Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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 ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
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. ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Here's the timelapse from my recent Ludum Dare 48 hour game development compo session.
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 ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
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 it 2010. You are the last Frog in LA. Your name is Kurt ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
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
You may wonder why the fullscreen resolution seems strange (800x480). Well, if you owned an Asus EeePC 4G Surf (701), you may not ...
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