I figured I could share on my progress. Since “ape” is a half of “escape” ;), my main characters in the game are monkeys! The idea is to save them, using a primitive flying machine (anyone played “Ugh!”?).

The progress isn’t bad so far, considering that:

• this is my first graphic game ever
• I started learning AS3 + FlashPunk yesterday*
• I never used Ogmo Editor before
• I cannot draw AT ALL (hence the horrible graphics)

* So, my main goal (learning FlashPunk) is almost accomplished. AS3 is pretty similar to any other OO language, so this isn’t so bad (plus, the tutorials on the internet are really nice), although I must admitt that my code looks awful. I did some not reccomended stuff (programming in something I don’t know at all, learnig GraphiscGale & Ogmo Editor on the fly, not checking if FlashDevelop works – 4.0 beta 1 was bugged), but I see some chance of finishing the game anyway!

I have more stuff to do:

• flying enemies (graphics, collisions)
• more than one level (duh!)
• end of level/game condition
• intro
• sounds (i think music is beyond my reach)