NaGaDeMo

Hey look -- something else for me to join!

National Game Development Month
http://nagademo.com/index

It is also Camp NaNoWriMo month
http://campnanowrimo.org/

How can I combine these???

Susan

The Definition of Done

This is an interesting article on defining when you are "Done" to avoid perfection paradox.

Now, even if those three previous conditions are met, there is still one thing that causes people to procrastinate and be overwhelmed: It’s the unfinished work and the fact that they are never 100% percent satisfied to the quality of their work.
When they are unsatisfied to their work quality, they keep tweaking and tweaking the results but they are unable to finish anything. This is a sure way to overwhelm their selves and generate unnecessary stress.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/what-can-software-developers-teach-us-about-crushing-the-perfection-bug.html

Long time no hear

My game Tiny World Cardgame came in 157 out of 1007 for Fun and 175 for Overall. I am hoping to make a web version of it.

I have a list of things I want to do.

And ... my dog died yesterday of cancer.

I'm a bit of a mess.

Susan

I got a review!

My Ludum Dare game was mentioned in a review:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/04/28/some-very-polished-love/

[quote]Tiny World Cardgame — Card games are something we don’t often see in LD, which makes this game already worthy a look. It also features an awesome and very professional looking tutorial, and the ability to assemble your own deck. The rules for the card game itself are pretty simple, but allow for a lot of variation.[/quote]

Link to my game: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=5150

A Game is Born!

It's called Tiny World because I am very bad at naming things.

Here's another screenshot:

Links to the game:

Windows: http://www.thecatsweb.com/games/Tiny%20World-win32.zip
Mac: http://www.thecatsweb.com/games/Tiny%20World-mac.zip
Linux: http://www.thecatsweb.com/games/Tiny%20World-linux-x86.tar.bz2
All: http://www.thecatsweb.com/games/Tiny%20World-all.zip

Still to do:
- add tournament play
- create tutorial
- write story
- finish art for cards


EDIT: GRRRRRRrrrrr CamStudio was lying about recording. No Timelapse this time

Susan

I can have the computer play itself

I created the graphics for the cards and have the programming so that the computer can play itself. The computer is REALLY bad. The strategy is modular so I am going to run some computer "tournaments" to see who wins.

Screenshot:

I'll upload a video of the computer playing itself once I give it a better strategy.

Susan

I got the cards framework working in Ren'Py

Not much to look at yet.  The player cards will be on the left and the computer's cards on the right.
Right now all you can do is drag cars to the discard pile. :)

Susan