Alright, I’m an indie pixel artist and I’ve been drawing for a long time now.

Only started coding (for real) in Flixel last month. If I finish this, this won’t be my first game ever made, but at least it will be my first published game.

I made a few games before that I never finished because they weren’t fun. I’m hoping Ludum will give me the boost needed to actually FINISH something and publish it, and if I do, I’m going to enter the One Game a Month competition.

Tools I’ll be using:
– Gimp
– Flash Develop
– Flixel
– NG API
– Dame
– A small humble base code which includes only a Preloader for the NG API (Wiring flixel with the NG flash API is more of a headache than it should be because the API is a little outdated).

And maybe FemiTracker if I manage to produce anything (I started learning 4 days ago).

That is all!

Woke up shocked to see that the theme chosen for Ludum was the same theme I was used to make an old game. Spent some time reading other people’s entries to see how they react to this theme.

Surprisingly, I look like I’m the only one who was able to come up with a legit fun game just by reading the theme title.

I was working on a game before entering Ludum called “Retro Runner”. I scrapped the game later on because the game wasn’t that fun.

BUT, now that the theme is minimalism I can use my old game as inspiration and direction :). Just to see where I failed and what I did right. And of course, not to steal any assets (I am entering the main 2 day competition after all)

Anyway, here are some screenshots of Retro Runner. Maybe they will help someone else come up with some ideas?

(Pretending that someone will read this…)

Entering Ludum for second time. This time though, my goal is to finish something no matter how insignificant it is. Focusing on the fun elements.

Tools: Flash Develop, flixel, Gimp, SFXR, Autotracker.

Code base: Just a bunch of home brewed snippets laying around.

I’m all set so good luck to anyone else!

Here’s a list of ideas I came up with this morning: (Maybe one of them will inspire someone?)

YOU ONLY GET ONE… Bullet, your worst enemy is suicide (see “The Consuming Shadow”)
YOU ONLY GET ONE… Bullet, it’s a puzzle game, and you have to ricochet the bullet.
YOU ONLY GET ONE… Gun, and you have to earn other guns from enemies (CS Gungame).
YOU ONLY GET ONE… Enemy per room.
YOU ONLY GET ONE… Inventory Slot (Hotline Miami?).
YOU ONLY GET ONE… Umbrella, also you’re a cat and it’s raining.
YOU ONLY GET ONE… Second to beat levels but you can slow down time. (My favorite)
YOU ONLY GET ONE CHANCE… to make a 48 hour game.