Monster Farm's Time log

Friday

18:00 Theme: Preparation - Set it up, let it go

Clarifications:

In the LD competitions, things are somewhat subjective. We pick abstract themes, so there are several ways to look at it. In this competition, you are "in theme" if you have a game where the main point is "Setting things up" and then mostly "things play out from there", I think it is in tolerance that the player can still do things, but there should be a majority gameplay leaning towards Preparation.

Games like the current theme: Chu Chu Rocket, The Incredible Machine, ...

BE CREATIVE!

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18:25 Done talking in channel and making the post to the site.

I'm going to try to work a little differently this competition, and get my gameplay going very quickly with crap graphics.

Fuck, I forgot to put up the screenshots page. Done. http://ludumdare.com/user/viewimages.php?id=6

Tossing around some different ideas on Preparation games. I think im going to go with a simple overhead interface to make it easier.

19:19 I finally have an idea I like: SWAT Raid.

21:34 2 hours of napping later...

I was hoping divine inspiration would come as I slept offering me even more insight into my choosen theme topic. Apparently not.

BTW, SWAT idea has been ditched. Now doing: MONSTER FARM!

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22:00 This just in, I think the interface and AI for my game idea will be too complicated.

Saturday

00:00 I upload a title shot and a mach up: http://ludumdare.com/user/1/__title.jpg http://ludumdare.com/user/1/machup.jpg

Art for characters and scenes are basically done I think.

00:25 Just sitting here answering questions, I thought of a cool gameplay dealy for my game.

Basically you have these monsters who fight each other, and they have to get to their pens and stuff. So you have to buy...

11:45 Screw this theme. It sucks, the games either need too much AI or aren't fun. So I'm just going to try to make a fun game, regardless of the theme.

It'll make it easier to win for the people who stick with the theme in the theme category.

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17:20 Watched Insomnia after getting a bunch done on my contract work for this weekend. Ready to start some game coding!

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Sunday

11:30 Too much contract work. Wont be turning in a game this time. :(

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