As part of Ludum Dare, you’re supposed to review games. Here are some of my favorites (in the order I reveiwed them, so no particular order).
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LD46: Tetris Life v1.0
Controls:
- Left and right to move the block and forth
- Z and X to rotate it (or crash into things)
- If a block gets stuck, you can hit ENTER to lock it in place
- ESC to quit the current level
Goals:
- To win: Get the plants to the top of the level
- To lose: Kill off all of the plants #keepitalive
EDIT: I have included a v1.1 update that fixes a few minor bugs. Feel free to play either the official v1.0 build or the slightly updated (~10 minutes) v1.1 build with:
- Add a ceiling
- Correctly scale target
- Scale control speed by difficulty
And there you have it. This page will serve as the main entry for Ludum Dare. If you’d rather download an executable for Windows/OSX/Linux, you can do so on the GitHub release page:
Speaking of which, per the Ludum Dare rules (and because I would have anyways), the full source code:
MIT Licensed. I would appreciate a comment if you do anything cool with it.
Ludum Dare page, if you’d like to see my entry:
Some updates since last time:
- Music!
- More elements!
- Polish!
LD46: I made a GAME!
I made a game y’all!
Big changes:
- It’s got a menu!
- And a demo mode!
- PLANTS GROW BY THEMSELVES!
- And win/lose screens!
LD46: Score, Scaling, and BURNING! Oh my.
Got some sleep and BACK AT IT!
Big changes:
- We have scores now!
- And proper scaling (which also fixes the performance issue, at least on my machine, turns out 1⁄16 as many updates helps)
- Proper resetting
LD46: IT'S WORKING!
IT’S WORKING!
The performance is terrible (sub 10 FPS on a pretty decent desktop and I want to try to run it in a browser…), but it’s working.
LD46: Particles!
I’ve got particles working!
It’s probably not nearly as efficient as it’s going to have to be, but it’s a start?
LD46: Squishy squishy
It’s so squish!
That is not at all what I intended, but I kind of love it, so for the moment, it stays in.
To get this far, I had a heck of a time trying to figure out Godot’s physics engine, but I’m learning quickly!
LD46: Tetris is working! (sort of)
Update!
I have basic blocks that fall by themselves and that I can move around with left/right on the keyboard. They will collide with each other and the walls/floor, and once they stick, a new block will spawn.
Ludum Dare 46: Tetris Sand
It’s been a while since I’ve last done a Ludum Dare. I felt the itch though, so let’s do it again.
Ludum Dare is an online event where games are made from scratch in a weekend. Check us out every April and October!
The theme this time: Keep it alive
I don’t know if I’ll make it all the way through or actually finish a game. But I’m going to give it a try!
Command line AES with openssl (and tar)
I had a script that would take a file and a passphrase and either encrypt it or, if already encrypted, decrypt it. It worked well enough and I got to play with the struct
library. But it was home grown–so not compatible with anything–and didn’t properly validate anything. It worked well enough, but perhaps I could do something better.