Actually I wanted to write my favourites, but scrolling through the list of my rated games, I got sad because there are at least five in my list that have less than 10 ratings :/. and not (!) because they made unrunnable entries (ok, it applies to _some_ of them)

Please consider rating those as well!

I finally feel rested enough to write the post-mortem for Dorobou Neko!! Let’s keep it short, shall we?

The good:

• Ever since I played Prof Layton, part (I have no idea ), I wanted to recreate the Toy Car minigame, as it seemed simple, funny, and isometric! And in the end, I did recreate it! This idea spooked around in my head for at least a year, and when I started to have that idea, I tried a few AS3 isolibs, with no real success (everything was just too slow).
• This time, I jumped completely into the darkness, using Flixel for z-Ordering AND isometry, and it even somehow worked! Awesome! That’s the spirit! Always trying something new!
• I made another game with Chicky! And cats! Those mischievious cats!!

The bad:

• I didn’t follow the theme, I followed the 1000 kittens! You see, the last LD Tiny World was abysmal for me, my entry had no inspiration at all. And when the theme was announced, I knew the same would happen, that’s why I followed the kitten running gag
• I jumped into the darkness!! Little did I know that I would be debugging for at least 6 hours this weekend! Just debugging! Because the zOrder was not completely correct, and without real zOrder, isometry can also not work right :<. You can still see bugs in zOrdering ingame
• with that, I lost time, and I actually forgot to implement working open bridges. Yes, Chicky can do a moonwalk over them…
• and, also because of no time, I didn’t had the time for ‘real’, or let’s say, ‘better’ animations. In the intro, Chicky and the cat are running funny (reference to the recent chapters of One Piece^^), as it is a lot easier, not to animate legs. But in the end, I even gave the isometric cat that running style. Because I was so sleep-deprived, I felt like dying
• also, when you watch the timelapse, you can see some parts that didn’t make it into the compo version: the level editor! At the end of day one, I had an editor which produced a correct level, but it was so buggy I couldn’t put it in. That was one of the key features I really wanted to add, plus a server component, ‘CREATE YOUR OWN LEVEL’, but, you know, this is LudumDare, there’s no time!!!
• and I had no time anymore to add Chicky’s trusty flying plane :<. All I did was modifying the offset

Anyhow, everyone, let’s have fun rating! Like McFunkyPants said, I’m also not here to ‘win’ anything, I’m here to have fun

Here’s a timelapse of Chicky And The Cats: Dorobou Neko! Have fun! Post Mortem is STILL to come

YOUTUBE LINK

PLAY

Woah. I can’t do it anymore. I will be writing a followup Post-Mortem, BUT NOT NOW! I’m happy that I actually managed to finish something playable (quicklink), but to tell you the truth, I feel like I’m dying. Getting old? Uwahhhhhhh

So here’s the main screen of the game. Feel free to call me nuts when you play it . There are a few bugs, but I’ve done enough debugging this weekend, I don’t wanna anymore……….

And here’s an ingame picture. Yep, the background spells ‘LD’. Yay, LD 4evaaaaar!!

Still a lot to do, a big batch of graphics, a bit logic, no sounds yet, no music yet. Whew, and I’ve been debugging for like 4 hours in this LD, haven’t been doing that in a long time oO

Sometimes I think I’m just nuts….or I just need sleep

I’d love to make a gif, but I don’t know how to from Flash Builder

It’s 18:00 here in Germany, and my stomach is complaining

Current progress and food pic!

I guess I’m not the only one making kittens…

First crummy picture of game!

Yeah, not that much….

Anyhow, picture of food!

Has to be sufficient for the weekend, I don’t plan to leave where I am right now. Should I run out, I guess I gotta go to the next McDonalds ^^

I’m really excited for the LD! and even though the warmup-weekend is yet to come, on Monday I ported my last MiniLD-Entry to PlayBook (and hopefully it also works on BB10). It’s free! and if you’re good enough, playing it only takes a minute of your life

it’s that time of the year again! i was already getting annoyed with myself, spending weekends doing nothing productive ^^

Weapons of Choice:
- AS3/Flash
- IDE: FlashBuilder
- Lib: maybe Flixel, maybe FlashPunk (if I can find the time to check it out), maybe an iso-lib
- Sounds: sfxr, and/or a simple microphone

- additional challenge: adding cats, uploading it to any market and making at least a dollar (after-compo) ^^