Even though I haven’t really been all that into this LD’s Jam (I’ve barely even playtested our own game!), I still feel like the general buzz is keeping me hyped up. I can’t wait to see the results.

AND I SPENT THE MOST EFFORT ON THE TITLE SCREEN MUSIC. LISTEN TO THAT BEFORE YOU START PLAYING, WOULDJA?

So we’ve been working hard today, got a lot done so I’m feeling better about the deadline. Some enemies have been updates, as well as new ones being created. The title screen is 70% done and work on the Hero character has begun. We hope to have a beta version up soon for playtesting before the final release tomorrow.

Obligatory Screenshot

We seem to be mostly set up now and the only remaining art pieces are the title screen, credits, and a few more misc. stuff. We’ll turn most of our focus now over to finishing up any code, some music, and designing levels. I’m about to clock in so here’s the final screenshot of the night plus a preview of the title screen.

~AlucardX60

We’re hoping it’ll breath fire.

This is quit time consuming.

Since the last post we have made great headway both graphically and in the gameplay. The player is now animated and bombs work. Breakable blocks and blocks that disappear and reappear based upon a button have been added as well as a enemy. But we still aren’t were we want to be at this point. I hope we have the time we need to finish this.

Those robots never hurt anyone! >:O

Here’s a bonus gif.

Things are going pretty good, but I wish they were better. Checkpoints were going to be implemented but will probably be scrapped. The player design is more or less done but still needs animating. (The hardest part) A few tiles need to be made but they are mostly done.

But a screenshot will tell more than my rambling on. So here it is.

~ AlucardX60

Basically you’ll be playing the villain trying to reclaim his lair from the meddling heroes in an action side-scroller. Possibly even some RPG element as well such as stat boost and abilities.

All I have to show so far is an incomplete tileset.

This will probably get much bigger.

Happy Jamming everyone.

Yep. After such positive reviews and the fact that it was simply gosh darn fun to work with we have decided to continue work with Boxed In. The  additions planned to be made to the game include

• Bug fixes (kinda obvious)
• Gates with corresponding switches
• Higher resolution graphics
• More sound effects
• More levels (MKEdit: You may see a few, VERY hard levels from me :3)
• PARTICLES!

And more!

JelloEdit: also, since we set it up with the new ogmo, levels are not compatible and will have to be redone.

Also, you forgot the preloader with built in pong.

Here's a screenshot to drool over.

~AlucardX60

title screen of our game; Boxed in. also notice the cat in bottom right, it means there's a a kitten hidden in it

This is our first year together as a group, and we are very impressed with our results. We did have a few more ideas for it, but i guess that’s what happens with 72 hours of time to make it.

link to Boxed In’s Ludum dare page.

Tools used:

- Language == AS3

- IDE == Flashdevelop

- Libraries == Flashpunk

- Graphics == Paint.NET

- Sounds == SFXR

- Music == ptCollage

We incorporated most of what we wanted to incorporate. We managed to make it as complete as we possibly can and even had time for credits, a kitty Easter egg and particles.

DAY 1: 72 hours remain:

We at first were going to go all Super Mario Galaxy style with a tiny planet at the center. However, after a while we realized that Jellonator could not get the physics working the way it was supposed to, so it was scratched. 3 hours of time was wasted. So we started brainstorming ideas once again. Acecard kept repeating ‘a guy who can shrink and then grow back,’ yet Jellonator insisted that he could not code the area detection for growing. eventually we came to a point where we had the idea of small people in a cardboard box controlled by a larger person. shortly after that, Ace had to sleep and left Jello to code from 1 AM 7 AM. the end result after that was ogmo was set up and running, platformer physics worked, and some crapsprites made in place for when Ace made them, with a small hole in the box that acted as a goal.

the game after the first day featuring crapsprites.

Day 2: 48 hours remain.

This is the day when most work was accomplished. MKSTAR came online and made a quick functional loop, boxes were made to be pushable, spikes added to kill the player, Ace made non-crap sprites to implement into the game, tilting is added. The main thing about this game was turrets and rocket launchers. at thing time, missiles were homing missiles. Also, half of the levels were made on this day.

Day 3: 24 hours remain

On this day the rest of the levels were made. Jello encountered glitches with the missiles, so he removed their homing function after an hour and changed their function to destroying breakable blocks. Sprites were tweaked, Blocks were created and the credits were added to mark the end. the goal was also changed to a hole that leads to other parts of the box just because of logicalness. by the time it was done, there was 2 minutes until submission period. after we submitted it, we encountered a few glitch. blocks were affected by tilting. so we went ahead and fixed it during ludum dares submission period and submitted it. we took a long nap afterwards.

What went right:

quite a few things went as they should have, The fingers at first were hilarious (Jello resized them 400%), but looked legit when resized 200%.  the whole tilting gameplay is the thing that makes it entertaining. We also enjoyed implementing the easter egg, at first we didn’t know how to implement it, but in the end we did.

What went wrong:

At the beginning we waster ~4 hours brainstorming and scratching the original idea. we planned 20 levels but ended up with 18. Our turrets and missile launchers glitched when you passed the relative angle of 0 (when the player is to the right of the weapon). Jellonator thinks the fingers still look a bit creepy, but eh. they’re fine. There’s also a glitch with tilting, the game only renders whats visible at 0 degrees, so it chops off at the top and bottom when rotated. We also realized level 12 and 13 were the same thing.

Conclusion:

Overall, we are proud of our game and will continue it in the future. we had quite a bit of fun making this and we hope you have as much fun playing it too.

MK (Composer)’s comments: Well, this was a fun experience, and my first Ludum Dare. I loved the whole time limit thing, and it brings a smile to my face seeing so many people like the game. See that level near the end with a crapton of spikes and Kaizo jumps? That was me. :3

As to the future of Boxed In, we have a seperate-from-LD version that’s currently in the process of a new gameplay fashion. Also, Jello’s working on something interactive, and he’s considering adding more obstacles. Meanwhile, I made levels (there’s another standalone version on our site with those levels), and composed some music that could fit with the obstacles.  Also, we’re adding settings in a different interpretation. I love cryptic leaking.

Meanwhile, Ace is hi-res-ing all the graphics (which is pretty stupid, IMO), and Jello’s working on the aforementioned leaks. I’m just composing. ~MK

I just got up, and decided to make this update post before school.

currently we have added turrets which kill you and stone blocks which are not subject to tilting, and are about to added missile launchers. Play the latest version here.

screenshot of new objects:

A screenshot showing a turret shooting and stone blocks.

anyways, I hope we can finish this by the end of the day.

We’re doing well so far.

Title screen woo!

-Implemented moar levels including MK’s Kaizo style level

-Jello’s fixing box-hitboxes

-Added turrets

-Added stone blocks

First non-tutorial level. Yay.

Planned features:

-Pausing

-Homing missiles

-Kitteh :3

We here at Pixel^3 have come up with a name for our game. it shall be called: “Boxed in.” The player controls a person holding a large box in which smaller people are inside this box. The goal of the game is to get the ALL the people to the hole in to box so they can escape. It’s a puzzle platformer involving use of WASD and arrow keys. Classy music made by MKSTAR26 was finally implemented. Ace has also updated the graphics for them, so it looks nicer(imo the hands are a bit off :3 )

Whats new:

-better graphics

-music

-person holding box

-slightly better physics

-pushable boxes

-4 levels

Click here to play!

screenshots:

Here is some person holding the box. don’t ask who.This shows the player pushing a box.

an image showing boxes inside boxes,                 box-ception.

Planned features:

-Pausing

-enemies

-moar levels!

Okay, so far we have a player in a small cardboard box.

The player can run and jump with arrow keys, and tilt the box with WASD.

Right now we have crap sprites because Ace hasn’t made the sprites yet.

We have music, but we haven’t implemented it yet.

Play it here and comment below:

A Challenger, or more likely 3 challengers, has risen to the challenge of the Ludum dare game jam(since the jam allows 3 people :3)

Our members include:

-Jellonator(the person typing this) as programmer, weapon of choice: Flashpunk

-AlucardX60 as artsist, weapon of choice: PAINT.NET and maybe GIMP

-MKSTAR26 as music sequencer, weapon of choice: PXTone

hopefully we have a great time making this game, which I know I will, like I did last year making that abomination called Alone On An Alien Planet. Hopefully we don’t procrastinate this like we do with our recent projects.

~Jellonator~