Reddit Game Jam



First Reddit Game Jam started a couple of hours ago. And I started by taking a 12 hours nap I am still undecided if I will participate or not, but for sure I will try. You won’t see my entry in the official list for a while, I want to see how things go. Get back here for updates.

Theme: space.

I am going for a different approach and instead of building a space “shooter”, I am going to build a minesweeper like game, where you are the computers memory manager. You will have a limited amount of memory or memory space (get it? ) and you will have to accommodate memory allocation requests  from different programs. Each program will have a priority and some perks (eg, OS needs *all* requests to be satisfied and you can’t move the memory allocated around, the browser will request a random amount of memory at random times, if you keep the “production” program running smoothly you will eventually get more memory space etc).

I will be using wxWidgets. Because I have only a Vista64 and a Windows7 computers available, the “official” builds will be made only for those.

15.05.2010

11AM UTC: of course, I need to restart my computer to finish installing Visual C++ Express (I had 2008 on my Vista64 and 2010 on Win7, I want both systems to be the same). So, brb.

1:15PM UTC: finally compiled a simple wxwidgets app. I had to go back to VC2008 Express.

6:25PM UTC: now I can draw the “memory matrix”. It took me a while.

8:35PM UTC: I also have a timer now that I can use to generate requests from the programs. Time for a break; Meanwhile, here is a preview screenshot:

16.05.2010

1:10PM UTC: overslept Working on the random requests “engine”.

2:15PM UTC: requests queue is now done and I have a sprite for the smiley face (user mood).

3:50PM UTC: Now you can lose the game

7:20PM UTC: Pretty much done, I just need to add some more programs (I have 2 atm) and fine tune them. Oh well, let’s see what GitHub is all about. I will see later if I’ll add the last programs or not.

7:45PM UTC: Here is the first public build.

Memory Manager 3000

8:30PM UTC: github

8:35PM UTC: shower time, then movie.

— Officially, Reddit Game Jam ended a couple of hours ago. —

2:11AM UTC: WORKS ON LINUX. Now I’m really going to sleep.