So I've been interested in making some platformers in LÖVE / Love2d for a while, but haven't produced much of anything so far, until this month. To get the ball rolling and reduce procrastination, I started writing more: jotting notes on paper, keeping a personal diary, and writing up public-facing devlogs with weekly goals. (Warning: unfocused ramblings about platformers). I found that writing about ZZT here helped a lot in the summer.

It is my intention to get something playable out the door between now and the end of the year. It would be a mistake to take on something larger than I can realistically pull off, so I've put my current ideas on the backburner, and I'm setting a goal to make something small but wholly realized in about two weeks. This would help me find issues in my current codebase, get familiar with packaging LÖVE games, and also give me something tangible for my efforts.

I wrote up an idea that has been in the back of my mind for a while, started a simple XM soundtrack, and outlined how gameplay would work yesterday. But I'm realizing today that I won't have the energy to pull it off in two weeks. So back into the cabinet that one goes. Started on another idea, but upon review, its workload requirements are also too high for this timeframe. Think smaller, damn it!

I need to take a few steps back. There are platformers with very little to them that are still very enjoyable. I'll post some more once I've got something that's scaled appropriately.

Game File: 

Acid.swf

Press A for player 1 and L for player 2 to fire your dot, the higher it is when it reaches the other side the more damage it does, when dots collide the higher dot kills the lower dot and looses some height. The game is better with 2 as the ai I coded is hella ghetto

Game File: 

tutpancake.zip

You thought it would be easy working the night shift at a pancake restaurant but nobody told you there was a pharaoh convention in town!

Game File: 

AttackOfTheDroids.swf

ATTACK OF THE DROIDS

Attack of the droids is a unique game in which you use the colour of your lasers to defeat the enemies. Simultaniously rotate your two turrets to blast the droids to smitherines. How many points will you get?

Well, why the hell not! There is now a semi-official Glorious Trainwrecks Mumble server. Just download the client and point it at glorioustrainwrecks.com to talk to your fellow wreckers... with your voice!

Of course, the current probability that anyone will be on when it's NOT Klik of the Month time is near zero, but it was easy to set up, and I'm curious to see what the community thinks of the idea.

I drew this terrible sprite

and I haven't been able to stop laughing at it. A game needs to be made for this man with arched eyebrows, severely deformed leg and crabwalk.

I was thinking something along the lines of Castlevania 3, with visual nods to games from LJN, Software Creations, and Ultimate/Rare, but more specifically Ocean and their goddamn super white people sprites.

Okay, maybe that's not exactly what I'm going for. I will post later when I have a clearer idea.

does anyone remember Clarissa Explains It All? i think she was probably the first female kliker. not sure what software she used. probably amos or stus or whatever the fuck that was called again.

i think the games she made in that program are very trainwrecky.

so yeh take a look and them and make sure to NOT reply overall that's the thing people do on this forum :trollface:

http://youtu.be/ZrOFU86AwFc <- video of games from that show

Exactly what it says on the tin.

Game File (Linux): 

Food_lin.7z

Game File (Mac): 

Food_mac.zip

Game File: 

Food_win.7z

Had to compress the videos to muck, but hope you like it!

Controls are arrows and Page Up/Down, or the sticks on a controller.

NB: Linux one is the only one tested properly, but the Windows one was tested in Wine.

What's a good but stupid alternative to path movement?

I'm trying the 'look at balls that go to checkpoints' method at the moment. basically path with active objects as nodes but at least I can attempt to 'bump'.