Well, it’s not an official entry, since it’s way too late. You can see what I was trying to achieve here and here. Essentially, I was attempting to entertain myself in the boring parts of a plane flight from Rome to Melbourne, via Hong Kong, by making my Ludum Dare entry. Various problems, mainly to [...]

Badass Frog postmortem – the ‘meh’ factor
After my LD #11 ‘Minimalist’ entry was voted “most innovative” game, I’ve been trying to pride myself as “that guy that makes innovative games”. So I thought long and hard about the theme for LD #13, “Roads”, trying to come up with something innovative. But the creative juices just [...]

Here’s the timelapse from my recent Ludum Dare 48 hour game development compo session.
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LD48 #13 : pansapiens timelapse
One screenshot every 5 mins, taken with the script (screenshot.sh):

#!/bin/sh
OUTDIR=/home/perry/timelapse
DISPLAY=:0.0
import -window root -display $DISPLAY $OUTDIR/$(date +%F_%R.%S).png >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

using the cronjob:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /home/perry/timelapse/screenshot.sh

And converted to a video by running the script (timelapse_convert.sh):

#!/bin/sh
# convert pngs to [...]

So, here’s my LD48 #13 entry. It’s a very simple little Frogger clone, “ported” to a bunch of platforms by the power of Java + Processing + Mobile Processing.
Bad Ass Frog Escapes from LA
The Hollywood-script-worthy Backstory
The year is 2010. You are the last Frog in LA. Your name is Kurt Russell, but you are no [...]

So here is my entry for mini-LD#5. It’s a cover of GBGames LD#11 entry, ‘minimalist’, turned evil.
Download: maximalist (maximalist_0.12_miniLD5.zip, 4.6 Mb, md5: 68ada72418f029f9d7f5e81ca4792863)
(see below for the README)

Gameplay video
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You may wonder why the fullscreen resolution seems strange (800×480). Well, if you owned an Asus EeePC 4G Surf (701), you may not wonder so much.
Libraries used:

Pygame
Rabbyt [...]