Backyard Pirates

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Aurea Oceanus

I made a underwater surival game. Here is the mini post mortem:

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What went right

Framework: I made some games with libGDX before, so this was a good choice for me. I used the experimental model loader extension but besides being experimental everything worked as expected.

Models: I used Blender for the modeling and texturing. All textures are created and baked in Blender. Because of my limited modelling abilities and time constraints the models are kinda low poly but this fits quite well to the overall art style. For the animations of the shark and the seaweed I used a simple wobble vertex shader. This was a huge time saver!

Sound: I recorded the sound effects with my phone or BFXR and added some slomo effects and additional bass with Audacity. This worked quite well. For the music I used some generated tunes of autotracker bottomup and exported them to midi. I imported the midi to LMMS and used a funky synth. Some additional slomo effects in Audacity resulted in the final ambient music.

Mood: FPS + Fog + Sharks +  dark ambient sound = WIN!

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What went wrong

Game play: The overall game play is to simple. I got no real idea, so I just started a FPS with no real game play target. The initial primary goal was to collect stuff in a limited time constraint. This was to simple, so I added sharks to the game.

Collision detection: Spend way to much time on this one. I did something wrong with the model export. The collision center of all models had a wrong offset… The final collision detection is still kinda hacky in the final entry… :/

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Overall I’m happy with the result. Good mood in the game and I learnt something along the way. See you next time!

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7570

Ludum Dare 48h Combo Entry, Theme: Alone

KP Game and Music

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qb

and finally released!

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Website (with a playable browser version and downloads)

Guide the sphere to the exit. Only a block can stop it once the sphere moves. So use the blocks wisely to reach the exit. But it won’t be as easy as that! Portals, switches and even movable blocks will challenge your brain. The game features 24 mind-bending levels along with local highscores and a time attack mode. Create your own levels with the ingame editor. Enjoy the 3d graphics and a soundtrack written by bitbof.


Me and pavethem are developing a new game called qb. It’s a 3d puzzle game for android devices. The game will feature 25 levels with highscores, time attack mode and more. qb uses opengl es 2.0 for post processing effects. Tell us what you think about the game and how we can improve it! 

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Pax Britannica

Pax Britannica is a one-button real-time strategy game by No Fun Games. Up to four players battle it out underwater, struggling to be the last one standing!

Over the last 3 weeks, I ported the lua code from Pax Britannica to Android. The original code was rewritten from lua to java. I used libgdx for that. There are also some differences in the speed of the units. This is because of the smaller screen resolution and the so decreased distance between the factories.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.swagner.paxbritannica