Marcello's Blog
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So yea, woke up way too early (a bit sick and jet lagged).
I have a bunch of abstract ideas but nothing definite, though on a side note, the rules are pretty boring.
Good luck guys, if I actually enter, you'll need it.
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Ideas, ideas....
Yep, I haven't done much. I downloaded allegro and openlayer though, I might do my entry in openlayer, but I haven't decided for sure.
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"I could call the game, Carpet Munchers!"
(09:59:14) marcello 3d: I was thinking of
(09:59:20) marcello 3d: taking my wind painter thing
(09:59:26) marcello 3d: and doing a dust mite raising game
(09:59:34) marcello 3d: where you have male and female dustmites (dichotomy)
(09:59:43) marcello 3d: and you look down upon their world (world map)
(09:59:56) marcello 3d: they level is randomly generated/mites randomly placed (random)
(10:00:04) marcello 3d: whole thing could easily work in 6 shades of grey (classic)
(10:00:18) marcello 3d: and the objective is to raise the mites without them all dying out (survival)
(10:00:37) marcello 3d: anyway to control you'd mess with wind somehow
(10:00:40) marcello 3d: to like blow them around
(10:00:47) marcello 3d: and like the female mites run away from the male mites
(10:01:05) marcello 3d: and of course each mite has a lifespan and stuff, so they die
(10:03:07) marcello 3d: I could call the game
(10:03:09) marcello 3d: carpet munchers! -
Hurrah!
I still haven't started, but I took a nice two hour nap! I don't feel as crap now, so this could be good.
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LSD
Hurrah!
Very rough idea sketch (no, still haven't started coding). Any clues? -
More ideas...
So just jotting down a few ideas I've had, looking for comments.
1) Pang+Ikaruga
So basically take pang, only now have black and white balloons, and you have to switch between shooting black or white spears to pop the respective balloons, getting hurt if you hit the wrong color.
2) Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Some kind of weird cloud/earth simulation where you have some control over the clouds/wind, and it's either raining or diamonds are falling from the sky or whatever, and you have to avoid/catch things as a character on the land below. You can't control the character, but only the wind by drawing strokes in the air.
3) Fire Starter
(Inspired by the anime FLCL.) As a god you roam the streets of a city, starting fires and burning down buildings while the city forces work to put them out. The object is to keep the fire going forever without burning down the entire city (the fire goes out), and not letting the fire fighters put out all the fires.
So yea, that on top of the dust mite idea is what I have so far, but not really sold on anything yet. Post insight!
Edit:
Quote from show:
"Fire Starter
No one knows how the city of devils, Endsville, was born.
As soon as it was created, it prospered,
And then it slowly ate up the world.
You serve Cantido, god of the black flame,
And must hinder its growth by setting it afire.
Trick the fire fighters, hide from the police,
And torch the city to purge it of its devils.
But you mustn't burn everying.
If the entire city burns down, you will have no place to stay.
You will not be able to live.
There can be no final victory.
The only thing you can do is burn the city.
Your only hope is to receive the blessing of Cantido, god of black flames."
Attached screenshot. -
Those are some air jordans.
(18:22:06) marcello 3d: what do you think on the carpet munchers idea?
(18:22:58) Zack: hahaha female run away from male
(18:22:59) Zack: ahahaha
(18:23:13) Zack: yanno
(18:23:16) Zack: that makes me think
(18:23:26) Zack: that would be sorta lemmings-ish
(18:23:30) marcello 3d: heh
(18:23:33) marcello 3d: reproducing lemmings?
(18:23:41) marcello 3d: that's it
(18:23:41) Zack: not so much solving puzzle as keeping this little population alive
(18:23:43) marcello 3d: lemming sex
(18:23:52) Zack: oh gourd
(18:23:54) marcello 3d: breed lemmings as fast as possible
(18:24:01) marcello 3d: you're like
(18:24:04) marcello 3d: at a cliff face
(18:24:08) marcello 3d: and they're slowly running toward the edge
(18:24:15) marcello 3d: and you have to reproduce them fast enough so they don't all run off
(18:24:51) Zack: I'm dumb!
(18:24:53) Zack: hahahaha
(18:25:04) marcello 3d: like when they reproduce the fly out their asses or something, back toward the beginning of the screen
(18:25:14) Zack: it'll be the first lemmings game with a MA rating
(18:25:20) marcello 3d: and if you're really skilled
(18:25:26) marcello 3d: you can have them reproduce while falling off the cliff
(18:25:40) Zack: "did you see that man? I got a midair! that's skill!"
(18:25:47) marcello 3d: lmao
(18:25:55) marcello 3d: "those are some air jordans"
(18:26:01) Zack: ahahaha -
Day 1. Over.
So yea. I haven't written a line of code in the past 18 hours of the competition. Quite a success.
Currently Fire Starter is my 'fallback' idea if I don't come up with anything I like.
Zack has been doing a bit of spriting, but we still haven't come up with a final idea yet.
http://cellosoft.com/2draw/view/52052/
http://cellosoft.com/2draw/view/52059/
One current idea is you're in some kind of building and you have to put out rapidly growing fires (similar to firestarter, but a platformer), but I am not completely sold on that either. Oh woe is me!
Tomorrow should be a brighter day, and I hope I get some proper sleep tonight. -
The Dawn of a New Day.
Here I am again, somewhat refreshed and ready to start work. Unfortunately, I still do not know where to begin, so I think I'll just start messing with some code and pretend I have something.
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What's all this?
A screenshot?
Hrm, well nothing much, just playing with OpenLayer and a port of my wind painter code. I made a few modifications on the engine, but I must say, this version is no where near as cool as the java one, and I'm not entirely sure why. It's actually quite eerie to play with.
In any case, where I'll go from here, who knows! -
Right. so.
So yea, I've finally started coding. Geez. What took me so long.
Going with the Fire Starter idea. Yep. It should be good. -
In game!
Ok, got the isometric map down, plus some code for auto-combining roads (drawn by Zack) nicely.
Also drew up a little console for the game, but it's currently non-functional.
Also, a possible title screen with sketch by Maiko. -
Day 3. Here goes!
A lot to do, today, but I'm sure I can. I've got graphics, tunes, and fire to hit the road.
More graphics by Zack. -
Progress.
Got random city generation working, viewport, scrolling, and player code in.
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Just waiting for those little busters!
Haha, the game is finally getting somewhere, with lots of burning and little buster action.
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Map. Map. Map.
Map Map, everywhere a map, blocking out the scenery, making my snap.
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Better Map.
Better, faster, cooler. something or rather.
Shows burnt buildings, roads, buildings, current player (and enemies, eventually). -
Well then.
Fire Starter
No one knows how the city of devils, Endsville, was born.
As soon as it was created, it prospered,
And then it slowly ate up the world.
You serve Cantido, god of the black flame,
And must hinder its growth by setting it afire.
Trick the fire fighters, hide from the police,
And torch the city to purge it of its devils.
But you mustn't burn everying.
If the entire city burns down, you will have no place to stay.
You will not be able to live.
There can be no final victory.
The only thing you can do is burn the city.
Your only hope is to receive the blessing of Cantido, god of black flames.
~FLCL, Gainax
Download windows binary (and source):
http://files.cellosoft.com/marcello/firestarter010.zip
Enjoy.
