coughlinjon

I hastily added an Application.Quit line a minute before submission and it seems not to have worked. I'll be pushing builds that fix some of those ending bugs in the next couple days. I'm really pleased you were able to get that far and intuit how the exiting is supposed to work, though! for now, you can Alt+F4 unless you'd like to browse the items in the room more haha - pro tip: the ghosts will go back to sleep when the room light is back ON That is really flattering; thank you! It's definitely a weird thing that is almost entirely targeted at Idle Thumbs listeners.

IT'S UP IT'S UP!! I spent the weekend in the woods away from my computer and internet, and I got home with 1 hour to add the Key/Door logic to the game and fix some Boo stuff. The Eyes Of Luigi is now a playable thing (though still pretty broken) I'm excited to pick at it over the next couple weeks to polish it into a portfolio piece. I'll write more of a reflection on the 2 weeks later, because right now I want to go spend some time with my wonderfully understanding wife This is the last screenshot I took during development.

Lol i cannot tell you how happy that makes me! I realized pretty quickly that this was going to be a game about Luigi singing and not a game about anything else I put in it...

It's morning and I'm feeling much better cellphone1.mp3

- Play this version if you must, but I plead with you to wait until Monday night - Alright, my first Jam build is up. It's totally broken Lots of the systems work in isolation, but right now there are so many bugs that the thing doesn't stand up as a whole. I'm excited to have made a full game. I'm really upset that my first build isn't a functional game. I have to upload now because I'm leaving for the weekend and I can't guarantee that I'll be home in time to submit anything. The gif I have of Luigi retrieving a key from a ghost to unlock the bedroom door (the end state) is apparently too big to load, so you'll have to check the Slack to see it This is a dev log, so I'm going to be candid and say that 2 hours ago I was feeling very high - most of the systems were coming together, and I was still in a sort of unit-test mode. The ghosts all have unique barks (recorded and implemented in a sprint tonight) and it seemed that despite missing a credits screen I would have something playable. I'm not sure anymore if this build is playable, and that bums be out, but I'll be back Sunday and after to polish it into something people enjoy. I'm at least happy I put Steven and Travis in the opening credits, because they added most of the charm to the game (Steven all of the good art, Travis the code that makes Luigi talk incessantly). Here is a link to the game: https://coughlinjon.itch.io/the-eyes-of-luigi Here is a link to the Ghost recording session, which will give an indication of how excited I was to tie the whole project together: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1p24Mtti2l1amlZenQ3aER2RVk

Working the intro - it will be very simple. Title Page Instructions Page Exposition Page ->Begin Game

I cannot wait to play this. lol, you're going to have a trailer!? I'm so jealous.

I snapped a pic of our spare bed before I left for work this morning - remnants of last night's development include recording equipment and an empty bourbon glass. Last day! I'll be scrambling to finish intro/game/credits and I still haven't added the key that gets Luigi out of the bedroom

hehe, I just put this into the game yesterday...

You are so good at this. I could watch those legs kick the rat king all day.

This looks brilliant - I'm so jealous of your making a real game that I'd play with my wife. You have a great mind for game jams.

Ha, thanks! I was worried about including too many gifs, but I feel like the game lends itself well to gifs - allowing Luigi to keep and equip Mario's stuff has made him surprisingly expressive. I haven't spoken at all about the technical stuff, and I might elaborate once I've released the game - I didn't do anything new or interesting, but I modified some of my tools enough to streamline adding new assets, and I'm hoping with a little polish I can have myself a suite of FPE tools for future projects (FPE games seem to be the only thing I want to make right now). I'd also love if Steven and/or Travis (art, audio programming) would be willing to add a post about their contributions. Steven's art stands out immediately - it's all really smooth and caricatured and eye-catching. Since I've stuck to gifs nobody has heard any of the audio, but Travis has a Luigi voice who mumbles idle things, emotes, responds to specific items, sings along to music - It's going to have a lot more personality once people can hear Luigi speak

Are you a fan of Mario? Can you draw stick figures on your cell phone? Do you want your stick figures in The Eyes of Luigi and your name in its credits? We're making The Eyes of Luigi for Wizard Jam (we have a separate dev log) and we would like to include a scrapbook of the fan mail Mario has received over the years. This is our chance to apply the Crowd-Sourced diversifier to our game. If you have 5 minutes and you like to draw with your fingers on your cell phone screen, open your simplest sketching app and draw a piece of fan mail that 10 year old you would have mailed to Mario (or 30 year old you would mail today). Post your fan mail in a reply to this thread, or tweet it to @clicktozoom. We'll do our best to put every piece in The Eyes of Luigi, provided they're neither mean nor lewd p.s. these illustrations/letters can be as simple/elaborate as you like, but I wouldn't expect any of you to spend more than a couple minutes. Thanks! Jon

We've added fan mail to the game There's a separate thread where you can submit pictures. Since the mail is treated like an inventory, Luigi can steal it...

Mario keeps his correspondence in his desk - here's verification that if you send me fan mail I'll put it in the game

We're closing in on the final days!!! Here's an updated inventory - that's about as fancy as we have time for And below it is one of the 52 barks I recorded/edited this morning; our Luigi is going to be a talker... LuigiBark_HumStar.mp3

Ha, I wish I had time to add Luigi singing to parts of popular songs, replacing key lyrics so they're about himself - the boombox is already it, it would take... another week? We're finishing up the room (or what will exist of it at release day) and then we'll wrap intro/credits/pause/exit around the thing and call it a game. I still have to find time to tune the vacuum/ghosts stuff, too

lol, this is so good. you are very talented

Luigi stumbled on some of Mario's trophies

lol, so I'm listening to this on repeat today as inspiration for a recording session tonight.

lol that is awesome

Ha, either, as long as they're glowing toward Mario - something Mario would hold onto and add to a scrapbook.

lol this is a great gif

I've stopped messing with ghosts - time to dig deep into the pit of Luigi's inferiority.

Getting creepy