Ludum Dare » mushrooms 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 LD8: Attack of the Fireflies http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/12/05/attack-of-the-fireflies/ http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/12/05/attack-of-the-fireflies/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:08:39 +0000 mjau http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/12/05/attack-of-the-fireflies/ This was my second Ludum Dare entry, for LD#8. Theme was swarms. This time you’re playing the Master of Fireflies, out for revenge against some mushroom-dwelling things who didn’t invite you to some insignificant party last week. So you send your swarm of fireflies after them to torch their mushroom homes. That’ll teach ‘em! The mushroom-dwelling things doesn’t take kindly to this though, and starts spraying water around, which unfortunately kills your swarm and stops the mushroom fires. The battle is on!

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This was the first time I made something with a swarm-like behaviour, which was nice. The game turned out ok, though not really finished — those mushroom-dwelling things only ever face right, for example, and the levels weren’t supposed to be that flat. There should have been platforms and stuff. Still, there’s a win condition and level progression and such, so that’s something at least. Anyway, it’s kinda fun-ish for a little while, torching mushrooms while those poor guys losing their homes at your hand try to kill off your swarm, but it gets boring and repetitive after a while.

Oh well, I had fun making it, and learned some new things in the process, so I choose to consider it a success regardless =)

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