Hello,
I've entered Ludum Dare 48 hour game competition - I'm using scratch. When I am done I will upload the game here. Just thought you might find that interesting.
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Only 48 hours? That's pretty intense.
Good luck to you
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A very interesting competition! For people that want to know more, I found this link
http://www.hamumu.com/LD48/ld_faq.html
Mike_W - You might want to bounce your language choice off of the judges before spending a lot of time on your game...they might have issues with it as it does not produce a binary executable (as required by the rules). On the other hand, they may just be concerned that everybody can actually run it...and that should not be an issue with Scratch, particularly if your project runs well online. You might also be able to use the Scratch2Exe utility.
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Paddle2See wrote:
.they might have issues with it as it does not produce a binary executable (as required by the rules). On the other hand, they may just be concerned that everybody can actually run it...and that should not be an issue with Scratch, particularly if your project runs well online. You might also be able to use the Scratch2Exe utility.
I use the scratch to exe all the time to build executables to show stuff off to people I know. In this case it will probably have the default icon.
It will probably take more time to set up the web page but thanks for the concerns.
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I am making good ground - I've done this three times now and find scratch to be a great platform for this.
All the graphics have to be done by hand - and I need to rework alot of mine.
It's playable looking forward to putting it up here Sunday night
http://ludum.twobrotherssoftware.com/screen2.jpg
1 days 12 hours 27 minutes left
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I can't post the source yet , but will once I submit it.
Not quite done - but could probably do it by 10 (24 hours)
latest screen shot
http://ludum.twobrotherssoftware.com/ss6.gif
I love scratch for this. Right now I am in the polish stage. I am taking my inanimate objects and giving them a few images and adding a thread to scroll through them.
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Paddle2See wrote:
A very interesting competition! For people that want to know more, I found this link
http://www.hamumu.com/LD48/ld_faq.html
Mike_W - You might want to bounce your language choice off of the judges before spending a lot of time on your game...they might have issues with it as it does not produce a binary executable (as required by the rules). On the other hand, they may just be concerned that everybody can actually run it...and that should not be an issue with Scratch, particularly if your project runs well online. You might also be able to use the Scratch2Exe utility.
wow... that looks intense, good luck mike_w
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Sounds really cool! How do you join? How often are they hosted?
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Once a year is the big one they host mini Dare's monthly. They are easy enough to google.
Monday anyone can get at all the entries (I believe) Sunday after I have finished I will post it up here.
If you have you plan together when it starts that helps alot.
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It's up with 12 hours to spare
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mike_W/495022
Now in two weeks I will let you know how I did
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They had a record 121 entries. Now we vote on each others only people that submit can vote.
You are rated on
overall, fun, innovation, theme, polish, graphics, audio, humor, technical, food (it's a tradition post images of what you ate), journal , and timelapse (which I did not do due to lack of drive space).
From the feedback I have gotten (from there, putting it up here, and a few people I contacted) I expect to do well in fun, graphics, and audio I hope I will be able to let you know how I did across the board.
I think there might be interest from others to try this - so when I get some free time (post voting) I will work on an article about how to be prepared and what I have learned.
Mini LD's come out monthly
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I promised I would post how I did.
Ove Fun Inn The Pol Gra Aud Hum Tec Foo Jou Tim
3 4 3 4 2 2 3 2 4
3 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 3
3 3 3 4 3 3 4 3
2 2 4 4 2 3 4 4 2
3 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 4
3 2 2 4 2 3 3 2 3
3 4 3 4 3 4 2 3
3 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 3
3 3 4 4 2 2 3 3 4
2 3 2 3 2 2 3 2 2
2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 3
3 3 4 4 2 2 3 2
2 3 2 3
2 2 4 4 1 2 2
3 2 4 4 2 2 4 2 2 4
1 1 1 3 1 1 2 1
2.56 2.56 3.00 3.53 2.07 2.27 2.93 2.43 2.29 - 3.50 -
Testing is anonymous - peer review. I do think that one rating was payback for a couple comments I made about python dependency issues that were making it alot of work to judge some entries - as python has py2exe.
There are some issues with the browser based version that don't exist with the stand alone exe. And the feedback I did get makes me think most people used that. Don't blame
I would in the future only release the exe as it runs better.
Next time what would I do different. Instead of testing 30 games the rest of the weekend - I'd post a follow up, I would do a time line and post that two days later, and post some bug fix two days after that.
They extended voting this time, with one comment that way some project that wern't as good could get some feedback and votes. So there is an assumption that if you get initial votes you must be good.
Was I the best project out there - no - did the one I think was best win - no - it took third in overall. Scratch did well in my opinion - I had my game engine built in 90 minutes.
Will I do it again yes.
My project http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mike_W/495022
Ludum site http://www.ludumdare.com/
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