I added a link to the Gameplay video to the Submission page.

You can download, play, and rate the game:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=rate&uid=3966

You can watch the video here:

http://www.xfire.com/video/4c77ef/

Its always fun participating in Ludum Dare, my goal was to make a nice game demo, and not necessarily a full game. I accomplished what I wanted to in 48 hours, and have started refining areas of the game now.

The first thing I did was ditch the old controls that are present in the Compo version, in the compo version you moved with A and D but to change colors you used 1-4 and to deselect you used Q. Not very intuitive or easy, when I first watch the gameplay video was when it really hit me how slow it was to hit the number. I knew adding a GUI would be one solution, it was an idea when I first started, but I don’t care for GUI’s because they are either starkly obvious, or they blend in really well with the background. My solution then was to change the controls over to use the mouse, You now have to point and click on the color you want to make transparent, right clicking clears your selects (makes them all solid) you still move the same way. So far it has proven to be a much faster way to play the game.

The next thing that I have started on is the score, I want to make your chooses effect score more, and reflect a bigger difference. I plan to add an online highscore table, but for now I’m tweaking the scoring system a bit.

I’m not sure when I will have a post-compo version out, but it is coming. This weekend I will write up a Post Mortem, that will go more into what went right and wrong for me.