You Lost!

It’s the end of a great day. My game is quite done so tomorrow I have a full day for polishing And most important, the game is fun!

I managed to implements all my ideas, I composed some music for the game for the first time and I really like the result and the live stream was really fun (big thanks for my friends and family ).

Live Stream

Watch my live stream: http://www.twitch.tv/galman33

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/galman33

Good morning Ludum Dare!

After a very hard night(only 2-3 hours of sleep) I decided to “wake up” at 7 AM. I was checking the LD site at 4AM to see what’s the theme, I can’t say that I really liked it =\. I already had enough of time thinking about an idea during the night so I started working immediately. My idea is still a bit vague but I do have a picture of the final game in my mind

Good Luck Everybody!

Watch my live stream: http://www.twitch.tv/galman33

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Good luck to everyone from Daniel and me

It’s already my fifth Ludum Dare and I’m still excited like in the first time

I feel that this Ludum Dare is going to be super awesome with a lot (1000++++) of great new games!

And as always, my weapons:

• Platform – Flash AS3
• Library – FlashPunk
• IDE – FlashDevelop
• Graphics – GraphicsGale and Pixlr
• Sounds – BFXR
• Music – Maybe some random generated music
• Food – Chocolate, A LOT of CHOCOLATE
• Live stream – Open Broadcaster on Twitch
• Encouragement – Friends, my cat and the Beatles

I’m In!

Follow me on twitter for live updates! ( @galman33 )

This was a tough weekend!

And yep, I did it again ,I made a game in 48 hours ( And the whole LudumDare community too of course :P)

As always I had a really great time making this game and I’m really proud of it. I think that my “graphic skills” really improved from the last LudumDare and that’s some great news for me. If I had some more time I would spend it on the “fine-tuning” part of the game to make it more balanced, not too easy, not too hard.

I was streaming the whole game creation process on Twitch and it was fun to talk with some other devs from times to times.

Thanks for reading! If you want me to play and rate your game too, don’t be shy

Wow, what an amazing day!

I think that most of my game is done so I’m really happy The only thing lef to to do is to add the upgrades mechanics and then I’ll be free to do the polishing and fine-tuning.

So good night every one, good luck for tomorrow and happy Hanukkah!

I’ve done some progress from my previous post and it’s going really good.

Maybe you’ll be able to recognize my hero from another game *cough*Link*cough*.

In addition I had a little lunch:

And this is me working:

I’m now working on the fighting mechanincs and later on the “shop” system.

Watch my live stream here!

(and don’t forget to say hello )

Hey, what’s up everyone?

Somehow, I woke up naturally at 5:00 AM to check the theme and then I returned to sleep. I started my LudumDare today at 8:30 AM and I’ve got my idea pretty fast so I have a lot of time to work on it

The basic gameplay is almost done: Selecting your warrior and moving. Now, I’m going to implement the collecting coins mechanic and adding warriors mechanic.

My live stream is working great so I’ll be happy if you drop by and say hello

Hey everyone!

It’s me, Galman33, remember?

Wow, a whole year has already passed since my first Ludum-Dare. So many things changed since I joined the indie game dev community, so many jams, so many tweets, so many abandoned projects, one in-dev game and site

All of this thanks this awesome thing called Ludum-Dare!

My weapons:

• Platform – Flash AS3
• Library – FlashPunk
• IDE – FlashDevelop
• Graphics – Paint(What did you expected? I’m a programmer!), GraphicsGale and Pixlr
• Sounds – BFXR
• Music – I don’t really know.. I’ll try praying, maybe it will help
• Food – Mostly M&M, water and some chocolates from France
• Live stream – ffSplit on Twitch

Currently I’m still on my vacation in France and I’ll be back just in time for this Ludum-Dare! I’m so excited

See you there and happy jamming!

Follow me on twitter of live updates!
Check out my site about my in-dev game and indie life!

Finally, the post mortem!

This was my third Ludum Dare and I think it was the best one!

Let’s start at the night of the theme announcement,  I was really excited for this Ludum Dare (as always) and I decided that I should go sleep early (23:00).  I went to sleep and for some reasons I woke up at 3:50 AM just ten minutes before the theme announcement. I saw that the theme was finally evolution  (All of this while I’m in bed ), I tried to get back to sleep but I wasn’t able to, so I already started to plan my game!

From my twitter feed

My idea was to make a game where you are a life form which evolve by adding new cells to it. Each cell will cost a different amount of DNA which you collect by killing other life forms and will have a different ability like power, defense, speed etc.

When I woke up I started my live stream and created a new project in FlashDevelop. The first thing that I did was to write my idea down.

ideas.txt

Later, I started the programming and added the basic life form entity and cells.

The first life form

Than, I programmed the life form editor/store.

The editor

Later on, I added some parallax scrolling background and some DNA.

DNA and parallax scrolling background

And I completed the GUI.

GUI

Finally I added some nice random generated life forms.

Random generated life forms

Overall

This was my best Ludum Dare ever! It was the first time which I used the whole 48 hours till the end, The game came out perfectly as I wanted it to be and the live stream was super fun! (Thanks for everyone who watched it )

The Good

The gameplay is really fun, I really like the graphics and the music and the most important part, I had a lot of fun!

The Bad

I really worked until the last minutes and it was dangerous, some instructions are missing and sometimes enemies spawn right on you and instant kills you.

Life Forms

And once again, I made a game in 48 hours for Ludum Dare!

You can rate and play my game right here

After a lot of hours of work, finally, I have a playable beta!

I’ll be happy for any comment and ideas! Thank you very much

Now I have to polish it…

You can play it right here:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42020614/bin/index.html

Watch my live stream!

Check out for updates on my Twitter!

Had lunch so now I can code better!

Watch my live stream!

Check out for updates on my Twitter!

Added some randomly generated enemies to the game!

Now it’s time to give them some IQ and make them killable and throw some DNA around!

Watch my live stream!

Check out for updates on my Twitter!

So, in the end I managed to implement a lot of features in day one!

I added some cool backgrounds, the editor is complete, the stats are almost done, the cells are also almost done.

I  wish that I’ll have enough time to complete the game as I want it to be, It’s going to be amazing!

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Check out for updates on my Twitter!

The first ever cellular life form made in my game!

It is working, finally, after taking a good rest I wrote a big chunk of the life form editorg screen (Adding cells etc.).

Now it’s time for adding enemies and implementing cells power ups!

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Check out for updates on my Twitter!

Good morning every one!

I had some hard time sleeping this night, but hopefully I’m fully awaken! I was really suprised when I saw that the theme is finally Evolution!

While I was trying to sleep tonight I started planning my game so it came out I was almost not sleeping at all, but at least I have an idea

Watch my live stream!

Check out for updates on my Twitter!

Hey! What’s up? Good to see you again.

So, my set of weapons:

• IDE: FlashDevelop – The only IDE for real ninjas
• Language: AS3 -  The flash ninja style
• Library: FlashPunk – For making ninja games
• Graphics: GraphucsGale – For my ninja art skills
• Sounds: BFXR – Phew, phew
• Music: Aviray’s Audio Editor - myna
• Extra: Some real ninja food like water and chocolate cookies

Good luck every one

Finally I’m writing this post mortem

Here I’ll show you some of the main steps from my game creation. (In other words, I removed all the boring debugging which took me 90% of the time )

1. Getting the idea

This part took me some time but I managed to do it (of course).

2. Making the basic world & “tank”

I programmed the basic world and tank, than added some graphics.

3. Pew pew

I added shooting bullets!

4. The space

I made the space (feels like god ) and added it to the game.

5. Adding some enemies

I created the enemy for making your life harder.

6. Kaboom!

“It’s the end of the world!”

7. Adding “brain”and health bars

I added something to the enemie’s head.

8. Money!

I added the “Galactic Points” to the game so you’ll be able to buy upgrades.

9. Adding the upgrades!

I added the most fun part of the game, the upgrades!

== The Game Is done ==

I had some great times making this game

My “graphics skills” really improved from the last time and I’m very happy from it. One big thing that I learnt from this Ludum Dare was that you really have to make sure that your weekend is clear. I had a lot of things in this weekend and in a result I almost ran out of time and had a lot of pressure. But I still managed to finish my game as I wanted.

You can play & rate my game here!

Yesterday I finally managed to finish my game “Tiny War Of The Worlds”. I was too tired to post about it yesterday so I’m going to do this today!

This game is one of the best games I ever created on Ludum Dare. It’s very  fun and addictive and even I played it for some hours just for fun.

One of the great features of the game is the upgrade menu, this menu is the whole point of the game. Some may go on an offensive way while the others will choose to go on the defensive way or even mix them toghether! That’s all the fun Do it your way!

I’m very proud of my result, I had a very busy weekend and I used every minute of programming to complete the whole game.

I’m so happy that we managed to pass the 1,000 games record, we’ve got some really cool games out there! Happy Birthday Ludum Dare! Well done

You can play Tiny War Of The Worlds right here!

I actually managed to do something!

I’m very short of time and I don’t really know if I’ll be able to finish the whole game, but atleast the core game works

(If the video doesn’t work click here)

You can play it right here!