Okay, time to eat. The collisions are detected and I need to code the response (make the ball bounce).

Collision detection !

Meal

Here we go! I’ve had an idea that I believe not being as bad the others ! (I had thought about a colored space-shooter featuring the Nyan-cat… but that wasn’t really what I was looking for) So I came up with a ball game: you can only interact with it by placing obstacles which it will bounce off and the goal is to bring the ball to the exit of a maze…

Let’s code !

Here I am, entering my second Ludum Dare compo! Hopefully I’ll come up with something awesome enough for me to sell it ! (just joking, or rather dreaming)

See you all next weekend!

The “I’m in!” video (geez, my phone has better video/sound quality than my webcam o_o):

Bye.

PS: I’ll be using C++ and wxWidgets or SFML… and also Gimp/Inkscape for graphics and LMMS for music (this time, I’ll do this when the game is ready ^^).

The title says it all… or maybe not. Let me explain the basics of what I’m gonna work on: you have some sort of convoy to protect and it has to travel from point A to point B in a given time. To do this, you can only use two commands which affect the physics of an area: you attract or repulse the objects in that area (each having differents properties, such as weight, damage caused around it when destroyed, attraction/repulsion (pulses) or bonuses such as more shields for your convoy, extra time or even time freezing).

Let’s code !

Woah, this weekend is full of things to do. I’ll try to make something playable this night, because war is such an inspiring theme that I’ve already come up with a few ideas, only a few minutes after having read the theme !

See you all on IRC (although it might not be such a good idea if I want to make something before the deadline ) !

After have fought against mencoder’s options (the manual is far too dense, too many options), I finally uploaded it to YouTube. It’s still processing it for now, but should be available soon…

Here’s the video:

Bye ! See you all next time !

After a final rush to put together something I could submit, I can finally relax ! Pfiuuu….

It was my first LD48, and I must admit that I loved it ! Really ! I had never attended to such events, but now I’ll try to participate in most of them. It’s incredibly faster to make a game during LD than it is when you have the opportunity to do something else…

So, a big thank you to LD !

Next time, I’ll try not to lose too much time chatting on the IRC channel !

Here are the new graphics, enjoy !

Title screen

The “receiver” sprite is still missing, but there’s a background image, and better sprites:

No receiver activated.

One receiver activated, but "discovery" feature not implemented. :/

I must speed up for the 6 remaining hours… Bye bye IRC !

The end is near ! Not the end of my game, though… But I’m still hopeful because level design should be fast. It would be great to have finished the code in 3 hours. Anyway, here’s my dinner:

Nothing better while coding

And a screenshot of the work in progress:

Not quite ready yet...

See ya !

It’s 22:30 here in France, and it was really time to eat ! Here’s what I’m having:

Dinner

Sorry, I could resist eating before taking the photo…

Hey there ! I spent a few hours thinking about the theme, and I’ve really had a hard time finding a good (in my opinion ) idea for a game:

The basic game principles of my game

And here’s the meal I ate four hours ago (I couldn’t upload it before because of Bluetooth issues, but then I realized I had a USB cable for my phone xD ):

That was good !

Now: it’s time to implement the game !

I woke up three hours ago. First thing I did: start the computer and wait for the LD page to reload. Then I saw: DISCOVERY !  I decided to make the title screen and kind of a soundtrack (but really short) because I was a inspired, but I had no idea what for a game I could make. So here’s the title screen:

I’m gonna start coding now. I just compiled the latest wxWidgets library.

This will be my first LD, I’m not sure I will be able to create anything playable but it’s a good way to know what I can do in 2 days ! This week-end can only be great !

My tools will be:

• Language: C++
• IDE: KDevelop
• Libraries: wxWidgets, SDL or SFML
• Art: Inkscape, The GIMP and my mouse
• Audio: LMMS, with Yamaha PSR-E423 keyboard