Can you prevent the hydro plant from breaking and keep the villagers safe?

Wanna try it yourself?
ssh -p 2222 pi01-thedreamweb.ddnsgeek.com
Note: at this time, no commands other than create_user, login and close work.

Progress!

After Game Center match making, I now have some interactivity: choose your ship's heading and thrust.

• It's a lockstep setup with input delay (currently two steps). Only input is synchronized between clients;
• Simulation updates every 0.1s (and waits if input doesn't come in);
• The "physics simulation" should be deterministic if Double acts the same on all iPhones/iPads.

Improvements:

• It's not a game yet: no win/lose condition;
• When it comes to network: current implementation uses tcp/ip and sends input as JSON to other clients. This should probably be optimized;
• There is no graceful end of game: only stop the process.

So, I finally managed to get working:

• Game Center Sign In in SwiftUI
• Matchmaking
• Start a match
• Exchange data between clients (just some strings with random data for now).

This means I can start making a multiplayer game!

Because Game Center is strictly peer-to-peer out of the box, I'll try and implement a deterministic lockstep mechanism. Hopefully the Swift Decimal type is stable accross architectures.

Looking forward to this weekend's Jam:

• a shortlist of original themes that can be interpreted many different ways - wonder which one will end on top;
• planned out the weekend for this;
• great way to end my vacation.

Haven't decided on tech/tools yet. Though Love2D looks cool to give a try.

Good luck everyone!

update: made it!

Soooo close to getting a rating. Only need one more. But the deadline is nearing also. I'm getting desperate. :P

Please help me out here. You can play my game here: https://alakajam.com/6th-alakajam/702/the-fencer/
Should only take you a couple of minutes and it will run on anything (even a phone)

I will play your game if you leave a comment.

Cheers!

Life happened this weekend, but Alakajams are a pretty rare occasion, so I did spend time to make a game.

Not the game I wanted to make: I wanted to make a web based multiplayer game (next time…), but that didn't fit my time constraints. So back to IF and Ink. Luckily I could reuse my template code from last Alakajam. Its also my first ranked entry. :)

If you feel like it, you can play it here.

First time participating in Alakajam and looking forward to it sooooo much. I wanted to participate in this Jam for as long as it existed. Now finally the schedule-stars align well enough to give it a go.

Just a little over an hour of time to kill before I can start.

Anyway, I only really have time tonight and on Sunday, so I'll need to see how much I can get done and probably keep it very simple.

I'll definitely be using Unity 3D, Pixelmator and Affinity Photo, Garageband and Chiptone;
If doing 3D: MagicaVoxel and/or Blender.
Target format will be WebGL for sure.

Anyway, looking forward to the coming days, submitting a game and then enjoy playing your games!