The last day is here. I’ve woken up with just under 12 hours to go. Can I make it? We shall see… Still to do: all the AI, firing cannons, sound, music, and the major panning effect I had planned for the fight phase.

To power up, I made pancakes for breakfast. Breakfast is so much more malleable than the other meals…

Here is the obligatory phallic pancake for the roommate:

And a spiral pancake! Culinary skills++

Finally, here is last night’s more standard fare – burritos with rice, beans, and cranberry juice.

A much needed update: There are about 29 hours left in the competition. Already people have posted some very impressive looking screenshots!

I spent the morning losing a fight with pyode and have removed it completely from my program, replacing it with pymunk instead. Hopefully I can get pymunk going on linux — that really hurt us in pyweek, so it’s important that I get it working.

After/during that, I took an hour to help a friend move, but when I got there they didn’t need me anymore. :/ That’s ok – breaks are good, right?

Now I’m finally starting to get into my game – the physics is working and I have most of the infrastructure laid out. I don’t know if I have time to finish (above mentioned friend is coming over later as well), but as of right now I’m still going to try.

Also, I finally got the laptop out so I can get the pictures from the camera online.

Behold, the command center!

Friday’s Food:

Kolaches for Breakfast this morning!

Ludum Dare 12 has officially started and the theme is “The Tower”. I’m already feeling concerned about time because I have some other commitments tomorrow, but I have some decent ideas. They all feel like a bit much though, so I’m worried because of that as well.

On top of coding, we are STILL on water restrictions so I can only water my yard on Tues and Fridays after 6 PM. My sprinkler system is currently broken, so I have to manually move a hose sprinkler around the yard, which usually takes a few hours. I’ve commandeered another hose from my neighbor so I can run two sprinklers, but getting up and moving them every 20 minutes is really messing with my concentration…

I didn’t make it to the store today, so no LD supplies. I’ll probably have pancakes or french toast or kolaches in the morning (I’m well stocked for breakfast food), but I’m water-jug-less this time :’(. Oh well, I’ll have to make it up with something else entertaining.