{"author_name":"madpew","cat":"Uncategorized","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"March 29, 2011 7:33 am","epoch":1301401980,"text":"Totally agree with you \ud83d\ude00 Flashpunk is amazing and speed and simplicity are incredible \ud83d\ude00","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Folis","time":"April 2, 2011 9:58 am","epoch":1301756280,"text":"Now thy Folis shall stop thy lurking, follow thou advice to stop lurking and shall look at thy Flashpunk once more..","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1301343360,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67351","p_author":"madpew","p_authorkey":"2196","p_urlkey":"103154","p_title":"(Hello FlashWorld! || hey you, stop lurking\u2026)","p_cat":"Uncategorized","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1301343360","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2196","us_name":"madpew","us_username":"madpew","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"<p>Finally, I managed to get myself to try\u00a0developing Flash-games (instead of Winforms\/GDI+\/DHTML).<\/p>\n <p>The result:<\/p>\n <div class=\"mceTemp\">\n <div id=\"attachment_41343\" style=\"width: 332px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pixelsiege.net\/beta\/small\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-41343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FPPipeDemo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FPPipeDemo-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FPPipeDemo.png 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">24hrs after installing FlashDevelop<\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixelsiege.net\/beta\/small\">http:\/\/pixelsiege.net\/beta\/small<\/a><\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixelsiege.net\/beta\/big\">http:\/\/pixelsiege.net\/beta\/big<\/a><\/p>\n <p><span id=\"more-41341\"><\/span><\/p>\n <p>I didn&#8217;t even think about starting the code from scratch so I googled up some frameworks, looked at some\u00a0sources and made my decision.<\/p>\n <p>At first I was going to try <a title=\"flixel-website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flixel.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">flixel<\/a>, but since the download\u00a0didn&#8217;t work (is it fixed yet?) I tried <a title=\"flashpunk-website\" href=\"http:\/\/flashpunk.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flashpunk<\/a> instead. (I didn&#8217;t really care what\u00a0framework to use, so FP was\u00a0ok\u00a0as well)<\/p>\n <p>After about 24\u00a0hours (to my surprise) my first flashgame\u00a0was done. All assets (excl.\u00a0the robot (which I&#8217;m seeking a name for btw.)) was done during those 24hrs. I still can&#8217;t believe how easy and fast the development went (after getting used to flash and flashpunk).<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m not making any point, right?<\/p>\n <p>The point is: If I can do it, you can do it as well.<\/p>\n <p>So if you were lurking LD until now:<\/p>\n <p><strong>stop lurking, <em>start making games.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <p>It might be easier than you think <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>","time":"March 28th, 2011 3:16 pm","title":"(Hello FlashWorld! || hey you, stop lurking\u2026)"}