So I decided to enter Ludum Dare 18! I never thought I’d be able to get a game done in 48 hours but I made it and managed to get my submission in!

You can play it here (it’s a flash game) :

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-18/?action=preview&uid=2590

You can also see a time lapse of me developing the game here:

Been working on fleshing out The Loop and am getting there.

New features and changes:

• Sphere/Goal tracking system
• player movement refined
• new gameplay model. Player must collect souls, the amount he collects affects the ending and paths in the game.
• Lots of new tiles and level content

I cant even remember exactly how I came across Flixel but I’m glad I did. I just meant to give it a quick look one night when I didnt have anything to do, man did i ever get addicted to Flixel. It’s a great 2D library built on top of Flash/actionscript.

This game represents about 6-7 hours work including learning Flixel, doing all the art, and learning what AS3 I needed to know to learn Flixel. I also used a program called Flan to make the tilemaps used for the levels.

Unfortunately wordpress doesn’t play that well with embedding flash but you can play the game here :

http://mahwebspace.levelism.com/flixel/theloop2/Tixel.html

Otherwise you can see a youtube video of the gameplay:

One interesting thing I didn’t realize was that actionscript can be done completely in a coding environment now and doesn’t require flash or any other paid software. Just the free IDE Flashdevelop!

You can check out Flixel here: http://flixel.org/

You can also check out Flan here : http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=7574.0