The game is a simple item fetch game, with a few small jokes in there. It is heavily inspired by the amazing over polisher of all, the one, the only Pixel Prophecy! Also know as Phil Strahl.
He really likes his coffee, so the game needed coffee, and then he has a thing with unicorns, so again the game had to have at least one unicorn.
The gameplay is simple; the unicorn tells you what it want’s to eat, and you fetch it, and the unicorn poops a delicious, huge, coffee bean. The coffee beans can be taken to the coffee machine and made into a hot cup of coffee, giving you a 10% boost in the amount of coffee you contain. At 100% you have won the game. At 0% you have lost.
There are two other ways to loos the game, but that is for you to find out by playing it.
I hope you will spend a few minutes playing, and hopefully enjoy it. Thanks.

– H

Links to the Ludum Dare page, and the HTML5 version.

@INCD021 We wrote a poem about your game Don't Stub Your Big Toe! http://t.co/9NPdGVe8Q1

— Poems About Games (@PoemsAboutGames) October 20, 2014

The #30daydev have already given me so much, and I’m only halfway there. I’ll keep learning..

Now, go make games!

– Henning

It’s an old turn based racing game we used to play on paper when I was a kid.
You have to select one of 8 possible moves, the next move will start by moving the same amount as you did last move.

So if you moved 1 step forward as your first move, the next 8 possible moves will be around 1 step forward from your current position.

The hard part is trying to gain maximum speed and to remember to brake in do time. 70% of the time you gain to much speed and won’t be able to turn in time. BOOM!

Again it took waaay to long to develop. This time caused by a small oversight on my part that took hours to find I missed some coliders/layer in my raycast

Now it’s time for ZZzzzzzzzz………

Now, go make games!

– Henning

As the name sugests you have you yell at the game, to move. The louder you yell the further the player objects move apart.

I added a sencitivity slider to adjust the needed sound volumen to move, so you don’t really have to yell at the game.

The game only works if you allow it to use the default microphone of your computer, so if you don’t want to, then sorry you won’t be able to play.

Have fun yelling at gamejolt

Now, go make games!
– Henning

I had to think of something? Sleeping until 7 and didn’t help, food and a shower.. Now an idea started to form. The void ship from the Dr. Who series and the hunt for the Maquis from Star Trek, void ship = between worlds,  hunt for the Maquis = turbulent and violent space.. hmmm. To the blackboard, and draw 3D, draw 2.5D, ok then 2d.. Couldn’t figure out how I wanted the game to look, as I would like to do it in 2d (haven’t done 3d since unity came out with their 2d support), I just couldn’t squash the 3D into 2D.

Remembering that I only had 48 hours and 5 was gone sleeping, eating and showering already. I had to keep it simple. So why not having two universes, one on top of the screen and one on the bottom, and having to fight invaders from the other universe. So I set out to do so.

What I have ended up with is almost that. Only change is that the enemy ships are wormhole generators that you have to shoot down before they can open a wormhole, and there by destroying the other universe (I have allowed myself some freedoms as I do not know how wormhole from a universe with other lawn of nature would impact our universe or it’s even possible).

You can play the game Join Us! online, or download the PC version here.

Learned a lot, especially not to optimize as much as I do. I have done some things where I thought, this will be slow, but it’s micro seconds, so doesn’t matter. Ended up with at most 10 draw calls which is nothing. Now I have uploaded the PC version and the web version to Ludum Dare I don’t really wan’t to work on it any more, I’m mentally tired and just want to relax and not think about “Join Us!” anymore,  for now…

It’s been fun and amazing to see how much you can do, when you don’t focus on having to deliver something amazing and super polished, but just a game someone would enjoy So hope you will play it, enjoy it, and rate it on Ludum Dare.

Now, go make games

– Henning

Since the last blog post, I have published my small racing game Strazer to Google Play store. 

After updating the graphics, I’m pretty happy with it. It wasn’t meant to be a AAA game

After that I worked for a few weeks on a game about depression, but there was a bug in Unity (OnTriggerEnter2D) that kept giving me problems, so I put it on hold. The bug was fixed in the Unity 4.5 release, so maybe I’ll go back to that again… Later.

And the there are a lot of small POC as always

Save ’em all:

GauntletX:

Forever: 

DefendYourself:

Defend4x8:

All small POC that I might go back and work on in the future.

At the moment I’m working on a game for two friends, one want me to make a zombie game, and the other a platformer, so it is going to be a zombie platformer game

Right now I trying to get some graphics done for the game, it’s coming along but not as fast as I would like, and not as good either.  

This is the melee attack of the zombie. It still is missing shadows and highlights.

So have done a lot, just haven’t blogged about it. I’ve started using twitter a lot more, I like the positive atmosphere and the nice people always there to help.

Have a great day, now go make games!

– Henning

A couble of pointers:

• Make one keystore and make sure that you have a backup somewhere safe. You can’t update your app if don’t sign it with the same key.
• Supporting different aspect ratios on different devices suck! Learn to live with it. Compromise is essential!

Download “Beach Fun Seagull Hunt” at Google Play.

Now! Go make games

– Henning

I’ve changed a few things, and some things I really don’t get why is happening.

1. First thing that was noticed was that the game doesn’t fill the entire screen.
   This is as designed All players are to have the same playing area, same height and same width. If this wasn’t the case, some resolutions could have an advantage, for instance; a high narrow screen would be a lot better than a wide screen, as the ball has a lot less chance of hitting a seagull. There are probably a lot more scenarios where aspect ratio matters, but to make sure every player sees the same, the aspect ration is fixed. I did add a frame to the game area, to make it visible that the size is as intended. So no big change here.
2. The game runs very fast on low-end devices.
   Ok, this one I don’t get? Everything that moves in the game is either controlled by the physics engine or is moved by scripts, and yes I have checked, every movement is done using Time.deltaTime. So?
   I did some digging, and found a possible solution, not that I can see why it should work? Time.deltaTime should still make everything move with the correct speed? But it’s worth a try.
   Under quality setting I found that the setting for VSync Count was set to “Don’t Sync” for the Fastest and Fast levels. So I have changed them to do VSync, to see if this solves the problem on the low-end devices.
   

Well that’s about it for a couple of days testing Thanks again to all the testers and the people helping to spread the game.

The newest version of the game can always be found in the bottom of the post Seagull Hunt.

Now go make games!

– Henning

Here is what I started out with, and what I ended up with so far.

Started out with a ball on a screen. Had no idea what the game should be about.. Didn’t even know it would become a game.

Then made the ball fall under the influence of gravity, and added a small static cannon capable of shooting small red balls.

Added colliders to the balls, so the red balls could hit the red ball and then, to make a bit of a game out of it, I added some spikes, that killed the yellow ball on impact.

Added some graphics, and changed the mail ball to a beach ball.

At this time I did my small crap animation project, so of cause that was added to the project. I also did the super soaker graphics while trying out different vector based drawing programs and that was added as well.

The red balls was replaced by a water ball/splash texture.

Added a basic score, so each time you hit the beach ball with a ball of water you got a point, and game when the beach ball hit the sand.

I got the idea to add something to hit instead of just having to hit the beach ball, which was to easy.

I wanted to have a really fast game over to new game cycle, so all I wanted was a single start button in the middle of the screen. At first I would have liked to be able to share scores on Facebook, but as I haven’t gotten it to work 100% I discarded it for now. Maybe in a later version.

Just changed some of the background graphics, and added best score to the score display.

Added sand to the beach.

Completely new graphics, made by a nice fellow that I’m teaching to program, and in exchange his making me some pleasant graphics

New button and font added, that matches the rest of the theme better. The basic font is called Floraless and is made by Daniel Gauthier.

Small but very visual change, I made the score use the new font, by having a bitmap for each number and one for the slash, and then added code to convert the string into an array of the correct sprites.

The last change was the graphics for the crab that now looks a lot more organic and less flat.

The two thing keeping me from uploading it to the android store is the seagull- and the crap-animation. I will work on the crap animation as soon as everything thats happening in my life right now, settles down a bit.

If you want to try the current (Android only) version of “Beach Fun Seagull Hunt” just click the link below.
Old version April 9th : md5 : aad8aee9879d29ad0e8bf32cc451b097 *Beach-Fun-Seagull-Hunt.apk
New version April 12th : md5 : 5f145660cae4dab6d5c4fea869403f36 *Beach-Fun-Seagull-Hunt.apk

Now go make games!

– Henning