Long story short, I didn’t have time over the weekend to enter the main competition, so the Jam it is (although I’m 95% sure I still followed all of the competition rules other than the deadline). Overall, I had three goals:

• Make a game
• It has to be web-based, so I have to figure out either Flash or JavaScript
• Actually enter it (I missed the last two Ludum Dares as well)

The end result isn’t great. Full stop. Basically, it’s a vector graphics (that’s the minimal part) tank game, a la Scorched Earth. But it is playable / winnable and I learned a lot, so I’ll count that as a win.

I ended up starting around 1 am and finished about half an hour ago at 7am. I don’t have a title screen or anything in the way of sounds/music and I’m not expecting to do particular well in the rankings at all, but that’s really all of the time I can put into it. And technically, it does meet my goals.

And hey. I learned how to use Haxe. I’ve been meaning to do that for years. Perhaps now I can get out a few of those other ideas I’ve had.

Here are some the relevant links:

• Jam entry
  
• Source code (on GitHub)
• Blog post (more details, more screenshots)

And last but not least:

Play VTanks