LD48 - Treasure Hunter

**cairnswm** · 19-04-2005, 05:14 AM

This weekend I entered the Ludum Dare 48 hour game programming contest. The theme for this year was "Light and Darkness".

I decided on something really simple this time (last year I did a RTS game in the 48 hours): I did a Pacman game where each dot you picked up extended the length of your torch, which faded after time. The basic game took me about 3 hours to get working and then another 25-30 hours of polishing the game - making sprites, intro screen help etc.

The final entry is available from:
http://www.cairnsgames.co.za/ld48/treasurehunter.zip
and the source is available from:
http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/ld...eHunterSrc.zip

An interesting point to note is that all the enemies are scripted using DelphiWebScriptII integrated through a single unit (S2DLAI). The creation of integration points between the scripts and game are done through a dynamic linking function in the program - making it very easy to integrate into any other game (requires 2 procedures to integrate and the creation of the integration functions).

**savage** · 21-04-2005, 10:14 PM

Great stuff cairnswm!! A fantastic effort for 48 hours work, very impressive! Pity you did not have enough time to give him an actual torch or maybe some night visions goggles as a powerup

Very impressive all round!

**WILL** · 22-04-2005, 03:04 AM

As always William, you do us proud.

**cairnswm** · 22-04-2005, 04:12 AM

On the sunday evening (6 hours before end) I started on sound, but my sound system at home (MI2 and Microphne etc - cost about the same as a top end sc4reen card) just wouldn't work - I spent about 4 hours trying to get it to work... And then didn;t have time to do power ups and different tile sets

So far I've judged about half the entries - I'd place myself about 5th of these (of course I am probably being generous to myself). My goal of top 50% is probably realistic.

**{MSX}** · 22-04-2005, 11:47 AM

I've played the game too and it's really great for a 48h compo

Let us know when the judgement will be out

**cairnswm** · 02-05-2005, 04:58 AM

Overall I ended 23rd (of 52 final entries).

http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/ld48/ratings

(Actually I think I inadvertently cheated - I used poser and I was not allowed to

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