Here is the latest flash build of my game (you have to click on the game before it will have key focus)

Starting to get collisions and scoring in.  Still need to implement time over conditions and enemy ramp up at various time points.  Need to get jets and tanks in now too.  You can get points now and be killed though.  Tons of balancing will have to be done once I get all the game elements in.  Oh and also hopefully add music, sounds, and more then rectangles for all the objects too! 9 hours left…

This is like the fourth prototype I’ve worked on so far.  Things are going slowly today for me as I have been scattered between a few ideas while I hoped for one to spark my excitement.  I think I’ve finally got an idea I’m psyched about enough that I’m doing a bare bones playable version of.  Hoping the scope is right for the time remaining.  We shall see.

I haven’t found a fitting name yet, so for the moment it’s called Robot Sandbox/Playground something. The basic idea: You have a few robots and you can control one at a time and there is a lot of stuff lying around to play with. For example: One robot can grab a box, move this box around and put it on a tile with water, consequently other robots can walk on this tile.

Furthermore, those robots can’t work forever, so they need to recharge and that’s why there are batteries.

That’s what I’ve done so far:

Yeah, the robots are missing at the moment.

I’m not sure if I’m gonna finish in time. I have three exams next week and I really need to study.

First post for my first ludum dare. Lucky enough to have this one to warm me up for the full thing at the end of the month.

Here’s what I’ve got after the first day.

A good shot of the main elements including an upgrade garage which should be operational by tomorrow morning.

Enjoying this very much, excited to see what everyone else is cooking up.

Ok, some improvements:

• The lasers explode on collision
• Added enemies with basic AI
• Stars! Lots of them.

Python was a little to slow for a few thousand stars, so I had to resort to Pyrex. Pyrex really needs better error reporting, but after looking at the generated c-file and tweaking some it worked. Now I can have 50 000 stars without problem Under 10 000 is enough though.

Next I think I have to do something about that artwork… but that’s for tomorrow.

Yee haw.  Finally got the physics working.  It’s pretty simple stuff.  Axis aligned bounding boxes, with a verlet/relaxation based solver.  As far as my concept is concerned, the shapes should all be axis align.  Otherwise, your multi block monstrosities would fall over in most configurations.  On to the screen shot.

Next up… I don’t know yet.  I might run out for some groceries (I hear there’s a no tax sale at “Super Stores” this weekend, 5-11PM).  That should give me time to think.