Pewwww!
- 48 hours
- 5 hours sleep
- Every relative within 5 states visiting me. (When it rains it pours.)
I made it. This was my first flash game ever. You can play it here. I found a great tutorial for an Asteriod game. By the time I made it halfway through the tutorial I had hit my stride so I ditched the tutorial and started making my game. I struggled with my concept but I finally decided on a puzzle game where you move blocks to trap an evolving robot. Each level the robot looks a little different and has different move logic. By the time you get to the end it looks just like you. I want to redo the game from scratch because it has remnants from my tutorial efforts in it but it work mostly.
Lessons:
- Flash is stupidly simple if you already have a programming background.
- It takes more time to create assets then it does to program.
- Don’t start programming until you have a complete game plan for your game. (I was just happy to get sprites to move at first so my game evolved as I learned how to use flash.)
I am going to consider this a successful Ludum Dare. I uploaded Evo to Kongregate and in the last hour it has already gotten 50 plays. I think that equates to $0.10. I doubt I will get the same rate of play but that is $876/year. I am going to be rich.