http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiHW9Kum49I

Link to ArmchairArmada’s LD18 timelapse video

Here is my timelapse for AVOIDAL on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtZNylG74M

Managed to catch about five hours of sleep–my regular nightly amount for most LDs.

I was thinking–if timelapses are fun after the compo to watch they are certainly fun to watch during a break while the compo is going right?

Before I head over to the Portsmouth NH Ludum Dare meetup I figured I’d render out the timelapse of me creating my first playable prototype (always an important milestone for me) in the first four hours of the competition.

Not sure if you can embed videos here so here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lR4MMAiA9s

Frimkron’s LD16 Timelapse Video

I didn’t leave it recording while I was asleep and I stuck footage from the 2 days together – that’s why there’s a jump in the middle. As you can see I spent the entire first day working on the maze generation *eyeroll*

“Dwarf Caverns” Timelapse

It was my first year doing a timelapse and I think I’m hooked.  So much fun to see the creative process!

Time to sleep soon too…

At this point I’ve implemented 2 different enemies (bats & cavemen), 2 different weapons (stalactites & geysers), a combo system, tracking of stats like base level score, bonus score, and reporting back on a level over screen.

Many things still to do of course but my plan is still holding so far of trying to get the bulk of all implementation finished before generating levels and upgrading the graphics.

You can play version 2.0 here in your browser too.

It’s 20 seconds of the current state of Angry Caverns

I’m tuning some of the bat physics now.. which reminds me– ya know one thing I love about doing game development?  It’s getting to say things like “I’m tuning bat physics…”

Hopefully I’ll be back soon with more exciting developments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkbvkhGOR-0

The analog clock in the corner looks awesome

Hmm I didn’t know how to get the video to be embedded in the page – is there some trick to it?

Next time I will make webcam image bigger.

I’m hoping to optimise the library I used to write the game so it runs a bit faster, the main critisisms so far are the extremely slow speed the game runs at for most people and the “poor handling” of the car – But I think that last one can also be attributed to game slowdown.

Perhaps a postmortem will be written. Perhaps not.

- edit -

As promised I’ve updated the underlying library with a few rendering optimisations. The speed increases are almost double.

There’s no game logic at all in the library, but it’s up to you if you want to judge with or without the update.

Windows update

Source update