LD #17 is upon the Earth.  I will fight this menace to the doom.  Follow along or participate: Ludum Dare #17

I’ll be particpating this weekend in the Mini Ludum Dare #16, who’s theme is Constraints.  As usually I’ll run the dev diary on Ludum Dare’s site under the name MrPhil.  For this, contest I’ll be using Python + Pygame.  It will be my first stabe at Python or Pygame.  I hope they live up to their reputation of being fast to develop in.  This way you’ll have something fun the play with  on Sunday!

I participating in the Mini Ludum Dare #10 (MLD10) this weekend.  Ludum Dare is a website the organizes game development contests which are usually 48 hours long.  The mini’s are practice contests and the rules are usually more informal.

MLD10’s theme is Domestic Violence.  I found this to be a very hard theme.  Where is the fun in it?  But, I got to brainstorming and something struck me.  Games are often about real life, even the unpleasant sides of life, like war.  Games like Doom, Company of Heroes etc., these all deal with the theme of War, but are still able to be fun.  So, I’m moving forward and starting to get somewhere.

See what other developers are doing or Learn more about Ludum Dare or Follow my posts for MLD10 on Ludum Dare

Update:  I’ve thrown in the towel.

The holidays have kept me so busy I haven’t talked any about my new project. Another Ludum Dare 48 Hour game development contest occurred the weekend of December 5th. It was my fourth time to play and the 13th contest to date. This time the theme was “Roads.” Roads turned out to be a very difficult theme. I brainstormed all night Friday before bed (the contests started at 11 pm my time) and then again in the morning for a total of two to three hours. I couldn’t come up with anything I liked and also seemed simple enough to finish in the 48 hour time limit. So I went with the idea I liked the most, a Railroad Tycoon type business simulator. I confidently and correctly judge I would not finish it in time, but I’ve got a wonderful start on a game I’m really excited about. I call it Iron Roads. You can read the few and short posts I made during the contest on the Ludum Dare website: MrPhil’s Iron Roads.