My entry has already been submitted, but I wanted to share the photo anyway. Oyakodon:

Rather than adding more features hastily, I’ve decided to wrap things up nicely and settle for what I’ve got.

Since the last update, I’ve just drawn 4 more enemy types and terrains – desert+mummies, jungle+monkeys, sea+crabs, snow+snowapes.

If you care, you can play the game here: http://www.jarnik.com/pub/ld20/

Unimplemented ideas:

• hand drawn backgrounds for each level
• lethal blocks (burning bush, wall of flames) crossable only by cloning behind them
• destructible blocks (I’ve been thinking of a steeper terrain, where bashing your way through would be neccessary)

Thank you guys for a feedback! I did LD for 3 times before, but this one was one of the best – I was finally able to plan small enough and actually stick to the plan.

Good luck to you all others with your entries!

I generated some sounds (using SFXR) and a music ( autotrk through schism tracker). Now I can attend to creating more levels and enemies

Try the game: http://www.jarnik.com/pub/ld20/index-v5.html ( FLASH )

And a screenshot from the final scene:

Last night I created a title screen and this morning I put together a cutscene system:

Play the game (5 levels): http://www.jarnik.com/pub/ld20/index-v4.html (FLASH)

Now I’m gonna focus on creating some sounds and music.

Then I’ll add more levels and enemies – any suggestions? So far I’ve got: blackforest + wolves, graveyard + zombies, volcano + lavamen, stronghold + balck knigts, hell + devils.

All 5 levels are now playable, we have HUD showing magic item cooldown and cloning limit, CLICK TO PLAY:

My TODO list keeps on shrinking:

Things going pretty smoothly, I’m gonna grab some dinner and then on to title screen and cutscenes, then some sounds and music

Warrior cloning works as expected, enemy bashing as well, try it out for yourself: (click the image to get redirected to flash)

Now I’ll move on to set up level scrolling, cloning item cooldown and some basic HUD. Then multiple levels, then sounds and intro&outro&title screen.

Wish me luck

If you encounter any problems, please let me know.

Spaghetti with tomatoes, ham and cream sauce.

And here’s a present state of my TODO list:

… is all I’ve got so far It’s flash, click on the image to test it. I’m going AFK to make some lunch.

I doodled some basic assets (hero, monsters, terrain) while I have some creative powers. Now on to coding.

Black currant juice, mazanec (sweet bread) leftovers and apple/banana mix. Yum!

It’s 8:15 am and I’ve finished a basic concept sketch – I’m gonna make a classic side-scrolling beatemup with a special twist: player can make clones of his hero using a magic item.

The funny thing is, all the clones have the magic item as well, so every time you use it, the hero count doubles – growing not linearly, but exponentially. Imagine 256 heroes, each of them obeying your commands simultaneously:)

Here is my concept sketch:

I’m quite happy for the selected theme, because I would hate to make the make the evolution game (which is largely over-used IMO) – evolution ended up 2nd.

Good luck to you all, fellow LDers!

… because you cannot do anything less than AWESOME with a Three wolf moon shirt:

I also got some food and my workspace ready:

I have decided to take a little side-quest: to make an entry that could be controlled using a gamepad. A bit unusual for a flash game, but not to hard to stick to, since I’ll be using the Flixel engine (that emphasizes key controls).

I tend to plan far too complex games, that’s why I’ve screwed the LD19 (I got mad at myself and dropped the LD). I’ll give it a shot at LD20, with less expectations and, hopefully, slightly better results.

Coding: Flash(AS3) using vi + Flex + Flixel

Graphics: OpenCanvas + GIMP

Audio: SFXR + Audacity

Music: musagi

Good luck to you all, see you there!

(And all you space fans out there – don’t forget to watch the STS-134 Endeavour launch, it’s just a few hours prior to the LD20.)

…and get rich!

Brainstorming notes:

And some mockups:

I did not have the guts to get up at 3 AM at the LD start, so now it’s 10 AM for me and I am beggining to craft an idea.

Although this is gonna be my third LD, it will be the first time I’ll be making a LD game completely in Linux using my new laptop. Stickers are the essential part:

After LD15 and LD17, LD19 is gonna be my 3rd participation to the great LD event (although not on purpose, the pattern seems to emerge).

Also, for the first time, I’m gonna roll with a fully open-source setup (Ubuntu YAY!) on my netbook.

Tools:

• AS3 Flash via Flixel
• GIMP + Inkscape
• sfxr + Musagi (if I manage to get it working)

I tend to focus on building original and complicated systems, not having time to finish the content and tune the overall gameplay experience. So there go three small private pledges for LD19:

• select just 1 iteresting gameplay mechanic (forget the complex system)
• prepare mockups, scrutinize the rules BEFORE coding anything
• make use of the sandbox gameplay or procedurally generated content (you won’t have time nor energy to handcraft levels at the later stages of development)

See you all there!

42 hours, 1 picture every minute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ_VKS0ptDI

Phew, 2 hours left, but I’m done  (2 am here) . You can play my entry online here: http://www.jarnik.info/pub/ld17/

Latest updates: sound effects (via sfxr), one music theme (via Musagi), minimap, Redshirt, Starchild, Tribbles, monkeys…

Achievements now totaling 15:

And the last in-game screenshot (Cuzco the Goat with his wagon in top right corner):

I wish I had one more day to add some content – I always end up devoting more time to building the tools than actually using them.

Anyway, this was my second LD, I enjoyed it as much as I could.  I took a lot of food photos, I had a great time (huge thanks goes to my sweetheart :*).

Chronolapse has been capturing my desktop for past 48 hours, so the timelapse video should follow.

Now with some 5 basic levels, 7 evolution equations and 15 entities:

Map seems neccessary, gotta work on it.

Achievement list:

Also – dinner! “Casablanca” spice mix w/ chicken and basmati rice: