{"author_name":"mocker","cat":"October Challenge 2012","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"October 9, 2012 9:51 pm","epoch":1349837460,"text":"Good luck dude! We’re also building a tablet-based game, so will be keen to share your learnings along the way. Give me a shout if you have a prototype going for some positive critique.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1349737140,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"51271","p_author":"mocker","p_authorkey":"28","p_urlkey":"86964","p_title":"October Challenge \u2013 Starting Late","p_cat":"October Challenge 2012","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1349737140","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"28","us_name":"mocker","us_username":"mocker","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

Announcing my work on the October challenge, I was slammed with work last week (and the next couple days as well really) but going to go ahead and start putting a bunch of time into getting this working. I am reworking an old game in order to sell, I’ll have to recode everything from scratch but it’s a semi-basic top down arcade style space combat game so not particularly complicated.<\/p>\n

(original title screen)
\n \"Repulsor<\/p>\n

I am building it in Flash so I can cross-compile to web, android, iOS . I particularly would like to see how to make a good iPad version even though I don’t have an iPad. I would like to include multiplayer co-op games but since I’m starting this kinda late to get to market I think I’ll release a single player version first. For the single player version I’ll probably release a free version with a few ‘campaigns’ and a $1 version with a couple more extensive ones. For the more advanced multiplayer capable I want to release I’d like to do paid unlocks so you can customize your ship and create your own campaigns. <\/p>\n

In a couple days when I can really dive into this more I’m going to setup a dev blog<\/p>","time":"October 8th, 2012 5:59 pm","title":"October Challenge \u2013 Starting Late"}