So I’ve spent the first day setting up Flixel, searching for map editors (found DAME), making the hero run animation (Export from flash to png with Zoë). Compile all this into something playable-ish:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/848324/ld22/v01/index.html

Concept

So I’ve begun my entry. It’s called Zolcan. You are an astronomer traveling to a distant planet. Your buddies disappears and you are stranded, alone, on this alien jungle planet. Classic shmup story and game play.

This might look wierd. It’s a mockup of a 1st person racer in pseudo 3d. First goal is to make the car behave fun. Then try to get this look.

Im going to bed posting my tech demo of a generated world, rendering 10000+ sprites at 50 fps in flash.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/848324/minild26/Auuuuu.swf

Until next time gadget! Next time!

I finally got a screen from the game. Next LD I need to be away from my family. Im glad if there is anything playable at all at the deadline.
I can’t wait to play all your games. I want to blow stuff up!

A: Name of the game: Auuuuu!

B: Description: You must have GOLD! You only have $100. Buy tools, go
dig. Sell ore. Buy dynamite, plant dynamite!
C: One mockup image:

D: Definition of Done:
[ ] Titlescreen with themes: Dig, Drill, Detonate
[ ] Move the miner
[ ] Drill rock, not stone nor ore
[ ] Generated, persistent scrolling world
[ ] Plant explosives
[ ]  Plant & light fuses.
[ ]  Explode rock, stone, ore and player
[ ]  rock drops ore
[ ] Die
[ ] Open shop
[ ]  Sell ore
[ ]  Buy tools, explosives, fuse
[ ] Soundeffects
[ ] Challenge of some sort (enemy?, thieves?, economy?, weather?, cpu/human competant?)

The date is set!

May 27 – 29, 2011

Update #5 :by PoV

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Update #4 :D

Choose your own theme or themes from the list, Please state your theme(s) in the titlescreen of your entry

• Descend
• Demolish
• Destroy
• Detonate
• Dig
• Dirt
• Drill
• Dynamite

(more…)

What went right

Pixels! I love pixels, I first started to animate the characters in flash, but somehow the animations went berserk and I decided to go with pixels instead. They turned out nice. I imported pngs and animated them in flash.

Tiled. An open source tile editor I’ve used before. Implementation if the fileformat went smoothly and the editor is pretty easy to handle although it has it’s quirks. If you download Tiles you can modify the game by opening data/map_0.tmx (make sure to set Tiled to save xml files and not binary).

Mapsize. I made a map that is 100 x 100 tiles. I was afraid that it would slow the game down but I think it has not. the size did make the theme more applyable.

Flash Develop. My choice of IDE for coding flash applications/games. It aids you oodles in code-generation, hints and snippets.

What went wrong

Discovery theme. I planned for key/lock gameplay but only managed secrets and crate-opening as discovery-elements. Although there is one weapon pickup.

Music. I don’t know how so it’s usually left out in my games.

Other notes

I forgot to add the 3rd party librarys in my source-dist. But fear not here they are.

Play & rate my game here: Dr Discovery

Still got lots of stuff todo, but Im happy with the graphics so far. Next up: Loot!

Click here to try!

I focus on polish this LD, gameplay is second

I have base thing working, 2d tilemap, using Tiled as editor, animated characters, although these are just placeholders. Working collision&response, Sound, Camera, Input and you can shoot the Thugs! What about that! I also managed to purcase a x-mas-tree and play some Black-OPS today!

Click to play in your browser! Arrows + Z.

Im off to bed!

Click to play. WSAD or Arrows. Left Mouse Button to throw a rock. There is no way to win, only loose.

I’m not completing this tonight. I’ve felt uninspired with this game. Perhaps if the player is able to pick up guns it will be more fun. Yeah. I’ll think about it.

Mafia shoot out in the streets

Distractions are killing the progress of my game. I hope for it to be playable and a bit fun before deadline.

MafiaRevenge is playable. Throw a stone by clicking.

Box2d Physics are up. You can move around with arrows or WSAD. Click to throw a stone.

Next task: AI for the Mafia. Make them move and kill each other.

This game will be about making two mafia gangs kill each other. Using flash as editor I can now load levels in the game.

Got just up and got totally stumped by the theme as usual. Some of my ideas so far:

• Shmup
• Hack n slash
• Turn two mafia gangs against eachother.
• Match 3 & kick em up. You throw enemies on other enemies or down on the board.

Also, Im not going to post any food pics

Industry sim.

You have a small house, we can call it a factory. You need to eat. Somewhere to sleep.

Clothes.

You find an order of 1000 nailes. You have taken a loan of $500 from the bank with 8%

interest. You need to buy: Material (Iron), Tools (Hammer, Anvil, Tongs), Fireplace &

Energy (coal). You hire a worker (An old chap). Tell the worker to make nailes. It goes

slow, but steady forward.

I can simplify it a bit: You need, energy, material & labour.

Not much progress since last… Going for breakfast now.

This is a 2d physics puzzle game. The goal is to get off the island. Use whatever junk there is on the island. Build a trebuchet and launch yourself into oblivion! Anyway thats the vision, I hope to complete half of that…

First ingame image