Well, I’m callin’ it now: I’m not gonna have anything done by either of the submission times.
I just had too much goin’ on this weekend.

But, it was a wonderful experience for me to start working on a project of my own in where I am doing the development as well as my usual art.  I def want to see this game through to the end and I would love to keep you guys updated on it’s progress.

I’m still gonna be workin’ this weekend, but real world stuff is taking up my compo time.

Good luck to everyone else out there!

Also, I just thought of a name for my game while I was in the shower; it shall be called “Minima”

Well, I now know without a doubt that I won’t have anything to submit by the time LD is over. I just have too much stuff going on this weekend. I’ve got two banquets and a wedding shower to go to.

I’m still gonna finish this thing though, you can count on it.

But real world stuff comes first.
Anyways, here’s a quick look at my work in progress.

As an artist, it hurts me that I’m still using stand-in art. But, the game comes first!

Well, it’s not exactly an in app purchase, but I’m use the lite (free) version of game maker and a lot of the stuff I wanna do I’m afraid in only in the standard version.

Dag.

Time to go.. *puts on sunglasses* ..minimalist.

The more I work on this vague idea I had coming into this thing, the more I start to find a focus for it and the more I find ways to simplify it. I’m excited. I may try to finish this game whether it’s done in time for the Jam or not.

So I started actual work on this about 12 hours late. So there’s that.
I also have a couple banquets I need to go to this weekend. There’s also that.
And I just found out there is a wedding shower that I’m supposed to go to tomorrow because I’m a groomsman in the wedding.

So.. I’m gonna try to work on this instead of sleeping/eating.

Bold strategy, Cotton, I know.
Let’s see how it works out for me.

Well, here goes nothing.

I stated previously that I didn’t know whether I was in or not.
Well, I’ve been researching and mulling things over in my head since the LD started.

I’m an artist. Not a programmer.
At all.

My programmer is at a wedding this weekend.

But.

I think I’m gonna try.
I wanna do this.

Base: Game Maker Lite 8.1 (or maybe Blender. I dunno)
Art: Graphics Gale, PhotoShop, Illustrator
Sound: sfxr aaaand I dunno what else. Maybe free libraries.

Wish me luck.

Hey fellow LDers!

I’ve entered a couple LDs in the past with my teammate Maggard, but unfortunetly this time we won’t be able to do so! He is in a wedding this weekend!

So, I’m not sure what I’m gonna do yet as part of me would still like to enter. But I’m an artist, so that’s kinda hard to do alone.
Another friend of mine who has also entered in the past and who is entering again this time ask me if I would like to join him this time, so I may take him up on that offer.

Or I may just work on an idea for myself: do some art, animations, storyboards, etc. Just to do.

Or maybe I could just create some random bits and pieces and make them publicly available for everyone else to use in their games!

Or just play more Monster Hunter.
I haven’t decided.

We’re finished!

Will post a post mordem later!

~ScreamRawr & Jif

Hey LDers!

I realize it’s been quite a while since my last update up it’s for good reason! Jif and I have been hard at work trying to finish everything in time for submission.
Unfortunately we’ve had to cut some stuff, but we’ve been able to keep a lot as well.
I don’t really remember what time I fell asleep last night, I just remember waking up at my desk at 5am and then crawling in bed because I had to go to work today. The problem of being graduated from college is that now I have a big boy job where I work a regular 8-5 job.

BUT! My job is amazing! I pretty much experience Ludum Dare every week! See, as an artist for a local indie game dev company, I get to continue to do what I’ve been doing all week!

So.. I had to take a break from game dev, to go to work to do some game dev.
Not sure if winning, or inception.

At any rate, it sucks that I’m unable to work on the LD entry for a few hours but at least Jif is back at our apartment working diligently.
I def gotta give him some props for this weekend. This is only our second LD and I feel like we’ve made better progress this time. It’s crazy.

I’ve been seeing some great screens and I cannot wait to play everyone’s games! I plan on playing them all! Even if I have to spend time after the contest is over.

Well guys, I’ll be crunching in some more work before submission tonight, so I’ll see you guys then!
KEEP ON JAMMIN!
~ScreamRawr & Jif

Hey LDers!

Time is running out for us Jammers! Better get those final touches in! Don’t forget music! (Even though we probably won’t have any) lol.
Here’s a few screens for ya. I’m not going to make this long cause I’ve got work to do.

It’s currently 2am and I have to get up in the morning for work. I don’t get off until 5pm. I’ll get home around 6pm, and LD ends at 8pm for me! Not fair!

Welcome!

You did well! What’s it going to be?

 

~ScreamRawr & Jif

How do you know you have a good girlfriend?

Spend the weekend in a silly adventure making video games from scratch, whilst killing yourself, instead of seeing her.

If she never complains once, comes to visit you, brings you food, vacuums your floor, washes your dishes so that “you don’t have to worry about it”, then, well, she’s a keeper.

I love my girlfriend.
And I love making video games.

~ScreamRawr

Update time guys!

Working on some tilesets at the moment.

Word up for hand drawn!

We’re beginning to feel like we’re running out of time. But at the same time, I still feel like we have things under control.
Music is always an issue for us because neither of us ever have time and we always put it off until the end. And even then, we should be doing other things. Oh well. We’ll just have to see how things turn out.

If you guys wanna watch me do art stuff, you should check me out! www.livestream.com/screamrawr

It’s be really cool and stuff.
~ScreamRawr & Jif

Hey LDers!

Well, if we end up running out of time and can’t get our platformer going how we want, we’ll at least have a really fun brawler for you to play. If we resorted to this Plan (B)rawler, it’d hurt our rankings a bit cause of the game play, but it’d be mindless fun. haha.

Falcon….

Enjoy, guys.
~ScreamRawr & Jif

Hey LDers!

For those of you who are participating in the 48 hour compo, good luck! I can’t wait to play your game!
And those of us who are in the Jam, don’t give up yet! We can do it!

I’ll keep things short so that I can get back to work.

Quince came over.

BACON

This was the result:

Sweet breakfast!

And then I worked on the game!

What’s inside?

See you guys soon!
~ScreamRawr & JIf

Just realized that I’ve been awake and working for 20 and a half hours straight today. I believe it’s time for some rest.
Good night LDers! I’ll be back up in  about 2-4 hours.

~ScreamRasdjfkl;sdafaZzzzzzzz

But everything has it’s pros and cons.

Do you love me?

Hey LDers! I hope all is going well and that you aren’t as tired as we are! We’ve made a lot of progress today, but theres still a lot to do.
At this point, i don’t know if we’ll get to adding music. Just not enough time. D:
We wanna get the core mechanics working first.

Here’s a few screens for ya:

Reese’s Wrappers, Redbull, and a game I haven’t played yet.

If I don’t get around to adding more tails, he’s just going to look like a scorpion.

 

See you guys next update.
~JifRawr & Scream

Things may seem to be taking their time, but it’s because we’re doing most of the back end stuff first.
That, and even the front end stuff takes time. But I promise it will begin to “appear” like we’re actually doing stuff eventually.

SCREENSHOT SATURDAY.

Evolution, bro.

~ScreamJif & Rawr

Greetings LDers!
Long time no speak! It’s just past the half way point for the Compo LDers and the end of the first day for the Jamers. I hope everyone is doing fantastic! I’ve seen some fantastic screens so far. Art is beautiful, and concepts seem amazing. I can’t wait to play some of these games. I’m going to do my best to play as many as possible, but we all know how hard that is.

So we’re way past due for an update. Brace yourselves.

More White Board Magic

We’re to that horrible “just do it” phase of the cycle. We know what all needs to be done, now we just gotta do it.
We’ve got enemies on scree, multiple ‘traits’ available for pick up, and we keep adjusting the physics to make it feel good.

It’s not a whole lot to look at at the moment, but here’s a screen.

Jump little guy!

I really feel like we’re taking this Evolution theme to a fun place with this game. I’m excited for everyone to play it.
It will be different at least.

Dynamic Evolution.
That’s what’s up.

Also! my amazing GF brought me some of her homecooked stew! It was sooo amazing!

It was tasty! And it was wonderful getting to see her!

I’ll update again soon.
Keep it up!

~ScreamRawr & Jif

I think I need to stop looking at other people’s updates. Because I always get the feeling that we’re all doing very similar things and that makes me sad.
I wish our idea was more original, but at the same time, I still feel like we’re doing something very unique. And if we’re not, maybe we’re doing it better than others. Who knows.

BUT. It doesn’t really matter right? This is like Who’s Line Is It Anyway! The points don’t matter, and it’s all about having fun. I say good luck to all and hope you guys are as psyched about your games as I am for mine! And remember, just have fun!

So we’ve got our main character drawing pretty well and things are going great. We’re finishing up some of our drawing methods and then we’ll begin work on our Evolution System. You guys are gonna love this, I promise.
Here’s an image!

He’s all kinds of messed up in the gene pool.

See you guys next time!
~ScreamRawr & Jif

Hey LDers!

For those of you who have slept, I hope you all have slept well! And for those of you who havent, don’t forget to rest those creative minds!
Got about 5 and a half hours of sleep last night. Pretty good. Today we’ll really start hammering out some stuff for our game. Be sure to keep an eye on us!

For breakfast, we went and got McDonalds. Yataa!

THEY DIDN’T GIVE ME ICE FOR MY ICED MOCHA. WHAT?

Cheers!
~ScreamRawr & Jif