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24 Hours: The final rush

The clock is ticking down, panic is in the air and there's no one is sitting around idly, completely the opposite of the atmosphere 6 hours ago. Last minute additions and fixes have been applied to everything, even I'm too busy to blog, hence this entry being an hour late! For our project it meant small bugs were ironed out, sound was hastily added (Ride of the Valkyries to accompany a battle between Gods, gloriously epic!) and a bucket load of stress! We're over it now, waiting to demonstrate our work to the judges with more anxiousness than stress. As happy as we are with our game, the competition is very tough. There have been some fantastic games made over the past 24 hours, and even those that are not quite finished show amazing potential. This has been a great display of ability and creativity and I'm proud to have been a part of it.

I'll end with the promise of a final video to come to show off the finished product, and a great big thank you to everyone that helped put this event together. It has been a resounding success in my eyes, and I'm certain that I'm not the only one that has hopes for another in the future.

Hour 23: Too busy to type much So here's a gameplay video. Also, I'm no longer tired, coffee is a miracle worker :)

20 Hours: BRAAAAAAAIIINS!!!!

Uuuugh uuuughhhnnnn aaarr uuuuugh uuur ooooagh braains uuuuuughhhh aaarghhh! I'm back from the dead!

#Zombie Waudby

18 Hours: Daylight has Broken

The sun is rising and a glimmer of fresh morning cheer is flooding into me (that could of course be due to the lack of sleep), progress has slowed down this past hour or so as group members get revitialized for the final crunch.

Might be about time to waken the troops and rally the forces for the final push, the game is close just not there :P

Written by Stephen Fisher... again

17 Hours: Waudby go nigh nigh

So basically for the next hour or so the team is down to one member who does not understand XNA while Waudby catches some zzz's. I am going to take this opportunity to perform a brief recap of what we have and done so far:

Create a skeleton tracker with Kinect

NOT frape each others computers (a real achievement)

Eat many foods such as PIZZA

Watch Twitter like mad people

This is the event so far has been brilliant and our game has some way to go, we got off to a brilliant fast start start but its this last push that is proving tricky.

-Fisher out!

16 Hours: Maths and Music

So time continues to pass-by and still struggling with getting collision to work as expected in XNA, progress has slowed down but not halted as I look around I see alot of people with headphones listing to tunes.

Waudby is working hard getting the maths to work and ultimately produce a game with collision and purpose, spirits are fairly high despite lack of drink. -Stephen Fisher

14 Hours: It begins to Hit!

The combat has moved along and fixes have been made to the overall game, all is going well. People are starting to feel the effects that lack of sleep brings and already heads are starting to slump down.

A shift change has occurred to give some of the team a break with updates being continued by other members, I'm going around capturing footage still and I believe we are on track. -Stephen Fisher

#ulcsjam Game jam Lincoln University

12 Hours: Halfway out of the dark

Half way!!! Wooooo! People are already starting to slow down to a crawl as we hit midnight. 12 hours in and 12 hours to go. Our project is going smoothly, with game aspects being added on a slowly but surely basis. We already have shields and fireballs up and running. Projects all over the room seem to be going strong and morale has been raised by a twitter competition, asking for the funniest tweet with the #ulcsjam tag, with a companion cube up for grabs. I am however expecting the numbers to decrease slowly over the next few hours, as the plague of tiredness sneaks into the hearts of the weak.

10 Hours: Tech Demo, not a game

The past couple of hours has been very productive, errors were fixed, ideas were tested leading in more errors needing to be fixed, and then fixed. We now have the basic engine working well, and characters on the screen. The only issue now is to make this into an actual game. So far there are no game elements but it's fun to mess about, although the problem this leads to is a lot of people making them commit rude acts on each other.

As for other projects, I'm starting to see playables emerge all over the place, all of seemingly different designs, styles and genres. I've seen adventure games, platform games, RTS games and others I wouldn't even attempt to categorise. I think it's already a safe bet to say that this event has been a success in organising the creation of a wide variety of games, and we're not even half way through!

8 Hours: PIZZAAAAAAAA!!!!

No blog, eating.

We have Stickmen in hats!!!! Clearly a productive use of our time!

6 Hours: Progress! Progress! Progress!

We have 2 player detection and stickmen to move with the players! It's still incredibly glitchy but it's fun to make stickmen dance. We've added a condition to activate shields as a bit of fun but now it's back to fixing the basic detection and sort out the bugs. We have icons drawn out and looking snazzy, looking forward to the rest of the art. Looking around the room I'm seeing a lot of ideas starting to appear on screens, and there is a wide range of different games spawned from the same theme. With every hour that passes I look forward to the final demonstrations a little more.

5 Hours: 2 Player tracking working, kinda. It's a bit off but it's better than it was an hour ago. More importantly though, HATS!!!! Take that Team Fortress 2!

4 Hours: Trouble ahead

After getting a nice and quick start, with the Kinect set up, and basic classes set up, we were able to get tracking on one player working. However, we've just spent the good part of an hour getting Kinect to track anyone else, so our plan to make a two player Kinect game is not going strong as it stands. We will keep trying though, the idea isn't dead in the water just yet, a little more perseverance and we'll get through this slump!

2 Hours: Onwards!

2 Hours in and the room is a buzz of chatter and excitement. Monitors are full of code and people are focussed on creating masterpieces. As for us, we've made a solid start, finding Viking to be the most inspirational theme to choose from. Although none are particularly great themes, we're making the most of it and it's forcing us to be more imaginative at the very least. We have a solid framework set up and the Kinect is proving to be a fun piece of kit to develop for. Hopefully we'll have something to show in the next few hours.

1 Hour: Footage from 11am is finally uploaded! And yes, I stole TomSka's bit.

0 Hours: And we're off

The themes have been revealed, two of which randomly chosen by us:

Viking

Sheep

2012

A wonderful selection of varied ideas and the juices are flowing. Well, not quite.

My first idea was a Viking, transported forward in time to 2012, to a farm, who's only hope of survival and finding his way around is through you, speaking to him and guiding him through the tv. The idea was dismissed as "too Molyneux".

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