After a strange roguelike and a failed “discovery-shuttle-dragging-the-moon-to-crush-aliens” thing, I’m in for the third time !

Probably in Jam though, I’ll use some of my existing code. Since I suck at graphics, there will be none. Same for the sound. However, I like networking, and multiplayer, so… Maybe a MUD ? We’ll see !

Well, here’s a first prototype. And sadly, even messing with the laws of the universe don’t make this fun. At least that’s a discovery : don’t try to mix space travel and planet dragging into space invaders. And even changing this to space bowling or some kind of obstacle race would be infuriating.

That’s the point : making controls horrible just to make it a “game” doesn’t work. I may try again from scratch tomorrow, but I’m not sure yet.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zp52e5eght5ktcu, needs Löve 0.7 (found at http://love2d.org/ or in your favorite repository). This is actually a zip file, the sources are inside. Arrows to move, a/z to deattach/reattach to planet.

Thanks to those damn kids, we advanced a lot in bungee jumping. So NASA chose to refurbish the Discovery vessel. To grab planets and put them around us. With big elastic cords. And Löve.

I’m never doing the physics in a space+bungee cords game again D:

And for the second time, I’ll be here. And hopefully, I’ll do something with graphics, and able to run on windows \o/

AAAAnd I’m done !

Good night everyone !

Not including random crashes and exiting, which makes it a whooping 15 ways to get out of the game, 13 of which are at the end.

And I had to cut some, because if we simply add the probabilities, it’d be 64… What have I unleashed. Seven hours left to write the talking bits (already at 70 blocks / 600 lines, and I did something like 60% I guess).

Still can’t run it on windows, though :/

A night on the beach, with campfire.

It doesn’t show in the end, but building a decent discussion tree is HARD. I had to write it down, and now… I’m selling my soul.

I wrote my first goto in the game logic.

I’m going where I can’t return. Wish me luck.

Hello from France !

I finally used Perl and Curses, so that grumpy BSD guy will be able to run my game. But for the Windows crowd… sorry :/ Since it’s my first LD, I tried to focus on finishing something, instead of blogging and futile things like graphics.

My game will therefore be… A mix of adventure game, and interactive fiction !

And damn, that’s long to write. The UI took five hours, and I’m five hours deep into the talking and scenario bits. Well… At least, noone did that. I won’t bother to take screenshots yet, though, since it would be… text. 400 lines of Perl yet, and the dialogue file is 200-ish lines. First draft here ! (again, you need Perl and the Curses package installed).

I need sleep badly

Hi !

My name’s Henry and I’m a french student in computer science. I’m entering LD18, which is my first game-making adventure, and I hope to finish something really good. I’m experienced in distributed computing, cryptology, french, lojban, a tiny bit of journalism and law. Which seems to be useless, but who knows. I’m mostly a dev and a twisted mind, not a graphist or a musician. Sometimes I think of groupies and being a rock star, then I sigh and go back to debugging.

I’ll be using Java and LWJGL, or something more exotic depending on the theme (Perl + curses ?). I’ll work in Compo, although I may shift to the other side if there’s not enough time, or if I’m too tired to work, or in case of cosmic rays in my laptop.

But I still have a question… Why does it have to start at 3 AM in Europe ?