LynXmas 2020 Game Jam

[+karri]

57 minutes ago, 42bs said:

I'd propose: XmasSack

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And a red cart.

Perhaps the label could be like a name tag on a Christmas present and the red cart could have some decorations to resemble a present?

 

The Xmas is really Sack:ed. Which reminds me of the best tune this year. It is in Finnish played by a guitar player from the legendary Leningrad Cowboys (Tatu Kemppainen, he is also the chief physician of Kuopio University hospital). He did this video to encourage people to take Xmas and COVID seriously.

 

[+karri]

Ok. My game contribution is ready and it can be downloaded from my repo:
https://bitbucket.org/karri/naughty

 

The graphics are something I hope to still work on. As well as the intro tune. By looking at my diary - very unlikely...

[Nop90]

The code of my game is completed, but have to design the levels. Tomorrow can't work on this, so I start to be worried.

[Igor]

7 hours ago, 42bs said:

I'd propose: XmasSack

Yes! +1 from me...what do you think @Albert? You up for making this cart happen once your Lynx production line is up and running fully?

[Albert]

8 minutes ago, Igor said:

Yes! +1 from me...what do you think @Albert? You up for making this cart happen once your Lynx production line is up and running fully?

Absolutely! 

 

 ..Al

[+karri]

While you are waiting for the others to catch up you could test my entry. I might squeeze in a bug fix session on Monday.

naughty.lnx

 

It was longer before. But my son said that it gets boooring. So he made me to cut the action to less than 3 minutes.

[Igor]

Hehe nice, I didn't realise you control the girl as the player! Santa got me a few times too. Is there a way to restart gameplay?

 

The squirrel drops bombs now in my game.......?? ...and if you step into it, it slows you down until you walk it off.

 

[Nop90]

 

My game so far.

 

Sunday I have to finish the tunes and the levels design. Monday morning is for final testing and bug fixing.

Edited December 12, 2020 by Nop90

[Fadest]

First release submitted to itch.io :

Saving Santa Tree - LynxMas 2020 by Fadest (itch.io)

 

Apart music and SFX, I'm pleased with what I did.

Of course, there can still be some bugs lying somewhere, so maybe I will put another version before deadline.

 

There are now 10 layouts for levels. You have to go through all of them. But there is a random element in each game : some platform are iced, so each game is different from the other.

Also, I added a volatile that fly through the screen if you take too long to complete a level.

[+karri]

10 hours ago, Igor said:

Hehe nice, I didn't realise you control the girl as the player! Santa got me a few times too. Is there a way to restart gameplay?

There is no way to restart gameplay. This is something I did not even realize as the game is too easy when you know the game mechanics.

 

But for a first time player having a restart mechanism might make sense. I could add some message like "Press B to try again".

Pressing any conio keys will exit the game instantly. Or at least I coded it that way.

And there is NO WAY to turn off the music. Because it is enjoyable. And not irritating, like my kids claim.

 

[Igor]

Nice @Fadest! And yes @karri please add a restart option.

I'm 99% on the gameplay, just need to add some sound effects in, maybe music if I can find the time.

 

Here's the new title screen...

 

 

[LordKraken]

@Igor, the squirrel... his name is conker?

[+karri]

7 hours ago, Igor said:

Nice @Fadest! And yes @karri please add a restart option.

Done. I did add a restart option and changed the music slightly. The lower pitch sounded awful on the real Lynx. But this is better imho.

naughty.lnx

 

I am still interested in any last minute fix suggestions. I could do something on Monday, perhaps...

[Igor]

The squirrel is called Horatio, but that's not really relevant now or in the game any more as I've changed some last minute dynamics ?

 

@karri I think it would be good to show when your character is 'dead', right now the girl just disappears and it's a little confusing.

 

[Igor]

I don't like to stick to traditional kind of tunes, so here's my truly horrific Jingle Bells interpretation...

#define TUNE_THEME_CH1 "V0 X70 O2 I1 T5 R10 H20 K100 z V30 |:z2z2E4 z2z2E4 z2z2z3DE8 z2z2F3F z2z2z2EE z2z2z2E2 z4G4 z2z2E4 z2z2E4 z2z2z3D z8 z2z2z3F z2z2z2EE z2z2z2D2 z8:|"
#define TUNE_THEME_CH2 "V0 X72 O3 I1 T5 R20 H20 K100 z V55 |:C8 C8 C8 F8 C8 G8 G8 C8 C8 C8 F8 C8 G8 C8:|"
#define TUNE_THEME_CH3 "V0 X72 O3 I1 T5 R10 H20 K100 z V20 |:cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc ffffffff cccccccc gggggggg gggggggg cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc ffffffff cccccccc gggggggg cccccccc:|"

I've had a friend who is a classical piano teacher help me translate this to ABCmusic, but then I took it and twisted it. Not sure if she would approve of the final result.

What do you guys think? ? (I can see this being played in a techno-industrial-goth night club on Xmas Eve!)

[Nop90]

Game submitted.

 

Had to reduce the levels to 16, don't have the energy to design and test more levels.

The game can be finished in about 30 minutes, but not with a perfect score, that seems a very hard task.

 

I'll continue the testing and will correct bugs if any till the deadline. Later I'll post about the game outside of the Dev section.

 

[LordKraken]

Great work @Nop90

 

so i guess now that Fadest, Karri and you have already submitted their games, it's just me and Igor... and a 6th unknown participant (according to the itch page).

 

no pressure

[Nop90]

1 hour ago, LordKraken said:

now that Fadest, Karri and you have already submitted their games

@karri game is not submitted on Itch.io yet, it's only on his bitbucket page.

[Fadest]

1 hour ago, LordKraken said:

and a 6th unknown participant (according to the itch page).

Maybe nop90 second entry  ?

 

@Nop90, I will a try to your game tomorrow.

Do you have a tool to make levels or do you make them by hand ?

[Nop90]

By hand, some in my head and others with pencil and paper, trying to create tricky configurations.

 

This is the level definition file: levels.h

 

This is the level structure:

 

	{2,  3,3,1,5,4,5,5,2,2,1,5,1,3,2,3,1,1,4,1,4,4,1,2,3,2,5,3,1,  4,  5,4,3,4,4,4,6,2,2,1,5,5,1,1,1,1,1,1,  0,0,0,6,3,2,4,5,2,6,1,1,1},

First value is the delay in seconds before the toys move, than there are 28 values with the starting toys configuration (upper line 9 toys from right to left, center line 9 toys from left to right, bottom line 10 toys from right to left), than the number of packs to complete and 6 groups of three toys that are the configurations for the packs (if there are less than 6 packs to do some are ignored). Finally there is the sequence of toys (cycling) thar appear on the top right when an empty space exit on the bottom left.

 

There is no random element.

 

[+karri]

I finally got a few minutes for the last fixes. Here is the final version with the indication Igor asked for.

naughty.lnx

 

Still a few hours of driving tonight. So this is likely my final version.

[Nop90]

1 hour ago, Fadest said:

Maybe nop90 second entry  ?

1 day and 5 hrs left. There is time for another entry, but this time no, it's not me ?

[LordKraken]

You could stillreskin your game and sell it under a different name hehe  

[LordKraken]

Ok, game is done, except for levels... so time for design here too

 

[Igor]

I'm just working on sound effects now and then I'll be ready to submit mine!