A couple of comments on my post last night, and a few guys in the actual #ludumdare irc channel convinced me that maybe I should try again.  Only I have to go through some tutorials to learn some stuff.  Not that I was giving up on flash or as3, but just the compo.  But now I’m going to go through some tutorials and see if I can’t submit a modest entry.  I’ve decided to start with Flashpunk instead of Flixel for a couple of reasons.  1) The tutorials are linked right from Flashpunk’s front page, I don’t see that with flixel, so I have to dig a bit, 2) I’ve talked to ChevyRay and he seems like a nice enough dude, whereas I’ve not talked to the Flixel creator, but he’s probably a nice guy too.  I’ll probably eventually make games in both to see what I like best, but for purposes of this competition i’m going with Flashpunk, and we’ll see if I can do anything, I have pretty limited time.