My first ludum dare !

Hello all , I’m a french guy , I have seventeen and this is my first participation for the ludum dare !

During this ludum dare I’m going to use Game Maker for programming and GIMP/Paint for all the graphism and maybe FL Studio for music .

You can watch my stream here : http://fr.twitch.tv/cotontoudoux/videos

After a month of work, “Dimension of Cubes” is for sale!
Now, to expect a sale before the end of the month. All purchases from here are welcome.

http://www.indievania.com/games/dimension-cubes

Yep, that is my dimensional-with colours-game-thing. Eventually improve. Patience.

It’s only the second half of the competition, because the first half didn’t record.

My entry.

Engine for movement of the hidden object from the old game, that I’ve done a while ago. (gml language)
It covers the object with the background, which hides the object.
/////////////////// GLOBAL-LOCAL VAR ////////////
y_back=y
x_back=x
/////////////////// MOVE RIGHT TO LEFT ////////////
hspeed=global.run_speed

if y==540 then
{
y=60
}
if x>719 then
{
x=80
y+=60
}
///////////////////// CORE ////////////////////////
tile_layer_delete_at(75,x_back-20,y_back)
x_back=x
y_back=y
tile_add(background4,x_back-20,y,40,5,x_back-20,y,75)

I really should stop coming onto the site to have a quick look… Everyone else’s games look awesome, while mine is looking… not so awesome…
Anyway, first solo Ludum Dare of any kind. I’m normally just the visuals guy in the Jams, so I’m sticking to Game Maker for the actually game-y code-y stuff. I know a bit, and I’m hoping it’ll be enough to pull some sort of a game together.

Here’s a screenshot, about 16 hours in…

Hey there, I’m Nik, and I’m a Ludum Dare first timer!

I had no idea what to do, at first.  So I started to plan. The best thing I came out of was something to do with God, as he’s alone. So I emptied my mind into Game Maker, and created… a thing. This thing is called The Almighty Annihilation. It’s a 8-bit styled game where you have to wipe out the entire population of Earth with Meteors and Lightning Strikes. Sounds fun, right? Please tell me it is.

I made the game in 21 hours, with lots of frantic rushing and developer’s block. I know it’s not the greatest, and it seems very basic, but please. I am slow and can’t be bothered most of the time. I made a game. Enjoy.

Hey everyone! My roommate, Alissa, and I are participating in the jam together. Alissa’s an artist, and I’m a designer. We’re looking at using either Stencyl or Game Maker – whichever one we find works best for what we want to do.

At first when we heard the theme, we weren’t quite sure what to do with it. After voting earlier, there were a couple of other themes that we were really excited for, but we couldn’t think of much for alone… But then we took a drive to pick up some snacks and energy drinks! On the way, we passed by a bakery, which gave us the idea to make a game about a lonely little cupcake. We got back, started writing down ideas, drawing some concepts, and now we’ve got a pretty good direction.

I’m starting work on level design, while Alissa is continuing work on her cupcake art. Oh, and we’re thinking about ways to incorporate a kitten easter egg, as well…

Good luck everybody!

- Pralie (@kaocleyra) & Alissa

Since i’m going to enter the Ludum Dare, i thought it would be a good idea to tell people what i use

Image editing:Paint.net-PNGS

Sounds:Audacity/SFXR

Language(I know some people may not like this)GML

Also first time entering this, hope its a good theme

LD 21 has been going far too fast so far. After an attempt at using Flixel, and failing due to too little knowledge I’ve slid back to GM8. I hope to use Flixel for the next LD after I’ve had a proper look at it.

Like a few others on here I’ve opted for a Tower Defence, I didn’t stretch the boat like I usually do with my interpretation of the theme, but it was 3am and I was tired.

The base game is there with placeholders, just gotta flesh it out, do my graphics and make more gameplay, so should be finished as usual 10 minutes before submission!

Until then, Sackboy is helping me eat some awesome Garden of Eatin’ Sesame Blues, yum!

Anna Anthropy on Game Maker and game making: Who gets to make videogames?
Anna Anthropy on YoYoGames and how they’re mismanaging the most important creative tool of our time
http://home.sevenstories.com/index.php/news/anna-anthropy-author-of-rise-of-the-videogame-zinesters-writes-on-the-hobby-of-gamemaking/

Seeing that the competition date of the mini LD is also the GMC Jam’s competition date, I may enter this time. I couldn’t get an engine up for the “ALL TALK” miniLD. It seems Game Maker does not like text-based games. But I’ve expanded my horizons to Stencyl, so I hope those game creator software will be accepted.

This is what I’m working on. It’s unlikely it will be ready for the 48h deadline, but I’ll try to submit something for the Jam tomorrow if I can. I’m building it in Game Maker 8 with a mix of photography and tablet drawing for the (temporary) visuals. Trying some random ideas.