Krishna Israney over at YellowMonkeyStudios.com and I got together yet one more time after that much crazy night & day compo in november last year to make a small puzzle game for the room jam happening at Winnipeg. Hope it gets noticed and liked over with all the other great games made over the weekend(add that too with the 7000devs churning out games at the GGJ).
Things learned
Got much more intimate with flixel yet again, and did a ton of coding. Most of all the art was done by Krishna along with the design for the game. The game, even if it was one “room”, came out to be pretty close to its initial design(of course i’m being blamed for aborting on unborn weight parasite among other things). Apart from new tricks, cutting things apart, and not brooding over things; 48 hours has been about managing time, 20minute sleep-thought-sessions, pushing on through, solving problems and not giving in.
It was strangely not about sloppy code or being frustrated with being stuck. Of course, there were times when I was stuck, which just meant that we had to push on through and be realistic about things.
And yes, it is only a room, since it was designed to be part of a single game experience in a way. Even while it was just a room, it was made well enough to be easily edited and changed to make more and even add more. The initial one I sent over, actually had a different set of puzzles, no instructions, two possible end games, no pick ups(so to speak) which was added over in the last two hours after the person who played it mailed back telling me it took him an hour to beat and that some instructions might be nice.
All level editing, so to speak, was done using paint. Everything except for the background and an overlay for the level is being loaded from the bitmap yay :) that includes, windows, doors, pickups, enemies, objects et al :P Thanks largely to flixel.
oh and I made a bit of a strange background music with using musagi and audacity <3
The room will soon be part of a single experience over at http://somanyrooms.com/ which hopefully will rock :) Do go there and check it out when you get time too :)
that’s about it for this weekend :)
