I did it! I finished a game for Ludum Dare #11!
You can see my final post at the Ludum Dare blog.
http://gbgames.com/downloads/ld11/LD11-Minimalism-GBGames.zip is a 12.4MB download.
It includes the entirety of my project’s source in a zip file (LD11-Minimalism-GBGames-source.zip) and a GNU/Linux-ready tar.gz file (ld11-minimalist-gbgames-linux-x86-r12.tar.gz).
The source is ready to be used to build a linux-x86 distributable […]

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But I will eat some food while I am there.

Dessert was a bit better, especially those Nutella-filled spiral thingies:

I’m back, and I have a few hours to add sound and upload a completed entry.
Happy birthday, Nana!

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My grandmother’s birthday is today, so I’ll be taking a bit of a break to go to her house and help everyone celebrate it.
I was thinking of bringing my laptop, but there probably wouldn’t be anywhere I could work with it, and knowing how things would go, there would likely be something spilled on […]

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I have a main menu:

And gameplay:

I need sound effects, but I have made a game for Ludum Dare!

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I have gameplay now:

Er, you can’t tell from the screenshot, but the small square is your mouse cursor. The large square that is the same color is the goal. There are as many obstacles as the level number, so level #5 will have five obstacles.
The rectangles are obstacles you need to avoid to get […]

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Today’s breakfast was minimal:

That’s orange juice with extra pulp right there. Mmm, hmm!

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It’s 3AM, and I’m going to sleep.
I have a mouse cursor image, and I have a second image, and I can determine when the two are colliding. I’m getting close to a game.

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I finally have graphics. These are SDL RectFills that are using random red, green, and blue attributes, and the offset matches the mouse cursor’s position:

I plan on providing a sprite and making sure that there are other sprites in the playing area. I want to detect when your mouse-following sprite hits other sprites, and you […]

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