LD48 #4 Log (Mark 2)

Ooops.

I just lost my entire LD48 web tree - my log, my screenshots, all gone. The game's still around, but... Lesson learned: back up your stuff.

That said, here's my reconstruction of the log, and the new stuff going forward:

Pre-contest: Plenty of brainstorming on themes that weren't picked. Tested Py2EXE 0.5, which didn't seem to like to work with OpenGL. So I went back to 0.41. (And ended up not using OpenGL after all.)

Friday Night, April 16th: Brainstormed much. Decided on a multiplayer game (with minimal bot AI) where the players have to fight over a crowd of semi-autonomous NPC creatures. Add in a few powerups, it may be fun.

Got Splitscreen display of floor tiles and placeholder player avatar working.

Wrote simple map reader code

Placeholder pickup art

Saturday Morning, April 17th: NPC creature movement (still placeholder art).

Map walls block movement of PCs

Score display

Minimap

NPC vs NPC collision system (extent testing in x)

NPCs infect one another, PCs interact with NPC immunity levels.

Pickup spawner, pickups can be picked up

Score display

Saturday afternoon and evening, April 17th:

• Clouds (the mechanic behind missiles and bombs) work.
• Bombs
• Missiles
• Magnets
• second pass on pickups/HUD art
• Sound fx for pickups, game over
• game over detection, context sensitive win screen
• Second pass on PC "infectatron" art
• Second pass on NPC "protoplasmoid" art
• Splashscreens
• Py2EXE test
• COMPLETE LOSS OF MY WEB CONTENT. Sigh. No early screenshots, no log, save what you're reading now. Back up your content, boys and girls. Good news, the game is safe.

Sunday morning, April 18th:

• Main menu skeleton
• Reconstructed log
• Tweaked score display
• Menu screens

Sunday afternoon, April 18th:

• Entered in reconstructed log (from here on out, it's all new stuff!)
• got some menus working
• got a demo mode working
• tested 1 player vs ai with fullscreen viewport for the first time(!)
• imported time, so I could call time.time(), just as the Bangles began singing "hazy shade of winter", which begins "Time, time, time".
• Suspect I'm getting punchy.
• Implemented keyboard control.
• Made Instructions screen.
• Decided on punting on options menu.
• Gracefully(?) handle lack of joysticks
• Cleaned up as much as I care to. I've got 8 maps, single and multi player, joystick and keyboard support. Fullscreen's supported, but for some reason has terrible frame rate. Didn't manage to get different tilesets in. Time to write a readme and make a zip file.