2008 August 09 | GBGames - Thoughts on Indie Game Development

LD#12: Another Dinner

By GBGames, on August 9th, 2008%

I ordered the vegetable entree from a Thai restaurant, and the person on the phone asked me what kind of meat I would like. That’s why there is chicken. I also asked for vegetable egg rolls, which were smaller than I expected, but they did have only vegetables in them.

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LD#12: First Half of Ludum Dare is Gone

By GBGames, on August 9th, 2008%

As of this writing there are only 23.5 hours left in the competition.

And my project is in bad shape. I have some decent notes, but the actual implementation is lagging. I have to remember that I still need to create art and sounds, not just code.

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LD#12: Back from Lunch

By GBGames, on August 9th, 2008%

I took a little longer than I expected to get back from lunch.

That’s a Turkey Twister sandwich on pretzel bread and fries, and I ordered a basket of tater tots. As you can see, I tried to make a tower. Maybe it is more like a ziggurat?

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LD#12: Tower Defender Initial Design

By GBGames, on August 9th, 2008%

Here is the initial design I’ve come up with. Over a year ago I wrote down a one-liner idea about defending a castle, and these notes flesh it out a bit more.

I want a microphone because I really do want my knight to say “STAB!” when you mouse over him.

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LD#12: Breakfast is Awesome!

By GBGames, on August 9th, 2008%

Since so many people got a kick out of my Awesome! brand paper towels, I thought I’d juxtapose them with my Optimum Power cereal:

Awesome. Just awesome.

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@bkoppe @Crell I'll admit that the font needs to be large enough, but by and large, the more code I can see at once, the better. 05:31:57 PM February 06, 2012 from Twitter for Android in reply to bkoppe Reply Retweet Favorite