I didn’t exactly intend to make a game when I started this weekend, but hey, I ended up making a 3 player physical card game! You can get it here.

The 3 goats starring in my game are my goats Cuzco, Nibbles, and Lilly. I hope you have fun playing it!

-Phil

I’ve got all my villains now! Now onto weapons and stuff …

-Phil

One more villain to go! Then onto weapons

I’m making a villainous 3 player card game!

-Phil

I just drew a sketch of one of MY favorite villains .. Snidely Whiplash!

May it inspire you!

-Phil

My October Challenge 2011 game is finally done! I guess I took longer than a month to finish it

Anyway, check it out

If you want to know the whole dev history (how it took 4 game jams to make this game You can check out my dev blog.

Anyway, have fun!
-Phil

Ahoy there, thanks so much for joining in the 10th Anniversary Ludum Dare! I gotta say, it was an amazing experience to see all 1400+ entries being submitted to the site!

The judging is pretty much the same as always. You judge entries, people judge you.

The big change this year is that now those who judge more entries will get more people judging their entry. I recommend starting judging a few entries now and keep judging them throughout the next three weeks to ensure your entry gets a good handful of ratings. Try to judge AT LEAST 25 entries. Please note that stuffing fake ratings is 100% uncool.

Also, coolness has changed: 50 ratings gets you bronze. 75 gets you silver. 100 gets you gold. Above that, you’re just awesome Be sure to make a post about your favorite entries to highlight the best-of-the-best!

Lastly, if you attempt to play an entry, but can’t, please just leave a comment to the user stating that you can’t judge their entry and explain why. “I don’t have a Mac” or “I can’t install Java” or whatever are all fine reasons. It will help them know how to create an entry that even more people can play next time!

Cheers!
-Phil

Check it out.

-Phil

testing

Things are finally heating up!

It’s -almost- a game!

-Phil

Man, I managed to bore myself to death with this game.

Soooo .. I’m going to scrap that game and do something simple and silly instead

-Phil

Okay, NOW I’ve got my web API dumping out JSON data …

Next up, I get to actually display this data Woo!

-Phil

Okay, I’ve now got DATA in my database. Here’s a few NPCs.

Wooo! Can you just FEEL THE FUN, or what?

-Phil

This is what I have so far. This, and a 42 column database.

-Phil

Ahoy there, you might recall my October Challenge game “Anathema Mines” which is a remake of an old LD#6 entry.

I’ve written a blog post about the original LD#6 entry. The re-make I was doing in October is coming out in mid-May, you can see the trailer here.

Cheers!
-Phil

Ahoy there, anonymous gift sender – thanks for the Christmas gift exchange gifts They actually came in a few weeks ago, but I was at GDC, so I forgot to post for a bit!

Gift included:
- Swell Mega-Stein
- German Gaming Magazine
- A festive snack!

Unfortunately the gift I sent was “returned to sender”

-Phil

Hey, we’re always trying to make Ludum Dare way more fun, so if you’ve got any crazy ideas, post ‘em here!

-Phil & Mike & the rest of the LD Staff

Hey, y’all!

Go and check it out! Here’s the original entry.

Also, here’s my Christmas card to you!

Thanks again for joining in LD22!!! Have a great holiday!

-Phil

And I managed to get the game in under the line! Huzzah!

It’s a flash game, so you should totally check it out right now!!!!

And whenever you want to judge it, here’s the link.

Anyway, thanks everyone for joining in this Ludum Dare, it’s just plain awesome to see 700+ games get made in a single weekend! I hope you all had a total blast jamming and competing! I know I did I’m totally amazed out by the few screenies I’ve seen so far!

-Phil

Well, after a day of working at it, the game is now working! I’ve got the full experience from start to finish now. Todo tomorrow:

- title screen
- win screen
- in game timer, text hints
- music, sfx

I’m pretty happy with how it came out

-Phil

Hey, been working on this game since .. the start! It’s Nobody Wants Kitty about a lonely sad kitty who doesn’t have much going for her. She’s got to upgrade herself until someone will finally want her. You start out as a pathetic cat with rabies, mange, a missing eye, a missing ear, no whiskers, and no fur.

I’m using flashpunk and that’s been working pretty well. Using flash is nice because distribution is so super simple

-Phil

Yo, I’m totally in this time! I’ll probably be jamming cause my toolchain is so clogged with my commercial stuff now, but ya never know.

Compo code base:
- python / pygame
- AS3, which I don’t know, but I’ve hacked a few crummy things together in it before
- dev under linux and port to windows

Jam code base:
- C++ / PHP if I use any web backend stuff
- or just PHP if I do a multiplayer web game
- dev under OS X and port to windows

Tools:
- iPad with MultiTrack for recording audio clips and sound effects
- the gimp for graphics stuffs
- maybe modplug tracker for music
- sfxr if I need blips and beeps

Them’s the plans! I may do an iOS game if it’s the right theme. I think I might be leaning towards doing something with AS3, maybe I should spend friday learning it a bit in advance so I’m not scrambling to get my skills together.

-Phil