The XNA version of my game now surpasses the Unity version.  What’s working:

• Player display
• Player movement
• Player collision with items
• Background Board (no wall collision yet)
• Door key displays
• Player can pickup keys

• Wall collision
• Door display (Locked and Open)
• Level transition
• Enemy display
• Enemy following
• Enemy killing you
• More Levels

I’m feeling like this list is too long to finish in 7 hours and 15 minutes.  I also have a lot of chores around the apartment that need attention. So,  I’m going knock the “can’t ignore” ones out and then hopefully I can sprint to the end!

LD21 Screenshot 2

I’ve got a game idea and a plan.  It’s basically a Pac Man with an interested style and a little twist.

Who will be our hero?

Brainstorming

Honing in on the idea

The First Screenshot

Lock and Load:

• Unity3d
• XNA
• ExEn (Andrew Russell‘s cross-platform exapnsion of XNA)
• Visual Studio

Aim High!

Aim High

I’m in!  Will be using Unity this time around.  This will be No. 10! Wow, ten is heavy.

I’m planning to use Unity for LD19 and was wondering if people had resources they’d recommend or share such as code, urls, blog posts etc. I’m especially interested in 2D tips and tricks.

Thanks,
MrPhil

PS I made a post on /r/gamedev too: What Unity Resources Would You Recommend for Ludum Dare 19 (Dec 17-20)

Woo hoo!  I had my first sale today!!!

Stacker - Bumps on a Log

Anyone interested in a meeting up for LD19 in the DC or Northern Virginia Metro area?

I’ve put up what I got. I’m not exactly proud of it as a whole. And, it probably deliverers just short of $1.26 of fun, but it is what it is.

Part of me wants to make it better, but another part of me is done with the idea and wants to move on!

Compo Link: Stacker
Website Link: Stacker

PS I’d lower the price, but BMT Micro has $1.25 minimum

Update: I switched to FastSpring and was able to lower the price to a dollar!

I created a nice visual target, literally, to aim for. It took me a little bit of time to figure out how to visually display the target separate from the collision mesh. Including, a slow walk down a lane called Child-Parent Scripting Confusion. But, now it is functional.

October Challenge Progress 10/8

Next Action: Level Two
Total Hours To Date: 18.25

It was a real fight tonight getting the “Win” to be displayed nicely and in red. Took me a while to understand the relationship between the GUIText and a font material. Brother, sure wish I had figured it out faster.

Stacker Progress 10/7

On the business hat side of things I discovered that PayPal now has a microtransation option to their pricing structure and signed up. I have my reservations about the trustworthiness of PayPal after all the stories I’ve heard, but this will be my best option if I price Stacker at $1 like I was thinking.

Next Action: Some sort of visualization for the target area you are building the tower to.
Total Hours To Date: 15.75

A small step forward.  Worked on getting the win condition to trigger.

Stacker Progress Screenshot 10/6

The trigger is firing, but I need to animated the target zone and the fact that you’ve hit it.  The text looks awful too.

I also got some business hat things done as well: signed up for Intel’s AppUp Developer whosywhatisit, Google Checkout thingy and a couple offical business forms with my county.  Can you believe you have to file for a permit to do work in your own home!?!  What is America coming too?  Anyways… tired… must sleep.

Total Hours To Date: 13.75

I’ve made some serious progress tonight.

I’ve gotten the basics now working in Unity:

• Yellow Blocks
• Physics and stacking
• Mouse position determines place of new block

I like the 3D-ness the block have now, even though the gamer is interacting purely in a 2D fashion.

Total hours so far: 11.5  This probably means that I’m already ahead of the LD12 pace.

I’m accepting PoV’s October Challenge: Make a game, sell 1 copy. I’m going to extend and polish Stacker, my Ludum Dare 12 entry. It is the most complete game and best of all my Ludum Dare entries. I also have some ideas about how to make it more interesting than the current scheme of moving the goal line higher and higher each level.

Serendipitously, Unity 3.0 was released last week. I’ve been eyeing using it in future projects for a few weeks now, and have actually done several tutorials and watched a bunch of videos online. I was particularly impressed with the Visual Studio integration. If I had known about that earlier, I would have tried it much sooner. In the past, engines, frameworks and languages have caused me much gnashing of my teeth because their IDE was so painful.

Stacker in action

The time pressure is starting to worry me.  It’s getting close, but I’m having issues with routating the tracker beam and I’m not sure what the problem is!

LD18 Game Over Screen

So…. lunch

Grape tomatoes, smoked gouda, asiago and crackers.

I’ve gotten http://code.google.com/p/physics2d working with my code, and bullets flying around.  Now collisions.

It was slow going… I took a NAP AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!