Ludum Dare Game Jam

We're doing a game jam here at IGN for Ludum Dare 20, the team is Justin, Colin, Evan and Chris from Interabang, Kent from Ethereal, and me from here. The theme is "It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!". We went through a few ideas, right now we've narrowed it down to three:

Nuclear Hand Grenade

Acid Rain Umbrella

Zero-Gravity Space

We're going to make prototypes for each one in the next few hours and see which one ends up fun. I'll be updating the blog every few hours with our progress.

-Alex

Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autobahn

Here's a quick video of another prototype I'm working on, it's a top-down multiplayer racing game based on some British Touring Car footage I saw on Top Gear. I'm going to try and do at least one blog post per week so stay tuned, keep on tweeting, or doing whatever the kids do these days.

-Alex

A New Zero: Blowing stuff up is fun

I was messing around with the attack plane in A New Zero, making the cannon explode on impact as suggested by JohnG, obviously it's way overpowered right now but fun to mess around with. Stay tuned for more updates!

Late Shift

It's after 11pm here at the IGN offices, there's me and some Interabang guys still working, I thought I'd take a break from programming and make a video of some prototypes I'm working on this week. The first part is just some A New Zero video, trying to make the attack plane actually useful, there's other stuff I'm working on but not really anything I can show yet. The second part is an FPS idea I'm working on, attempting to make something new in the FPS genre instead of another cylinder with a gun turret. Third part is the sequel to the prequel that is A New Zero. Finally there's the latest in walking dude technology.

-Alex