Stahlman Design blog

Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, you are the giant in Jack & the Beanstalk game

Justin Stahlman -

Ludum Dare 33 live blog of compo #LD33 #LDJAM

21:00 — 21 August, 2015

#LD33 theme: You are the monster

This game source code on GitHub

22:21

I planned on doing something in the clouds, so I have a good idea for the theme: Jack and the Beanstalk, but you are the giant.

Got Impact game engine ready and new project running.

Got beer, juice and chips. Got to feed the cats

22:22

Giant inspiration will come from this wikipédia image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk

22:43

Pesky little villager coming to steal my stuff

23:07


pesky dude is coming along

23:18


little organic dude with beard

23:31

Read the story on wikipedia. Turns out Jack is the real "monster" cause:

The original story portrays a "hero" gaining the sympathy of a man's wife, hiding in his house, robbing, and finally killing him. In Tabart's moralised version, a fairy woman explains to Jack that the giant previously robbed and killed his father, which justifies Jack's actions as retribution.

But that gives me an idea: If you (the giant) get killed, a message comes up pointing out all the bad things Jack did to the poor « monster ».

01:51 — 22 August 2015


Giant can now walk

09:30


The giant looks more like Wikipedia-inspired image, like a Cossack.

10:21

Game will be called « Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum »

11:23


giant can climb, new vine texture

12:26

Giant feels pain when falling too far

13:30


little dudes run around

14:28


Giant jumps to smash jack

15:46


Beanstalk growing

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19:35

Golden goose, harp and coin

20:56

taking break. next thing to do, make jack climb

11:01 23 August 2015

final sprint begins

15:30

much progress, too tight to document

16:49


game is palyable

20:44

Just submitted Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, my first Ludum Dare attempt. Extremely tense in the final hours making sure it is playable... a crazy sprint!

To play with the source code you need the ImpactJS game engine