Getting ready for a late start on LD 22. First things first – a run to wal-mart for some LD grub.

Just had a little beer time

No more panic, it's beer time!

Hi there!

I’m entering the LD jam with my brother.
We’ll be using:

• Flashdevelop
• Flashpunk
• Ogmo Editor
• Gimp
• BFXR + Audacity
• Musagi

We got our idea ready and already have some base code.
In the next post we’ll probably have a screenshot.

Meanwhile here’s our breakfast:

And the guardian to our workplace:

Happy LD-ing everyone!

Chips and salmon with soy sauce. Bread and water (totally forgot to put the beers in the fridge – damn!) Yummy yummy!

OK so the theme is “Alone” (you probably know that).

So here are my thoughts after 1 hour of waking up/brainstorming:

• Survival horror, rather obvious but it’s still my #1 idea. It might be a lot of fun to create. I can make ZBrush zombies and monsters which I love to do   But a decent 3D environment takes a lot of time and I’ll probably end up with a not very polished game (as usual).
• SETI. Find out if you’re alone in the universe. Nice but what would the gameplay be like? All I can think of is rather simulationy and GUI heavy which is not my style. (or shmup, now that you’ve found life, exterminate it! )
• “Home alone” themed tower defense. Might be fun
• Dating sim / visual novel. But I don’t have the right skill set for that (my drawings are horrible)

So I guess I’ll get started on the survival horror to avoid getting stuck doing nothing.

Breakfast of champions

Once upon a time there was a man with a brilliant idea for the theme “Alone.”
That man later that evening ate some dinner.

Delicious

I ate that around two hours ago. So far I’ve got the basic story figured out and the utility code all cleaned up and ready for use (hopefully).

If you’re wondering how the story goes, well here you are:

You are the Captain Onyxbeard of the mighty ship of Thunderbolt.
Your crew committed the act of mutiny, and abandoned you on a mysterious island!
The only items you have in your possession are a cutlass, an empty bottle of rum, and a journal.

Tell me what you think in a comment. <3 (oh yes.)

And we made pancakes! (the game comes later)

I ate this.

So yeah, I got all my streaming stuff sorted. That’ll be going ahead right at the beginning quite hopefully! You can find that @ here .

I probably wont chat over the stream, but the possiblity is always there depending on viewer count ;’D

And ofc, where all this magic happens…

Less then 15 hours are left to go,
People are anxious but the theme is unknown,
And I swear to the powers that be,
That if Kittens are chosen, as our main quest,
I shall make a game featuring billions of kittens beaten to death!

Now that I took that off my shoulders, it’s time for the actual post. So, I said a few good 6 pages back that I’m in, and this is my first Ludum Dare. Got everything set up, both my pc’s and got me enough food to last for this 48 hours. My dev environment looks like this:

(Do not look at the milk and biscuits bowl hiding behind the laptop!!!)

And I’m going to be eating and drinking this pile of so-not-healthy-but-tasty-and-yummy garbage (5 pizza’s, 5 can’s of black coffee, 2 bottles of milk, allot of instant soup and 10 X 3-in-1 packs of coffee + sweets).

Also bought like 6 packs of cigars, because hey, less oxygen = more inspiration, right?

Anyway, I’m going to stream everything (including me sleeping like a wittle pwincess with my wittle hamster) on Livestream, so tune in if you wanna give feedback or plan on screwing around with my mind. I’ve also taken the liberty of sending my room mate and his fiance out of town for the weekend, for peace and quiet. Screenshoots are going to be uploaded hourly on my dropbox account, and spammed on twitter (I’m sure gonna loose allot of followers).

That’s about it. Can’t wait for the compo to start!

Here is some food I’ve eaten over the second half of the compo:

coconut bar

a pita pizza (think pizza w/o sauce)

 Also: Almost done!

My wife and child came back today which cut off a lot of my programming time. Also it made me cook a very delicious dinner of which I made a picture.

sliced turkey with cream and chanterelles, green beans and potatoes - everything fresh from the marketplace

Now back to my LD game.

Delicious bean stew. Now to get back to finishing my game.

yummmmm

Lunch Break! Turkey burger and falafel chips

It’s lunch time so I’m taking a break, and I’m going to eat this delicious bowl of pasta:

Good nutrition for good morning!

…for dinner.

Just a frozen food pizza with added mozzarella. ’twas okay.

I just woke up. I was getting a little stuck last night when figuring out my concept (which is what always happens to me).But, I got some sleep, am about to get more coffee and will probably eat something soon.

Hmm, I just decided that I would scan some of my note/sketches. I’m putting it through the automatic document feeder to not waste time, so it might look a little washed out. — GAH, nevermind, the auto doc feeder is a POS. It always fucks up.