Day 14: Mini LD plans

So, Mini LD 15 started today. The theme is “Clone”, and the idea is to make a clone of your favoritest game ever. Well, Liero is definitely up there for me, so I’m attempting to make a quick clone of it. I thought about it for a bit, and I think I should be able to manage something like the original over the weekend, at least if I make some shortcuts. I might end up cutting destructible terrain, and the weapon selection will definitely be smaller than the original. Actually, it’ll be smaller by design also, because I want the selection to be actually somewhat balanced. The original is great, but not all of the weapons are exactly great. Would you ever deliberately pick a gun that creates mounds of dirt? Or a weak pistol with bad aim? I think maybe I would start with a selection like: mini nuke, bazooka, uzi. Uzi is the weakest of the three, but I’d probably make it more powerful than in the original. Perhaps make it an assault rifle.

I started some initial code in Lua using the Löve game engine. I haven’t used either before, but I’m mostly finished with the Programming in Lua book now, and Löve looks pretty easy to get into. I might still end up going with C code for the backend with Lua scripting, but so far this looks like a decent approach.