And here’s the traditional post-Ludum-Dare pie.

Well, this time around my participation is going so good that I am calming down and  loosing pace ;(

Anyways went for a walk

Finnaly weather is good.

Also had great lunch:

• Brie cheese with fresh bread and radish 
• Kvass
• Melon
• Dark chocolate

So, with such nice kick back to work!

More chicken. More Frank’s buffalo sauce. This time with beans instead of corn.

Needs moar taterz.

Also… my game.

Needs moar gameplay.

Someone made me breakfast. Sooo lucky

(more…)

Something horrible is happening!!!

Something horrible and delicious!

Walked into town to grab Lunch at Beuno y Sano. Definitely check it out if you’re ever in the Western MA area.

It felt nice to step away from the apartment/computer. Of course, I have a notebook by me so that I could continue designing more levels.

I EAT LIKE I CODE: SPICY AND SUCCULENTLY

Inspired by Muffins & Talk, I have found a concept… lets hope it is not too grand!

Holy Moly! Its minimalism o_O
Who would have expected that  48 hours contest games will be minimalistic o_O
As usual LudumDare theme voting does not stop surprising as sidekicks almost always win It second choice all end up agree on right?

Anyways good morning everyone, I am eating my minimalistic breakfast and brainstorming ideas that start to excite me.

Brace yourself

Starting April 19, the 5th Hack-a-Jam Game Development Competition will begin!

This competition is held every 2-4 months, and this is the approximate 1-year birthday. Because of this, I am offering a prize to the winning entry. This prize is free advertising (one month), on both of my main websites, which have decent traffic.

What is the Hack-a-Jam?

The Hack-a-Jam is a game development event/competition where you must create a game within a set amount of time. The time given in each competition varies, as it could take two days, four days, or even just 30 minutes. Different from other game jam events, the Hack-a-Jam uses a multiple-award system, meaning there is no “Overall Best Game”. This allows for us to give awards to the best games, and not make a decision between two games which are equally amazing. The theme will be a suggestion voted on from the community through many different voting sessions. Another thing you could do to win certain categories is make things such as dev logs, timelapses, etc. You can them post them or links to them in the Posting section of the Forums.

What are some possible winning categories?

Most Psychedelic Visuals
Most Deaf People After Hearing The Game
Most extra items (dev logs, etc.)
Most Rage-free
Most rage-induced
Most Suggestive Content Without Crossing The Line
Shortest Game
Best themed
Most Things On Screen Without Lag or Crash

What are the rules?

Since we are a laid back community, you could probably get away with most of these rules (except major ones, like turning in your entry a whole 24 hours late…). Here are what I would like the community to follow, however:

1. All game content must be created within the set time. Note: You can use other music, placeholder graphics, etc. as long as you are allowed to!
2. Your game is not required to follow the theme, but would greatly improve your chances of winning. Unless almost every other game is not following the theme, it is almost guaranteed that your game won’t win anything.
3. You must work alone, and you must create everything included in the game.
4. All game creation tools are permitted, such as Unity, GameMaker, Photoshop, Flash, Paint, etc.
5. All external game extensions/DLLs are permitted. If you want to make it multiplayer (if you are using GameMaker), go ahead and use 39dll.

You can visit our website at http://www.hack-a-jam.com/. From there, you will want to head over to the Posting section, and sign up for an account (you can use Google, Facebook, etc.). Good luck to everyone!

Starting April 19, the 5th Hack-a-Jam Game Development Competition will begin!

This competition is held every 2-4 months, and this is the approximate 1-year birthday. Because of this, I am offering a prize to the winning entry. This prize is free advertising (one month), on both of my main websites, which have decent traffic.

What is the Hack-a-Jam?

The Hack-a-Jam is a game development event/competition where you must create a game within a set amount of time. The time given in each competition varies, as it could take two days, four days, or even just 30 minutes. Different from other game jam events, the Hack-a-Jam uses a multiple-award system, meaning there is no “Overall Best Game”. This allows for us to give awards to the best games, and not make a decision between two games which are equally amazing. The theme will be a suggestion voted on from the community through many different voting sessions. Another thing you could do to win certain categories is make things such as dev logs, timelapses, etc. You can them post them or links to them in the Posting section of the Forums.

What are some possible winning categories?

Most Psychedelic Visuals
Most Deaf People After Hearing The Game
Most extra items (dev logs, etc.)
Most Rage-free
Most rage-induced
Most Suggestive Content Without Crossing The Line
Shortest Game
Best themed
Most Things On Screen Without Lag or Crash

What are the rules?

Since we are a laid back community, you could probably get away with most of these rules (except major ones, like turning in your entry a whole 24 hours late…). Here are what I would like the community to follow, however:

1. All game content must be created within the set time. Note: You can use other music, placeholder graphics, etc. as long as you are allowed to!
2. Your game is not required to follow the theme, but would greatly improve your chances of winning. Unless almost every other game is not following the theme, it is almost guaranteed that your game won’t win anything.
3. You must work alone, and you must create everything included in the game.
4. All game creation tools are permitted, such as Unity, GameMaker, Photoshop, Flash, Paint, etc.
5. All external game extensions/DLLs are permitted. If you want to make it multiplayer (if you are using GameMaker), go ahead and use 39dll.

You can visit our website at http://www.hack-a-jam.com/. From there, you will want to head over to the Posting section, and sign up for an account (you can use Google, Facebook, etc.). Good luck to everyone!

Finally this morning I came up with a 3rd mini-game for the criminal “simulator” I’ve been working on.
The new activitiy was very simple to implement which leaves me good chunk of time to polish and tweak the game.

The biggest thing left to do is to port the game for Windows, but in theory it “should” compile pretty much out of the box (result may vary ™).

Started today with a healthy breakfast… a large cheeseburger:

I’m not entirely satisfied with my games concept as it doesen’t really give you a motivation for the crimes you’re committing other than a bad story .
On the bright side it haz g0at(s)

At the moment seems very likely I will end my bad streak of 2 failed LD’s in a row, which is nice… time to get to the horrors of porting to windows…

Here’s my somewhat healthy breakfast to get started on the Jam!

Also, here’s a screenshot of our first whiteboarded idea: A UFO shoots and destroys everything on earth -BUT- it will need to be careful against some armed enemies, ground and air forces!

So, this is my second Ludum Dare, and while I didn’t do all that badly my first time, I told myself I’d prepare this time. So here’s my setup, complete with plenty of snacks of questionable healthfulness.

I’m gonna be streaming over on twitch so feel free to come say hi, if you’re not working on your own entry, which you probably will be.

Good luck everyone!

-Evan

Kind of lame in between all the “finished!” posts, but our jam project is still in full swing. Current features:

• Randomly generated theoretically infinite terrain with houses that have door openings, shelves and tables.
• Being able to log on to the server and seeing other players move around, fully animated.
• Mouse based A* pathfinding mouse movement.
• Auto dirt to grass tile transitions.

Note the depressing lack of gameplay features. I’m pretty sure at this point we overshot and we’re not going to make it in time. Oh well, lesson learned if it’s so, I guess! Still the fact that we managed to get this much done in a server/client architecture in two days is impressive.

Now for an art dump.

And last but not least, today’s dinner:

Back from work at long last, now the time has come to focus and finish off my game! Attached is a picture of my (very quickly and gratefully eaten) dinner from work: One of the reasons I’m quite happy to be working at a restaurant!

Good luck to everyone else who hasn’t finished yet!

I made my first sprite ever (and it took me foreveeeer to do it). It’s far from being perfect but whatever. I’m proud of it, and had fun making it.

Also, a cake. I like cakes.

Damn. That’s hard to make a game.

Finally I got something barely playable!
My game is inspired by Pikmin, and tower defence games. You control a swarm of minions that you must use to protect something (not sure yet). The catch is that they will reproduce themselves (and die) a lot and each generation will have slightly different attributes then the previous one, I hope some natural selection (and evolution) will occur based on this:D

You can play the latest build HERE

… and here’s my lunch photo