Five hours into my LudumDare entry, with less than 8 hours until the end, I finally have something playable.  There’s still no beginning, not much middle, and no end. But the red square you see in the image below is a fully interactive character.

Oh, and there’s a background image. Yay.

My next step is to start spawning platforms as you run along, and add some obstacles to be avoided. Also some code re-factoring so that I can change the parallax of the background and get things looking a bit less flat.

Also I’m going out to a concert for 3 hours, so I’m going to be happy if  manage to have more than 10 seconds of gameplay!