24 hour game development

[NecroDOME]

Last month we decided to create a game within 24 hour. Today we gonna make that!

its now 11:11 AM (GMT+1)

We currently starting with deciding what we gonna make...

Credits to Jens "Zhooibaal" for the idea
Frank "Mad Woody" and myself (Michiel) do the programming work in Delphi.

Edit:
Here is the link to the download page:
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Project.nss?project=Game_24

[WILL]

Very cool. Good luck! ;) *starts stop watch*

[NecroDOME]

11:28 am We decided to make fighting game like Mortal Combat :)

[cairnswm]

Very cool and good luck - I hope this means you'll join me in the next 48 hour and/or 72 hour contests!

[NecroDOME]

Thnx, I don't know if we join then 48 game contest...

12:31 AM - Lunch time :)

[tanffn]

heh yeah lunch-time, diner-time and break-time are the times I make my most creative work!
Very soon I’ll get to the level of only having break-times, imagine all the work I’ll be able to achieve. :D

And good luck with your project! Don’t forget to show us screen shots of the progress :wink:

[NecroDOME]

12:51 - Screensots will be posted here :)

progress so far: I'm currently building an animation studio for our fighting game, Mad Woody is building the engine and Zhooibaal is creating textures (pictures)

little update, a small picture of us :) :
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Picture1.jpg

[Huehnerschaender]

Good luck!!! :)

Who is who?

[madwoody]

Left front is NecroDOME (Michiel) lead programmer
Left behind is me :) MadWoody (Frank) slave programmer lol :)
On the right is our great graphical designer and soundmaker DooM (Jens)

[Robert Kosek]

Good luck guys, I'll play it when I get a chance!

[savage]

Great stuff, look forward to see the results.

[NecroDOME]

5:40 PM - I almost finished the animation studio with creates images with a mask. This is used for transparacy in the models.

For the we have a scrolling background so far :) . We currently working on the fighters and animation.

We also have a lego man as fighter to test :) , this will be some kind of boss. the rest of the fighters would be .... us :P

Pictures of the first fighter:
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/legoman_stand.gif
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/legoman_walk.gif
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/legoman_kick1.gif

[Robert Kosek]

ROFLOL!

I love the concept of a Lego man in a fighting game as the boss! :D You better make him tough enough! I look forward to the outcome guys!

[NecroDOME]

6:13 PM - A link to jens' blog (Zhooibaal)

http://zhooibaal.wordpress.com/

[tanffn]

:clap: I love the LEGO man idea :)

[NecroDOME]

6:52 PM - Diner time :)

Eating and working...
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Picture2.jpg

[WILL]

It would be around 10:59 pm now. :D

Lets see how hardcore these guys are. Are they still working or did they sleep yet? :twisted:

BTW: We really appreciate this guys. This is neat to see here.

[madwoody]

10:30 PM - Still programming and designing. Game is getting some shape :)

And we found some.... BEER :D

[Huehnerschaender]

Beer?

Back to work!! :) :)

I am sitting here on my Bacardi Cola, trying to create some useful code. But I don't have a deadline tomorrow :)

Gogogo!!!

[WILL]

Thats what Dirk thinks! Mwahahahah! :lol:

I once knew a guy that would have a huge pitcher of beer filled to the very rim and make a night of coding out of it. Whats the attraction of programming while half drunk off your face, I'll never get. :P

[Robert Kosek]

Code boys, code!

Woohoo! :lol:


Will: Maybe the fact that he found the errors he had to fix the next day, with a hangover, was fun? :wink:

[NecroDOME]

1:27 AM - First screenies

You can:
Jump
Walk
Punch
(no hittest yet...)
And ist all animated :D

http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Screenshot1.jpg
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Screenshot2.jpg

[Huehnerschaender]

I will go to bed now... i hope you guys keep coding while I dream :)

Go on, I want to kick into the Legomans ass tomorrow! :) :) :)

[NecroDOME]

3:12 AM - we are still awake :)

[jdarling]

Looking good guys, I hope you hit your deadline and come out with a finished product :).

Feature creep time:
Make it so that you have to beat the lego man apart to defeat him. First an arm flys off, then the other arm, a leg, other leg, finishing move takes his head off.

Make it so that you can upload a picture of yourself into the game, that way we can all have our own characters for playing :)

Give it IP play, then all the pascal-heads here can fight it out in game to see who is the best.

Ok, I'll quit making suggestions. Seariously, looks cool, and can't wait to play it.

[NecroDOME]

4:51 AM - We have sounds :D , 2 fighters.

jdarling: We using stop-motion, so we don't have the time to make it fully functional as a bos :(

Update:
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Screenshot3.jpg
LegoMAN has been defeated!

(We are working on a healthbar :P )

[NecroDOME]

7:01 AM - still alive...

We have almost the healthbar working. Currenly we are working on a avatar next to the healthbar.

Also we have almost 3 fighters :)

Tha game plays kind af crappy... but who cares... it only matters we finish if before 11:11 AM!

Update screenie:
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Screenshot4.jpg

[czar]

Ziet er goed uit!

Keep going guys... Few more hours to go (I think)

[NecroDOME]

7:58 - New screenshot :P

http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Screenshot5.jpg
At least we have photo realistic graphics :P

Dank je wel :)

Thnxz

[Zenophran]

Great work, keep it up. That's a brilliant idea. I can't wait to see how it finishes.

[NecroDOME]

8:46 - More screenies :)

Lets kick the LegoMAN :D
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Screenshot6.jpg
We also got a simple menu :)
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Screenshot7.jpg

[Huehnerschaender]

muhawhaw!

looking great guys!

TWO hours to go. drink a cup of coffee and finish it! gogogo :)

because you are from the netherlands, i guess the avatar fotos were made after a "cigarette" break, huh? :lol:

[Huehnerschaender]

muhawhaw!

looking great guys!

TWO hours to go. drink a cup of coffee and finish it! gogogo :)

because you are from the netherlands, i guess the avatar fotos were made after a "cigarette" break, huh? :lol:

[Traveler]

Superb idea people! And an even better implementation. :thumbup:

I hope you guys are not too tired :) Only 75 minutes to go. :D

[NecroDOME]

10:30 AM Again a screenshot :)

http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/Screenshot8.jpg

We have now a total of 4 fighters :) (fully working...)

[Huehnerschaender]

Less than one hour guys!!

How many moves will the fighters have?
Any combo moves? :) :)

[NecroDOME]

11:06 - DONE :D:D:D

download here (14 MB cause of photo realistic graphics :p ):

http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Projects/Game_24/UberFighter.rar



This game was made in 24 hours by 3 pleople...

Jens "Zhooibaal" Waschk
Michiel "NecroDOME" Gijbels
Frank "Mad Woody" van Gent

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Controls:

PLayer 1
High Kick - Home (bugging)
Low Kick - End
High Punch - Insert
LowPunch - Delete
Left - Numpad-4
Right - Numpad-6
Jump - Numpad-8

Player 2
High Kick - W (bugging)
Low Kick - S
High Punch - Q
LowPunch - A
Left - H
Right - F
Jump - T

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Selecting a fighter:

Select player 1, then press SELECT, then select player 2 and press select again to play!

[savage]

Congratulations guys, well done on finishing it!

[NecroDOME]

11:19 - ...MUST... SPEEEP.....

[Huehnerschaender]

Congratulations!!!!!

*downloading*

[Huehnerschaender]

Hehe!

Guess what, it works! :) Well done!

The graphics show a grid, but thats not too annoying.

A "complete" game in 24 hours... good work, guys!

[Traveler]

I took a couple mins off my boss' time to play your game.
Unfortunately it didn't run too well. It was dreadfully slow, animations were going at like <1 fps. I blame my pc for a good portion of it as it has a terrible gfx card I also understand there must have been little time to optimize things.

There didn't seem to be a collision response either. After hitting one of the 'retards' it didn't seem to affect the lifebar. Again, this might be due to my pc. The grid, Dirk mentions, can be corrected by resizing the screen a bit.

Anyhow, none of this really matters. I can see from the images that you've all had a good time making this game. I can only :clap: and say, great job :thumbup:

[czar]

It does not run for me..

Double click Game.exe and it appears in taskbar briefly and then dissappears again.

info:
Windows XP, Nvidia 7800, Hyperthreaded CPU. Never problems with other stuff. Running from d:\drive sub directory

[jdarling]

4:51 AM - We have sounds :D , 2 fighters.

jdarling: We using stop-motion, so we don't have the time to make it fully functional as a bos :(
As I said, Feature Creep, its what kills you. Congrats on the game completed, and great job overall.

Game play is interesting on a slow machine with a crappy graphics card, but it is playable. On my faster PC with a true card in it game play is quite fun. I love the blood splatter :).

WE WANT VERSION 2.0 BY TOMORROW MORNING!!!!
(After all, you gave us v1.0 in 24 hours :))

[Robert Kosek]

Good job guys, I see you had fun. ;)

I was able to hit the baddies without any issues and see pixelated blood splat around, and the lifebar decrease.

But I didn't notice any jump kicks, which are favorite moves of mine. :D

[NecroDOME]

we allmost hada a combo system, than we could make jump-kicks... We have the animation for them :P

[WILL]

This was very cool to follow. :)

Any future 24 hours stuff, please feel free to use PGD again. ;)

In fact if you plan any a week ahead, let us know when it's confirmed and I'll make a news post about it.

[NecroDOME]

Cool :D

We already have plans again for a new 24 hour game... so when the time comes, I will inform you :)