Big Ryan's Big Train Wreck's Time log

Ludum Dare Contest Log

Hey this is the 48 hour programming contest for ludum dare that I entered in. Hope it works out ok for me.

I gotta make a game from scratch here

the theme is preparation- set it up let it go. See if I can actually finish. That'll be good enough for me. My game is called

Big Ry's Big Train Puzzler

friday 9

Hmm so here's my screen design.

Now I just gotta get it working!

its gonna kindof be like pipe dreams. A puzzle game. You gotta move around the peices and then watch the trains go.

Friday 11:30 Time for bed. So far I've got the level designer made and most of the sprites. I'll maybe upload some screen shots tomorrow

So far I think the idear is that you move the tracks around, and once the time runs out then the trains go. Maybe not too original an idea but hey, I don't actually have 48 hours. I've got other stuff I have to do.

Saturday 2:00 woke up this morning had a shower and started coding. Took me a lot longer than I thought to get the trains alligned right. Then some crazy allegro bug popped up. I swear I checked a hundred times to make sure it was right but I can't LOCK_FUNCTION my timer. It still works though...

Finished most of the sprites and spiced up the background a bit.

Satuday 11:49

curse you allegro! I can't get the midi file that I worked so hard to make to play. Also all the sound files that I captured come out staticy!!!!

oh well. At least I have most of the game done. Here's some screen shots.

As you can see I did polish up the main screen a bit.