This is totally happening, 20th-27th May (that’s this month!) Go here if you’re interested!

Follow @FishingJam if you want to be kept updated!

So I’ve actually gotten everything working in the game I wanted working. To make use of the time left I’ll look into fixing up the environment and maybe adding sounds.

Here’s a web-player build

Got casting working! hooray!

you can play the most recent web-player build here, keep in mind you can’t ‘properly’ cast until you’ve reeled all the line in, otherwise you’re just yanking

tomorrow I guess I add some fish or something!

So upon discovering the theme, I had this idea for a fishing game where you use only the mouse, and the graphics are super dreamy. so that’s what I’m doing.

I’ve got a web-player build here if anyone is interested. it’s only rod control yet, I still have to code the line/lure stuff and then obviously the fishing too ^__^;

anyhoo, I’m having fun!

Well, I managed to model, rig and animate the Vampire, Bat, Hunter and Ghost models, and get them all into Unity acting properly… but haven’t started any network code yet, so as I suspected there’s no way this will be done in time for the compo. but that’s OK, I’ll let someone else win this time

> Here’s a browser playable link <

took a while to think of an idea I like so this is probably going to run into jam time…

but the idea is a network game, set in a mansion of vampires, hunters and ghosts!

here’s a screenshot of my workflowy:

AND NOW I BEGIN! \:D/

so, basically it’s like breeding chocobos in FF7, except with actual mutation and ‘genetic’ traits that are passed on, birds that are way more goofy than chocobos and you will actually be able to breed a flying one in this, it won’t just be one of those playground rumours. probably way too much work for a LD, and certainly when I’m feeling a little lazy but whatever, this is what I want to do with the theme

not very far though, this is all I got; >>> generate some birds and watch anims! <<<

MiniLD #34 is OVER!

> 69 entries total, check them out HERE <

 Great job everybody!

Original post:

Yay, I’m hosting a mini LD again! did you miss me?

• Date: Weekend of 26th-27th 19th-20th!
• Theme: Unimportant!
• Rules: your game must be one of the following resolutions!

1. 18 x 64
2. 128 x 128
3. 1024 x 128
4. 4096 x 4096
5. a circle, 500px diameter
6. 8 x 8 x 8

It will be non-competitive (so no voting on entries), as such feel free to disregard theme or rules as you see fit and just do whatever you think would be fun oh, and for the resolutions, feel free to do ’64 x 18′ instead of ’18 x 64′ if you fancy, or mix them up any way you like, basically just stay away from conventional game shapes! So that’s that, make sure to appear! oh, and even though there’s no competition, you can’t win unless you make a game with fishing in it of course! EDIT: DATE CHANGED, SEE ABOVE! Darkhog had already claimed the 27th, so make sure to check that out!

… I just can’t show most of it, because spoilers!

still though, I am streaming if you desperately want those spoilers! twitch.tv/sophiehoulden

I have lots more done, but you can’t see it, because it’s so dark in the game! anyhoo, here’s a new screenshot.

got most of the textures and 3D models together (this will be my first game using crazybump, having fun with that ). having fun exploring in the pitch black, but starting to feel pretty drained. need me a break!

yeah, I got some of that I think

got the guy running around in unity, and set the lighting up more or less how I want it, have been streaming over at twitch.tv/sophiehoulden, if anyone is interested. though I’m about to head down to the CB2 meetup, dunno what the internet there is like so the stream may die until this evening.

I had an ideo before I went to sleep, which made a nice change, tweaked it a bit this morning, made a concept. and I think I’m ready to start

The game is called "DogFight", it has dogs, fighting, with guns!

Links: ~ Game download page ~ Gameplay video on youtube ~

I got bored yesterday replying to a bunch of emails, so I made this warmup game. warmup postmortem: sphere colliders are better than capsule colliders for some stuff, capsule colliders don’t like to be rotated. also, it’s hard to aim in this game.

So, I’m totally down for LD this weekend. and not only am I down, I’m setting my sights on overall 1st place. you want that title, you have to beat me to it!

Looking forward to this weekend, I expect this LD to be much fun! also, I’ll totally be at the CB2 meetup!

So I’m busy this weekend, but I figured I’d have time for a simple (but EVIL) game.

• The game selects 20 files from your computer at random
• to win, you must delete them all
• you don’t know what each file is until AFTER you’ve deleted it.
• files 10 and 20 are folders, deleting them deletes everything in them
• there is no undo

this text is a link to the game, you’d be wise to never, ever, click on it. (it’s windows only)

So I managed to get pretty damn far within the compo time I think, managed to make the game code complete, playable and finishable, it’s just lacking enough levels and some sfx. I figured I could spend the last hours missing sleep and cram those in, or I could get a good nights rest and finish off the game today instead. I always choose a good nights rest, always

here’s a link to the game as it stood at the 48h mark

I really like making tilable level pieces, but I forgot how much I hate slotting them together. this final stretch is likely to be a drag, but at least right now I have everything done and working except levels, and sound effects.

got 5 hours to go, I can manage I think/hope

Long overdue for a blog update I think! let’s see, since the last update I added some basic police AI, some pathfinding (yay!) and shooting from the water pistol makes puddles now.

up next is a little extra AI behaviour (slipping in puddles, getting aggravated when wet, hears noises), also I want visual sound effects (like in a comics). after that it’s just making levels… and the 3D models that levels are made from… whew, starting to sound like a lot now I’m well into day 2, I guess I could make this a jam game, but I’m considering that to be defeat at this point, I CAN MAKE IT!

also, PLAYABLE WEB BUILD TO BE FOUND IF YOU CLICK THIS LINK!

So I woke up this morning and almost immediately had an idea! in this game you’ll play as a guy in the near future, arrested for tweeting about planning a water fight. you must escape prison, and recover your water pistol to wet police, and leave puddles for them to slip in!

progress so far is I have a player that can run around (modelled and animated woo) , water pistol that shoots loads of droplets and can be refilled from a pool, and a dash move that lets you smash through stuff that’s weak.

to do next is making droplets form puddles, after that, it’s lots and lots of AI stuff and working on enemies.

anyhoo, getting back to it now! good luck everyone

just an FYI, I released a tool to help with texturing 3D models recently, there’s a free version and it may help with your ludum dare weekend if you find you normally spend too long texturing your 3D models.

Video (of an old and broken version, but shows how it works):

Some things I textured:

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> Click here for the website <