{"author_name":"angrywaffle","cat":"LD #16 - Exploration - 2009","comments":[],"epoch":1261822560,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"71677","p_author":"angrywaffle","p_authorkey":"348","p_urlkey":"107499","p_title":"Ruins Follow-up (\u201cDemo 1220\u201d)","p_cat":"LD #16 - Exploration - 2009","p_event":"LD16","p_time":"1261822560","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"348","us_name":"angrywaffle","us_username":"angrywaffle","event_start":"1260489600","event_key":"2","event_name":"LD16"},"text":"

Hello fellow survivors (or survivors-so-far, where applicable) of various holidays, yule-tide celebrations, mid-winter feasts, and zombie infestations.<\/p>\n

Since LD16 I have done some additional work on my entry, “Ruins”. (And thanks to everyone who’s commented on the entry!) A lot of what I’ve done has been technical and a bit behind-the-scenes, but I wanted to share a very short (3 room) demo I’ve put together of both a new mechanic for the player and several smaller features of the engine.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to give it a try, you can find it here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thewasabiproject.com\/flash-games\/play\/ruins-demo-1220\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(This is more of a tech demo than a “game” — you can “win” by completing all three rooms, but there aren’t any gems to collect or any leaderboards to deal with.)<\/p>\n

And here’s a couple of quick screenshots:<\/p>\n

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From a gameplay point of view, the interesting change in this demo is the addition of a brief (about 6 seconds) period of time after dying during which you can exist as a spirit. During this spirit existence you can still interact with objects like levers and switches, but you are immune to damage and cannot attack. If you’ve created a “Patch of Life” before dying, and you reach it as a spirit before your 6 second time limit expires, you will be restored to life.<\/p>\n

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Smaller updates include moving to flixel 1.47, adding levers, moving gates and bridges, pressure plates, pushable blocks, and bats (well, a rough of draft of bat AI anyway — they’re still just brown blocks that flap around the room). I also took advantage of the post processing support in flixel to add some very basic lighting effects and some blurring and color effects during “spirit mode”.<\/p>\n

I’m experimenting with the tilesets as well: this demo includes tiles either taken directly from, or based on, art assets released by Daniel Cook (http:\/\/lostgarden.com) and they’re certainly nicer than what I was able to whip up at the tail end of 48 hours, but for the next Ruins demo I’m planning on trying to put together a couple of more abstract (and simpler) tilesets just to see how that might change the feel of the game. (I’d like that next demo to include a rough cut of the introductory scene for the game, that way it might give you a bit of flavor for the story rather than just a bunch of technical doodads to poke at, but I’m not sure when I’ll have that ready.)<\/p>\n

As always, feedback on any part of the demo is more than welcome.<\/p>\n

And finally, just for fun, here’s a screenshot of the first draft of the second cave in the demo as it appears in the editor:<\/p>\n

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