This was my first participation to Ludum Dare :
AbbrevsMaster - davidB - 48 Hour Compo Entry
The Game
Goal : Become an AbbrevsMaster.
Find Abbreviation to clean the screen of its definition/translation and try to create a minimaliste view like "Google Search" and scoring.
Points : definition's length x number of occurences.
5 categories x 10 levels (each one have its own url).
Mainly tested on Chromium & Firefox
The Technologies
Runtime
- Music: [Mr. Mealey's Mediocre Machine from Kevin MacLeod] (http://incompetech.com/)
- Font: Font-awesome, weloveiconsfonts.com
- Host: github pages
- Browser: Chrome / Chromium (better), Firefox, IE10 (no sound)
- Database: text file with content from ChatSlang
- CSS : bootwatch "Simplex" theme + custom
Dev time
- debug/test : Dartium, Chromium, Firefox (print ;-) )
- lang: Dart stack (SDK, DartEditor, Dartium), HTML5, CSS3
- lib: simple_audio, web_ui, widget
- editors: DartEditor, jEdit, vim
- builder : Ant, Freemarker
- OS: Arch linux, zsh (oh-myzsh), mc, ...
- Draw: Inkscape
- SoundFx: generator (as3sfxr)[http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/]
- Kanban: Trello
- SCM: git + github
- Google + some articles
The LD Theme : minimalism
I make game with minimal gfx (triangle, cube,...), sound, ... daily (WIP Game). So I should do something different. I'm a fan of web design "minimalist" and "Google Search" page is a famous example. So start on a game with a visual like it.
And Abbreviation because, it's to write the minimal characteres ;-)
I hope you will enjoyed it, and you find some fun when you'll crunch abbrevs.
Thx