Today I was away most of the day, but managed to get something ready just in time. There is just one level and I didn’t have time for character animation.

The nice thing about NME is that you can compile it for different targets, so you can play this game in Flash, html5, Windows and even Android (not really playable, since you need to press keys to move, still it works!).

I really didn’t like the theme. Anyway, this game is about a lonely kitten, who needs to find it’s way back to home.

• Play Kitty (Flash version)

And here is the timelapse video: LD22 Time Lapse

It’s very late now, so I’m off to bed.

My tools:

• programming: haXe with NME (either with my own code base or with HaxeFlixel)
• graphics: Tile Studio, PhotoImpact, Inkscape, Photoshop Elements, GIMP (and perhaps my Random Art Evolver?)
• sound editing: Nero Wave Studio, bladeenc, Audacity
• music: MilkyTracker, NoteWorthy Composer
• instruments: electric piano (Yamaha Clavinova), cello, double bass, guitar (and perhaps samples from all kinds of instruments available at the concert?)
• recording sound samples:  ZOOM H2 audio recorder
• time lapse video: ETL and Virtualdub
• time logging: ManicTime
• chat: FireFox with ChatZilla

In this game, you are exploring caves in an asteroid when suddenly lava starts to rise, which you have to escape.

In total I spent about 34 hours on this, but spread out over several days. I used haXe and my own base code and Random Art Evolver. There are 7 levels.

• Play: http://www.wieringsoftware.nl/flash/asteroid-escape/ (Flash)

For some reason I haven’t been able to log into SourceForge for a while, but there is a new executable here: http://www.wieringsoftware.nl/ld/ts.exe (if you don’t already have Tile Studio, first unpack the zip from http://tilestudio.sf.net and then replace the executable with this one).

This morning I was too tired to get up really early. So I’m going to start now.

My tools:

• programming: either haXe (with my own code base), AS3 (with Flixel) or perhaps Monkey
• graphics: Tile Studio, PhotoImpact, Inkscape, project dogwaffle, Photoshop Elements, GIMP (and perhaps my Random Art Evolver?)
• sound editing: Nero Wave Studio, bladeenc, Audacity
• music: MilkyTracker, NoteWorthy Composer
• instruments: electric piano (Yamaha Clavinova), cello, double bass, guitar
• recording sound samples:  ZOOM H2 audio recorder
• time lapse video: ETL and Virtualdub
• time logging: ManicTime
• chat: FireFox with ChatZilla

Then I went to Amsterdam, where my cousins had their birthday party.

Now I’m back home and I’ve had dinner, it’s time to start working for LD!

Anyway, I’ll probably use (some of) the following tools:

• programming: either haXe (with my own code base), AS3 (with Flixel) or Monkey (recently bought it, but haven’t used it yet, should be interesting!)
• graphics: Tile Studio, ULead PhotoImpact, Inkscape, Photoshop Elements, GIMP (and perhaps my Random Art Evolver?)
• sound editing: Nero Wave Studio, bladeenc, Audacity
• music: MilkyTracker, NoteWorthy Composer
• instruments: keyboard, cello, double bass, guitar
• recording sound samples:  ZOOM H2 audio recorder
• time lapse video: ETL.exe and Virtualdub
• time logging: ManicTime
• chatting: FireFox with ChatZilla

Anyway, this is my desk:

I’m probably making something for Flash with Haxe, using my Haxe Base Code (new version 1.6), but maybe I’ll use Flixel instead or perhaps do something with a physics or 3D library.

If I can think of something very simple, I might try to make in in html5 (also using Haxe, but with jeash).

My tools:

• Coding: FlashDevelop, Haxe (or perhaps Blitz3D, BlitzMax, Delphi, Visual Studio)
• Graphics: Tile Studio, ULead PhotoImpact, Inkscape, Photoshop
• Sound: Nero Wave Studio, audacity
• Music: MilkyTracker, NoteWorthy Composer
• Timelapse: ETL and VirtualDub
• Internet: Firefox with ChatZilla

Good luck everyone!

Most notably, I’ve added a lighting/shadow system. I also changed the gold into crystals and added some statistics at the top. It also has some sounds now (using sfxr).

There is still a lot to do: power ups, enemies, level exit, health system, light battery system, doors, keys, switches, teleport, elevators, more decoration and probably something with little bombs and destroyable blocks. And then of course a lot more levels, music, a title screen, menus, high scores, etc.

Anyway, you can play the game here: Zwarte Piet (flash)

So instead I’m now porting another old game to Flash: Zwarte Piet. So far, I’ve got the first level coming along nicely. It shouldn’t be too hard to finish this game, submit it to Mochiads and still make at least $1.00 before the end of October!

• Random Art Evolver (Flash)

This program generates random images based on a code (which is shown at the bottom) and mutates them. When you click on one of the images, you’ll see it in full size at the right and all images will start to evolve from that point on. If none of those get any better, you can restart the same code by clicking on the large image.

Once you have found an image you want to use for something, you could capture the screen and save it somewhere as a bitmap, but the idea is to simply save the code and use a function to generate the image at any time.

The library is for haXe, it generates a BitmapData from a given String. It shouldn’t be too hard to port it to as3 as well.

Enjoy!