Milk For A Dead Man - Ludum Dare 46 Submission Mac OS
So I had heard about Ludum Dare game jams before, but never participated in one. It just so happened that they were running a very loosely ruled 48 hour mini jam this past weekend and I submitted a game for it (and its actually kinda fun).
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October 1st-4th - Ludum Dare 49. April 2022 - Ludum Dare 50 (20th year). We're also open source! If you want to help with the code, it's available on GitHub. My game for Ludum Dare 46. Keep your dungeon heart alive! Defend it against the waves of enemies! You start with one imp. He can destroy earth, collect money and claim the ground. With the money you can buy more imps or frogs. Frogs can't destroy earth or collect money, but they are far stronger against the enemies! The imps are weak and die fast.
Swinging my triple dancing swords like a keychain was a lot of fun xD. One downside was the random duck positioning: with no way to move it, the duck falling in the middle makes the game MUCH easier than the duck far to the left. Explore games tagged Ludum Dare 40 on itch.io. Ludum Dare is a 48 and 72 hour game making competition globally hosted over the internet; Ludum Dare 40 ran from December 1st to December 4th, 2017, with the theme 'The More You Have, the Worse It Is'. Nor did the doctor, the bartender, the merchant and the old dynamite man that sat on the shaded porch, next to quiet, dead motorcycles. Nobody knew about him. Not even the old couple in Primm, who signed up contracts with many couriers and negotiated jobs that had his signature. As long as the caps kept flowing, the old couple wouldn’t ask.
You can play it on itch.io
One of the hardest parts was I was trying to make the controls touch friendly, so it could be played on a smart phone or tablet (screen size/ scaling still needs to be made mobile friendly). The touch controls are a little more limited than the keyboard consequently. The keyboard allows movement in all 4 directions using WASD or the arrow keys while touch only allows left and right movement by touching to one side. I actually find it easier to drag my finger along under the “ship” to move it (which is why there is space under it).
Originally I was just drawing boxes to the screen, but forcing the browser to draw every update is a little slow and resource taxing so I made some simple graphics (that are essentially the same boxes) using a wonderfully useful and simple site called make8bitart. The interface is intuitive and very easy to use. Saving is as simple as dragging the image to your desktop from the browser. Highly recommend.
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Lots of improvements to be made but not bad for my first game. Next week I will begin working on a simple high score server for it.