I’ve got my entry done .. It’s “strongTowlr“, a mash-up of mrfun’s Strong AI and PoV’s towlr series.  I also pulled a style theme from SpindleyQ’s CGA Quest.  Strong AI was one of my favorite LD games .. and the towlr series has been my on-going nemesis.  strongTowlr is a horrible marriage of good and evil.

Although it may seem impossible, several LDers have already been able to defeat it.  If you need emotional support, there are people in #towlr willing to help.  Dragonene gets the honors for being the first person to defeat strongTowlr (in only 140 tries!)

Have fun!  Don’t hurt yourself!
-Phil

P.S. As always, thanks to DrPetter for sfxr, and to the “festival” team for the voices.

Yeah, it’s an awesome game.  It’s BIGFOOT BLASER!!!

Linux + pygame: svn://www.imitationpickles.org/bigfoot/trunk

Windows: DOWNLOAD NOW AND PLAY FOR HOURS!!!

To Play: Type the answer to the math problem and press enter.  You can use the number pad or the not-number-pad numbers or whatever.

So .. best game ever .. or something.

It’s a typing game.  Type the text in the center of the screen.  Quotes are from Tom Sawyer.

Have fun, or whatever  Again thanks to DrPetter for sfxr and to thirdcog for making an OS/X port.

Hey,

I think this weekend would be a great weekend for the production of the Ludum Dare Christmas Album!  So rev up your recording equipment / tracker .. and put together a swell Christmas track!  Post links to your tunes in the comments of this entry!

-Phil

I’m not so sure I’ll be getting out a game this time. I could give a bunch of lame excuses .. but instead I’ll show you what I did instead I got me a new music toy!

Here’s my “music disk“.

I’m not at all sure what dev environment I’ll decide on ..  Anything from pygame, to tinypy, to AS3, to PHP, to iPhone.

In all these cases, I’ve got some code, or at least some minimal junk I might cut-n-paste a line from.  But nothing of importance.  Lets see if I can link to some of it ..

For pygame, I’ve got my pgu and pug projects which I’ve linked to in the past.

For tinypy, well, there is tinypy and the various snippets of code that come with it.

For AS3, I don’t have anything, except for a few crude lines of code to point me in the right direction, so .. probably less than 20 lines of code.  Probably stuff I took from Lerc’s entry a few LD’s ago.

For PHP, I just have a database wrapper and whatnot .. but it integrates into my galcon.com stuff, so I can’t actually share ALL of that.  But if I make a game that I enter, I will at least share the game code for viewing fun.  It’ll be obvious enough that someone could get it up and running on their own PHP site in a few minutes.

For iPhone, I have some horrible ObjC wrapper code.  The rest is just using SDL.  I probably won’t do an iPhone game though, so no worries.

The Maze of Madness is my cover of Hamumu’s Maze of Ludicrosity

Anyway, it’s a “user created content adventure game” of epic proportions. It even includes an exclusive ultra-awesome flash pixel art editor! So you are guaranteed to have a great time!

Check it out now!

-Phil

P.S. here’s a picture from within the game (not just the editor):

Check it out.

If you dare ..

I’ll be resetting the data tomorrow probably .. so just mess around tell me if you find any bugs or whatever

-Phil

So here’s a crude prototype of what I’m working on.  I savaged some poor innocent breakout clone to build this.

Lerc’s flash LD game “BoomShakalaka” provided me with some of the HTML I needed to make this work.  I’m probably going to snag a couple other lines of code from that project before all is said and done.

So for my tool project I’m going to work with some other tinypy folks to help get the GSOC sandboxing project finished and get a release done

tinypy is a minimalist implementation of python in 64k of code. Over the summer Denis Kasak has been working on getting tinypy sandboxed so it can be useful as a scripting language for games (or whatever). We’ve very close to being finished, and I think with this final push, we’ll be able to get the project wrapped up

I’m going to be mentoring that, as well as closing out a few bugs that have been found in the parser over the last three months. I’ve been pretty busy with my iphone stuff, so this will be a good chance for me to catch up on things.

I’ll keep you posted.
-Phil

Well, I fail .. but here’s my concept art:

So the concept was you have your PixelSlaves build your PixelTower .. and you could whip / feed / water them, and give them more straw and mud to build your PixelTower.  But, I’m not really sure if this game idea is in good taste, nor am I sure if it would really work out to be fun anyways.  So I think I’ll leave the experience to your imagination.

I’m also a bit distracted by my iphone Galcon project, so I’ll be working on that a bit, but I’ll still hang out for the LD festivities today :)  I might even bring in a surprise!!!

A sneak peak into Galcon for InstantAction reveals this tower of Brawndo Cans!!!

This is my entry from last time.  Nothing is really different at all.  I even saw the giraffes again today

Hey, I’ve just finished porting my Ludum Dare 8 entry (Galcon) to the iPhone / iPod Touch!  Read all about it here!

For the impatient, here’s a screenshot:

I noticed some talk last night about syndicated blogs and how to get your posts removed. The best way to do that is to start putting your posts into a “ludum” category or something, and then I can set this site up to syndicate that category instead of your whole blog.

However, I think it’s cool to have all your posts, even ones that aren’t really game related at all. I mean, it’s the off-season and it’s fun to read whatever the other LDers are doing, etc. So I wouldn’t worry about being off-topic. This way you just get a better readership, etc.

While I’m at it, if you have competed in a couple LDs and want your blog syndicated, send me an e-mail or something and I’ll be glad to add you.

A few days ago my laptop got violently attacked by all sorts of bloatware. I’m guessing it was due to some IE hole or something, oh well. Anyway, it inspired this game. You get to destroy bloatware - yay!

Download for windows or get the source svn://www.imitationpickles.org/ld11/trunk/

Oh, and you can get all kinds of crazy combos if you don’t miss any boxes and are really fast.  So get playing!  Made with python / pygame as per usual.

Well, I got all the game-play and core graphics done.  Tomorrow I’ll wrap it up with some music, sfx, and a title / menu screen.

I was able to use my pug gui engine to render those dialog boxes.  You get crazy combos in this game if you can keep up!