Well it’s about 4 hours in and we’ve got an idea, and some basic game stuff.

Goddamn Concept art.

Silly drawing

First printscreen.

the dude lives!

Back for my fourth Ludum Dare… Back with the same old.

C# .Net

XNA Framework 4.0

Skintscript – Links soon

SuperNova Game Engine for XNA Framework. – Links soon

sfxr

Paint.Net

Gunna bash out another crappy game over the course of 2 days…. The things I do for science.

Not even a day in and i know it’s going nowhere. Stress and IRL problems have caused me to have a complete brain fart. I have a great idea but no idea where i can take it so i’m out.

Have fun everyone else.

In for my Third LD48, Tools of the trade are the same as last year, hold on let me dig out my last post to save me blurbing and source code linking again. If you arent that bothered i’ll just summarise here and you can ignore the source code and what have you.

I am using:

• My SuperNova Game Engine (Source Code Link)
• SkintScript Scripting Language (Source Code Link)
• SFXR
• Paint.Net
• Visual Studios 2005 Professional
• XNA Framework 2.0
• Possibly A library i wrote called “Network Library” If i decide i want to make a multiplayer game. (Source Code Link)
• C#

Good luck to all the newcomers this year and i hope you guys will enjoy it as much as i did the first year i entered. The best achievement you’ll get out of this is the satisfaction of making a game in 48 hours.

May not be starting straight away, because i’m away from home on work, but i should get a good day and a half out of this!!

Good luck all!

Skintkingle

Not very pretty at the moment!

But it exists! as does an End game screen with stats!

A very main menu

Added shopping in!

Try the latest release here

You need XNA Framework 2.0 to run it

some screenies!

Shop button and stats

Shop options

this is going too smoothly

When’s it going to go wrong? it must be soon!

Nearly done all the game code.. tomorrow will be dedicated to sound and graphics!

little looksee:

Money money money

trial version can be found here

dont forget to follow me here with the progress

Post comments on it so far.

here’s a couple of screenshots

Projectile Time!

Projectile Explosion

Update reporting in! Intersect point is working now so forcing the enemys away should be possible now.

A few enemys!

as you can see a healt filled lunch!

Pate, cucumber cheese. what else could a man want?!

Last night when the theme was released i worked for an hour before i went to sleep

i woke up and the code i wrote was actually GOOD! (surprize)

anyway, i’m streaming my workfrom start to finish, find me here

In the past hour i’ve upgraded my Engine from DirectX to XNA, setup an Audio pipeline, added 5 new Particle effect types, and finally fixed and improved Sprite animation. I cant believe what adrenaline from excitement can get me doing!

If anyone wants to use it or have a look it can be found here

It’s a 2D top down engine.

Good luck everyone, LD forever!

So what’s going on this weekend.

What weapons have i chosen this time?

Well:

Programming

Visual C# .Net – Windows only i’m afraid.

SuperNova Game Engine (Mine, Find it here. It’s a .Net object though so you need to be writing in .Net)

Graphics

Paint .Net

Sound Effects and Music

Guitar Pro 6

sfxr for effects.

Community?!?!1!?1!?11!1one!1/1eleven!1

I’ll be streaming from start to finish here as i did last year.

I will also be trying to make a time lapse video too so we’ll see how that goes!

All pretty samey from LD17,  minus the addition of SuperNova.

After LD17 i accidentally made a lot of reusable code which i chucked into a engine for me!

After i’ve submitted a Compo entry i’m thinking of teaming up with a friend to get some sexy music going for a jam release too.

Who else is going to be doing something like this?

Slightly more prepared this time.. I’ve got a game engine framework at my disposal this time that i’ve written.

Lets hope it goes well.

Good luck to everyone else who’s participating!

a few people reported problems when running my game… and i have filtered it down to the compiler.

It compiled the game which was only compatible on 32bit systems.

I’ve now uploaded a 64bit compiled option.

I hope this resolves some of your problems.

The link to my entrys Windows download is now fixed..

sorry for any inconvenience!

Now i kneel to the mercy of you all.

Please handle with care, this is my first time

You know what it’s like when it’s your first time

dont click here if you have no mercy!

Tarts… Tarting it up that is.. The gameplay is sound now, and i’ve had a fair bit of fun with it.. the only thing that’s lacking now is…. graphics.

I just implemented DirectSounds for some amusingly composed sounds (My voice is featured.. Head for the hills!)

Thinking of submitting before i can get more graphics done.. but i really would like a better Island image.. it just…… just…

so blegh! that’s the only way to describe it!

Anyway, grab it here, Now!

Super Island Colonizer is COMPLETE!….

gameplay wize..

Now i’m going to see if i can get some sound into it before the deadline, and maybe pretty up the graphics a little bit..

but now…. time to relax for a bit and play some submittions.

I hope you all had/are having fun

Well… soon anyway!

All i have left to do “gameplay” wize is to add boats and prevent players from colonizing any island they wish at any point….

Then i can work on making the graphics look a darn sight better than they currently do.

Here are some images so far.

A very main menu!

The wide open sea

A very happy island!

join me here for a live stream of me developing, and grab a recent build here

Download the most recent build here

Edit: Note, You need the DirectX Runtime installed and the .Net Framework, (This is Windows only, sorry Mac/Linux users!). /Edit.

it’s an island colonization and expansion game… it has no goal… yet..

I’m thinking population target over all your islands, which will force players to colonize more than 1 island..

I’m not sure, your thoughts on the way it’s heading is most appreciated.

(WASD to move the game camera around, Escape to get out of an island, Left click for everything else!)

click on the empty spaces (where the info boxes pop up) on the islands to build the discribed building..

Housing increases population, stonemasons increases stone, woodcutters increases wood, Farmer increases food.

Dock will (eventually) build ships which will allow you to colonize other islands (Although at the moment you can colonize any island anywhere without penalty or requirement.

Happy developing guys!