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Ludum Dare 25 - December 16,17 - Help Claus make a game!
Ludum dare is a Game Jam, an event where all participants are challenged to make a computer game in a weekend. It is super fun, and me and MME have been participating for a while (since LD 22).
The rules are as follows:
- Your game must be made "from scratch" (all art, code, etc. You can use sound samples, or computer generated art/sounds, and you can use libraries/game engines that are publically and freely available).
- You have 48 hours to make your game, by yourself. You also have to follow a theme that is announced when the clock begins ticking.
- You have to publish your code by the end of the dare
It is a very fun event, with participants ranging from wizard indie devs to complete noobs like myself.
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"But Claus" - you say - "I don't know how to program!". - Then you probably want to use something like this.
Even if you won't participate, I will try to post some prototypes of my entry here, so people can help me out by pointing where I messed up royally (last LD I really fucked it up by not getting user feedback before posting my final version).
Hope to see more scummers this time around!Last edited by Claus on Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:28 am, edited 1 time in total.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVVmAG0RXmo- Timeater
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Hey Guys!
My game is about 80% complete (with about 75% of the time gone).
If anyone could play it and give me your opinions (if it is too hard, or too easy, or the sounds too annoying, etc), that would be awesome.
Get it here:
http://claus.castelodelego.org/games/LD ... ap-fat.jar
The link is a java jar file. If you have Java in your computer, double clicking it should run the game without problems.
The theme is "you are the villain". This is a pacman game where you control the ghosts. You get points if you kill pacman before he gets all the pellets.
Use AWSD or arrowkeys to move your ghost, 1-4 to change which ghost you control, escape to pause.
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Cool game.
One comment is that Pacman seems to stop moving if you stay covering the last few pellets, so you have to move to make him move. Granted, ifsomeone were Pacman they would stand still, but maybe make it so that teh ghosts have to be continuously moving or something like that. Great concept change on a classic game though.ShowI definitely did NOT just lose the game.
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couple technical bugs, that might be due to my computer.
-if i got Pacman to stay still, the sound stopped completely
-I lost functionality on my mouse after I booted up the game
from a gameplay standpoint
-If you start by going to the middle/upper left with each new board you can easily kill pacman between 2 and 4 times. I dont know if you can tweak his AI so this isnt abusable.
-As said by others, sitting on the final pellets is in issue. I found it strange that this was also the case even if Pacman had an invincibility pellet left, he wouldnt go get it
-I ran into a couple times when Pacman would just string pellets together making the game nearly impossible to win. Though this only happened twice with him stringing three pellets. He would very often string two together. Don't know if this is a bug or a feature- Maruchan
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uhm.
my pacman just goes off on his own little thang with no user input.
plays like a movie of watching someone else play pacman.
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Hey Shafted, Pizza, thanks for the comments!
In post 10, shaft.ed wrote:couple technical bugs, that might be due to my computer.
-if i got Pacman to stay still, the sound stopped completely
The "waka waka" sound only plays when Pacman is walking, so I guess there is no sound triggering events when he is stopped, unless you kill him. (or are you saying the sound wouldn't continue even then?)
-I lost functionality on my mouse after I booted up the game
That is weird... :-/
from a gameplay standpoint
-If you start by going to the middle/upper left with each new board you can easily kill pacman between 2 and 4 times. I dont know if you can tweak his AI so this isnt abusable.
-As said by others, sitting on the final pellets is in issue. I found it strange that this was also the case even if Pacman had an invincibility pellet left, he wouldnt go get it
So I spent almost 6 hours yesterday trying to make an AI for pacman, just to realize that the fundamental way I was going about it was completely wrong. The current AI picks the closest coin to Pacman, and tries to move to it, avoiding ghosts in the way (unless they are vulnerable). If it fails to find a path, it does nothing until it can find some other path. There are many ways to improve the AI, but since I only have 10 hours left, (and little sleep), I'm probably trying to finish "quality of life" things first (start screen, highscore screen), before giving another go at the AI if I have the time.
-I ran into a couple times when Pacman would just string pellets together making the game nearly impossible to win. Though this only happened twice with him stringing three pellets. He would very often string two together. Don't know if this is a bug or a feature
Neither - the current AI ignore pellets completely. :-/ Also, there is a maximum invincibility time, and if you take another pellet while invincibility is up, the extra time will be wasted.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVVmAG0RXmo- Claus
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woooo i killed pacman three times. but same as shafted there was once i got pacman to stop for a few seconds before continuing on.ShowReturning to modding after a nearly two year hiatus!
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sound stopped and didnt go again after thatIn post 12, Claus wrote:The "waka waka" sound only plays when Pacman is walking, so I guess there is no sound triggering events when he is stopped, unless you kill him. (or are you saying the sound wouldn't continue even then?)- Claus
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I played! its a very clever idea.
Pacman always seems to follow the same path initially everytime as already mentioned.
I had a little bit of trouble keeping track of which ghost I was controlling and figuring out which number button was going to switch me to which ghost. I can't really think of a better method though maybe I just need to practice to learn to associate the ghost colors to the numbers.
And... aren't the ghosts supposed to be faster than pac man until he gets the powerup?
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Are the ghosts supposed to be faster than pac man? I did not remember that :-/ I think they start pretty slow and get faster over time, no?
On the other hand, with the abysmal AI that pac man has right now, he needs every help he can get.
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The mini is a week instead of a weekend and has even looser rules than the Jam part of Ludum.
Probably going to join the January Mini as to make up for the last LD I missed. I also joined OneGameAMonth (by McFunkyPants)
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