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.

Tags: flash