas I get once the theme is announced.

Strange image for no reason:

While you can subscribe to an RSS feed of comments on a blog entry, the LD website doesn’t have anything like that for comments on your game. So I made a bookmarklet that uses some Yahoo Pipes magic to make one!

Screenshot of me checking my game's comments in Google Reader!

WordPress wants to mangle it so I can’t give it to you directly in this blog post, but you can get it and see instructions for using it over here.

It is a bit fragile in that it is looking for particular bits of html, so if the site changes a little it will probably break horribly, but so far so good!

GET IT HERE

352 games!!!

This .zip has wallpapers in various sizes and the Python script that generates them (requires PIL).

DOWNLOAD (all the games!)

DOWNLOAD (compo games only)

I’ll be using AS3, like I’ve done for previous Ludum Dares. Unless somehow I get an idea that would be better in 3d, in which case I will go with Unity.

Music: Coding theme song. Level design theme song. Gaps filled by Pandora.com.

Food: It has become part of my Ludum Dare ritual to go nuts buying snacks before LD weekend.

Framework: Stego, the as3 framework that’s been grown out of the reusable parts of previous compos.

IDE: FlashDevelop.

Graphics: I’ll be doing pixelly sprite stuff in a copy of Photoshop CS 1 which as far as you know was obtained completely legitimately. I’d like to start doing more vector-based stuff, but I figure for LD I’d better stick with what I’m used to.

Music: I will probably mess around with GreaseMonkey’s music generator like I did for LD19. I’ve also used Wario Ware DIY and Wolfram Tones in the past and those kind of worked, so if for some reason I’m not liking what I’m getting out of one tool, I’ll switch to another.

Sound Effects: SFXR and/or BFXR.

Timelapse: Keeyai’s Chronolapse. It’s worked great so far.

Sauce Control: Mercurial, pushed to a repo on Bit Bucket.

Twitter: @ExciteMike

Interweb pagesite: http://excitemike.com/ Has my games and stuff.

Plan: At present, I am leaning toward doing something extremely simple, even for an LD game, but then have lots and lots of levels. I’d also love to make something multiplayer, but I don’t think people tend to have friends nearby when they go to play or rate LD games. Hmm, that sounds kind of sad when I say it that way. Point is, while multiplayer is often super fun, fewer people will be able to enjoy my game if it needs two willing people in the same room.

Are you prepared to risk the Bouncing Scorpion of Alexander the Great and King Solomon’s Cursed Wandering Fruit to win honor and glory in The Worst Game I Have Made in Some Time?

The competition entry page can be found here.

(click the picture)

Roughly 285 people came up with a game idea and made it happen in just one weekend!  That’s a pretty awesome thing!

All 285 Jam and Compo Games!

Here’s a zip containing various size wallpapers and the Python script that generates them (requires PIL) : DOWNLOAD.

I’m having trouble keeping WordPress from mangling things, so go over here to get it.

Everything I wanted to get in feature-wise is in!  Now to get some audio in there.

I’m really happy with how this came out!  You can play the current version (and eventually the final version) at http://excitemike.com/1958_BNL.  Yes, the name of the game is odd.  Perhaps you can discover its significance.

Oh boy I feeling the lack of sleep/breaks right now.