{"author_name":"Beno\u00eet Freslon","cat":"LD #28","comments":[],"epoch":1387268400,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"34359","p_author":"Beno\u00eet Freslon","p_authorkey":"16806","p_urlkey":"69906","p_title":"Kmembert \u2013 A puzzle\/Infiltration\/Action game \u2013 Post mortem","p_cat":"LD #28","p_event":"LD28","p_time":"1387268400","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"16806","us_name":"Beno\u00eet Freslon","us_username":"benoitfreslon","event_start":"1386892800","event_key":"20","event_name":"LD28"},"text":"

Kmembert<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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PLAY KMEMBERT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Game description<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kmembert (Camembert: A delicious french cheese) is a puzzle\/infiltration\/action game \":)\"<\/strong>. The gameplay is quite simple: You are a cheese and you have to kill all nazi mice in one shoot. Get the cannon bullet and trick the mice in order to kill them all in a single shoot.\u00a09 levels<\/strong> are playable. HAVE FUN ^^!<\/p>\n

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Post mortem<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was my first Ludum Dare compo.<\/strong>\u00a0I just be informed of the event 4 days ago. My weekend was busy but I was motivated to create a simple game saturday morning with the theme “You only get one”. I already participed to the “Global Game Jam” twice, but the Ludum Dare is a different challenge.
\n I cumulate 17 hours<\/strong> of work for this game.<\/p>\n

Gameplay<\/strong>
\n I found the idea in the first minutes: Get the only one bullet<\/strong>,\u00a0trick the enemies to manage to kill them all in a single shoot.
\n The controls are simple and the top view allows to create less graphic assets and less code. I’m a big fan of “Metal gear solid” and I recently played “Hotline Miami”. So I unconsciously designed game mechanics with this game in my mind. I always wanted to design a game like Metal Gear Solid :). Therefore mice can run after you if they see you and you can play with the doors.<\/p>\n

Level Design
\n <\/strong>I modified the mouse behaviours 2 hours before the deadline. So I redesigned the levels accoring the modifications.
\n I tried to design 9 levels with interesting challenge. I think the levels are fun and you also can understand all puzzles quickly. But\u00a0I had no time to playtest the levels to another players. That’s why the game needs different mice with different behaviours and more balance.<\/p>\n

Graphics<\/strong>
\n I didn’t want to use human characters, zombies, aliens or monsters. So I decided to imagine a coherent situation with uncomon characters according to the game mechanics. A humanoid cheese against nazi mice ? Why not \u00a0:). I’m not a 2d artist but I tried to design simple characters and animations quickly. A pen tablet is a good tool :).<\/span><\/p>\n

Sounds
\n <\/strong>Unfortunatly I didn’t have the time to play on my guitar some cool riffs for the background music. The sound fx are\u00a0just simple homemade sounds of my mouth :).<\/p>\n

Tools
\n <\/strong>I’m a Flash game developer since 2004<\/strong> so I create all assets, animations and code with Flash. I used the World Construction Kit<\/strong> library. It’s the Box2D physic engine with a WYSIWYG layout, very usefull to design levels. I also used simple libs : TweenMax, Flint. I used “Flash Develop” and I created some assets with Photoshop and Audition.<\/p>\n

Conslusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a great experience! Sometimes I watched streams of few developers around the world. I also earn some skills in code with box2d and in graphic design. I found my game interesting but it needs improvements :).<\/p>\n

Now I’m gonna play some LD games :).<\/p>\n

See you!<\/p>\n

Follow me on my blog: http:\/\/www.benoitfreslon.com<\/a>
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Tags: action<\/a>, as3<\/a>, box2d<\/a>, flash<\/a>, infiltration<\/a>, postmortem<\/a>, puzzle<\/a>, screenshot<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 17th, 2013 3:20 am","title":"Kmembert \u2013 A puzzle\/Infiltration\/Action game \u2013 Post mortem"}