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I finished Penguin Again for Ludumdare!! It's a small puzzle adventure game about penguins, again! XD This time it is third person, and features cakes.

Play it in a browser: HERE
or grab a windows EXE HERE (about 5.7mb)
Mac OSX universal: HERE

I think I need to sleep now!!

My game involves voxel cake!

8.5 hours left on the clock, and I'm starting to worry that I won't be able to get this done! D: Need to focus on essentials for a while! o_o

I totally didn't plan to use penguins again, but... well... things ended up going that way! Still got a lot of work to tame the little gits, but I'm enthusiastic about how it will come together. Gotta keep working hard!

Chicken rolls for lunch! Game is going a bit slowly, but I'm slowly checking off my list of mechanics I want available, then I'll be able to build the game based upon what works. :)

Okay, I have dialogue boxes working now, and some sort of basic GUi. I still don't know what the point of the game will be, but I want to try to get some of the difficult/annoying stuff out of the way first.

Breakfast was delicious! :)



Starting to play around with ideas. I'm struggling to get started on this, I think perhaps because I already did an exploration themed LD entry last time. I'm probably going to go for a third person exploration game with some sort of items to find.

Ludumdare 16 has started! The theme is Exploration! I have no ideas for this, but I'm going to do it! :D I got up at 4am and I've just been setting up my project, getting title screen and gui buttons working. Need to start designing a game!

I realised I haven't drawn any males in ages, so I just put this together!

Tomorrow is Ludumdare! I'll be designing and making a game in less than 48 hours, based on a a theme that is announced tomorrow morning.

This will be my fourth time participating, and it's always a big event for me. My aim this year is to make something that isn't 'scruffy', as all my previous LD pieces have been very rough and a little bit embarrassing. So I'm hoping to have things like a title screen, a 'win/end game' screen, sound effects, and maybe a bit of music! So I need to follow my own advice and keep it simple, avoid wasting time on stuff that isn't crucial. Wish me luck!

I have loads of work to do today, but hopefully I can get it all done and spend a few minutes preparing. Oh yeah, I'll be spamming my journal with progress updates as always, sorry! :D

I was able to submit my Ludumdare entry on time! Whoo! It's very ugly and ghetto, but it works and you can play it from start to finish! It's my first time having a successful entry into LD48, so I'm really happy about that. :)

play the web version, or you can download EXEs for PC or Mac from HERE

Here's my first test build of the game! Please test it out and let me know what sort of FPS you get.

I'm still working hard on my ludumdare game. I have NPCs working now, and some sound effects too. I need to work hard to build a basic 'quest' ASAP, and then I can come back to clean up the artwork later on, and maybe get some music in there if there is time.

The game is coming along slowly but surely! I haven't got any new screenshots to release from the last few hours because I've been working on things like GUI and keys and doors. I'm starting to work on some better tiles now too. :)


Selina made me some really nice Risotto for dinner. I feel replenished and ready for a few more hours of game dev before bed .


I also enjoyed some strawberries whilst working on a few 3D object tweaks!

The best thing about this theme is that it gives me an excuse to use grid paper! Yay!



And here is my cavern so far. It's looking a bit more 'fecal' than I would prefer, so I think a palette change is in order soon!

Ludumdare 15 just started, and the theme is 'Caverns'. I have about twenty hours from now to make a game!



Here's my first screenshot! Not sure what sort of gameplay it will be, but there will be some sort of 8-bit style cave going on! :)

A few seconds of gameplay from my game! :) You can also get the video file with less compression.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to finish my ludum dare game on time. A few horrible crash-bugs towards the end really killed any chances I had of putting this out in a playable fashion.

It's a little disappointing that it has worked out this way, but I enjoyed the competition nevertheless. I feel like I've learned a lot about coding and making new game types.

I think I should commit to getting this game fixed up within the next couple of weeks, or else it mightl never see the light of day. :)

And with that, I'm off to bed. :)

My development has been going really badly today, and a few minutes ago I seriously considered giving up on my game and making something new. I went for a walk to think about it and instead decided to stick it out until the end. I think if I focus on the essentials I can get something playable ready to share by the deadline.

Ludumdare is going much slower than I had planned, although I'm not terribly surprised. Nevertheless I have recognised this fairly early and I'm already in 'damage control' mode for the project, cutting back as much as I can to bring the project together. :)

I haven't really got much in the way of screenshots to share, but I'll definitely have something to share tomorrow. :)

My gameplay mechanic just started working, so I thought I should share a screenshot. If you can imagine the white blob in the middle as a character, and the other white blobl as 'lava', you get some idea of where this is going. :)

Obligatory "working area during ludumdare" photo. The most important piece of equipment here is the cup of coffee. This is coffee number 2 of the competition. On my screen you can make out 'progress'! zomg!