Cerise Music Ride
Ludum Dare 36 — my daughter's drawings, my first game jam
A game jam with my daughter
My very first Ludum Dare, August 2016. The theme was "Ancient Technology" and I took the weekend to ship a mobile game built around my daughter's drawings.
Cerise Music Ride is a runner where the main character, the bird and the sky were all drawn on paper by my 4-year-old daughter, then scanned and brought to life with Solar2D.
The whole adventure — 48 hours, one laptop, one Solar2D project and a lot of crayons.
Demos & trailers
Runner in action
A short capture of the final gameplay submitted to Ludum Dare 36.
Making of Cerise Music Ride
Cerise, the bird and the moon
A runner built around Cerise and her bird, riding across a hand-drawn sky. Tap to make her jump, dodge and sync her move with the music running in the background.
Ancient Technology
The Ludum Dare 36 theme was "Ancient Technology". My take: the oldest tech of all — drawings on paper, scanned in, then animated one frame at a time.
Hand-drawn by my daughter
Cerise, the sidekick bird, the moon and the sky decorations — all drawn with crayons by my daughter, then scanned and imported as-is into Solar2D.
The original sketches
The sketches that shaped the game — the main character Cerise and her pet bird, drawn on a sheet of paper at the kitchen table.
More character studies
Variations and poses — scanning many drawings gave me a small library to animate the bird and Cerise in the runner.
Final sketch pass
The last drawing session before bringing everything into Solar2D and starting the coding marathon.
Saturday — first gameplay loop
August 27th — the first playable version running in the Corona simulator. Cerise can move and the bird follows. The runner loop is already there.
Saturday night — obstacles
August 28th, 1AM — adding obstacles, difficulty ramp and music sync. The game takes shape.
Sunday night — final polish
August 29th — final polish pass on the animations, sound effects and moon in the background before submitting to the compo.
Drawing with Cerise
Working at the kitchen table with my daughter during the jam — her drawing, me coding, both of us watching the result run on the simulator between crayon strokes.
The studio, during LD36
Paper sketches, scanner, laptop, Solar2D — the entire production pipeline of Cerise Music Ride in one photo.
One more for the road
A final snapshot of the setup — crayons, scanned drawings and a running prototype on the side.
Credits
Solar2D (Lua), scanned crayon drawings and a lot of coffee.
My first Ludum Dare entry — made in 48 hours with my daughter's drawings.
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