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A Valiant Attempt

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

This is the first LD I wasn’t able to get game play in by the deadline. This project is a long way off from being something that could even resemble fun.

Well, unless you like clicking a box with a check mark in it and knowing that underneath the scenes, it is now the next player’s turn. B-)

Here are screen shots of the project as it stands at the deadline:

As some of the IRC members noted, the attempt was still beneficial. I learned a lot this time around, and I’m better at game development for it.

Tags: fail
Posted in LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009 | No Comments »

PixelSlaves — Cancelled

Posted by philhassey

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Well, I fail .. but here’s my concept art:

So the concept was you have your PixelSlaves build your PixelTower .. and you could whip / feed / water them, and give them more straw and mud to build your PixelTower. But, I’m not really sure if this game idea is in good taste, nor am I sure if it would really work out to be fun anyways. So I think I’ll leave the experience to your imagination.

I’m also a bit distracted by my iphone Galcon project, so I’ll be working on that a bit, but I’ll still hang out for the LD festivities today :) I might even bring in a surprise!!!

Tags: conceptart, fail, quitters
Posted in LD #12 - The Tower - 2008 | No Comments »

Running around

Posted by jovoc

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

I can run around and jump… still some glitches with the jumping but it’s kind of working. But I don’t think Im going to have something playable in.. what is it.. less than six hours?

run dude

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Posted in LD #10 - Chain Reaction - 2007 | No Comments »

Crystal colony.

Posted by Lerc

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

I tried thinking out of the box and failed miserably.

The theme was growth, I thought of the idea of crystal growth and pretty much made an incomprehensible game with crystals in it. Hardly anyone figured out how to play the sodding thing. The final insult was that I ran out of time so you could build yourself an army but had no-one to fight.

The bright side was I was quite pleased with the overall look and User interface. It’s a basic RTS engine with minimap and group selection, resource collection etc.

Some of the development was stalled due to me not knowing how to debug. I wrote the game In Blitz max, having downloaded the demo version on the thursday before the compo. I didn’t figure out how the debugger worked (or even that it had one) until sunday.