Ludum Dare » jetpack http://www.ludumdare.com/compo A tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:14:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 7th Swarming of the Machines http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/12/03/7th-swarming-of-the-machines/ http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/12/03/7th-swarming-of-the-machines/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:12:59 +0000 DrPetter http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/12/03/7th-swarming-of-the-machines/ Ah, great compo this was. Tons of sweet games. Unfortunately that also meant fierce competition, and I only managed to snag a best position of 3rd in Fun (which is unusual for me, as I normally do better in the technical categories).

Base idea for the game was to have the level be “swarming”, for an unexpected approach. I figured there could be loose platforms drifting around in space and you’d try to jump around between them, doing… stuff. The gameplay part of it was sketchy at best.

I suppose the better part of the first day was spent getting the platform movement and interaction working, and then I think much of the second day I just sat and tweaked it, fixing bugs. The gameplay elements and final graphics/audio were added in the last two or three hours.

Windows download: 128 kB zip (exe, data, source)

Linux port: 16 kB tar/gz (needs above file for data)

Arcade build a’la Lerc.

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