play it here

Another LD48 over, and I got some sleep in a warm cozy bed. Which is nice, especially because at the location where I was programming the game, the heating didn’t work o.O

So let’s do a final post for this LD: I was watching many Parodius videos on youtube a few weeks ago, simply because I like the music. Also:

Gradius (original)

Parody + Gradius = Parodius (awesome game)

Ludum Dare + Parodius = Ludum Darodius

What went well:

Graphics: I managed to make lots of animations in GraphicsGale (awesome program), and even though I was like laughing all the time because they looked so funny very close, I don’t regret spending so much time on them

Gameplay: I wanted to make a helicopter game for a long time, and I did!

Alternative challenge: Haha, did I really have a cat in there ?

What didn’t went well:

Theme: When the theme was announced, I made a draft. And didn’t like it. At all. Made me want to give up, because I like funny games. Kept drafting, but no. And that part alone took  4-5 hours already :/. So I scrapped it all, and scrolled through the posts on this site to get an idea. Until someone had a post with that skunk and the cat of the looney tunes, and then it made *ping* (thanks for that!). ‘Leave me alone’ rather than ‘alone’ alone. Plus, the kitten challenge kept me going

Sleep: Unbelievable, I felt like cr*p after the first night. Getting old ? At that time I was staring at the code, unable to do anything. So I kept animating and drawing more and more sprites + making concepts for new ones.

And that’s the ranting for this time. Always a nice experience to code and code and code and code

Screenshot for those who don’t make it to the boss (would be sad if you didn’t see the animation ^^). Side scrolling penises!??!? :D. They were supposed to look like the mountains from Super Mario

Happy voting!

Hey LD guys, have you noticed that as well? I started voting, but when I click on ‘View xxxx’s journal’ I get this link

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/category/ld-22/?author_name=

when I add the name of the LDer to it, it works sometimes, but sometimes it won’t as well (probably because that LDer didn’t write anything). Fix it, pretty please (ö.ö)?

Yayyy before anything happens like last time, I rather upload my stuff now . Find it here. What suffers is the sound, I only added music and nothing like BOOM or similar, but actually, I also need sleep and I got work tomorrow -_-

This was fun. Saw many many many interesting screenshots and, wow, people got skills! Kept me going and going

Also, what was nice, was that jlnr, who showed me LD years ago (theme was Infection that time, I think), also did something. Hopefully he’ll post it, too

What was bad is that I actually planned to do 4 levels. Haha, merely got one. One divided into 4 chapters though, not noticeable for the player. Which also resulted in ‘only’ one boss

And yes, I deliberately had the kitten there . Too many people here posting about cats, I couldn’t miss out

Sorreeeh!

Still got a few points on my TODO-List, but right now, it’s bedtime for me. Here’s the progress so far

Yep, my avatar now got a pixeled version

Started coding! The game ‘AHHHHHHHHHHHH KITTENS (working title)’ now has a different working title, which I can’t tell you until submission . Also, I spent the last hours spriting, which was kinda fun. Graphicsgale is great!

I call it Evil ‘Minyan’.

I got an idea. An idea I can work with. Plus the easter egg kittens will be there

First draft and (more…)

pythong here with jlnr. And the goomba will be with us as well!

And yes, vitamins is good for coders, too

Weapon of choice:

ActionScript 3.0 (i still dream of making an awesome flash game)

Flixel (getting better with each LD (only time i work with it though))

SFXR, WolframTunes, Paint.NET

Bam! not that many status updates….why? server was DOWN . the brighter side of this actually is that it shows that a lot of people are in for LD, and that’s good stuff! thanks for the guys of LudumDare to take care of this matter so fast^^

so here are still a few images from before that i wanted to share. showing progress yesterday evening and some images i made with graphicsgale

Motivation: running dangerously low

Need food

not that much to show so far, but still…

1. idea: check
2. IDE: check

starting to visualize now so that i can use taht as my red thread

personal highlight so far: using GraphicsGale for the first time (see Tools) and so far, it’s awesome!

Just woke up, dizzy, but posting….

I’m in! Escape it is, huh? So it’ll be Flash + flixel, cfxr, Paint.Net instead of Photoshop and now I need energy

have fun everyone!

There are still a few hours to go, but this is the line for me. Gotta work tomorrow :/. it was fun as always, and i learned something new (how to use flixel). next useful thing to learn for the next entry would be sprite graphics, if i decide to use flixel again, as i generally use to draw my sprites by hand. i resorted to paint++ after giving up with my tablet after around 28 hours into the game.

i’m not convinced about my entry. i could have done a lot more. platformers are soooooooo time consuming actually, beause you have to create soo much content oO. puzzle games are a lot easier for me.

wow! another weekend well spent!

still…need..to…make…more…levels

should have made more elements. being creative is hard with limited objects o.O

actually,i planned to got to bed at 2, and continue a few hours later. bam. overslept of course :/

this is my breakfast/lunch/don’t care. omelette and a mix of chili

creating levels for now

no big change between this image and the last one

enemies implemented with a box hunting other boxes and a box dropping smaller boxes. about an hour ago i hoped that drawn better graphics would raise my coding spirits, but after inserting them (see the mailboxes), it actually looks very ugly.

not really what i would call great

last thing ii can remember is that i made a sprite shit bricks. literally. damn, i’m tired, and my body didn’t really like me drinking too much coke. hands are shaking

heya, this is what i got up to now. spent the last four hours creating a level loader from png->level, though it looks very crappy. oh yeah, the game will be a platformer. what’s bugging me though is that i had an old tutorial of flixel, it seems which i followed yesterday evening, and only realized a short time ago that many functions are gone :/

left: the game, right, the level

i know i wasn’t sure if i want to participate or not, but when you’re in, you’re in i guess

like many others, i was also surprised to see the theme^^. i just woke up, and gotta say: this – is – friggin – awesome . a fun game theme!

let’s see what we can do!