1 DevLog: May 02009

DevLog: May 02009

(most recent stuff at the top)

May 25, 02009

Trying to make a game in 48 hours for the Ludum Dare compo #9. I've been saying a lot of "There's no time for ____!", but actually I have it completely playable and have about 9 hours for just polish now. Yay.

Game page: You Have to Save Everyone but There Isn't Much Time!

(There's no time for carefully choosing a game name!)

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May 17, 02009

Finished at last.

Play it here: DudeCollect

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May 15, 02009

Lots done on Dude Collect today

Lots of iteration on the tutorial
difficulty now increases
Preloader added
Music added
Implemented changes based on Mark's feedback
Asked for feedback on TIGS forums, got some very useful responses

Unfotunately, it looks like the only real selling point of the game, the weird control scheme, might not really jive with player expectations. A lot of the suggestions radically alter the way you play the game. I think I need ideas for better shaping player expectations.

Arm turning red if cursor is out of range?
the words "out of range" appearing?

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May 13, 02009

Fancy fire graphics and tutorial tweaking for Dude Collect.

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May 12, 02009

Added a tutorial for Dude Collect, but holycrap it's 3am. I will upload tomorrow. (plus it's not yet skippable!)

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May 11, 02009

Continued work on this Dude Collect thing for gamejam.org. Try it here. I think I got the game mechanics all figured out this weekend. Now I need to do a how-to, game over screen, increasing difficulty, and overall polish in however much of the compo is left.

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May 09, 02009

Experimented with a weird climbing mechanic. I'm pretty sure that with enough experimenting and tweaking it could become the basis of a fun game, but with less than a week left now, I'm not sure I have time to both tweak the new mechanic AND build a decent game on top of it.

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May 08, 02009

Slowly it begins to look more and more like a game.

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May 07, 02009

Working on a Flash game for gamejam.org. I can't believe I spent all night on a sheep sprite.

And I'm probably going to have to redo it anyway so that it better fits the style of the rest of the game.

Dear self: Make the game with boxes before you start putting in graphics. You end up spending all day on it and even then it looks like programmer-art.

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