So, I’m using Flash 11 Stage3D thingie to get stuff working!
Here is what i’ve got so far:

My idea is to have a city ready today, and tomorow I’ll think about the gameplay.

Hi,
I just finished writing a tutorial that goes in pair with my platformer framework. I hope that someone will actually use it!

Check it out here!

What’s inside:

• A link to Flashpunk tutorial
• A ready framework platformer project
• Handling collisions and gravity and stuff
• Integrating Tile Studio and Graphics Gale
• Source package of one of my game made using this

It should enable anyone who knows at least some programming to make a platformer using this druing the Ludum Dare!

Hi,
I’m writing to apologise that it appears I lost some of the I’m in videos. Apparently Viddler deletes everything after 30 days. Not knowing that I left out few videos to wither and expire I’m really sorry guys, I only realised that when I tried to download the videos just now.

All that’s left are these thumbnails in my browser cache.

EDIT: If you recognise yourself on one of the thumbs, please reupload on http://sos.gd/ld_vid I’ll include the videos!

Okay, I’m totally in and here is what I’m going to use:

Code: Flash Develop
API: FlashPunk
Drawing: Graphics Gale
Sounds: Cool Edit Pro+ Mic
Music: FL Studio
Theme: Kittens

See you there!

PS
The I’m in video count is 74 \o/ That’s a new record! I’m going to put them together soon!

PS2
I totally failed the warmup, and I’m not even ashamed

The deadline for I’m in video is being extended by 24h!!!
Click here for more details!

For those who doesn’t know how it works:

You upload a video declaration of LD22 participation. Make it crazy, make it big! Just before the LD, I will assemble these into a running reel!

The link below will take you to a neat flash-based webcam recording thingie.

If the thing fails to work for you, or for some weird reason you don’t want to use it, upload your video (file) somewhere (like dropbox, not like youtube) and leave a link in the comments.

Previous compilations:

LD21 I’m in compilation
LD20 keynote I’m in reel

This is what happened:

…and then i saw this…

I tried to work out a solution, and since I have work to do, I will use that as an advantage.
I will be working on McPixel to make something standalone I can publish before the deadline.
I will be recording a timelapse and shooting food, I will even shave!
The details are secret

I put together a tool that suggest themes!
It uses the original theme submissions (over 2400)! Nothing cropped out!
Also, there’s only one try! Once you get a theme, it’s yours!

Hey thanks everyone who helped / tried to helped / trolled the theme list!
I went ahead, took the results removed some obvious bad choices and mailed everything to PoV.
He takes up from there, my job is done. Thanks again!

Okay, theme voting will begin withing few days.
But there were over 2400 submissions, and there are around 100 in the official voting.

I went ahead and removed all the themes that:

• Had words that are not in english dictionary
• are longer that 3 words
• contain swaering and bad language
• are simply duplicates

This got the list down from 2400 to 1200.
So I made a tool to quickly pre-rate themes (or simply, slaughter them )
Please help out with that!
So, here we go

kill them themes!

EDIT: I cut the list in half and enabled live results. Abuse that to get your favourite ones to the top.

NOTE: THIS IS NOT THEME VOTING. THIS IS PUBLIC THEME PRUNING. OFFICIAL VOTING BEGINS THIS WEEKEND.

IndieDB is running a second annual Indie of The Year competition. I decided to enter with my Ludum Dare 21 game McPixel.
I’m currently working on it supplying it with more puzzles levels riddles and other crazy content. It will be ready just by the end of this year!

To vote, just click the link below, and click the big red Vote for This Game button!

Vote!

Ludum Dare 21 entry page
Game website

May I introduce…

Obnoxious Friday Bundle!
Only on Black Friday you can get 13 free games for only $1!

Get it!

During the leap hour on October 30 a whooping number of 64 games were made!

But this is not over yet! For North Americans, the leap hour occurs on November 6 at 2:00 am each local time! Join us!

In the mean time, watch the keynote!

Soon, on 30th of October, our clocks will shift from 02:59:59 a.m. to 02:00:00 a.m. so there’s actually 1 hour between 2:00 am and 2:00 am.

This is the best time in the year to make a game! Make a game in zero hours!

Fixed website, added submission form, FAQ, theme suggestions and all that! Go check it out!

PS. refresh cache! (Ctrl+F5)

EDIT:
I hacked together a tiny website that tracks tweets.
http://0hgame.eu/

I’m probably won’t finish in October, but I’m not giving up no matter what. I’m currently reaching half of the work. i have 50 levels ready, and as soon as I wrap them around, I will be looking for people to test it (I’m looking even now, actually).

Also, I made this cool poster

If you want to test it or have no idea what I’m talking about, go here:
http://mcpixel.sos.gd/

Making these levels can be a bit boring, as there are quite many, but I’m not giving up! I plan to have 100 levels, and already has 25. I’m getting up to speed as I can reuse stuff I made in multiple levels.

Here are some new level screenshots:

And here is a trailer I put together today:

And obligatory LD21 version link: Play!

My take on the October challenge is to sell an actual copy of a game, which I didn’t manage to do so far. I have licensed flash games, but I never even tried to sell a copy of a game directly to end-user.

So, my game is… McPixel!
I have already begun work on this and made a few levels. I need to pull myself together and manufacture the levels like there’s no tommorow!

Here is a proof of intent:

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you should play the original LD21 entry

Anyways, the idea is to take it to the mobile market. I hope it will work well!
Also, visit my blog for some more detailed updates.

It’s vaguely related to LD, but I’d like to share that since going full-time indie last month, Im on the verge of finishing my first game as a fulltime indie – Thelemite.

Thelemite is a fast paced 2D brawler made using FlashPunk. It’s about Melex Archer, a video game programmer, who out of boredom had undergone mdeical experimentation that transformed him into mutant ninja!

Overall it was quite an experience, especially having to undergo a blitz crash-course in pixel art.

Here is a trailer of what to expect:

I’m really finishing, and as I’m done with that, I plane to extend McPixel as my next project.

Ok, I have noticed that many people don’t actually know the full meaning of word escape which might be affecting voting in the Theme category. I don’t blame anyone and no one should, since most of the folk here aren’t native English speakers (me too, but I’m an English teacher ).

So, Here is a definition from The Free Dictionary with some pictures for better reading

escape [ɪˈskeɪp]
verb

1. to get away or break free from (confinements, captors, etc.)
   the lion escaped from the zoo
   
2. to manage to avoid (imminent danger, punishment, evil, etc.)
   to escape death
   
3. (intr; usually foll by from) (of gases, liquids, etc.) to issue gradually, as from a crack or fissure; seep; leak
   water was escaping from the dam
   
4. (tr) to elude; be forgotten by
   the actual figure escapes me
   
5. (tr) to be articulated inadvertently or involuntarily
   a roar escaped his lips
   
6. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Horticulture) (intr) (of cultivated plants) to grow wild
   

Here you go

So, I had some hard time preventing my LD20 (the previous one ) game from spreading around the internet like mad, so i thought about sitelocking it this time. So I did, and during the short period when it was on Kongregate, someone already put it on his site. I wouldn’t mind, but since I decided to take it down from Kong and continue development, I didn’t want it to spread over the internet beforehand.

And to my astonishment, the simple sitelock worked and the game didn’t launch So I immediately got this idea in my hand: if I can rule out playing that game, I can pull off a prank So, I changed the sitelock to play the special ending right away if the sitelock test fails

Uhm…. I guess you would need to see the special ending to get the joke So I’m gonna shamelessly plug my entry into this post

tl;dr – Someone stole my game – it was sitelocked – changed sitelock to a pranky one – win – ps, play my game