Well, after a couple of hours playing old LD games (which tend to be amazingly good, btw), here’s my screwball idea.<\/p>\n
Only Forwards<\/a> + Mondrian<\/a> = Ondrian Fordrian<\/strong><\/p>\n In this mashup, I intend to mash extra hard, almost beyond recognition. In other words, I will be interpreting my inspirations loosely.<\/p>\n In Only Forwards<\/em>, the avatar is always moving forward and the player’s inputs cause the avatar to turn left and right. In Ondrian Fordrian<\/em>, the avatar is either moving forward or not moving at all; input consists of exactly one key, the MOVE FORWARD key. The player’s goal is to move forward as much as possible.<\/p>\n In Mondrian<\/em>, the visuals are inspired by the De Stijl artist Piet Mondrian<\/a>. In Ondrian Fordrian<\/em>, the visuals are inspired by the Bauhaus artist Wassily Kandinsky<\/a>. Or who knows, once I actually have a game maybe I’ll go with someone else, someone whose work is more gamey, like Mondrian’s friend\u00a0Theo van Doesburg<\/a>, founder of the De Stijl art movement. I totally just looked all that stuff up on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n In Ondrian Fordrian<\/em>, the avatar is a Kandinsky doodad attempting to traverse the frightening<\/a>, bewildering<\/a> Kandinsky miasma. His goal is to move forward along his curvy, Kandinskic path. Everything moves. Some of it pushes him backward, some of it can hurt him.<\/p>\n Never Look Back.<\/em>\u00a0This is the second (way more boring) title for this game. \u00a0Never look back, Kandinsky doodad. The past is past, and the only way is forward.<\/p>\n I will be working in Flash with AS3. I intend to finish the game this weekend, but it’s going to be meager, for a couple of reasons. Chiefly, I have a lot of other stuff on my mind, plus the weather’s so damn nice.<\/p>\n \n Tags: actionscript<\/a>, as3<\/a>, flash<\/a>, kandinsky<\/a>, mash-up<\/a>, mashup<\/a>, mini ld<\/a>, mondrian<\/a>, never look back<\/a>, ondrian fordrian<\/a>, only forward<\/a>, only forwards<\/a>, weather<\/a><\/p>","time":"March 6th, 2009 10:52 pm","title":"Ondrian Fordrian?"}