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SophieH · Egg-Sucking Troll Humper Joined: 26 Feb 2009 Posts: 35

I'm too tired to type something original so I'll just quote my release post from the other thread.

whilst it sounds lazy, my lack of energy is a testament to how fun this compo was :)

RampantCoyote · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:20 am Post subject:

Bleah. Handling staircases has been surprisingly burdensome in my design.
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Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:32 am Post subject:

I'm exhausted. See my project thread for details.

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codeugly · Monkey-Butler Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 50

Ok, game as done as I have time for. It does have an ending that can be played past. If you start falling forever you are dead, I just don't have a handler and I am out of time. It has been a lot of fun. I look forward to playing all the entries this week.

The title is "Already Dead". It is available for Mac and Windows, just go to the blog post for the links.

http://www.codeugly.com/2009/08/17/already-dead-48-hour-competition-entry/

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Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:58 am Post subject:

I must say that all the entries look really cool, good job everyone! This has been a lot of fun!
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RampantCoyote · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:11 am Post subject:

Well, I'm still working on it, but my brain is fried and the gameplay isn't there yet. Basically I've got the equivalent of the Winchester Mystery Mansion you can walk through (and up and down and up and down...) right now... with unfortunately very little furniture or other decorations to help keep you from getting lost.

It ain't quite bedtime yet, so I may poke at it a while longer, but I'm afraid I've mainly just got a tech demo on my hands:

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Rainer Deyke · Demon Hunter Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 672

My entry -> http://forums.rpgdx.net/viewtopic.php?t=2252.

My biggest regret is not giving the player an area or multi-target attack. This makes some of the fights fairly frustrating and tedious even for high level characters. It would be easy to do too. I just didn't think of it before the deadline.

Malignus · Scholar Joined: 12 May 2009 Posts: 198

Wheee! Mine's done!!!

RampantCoyote · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject:

It's not done - but here's what I've got.

Cursor control keys. Up and down only work at or above stairs (respectively). No game yet:

The Manor, v. 0.1

It's a zip file. Just unzip and run the executable ("TheManor.exe")
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Puddinlover · I wanna be a ballerina! Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 26

Wow, some of these games are impressive for 48 hours!

BTW: My game thread is >>>>HERE<<<<

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TheNut · Lowly Slime Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 4

Excellent work everyone. I finally got around to trying out everyone's game. It's amazing what we can accomplish in just 48 hours. Just make sure you don't let the boss know ;)

While I don't plan to continue my project, the amount of work I pushed through has leaped me forward greatly. I plan to take the next few steps and focus on simpler, parlor-esque style games while I continue to work on and build up my tools. It's been great fun and I'll be looking forward to future compos.

Puddinlover · I wanna be a ballerina! Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 26

RampantCoyote · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:36 am Post subject:

Amen.

Since I like to use every experience like this as a chance to learn, I wrote up something of a postmortem of my experiences over at Tales of the Rampant Coyote:

48 Hour RPG Contest Post-Mortemy Thing

The tools thing - and being familiar with them - makes a huge difference. I think if I were to do the same thing this next weekend, I'd be a bit faster (especially if I reused the textures...).

Of course, as soon as I get to know the tools, I either don't touch 'em again for months and forget what I learned, or go searching for something better...
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tcaudilllg · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject:

I think this may have been the biggest RPGDX compo ever. Am I counting nine entries, or is it ten?

Puddinlover · I wanna be a ballerina! Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 26

When does voting start?
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