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Wahoo, Ludum Dare is done! Happy 10th anniversary, Ludum Dare!

I feel better about this year (and somehow still have a little energy left for the day). Well, my game didn’t get beautiful at any point, and it was definitely out of scope, but it works and I think it at least has some interesting bits. But hey, I’m a horrible judge, please play it and tell me what you think!

Now I’ve just got to resist the urge to dive into the pile of this year’s entries and play until I collapse…

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/911517/LD48-23-ExpandExploreExpatiate.exe

Well, here’s what I’ve got mere hours from the deadline. Not a lot of time left for graphics, particles, or sounds, but I’ll make sure it’s not completely dead. Hey, the game can be played all the way through now with exploring and challenges and whatnot! If you play it, tell me what you think!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/911517/LD48-23-3.exe

Alright, behind schedule once again! The gameplay isn’t all the way finished, so I’ll add that to my cornucopia of false promises (it’s a lovely table decoration especially during the holidays). Though I did spend this time building a tile system for easy placement, with a majority of the tiles completed (but without time to implement most of them). A few of them are placed already. The micro-scale collisions are eating up much of my time, especially the parts that can move.

Ah well! I think I can get this one done tomorrow, though it will be lacking in polish elements.

Well, I’m halfway through my second day and I only just now achieved what I thought I’d have done within a few hours of waking up! I should have guessed that changing and moving what can and cannot collide was going to be a big headache.

But! Since that’s my only mechanic, I can finally move on to designing the game challenges now that it’s done. I know it’s still uglier than a warty toad’s awkward cousin, but I learned last Ludum Dare time that beauty can wait. I want this thing bug-free and fun! With any luck, I can have a still-hideous-but-gameplay-goody before I sleep tonight. I’ll let tomorrow me worry about sprites and sounds!

Still hard to convey in pictures while it’s all colored blocks, but you can see that bits both large and small are shifted around the map. Can you spot the player in all this?

If you feel like trying out what I’ve got so far, follow the link!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/911517/LD48-23-2.exe

Spent roughly an hour or two designing a game where you influenced a man’s mental process by bribing his organs to vote your way during cranial congress, in order to get him to walk to the couch. Mercifully decided that that was way too complicated. Wound up with this instead.

Stunning, I know. It’s about shifts in size and background/foreground. Not enough real gameplay yet, but the mechanics are there. I hope to have something more interesting and design-y tomorrow by lunch!

Alright, second time is a charm!

For some strange reason, I swore after the last Ludum Dare that I wouldn’t do the next one. Well, I’m sure showing myself! Now that I know how Ludum Dare is actually pronounced, how can I refuse? I’m out to use what I learned from my first Ludum Dare to make something fun, un-buggy, elegant, and focused!

~Gameplay!?: GameMaker 8.0

~Graphics!?: Photoshop

~Audio!?: sfxr, musagi?