Hey guys. So recently, I participated in Ludum Dare 35. And well, I made a game!

The theme was "shapeshift." So the premise of my game is you are a shapeshifting reptilian alien whose goal is to fight through Trump Tower to find and impersonate Donald Trump in order to run for presidency. (Don't ask me how drunk/high I was)

The gameplay was styled off of Hotline Miami, so it plays just like it. Additionally, there's a bit of a stealth component thrown in that works really well with the Hotline Miami formula. I used Godot to make the game, and I learned quite a lot, so expect some more progress on Walriimon soon... ish?

Let me know what you guys think!

There's an adage we use in programming/game design: fail faster. Failure isn't bad, it's how you learn. What's bad is giving up or not trying to improve. So long as you make an effort, you will succeed eventually, even if your goals seem far away. Taking myself, for example, it took me about 2 years to learn C++ to a meaningful extent. And I have never finished a single project. Yet, I found that when I went into college and met other budding programmers, I was far more competent than them because I went through those failures early and I learned more as a result. Now here I am several years later teaching C and x86 assembly at that same college, despite only having an associates degree.

The only thing I can recommend is to not give up. If one way doesn't work, try another way. If computer programming is giving you trouble, try finding a course you can take. Or perhaps try something like CodeAcademy. Or post questions here on the forums, no matter how mundane. I for one love to answer those kinds of questions. Learn to be stubborn, and to keep going even if it's out of pure spite. You end up going quite far with that kind of mentality.

Looks like there's an abstract method you forgot to define

So, uh, I made a thing inspired by IRC chat.

So I decided to record something small, since I just had a really interesting conversation today and wanted to get some thoughts down. More to come in the future if I can manage to get my thoughts in order.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10573921/RecordedRants/Takers-Leavers.ogg

Quote from: Unicorn on February 25, 2016, 11:38:04 PM

Quote from: Scipi on February 25, 2016, 07:18:57 AM
I would use an array to hold all the color data, and then index into it. This article may help you: http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/flood-fill-algorithm-implement-fill-paint/

Yeah, that is what Cemetech recommended as well, I'll try to get that working, though I'm not sure how well I will be able to...

The code on that site looks like valid C, so you could use it more or less verbatim, provided all your color data is in a 2D array of ints.

I would use an array to hold all the color data, and then index into it. This article may help you: http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/flood-fill-algorithm-implement-fill-paint/

So, uhh. I discovered Breakcore recently.



I feel like my mind is melting.

I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen krelez mentioned yet, since he uploads great tracks.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on February 07, 2016, 12:02:05 AM
Nice purchase ^.^

That reminds me, I wonder if Total War was that game that @Scipi played?

I have all the Total War games so far. So pretty much yes

I'm afraid due to time constraints thanks to work, I may not finish my entry in time. Still, I do plan to finish something for once

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on January 08, 2016, 06:34:32 AM
Also is Tao there in reference to The Mysterious Cities of Gold? Because one of the main characters has a yellow vest and is called Tao

Taokaka

I set the filtering mode to nearest neighbor interpolation, so that should take care of the blur. And once I make my own terrain sprites, I can see about making them larger.

QuoteBy the way will the main character be a walrus?

I'm kind of fond of my Tao sprite :3

Good point. I uploaded it to my Youtube

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on January 08, 2016, 03:39:36 AM
Anyway I'm glad you are participating. You should make a topic, though,  to register your entry

I still want to make at least a proper battle system before I create a topic.

I remember I made this, which I would put on people's calcs and lock them with