Ludum Dare 6 Devlogs

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Hmmmm

Looks like I have a lot of optimising to do to fix that frame rate although this is still the stress test.

Hi ho, hi ho.

A fruitful mornings work grappling with openGL shadows and tying it in with ODE. I can now stack boxes and cast shadows with them. My next task : How on earth do I get a…

Stone the crows! Lots of Delphi and DelphiX people!

Hello. Can I have a quick count by leaving a comment have many Delphi people there are? I'm using Delphi, glScene and ODE.

Well, that's "darkness" done...

Well, that's "darkness" done...

Having a lot of trouble

.. trying to think of a decent game for the theme. Got an idea almost straight away, but it's not very good and I can't get it out of my head. I guess I'll just keep…

Making progress anyway

This screenshot shows the tiled map with lighting (the yellow boxes are light sources).

And now we have a player...

Yes, this entry really is about as predictable and non-innovative as you can get :(

My idea

OK, so I've got this idea for a game, and it's probably lame, but here goes...

More progress

Now I've got ghosts (when they're not lit, you can just see their eyes ;) and you can repair damaged lights. The "Repairing..." window obscures the view of the player…

Ghosts now zap lights and roam around

I've got the basic Ghost AI going now - they avoid being in light, and hunt and destroy lights. The sequence below illustrates:

Well, its a "game" now

I've officially written a complete game now (you compete against the computer, and it detects whether you win or lose). So far the out-of-game interaction is just:

Pictures \o/

Desk

Let there be Light (and Darkness too)

W00t! I'm happy this theme was finally chosen!

Slow start

Things are starting slowly. This the part I don't like about the ld48 when I'm recoding stuff I have coded before when it would be so easy to reuse old code. I'm going…

I've made progress!

And what progress it is. I've nearly finished my game, which you can preview here. Comments/suggestions/bug reports are welcome!

Light rendering.

I've got most of my basic light rendering sorted out, now I have to build my game around it.

An idea

So, I've got an idea: You play as a light entity, and your mission is to light up the whole level. You've got four things helping you: you can place stationary lights…

At least there's something on screen

Here's a very early shot of the tile system, not even all basic stuff in yet, 01basictile.jpg.

Started

I'm making a treasure hunting game. Sort of based on Pacman.

I've found my focus :)

I thought gothic. I thought star wars. I thought magic. I thought epic RPG. Then I thought that's a lot of work and I'm a lazy ass.

Contemplation occurs!

I will likely soon regret not brushing up on my C++ skills before this compo... or getting familiar with Pygame. Gah! I hope I can come up with a game idea that fits the…

Registered!

I hated having a blank page, so I tossed this up.

Frist LD48

This is my first LD48 but not my first compo. It is the longest I've done though so time management might be a bit more important here.

Hello Hello!

It's almost time for the new compo! w00t w00t!

PyOpenGL and py2exe?

I think I'll try a PyOpenGL entry this time, if the theme permits (possibly using OpenGLContext, though I've not used it before). Given that my 2d drawing skillz suck,…

Twelve days to go

Twelve days to go. Can't wait.

Psyced

I'm getting psyced. I'm trying to pump out one mini game a week to get practice. I have half the pygame library memorized by now, and can throw together just about…

I have now registered.

And, frankly... I feel pretty gosh-darn special.