Today went bust for me! We have a charity project at our church and we were out buying Christmas presents for people less fortunate. I’m also writing this just before I’m off to go and watch Jigsaw with my other cousin. Low fidelity sounds I’m mostly on a quest currently to try and produce some sounds that will fit the idea I have in mind. I’m going for an approach whereby I’m producing all the sounds with my voice/mouth, but I’m still at a loss for the falling sound as well as the parachute opening. ...

Day 5 had flown past and I suspect we did not really get much done. It’s my cousin’s birthday tomorrow so we spent some time with his family. I initially wanted to do a lot more recording, but I ended up fiddling around too much with what Matt had already done. I was super impressed with his parachute solution that he mentioned in yesterday’s update. We have sound! It’s very basic, but below you’ll find the first gunshot sound I’ve recorded. ...

Day 3 has come and gone! I awoke to an invite from my cousin to collaborate on the repo he had created on GibHub as well as a bare-bones structure of the initial repository. We had a quick chat on Slack discussing what he had done as well as the little bits he’d already implemented. I must say I was very impressed to hear that he’d already figured out how the turret should function. ...

I am in! Sadly my day 1 update will only be that I’ll be partifcipating and not much more. The theme was announced around 23:37 local time here in South Africa so I was fast asleep by the time it went live. Throwback Shortly after I woke up this morning I quickly searched to see what the theme is. What I found was that it is a nice broad theme and I’m looking forward to making something that will hopefully fit it. ...

This entry is likely been one of the topics I’ve been dreading writing about the most. It’s been in my view our most polished attempt at a game yet, but as I’m writing this it reminds me of the fight I have inside myself to continue working on it. I’m really hoping that I’ll get to push myself in that direction sooner rather than later, however right now I’m taking the time to write about it first. ...

So this is something that I’ve also been meaning to write for quite some time. I was turned onto the jam by my cousin about a week before the jam started. It sounded like quite a daunting undertaking, but at about the last minute I decided that it is something that will be worth doing though. The Theme When I saw the theme and how vast it was it demotivated me a little. ...

This past weekend was quite an interesting one. In the past week of madness at work I managed to get together the arrangements to take part in this very fun jam. It’s a move that might have been long overdue, but my cousin and I decided to team up on this one. Theme We woke up on Saturday morning looking at the theme: One Room. I was not sure how to approach the theme, but after a little thought I was considering an escape the room game using destructible furniture. ...

I thought I’d write this post while I’m still fresh with some experience from GitHub Game Off 2016, Ludum Dare 37 and the Entelect Jam #2. I’ve had some interesting approaches to solving each of the unique problems and also had some help with some of the solutions, but I’m just going to explore some of the first ideas that came up. One thing to note though is that this article is not so much the how to solve a problem using DDD, but rather to show some of the challenges with having to interact with a domain in a minimalistic enough way as to ensure that you don’t end up bleeding implementation details across boundaries. ...

So I’ve been absent for too long and I have mostly lied about all that I was planning to do in previous posts. That said it’s time that I start writing about stuff again. Quite a bit has come and gone in the past 2+ months since I last wrote something so I thought I’d put together a list of planned topics I’ll be writing about in the near future. ...

So I’ve been quite absent the past few days and I thought to just write this last post as an update on the plans. Well to be really honest there are no more plans. I had to deal with some personal issues so I fell so behind schedule that I can’t make up for lost time. Last Chance This does not mean I won’t be submitting anything. I’ll finish up and get an exe done and submitted on the last day of the jam. ...