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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For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 409.25(previous two years) + 73 (current year) = 482 / 1000
Game Ideas: 710 (previous two years) + 35 (current year) = 745 / 1000
It was another unproductive week. Too many higher priority things came up.
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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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For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 409.25(previous two years) + 72.5 (current year) = 481.5 / 1000
Game Ideas: 710 (previous two years) + 35 (current year) = 745 / 1000
This past week was spent partially recovering from Ludum Dare the previous week. I did manage to work on game development, but it was […]

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For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 409.25(previous two years) + 68 (current year) = 477.25 / 1000
Game Ideas: 710 (previous two years) + 35 (current year) = 745 / 1000
This past week is the first time I managed to work over 20 hours. From 42 hours last week to 68 hours this week, […]

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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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