The Ludum Dare #11 ratings period is over, and the results are in. it seems that I didn’t do too badly. The rankings were out of a possible 5:
Overall: 3.50
Fun: 3.68
Innovation: 2.93
Theme: 4.43
Polish: 3.36
Graphics: 2.57
Audio: 2.96
Humor: 2.83
Technical: 2.54
Food: 4.38
Journal: 3.96
Timelapse: 3.62
My game came in 7th place for the Theme, 10th place for Fun, and […]

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In one 48 hour period, I made a simple game based on the theme “minimalist”. I didn’t try to stay awake throughout the entire Ludum Dare competition, so the game was made in less than 48 hours.
What Went Right:

Used my build script to create a distributable game from the beginning.
I […]

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I have already written about the solution to GLIBC_2.4 dependencies. The solution is still valid, but I wanted to share this bit of frustration that made me question if it worked in Ubuntu.
This past weekend, I participated in the 48 hour game development competition known as Ludum Dare #11. You can see my submission.
I found […]

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Last week, I wrote about the `GLIBC_2.4′ not found errors your game might get when an application built on a new distribution is run on an older distribution, such as Debian Stable and Slackware 11.
Judging from my search logs, this problem seems to be common enough to warrant a follow-up post. I have since […]

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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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