Ludum Dare #23

Ludum Dare is an Online Game Jam event where people from around the world create a game in a weekend. Guess what I did this weekend. I made a full little game out of a tiny prototype I once made with box2d physics. The theme of this Ludum Dare was "Tiny World" by the way...

Ludum Dare Competition rules are stricter than the Jam rules. This is to encourage a fairer playing field for participants. The core rules are:

1. You must work alone (solo).
2. All game code and content must be created within the 48 hours. **
3. Games must be based on the theme.
4. All publicly available libraries and middleware are allowed.
5. All content creation, and development tools are allowed. (3dsmax, Photoshop, Flash, etc)
6. Source code must be included.

Game on Ludum Dare:

"Save your folks"

And here is the direct link (Flash):

SYFOJD

Tirol Mountain Zombie Invasion

Download

This is very close to what I dream of since...

... always I guess. I don´t know if i made the Stephen King Story "The night flyer" a little bit more interesting in my head (I do this from time to time - who am I fooling - I do this most of the times when I am inside my head), but I think I remember that this "vampire" story is taking place in a world of aeronauts. It´s the late 1980s as much as I remember, but everybody in this story seems to fly a plane to work etc. instead of a car. I liked this idea. I mean I really like it. I wish it would be like this to be honest!

Ah right , speaking of King... And to be totally honest now - I have NEVER read the dark tower epos. Shame on me! I have heard from every science fiction friend I ever had, that it is one of the best stories ever written. Maybe I just wait till the movie comes out! Long story short - Check this out:

 The Dark Tower

State of Aratatatt

I guess you guys know that I´ve been working on a little platform shooter called Aratatatt. I planned it for Pc only first. Well, then I gut a couple of new exporters and Aratatatt seems to be a perfect little Iphone / Android Game. And it´s pretty funny that I can quote the game ITSELF now: That was a long time ago!

It is not as easy as I thought to convert and tweak games for mobile devices. I mean they freaking have dual core processors nowadays - but still it´s a balancing act between looks, gameplay, playability and FRAMERATE! But I fought my way up from 25 fps to currently 45! When we reach the big 50 - I am happy and I will stop tweaking around! Here are some screenshots:

Save the wave

Ok. I´ll keep it short: it is RIDICULOUS!
There was one thing in Salzburg, where people generally agreed, that it´s something new, something good and something special - the almwave. The rest is... how can I say... the rest is "strange and classic austrian politics".



Shortversion in english: The city broke down a fantastic selfless project for the youth of salzburg. There is NO good explanation and there are NO actual facts why they did. It´s a shame...

More info:
facebook.com/almwave