My space exploring game thing is complete.
Go fetch!

Looks like I’ll have to cut this one level short, unless somehow I have enough time.

This is what happens when you don’t add delays in your generators. (If you can’t tell, there’s no interaction with asteroids and the player yet. :p)
And yeah, I added a cursor.

Here is a boss.

The text beside the health bar is the name and health of the boss.
Yes, I died after I took this shot.

Another low quality shot, this time with random foods I’m eating.

From left to right: Double Sour Skittles, an orange (the same one from yesterday’s desk shot), some Coke, and chicken nuggets.

Progress and stuff. Aliens are all red for some reason.

Did you know that I love placeholder graphics? I also like placing them in a random spot in the game as an easter egg.
So anyways:

Enemies that can shoot bullets (the red x things), health display, score display (top left corner), and some gold circles which give a random amount of points from 1-13.

Rocket, which moves, and shoots. It’s amazing.
Stars scroll at different speeds. Pretty neat effect.

Now I’m out of ideas.

Also, here’s a low quality shot of my desk.

I lost motivation, so the game has been cut short.

Fetch.

Difficulty levels. They even have descriptions. The second shot is hard mode. Doesn’t make much of a difference, just you can’t see very far. Of course none of you will play on Easy Mode, right?

You can also see I resized the window. No need for 640×480 if you can barely see anything around you.

Good morning.

If it isn’t obvious, you can now pick up items. The light bulb lights up the area around you. Pretty useless, but still fun. 30 seconds after picking it up, the light bulb will burn out.

Yes, I did take those screenshots at different times, if you noticed the coin count.

The game looks boring in the screenshot because of all the darkness, so I’ll explain:
-The player sprite minds its own business rather than rotate towards the cursor now.
-If it’s not obvious: You must shine a flashlight to find where the cave walls are.
-The sparkles (that are animated, but you can’t see that here) indicate where the coins are. Of course getting to them isn’t as easy as spotting them.
-The flashlight graphic you see here is the cursor, not an item you can pick up.

Going to bed now. G’night for now.

I wanted flashlights to win, but Caverns works too. I’ll still be able to pull off what I wanted to.

Of course, an hour and 30 minutes into the competition, I have a buggy engine.

Well at least something is playable.

/me gets back to brainstorming ideas

How is this related to Advancing Wall of Doom? Well, the player has to get to the ladder of the level to advance higher up. The ‘doom’ would be the cans, lasers, and the bottomful pits. The part after you get into the chimney are just ‘final’ levels that have no relation to the theme.
Read READ MEEEEEEEEEEE LD14.txt for more info.

There are two secret areas, can you find them?

Download

EDIT: Uploaded the image to the site.
EDIT2: Game Maker 7 source: Download

I’m adding a boss, and some secrets.

After lunch.

Hooray for more noodles!

From someone’s opinion, I shaded most graphics. I didn’t shade the baldies or the windows though, I’ll probably do that last.

Something I meant to show yesterday, but the Internet was b0rked. So here are the Deadly Lasers of Doom.

I’m tired now, developing the game with only three breaks in between. I’ll call it a night, and hope the Internet fixes itself overnight.

I’m back from dinner, and it seems NONE OF THE WEBSITES I OPENED ARE LOADED! D: And my service provider says “Right click the connection and click repair”, even though I even stated I tried that. Apparently Ludum Dare is the only place that actually loads. So nothing is gonna happen until this is fixed.

At least my dinner was awesome. I near the end of today, as stuff happen.

I’m currently working on the levels, and trying to make the game harder as you progress up the building. I find making Fancy Footwork be even fancier is hard.

This is also the first screenshot to have cracks in the ledges. They of course, break on touch.

What’s a Ludum Dare contest without a lunch? Off to eat my noodles!

Oh, and baldies can now throw double cans.

Finally got a functioning game! You control the bug, and you have to get to the top by jumping on the ledges. Oh, and don’t get hit by falling cans.

SNACK BREAK!

This has been lying around in my house for a week. “Why not have a snack?” I asked myself. Tasty, these are.

Back to work!

Baldies! And they throw cans down. Next step: Make the player.