Zanzlanz

LD34

Zanzlanz is here!

Hey! I’m Zanzlanz here for my eleventh time participating in Ludum Dare!
It’s final exam week at university again, but I’ll see if I can make something interesting in the compo anyway :)

Here’s a handful of my recent LD games (newest to oldest):
ARBF
Snowman Slide
Dynamole
Str1ngle
Convey

What I’ll develop with:
Flash CC (AS3)
FL Studio
GIMP
BFXR
Audacity maybe?

I’ll stream with:
Twitch.TV (My page is Zanzlanz!)
OBS
SoundCloud, Spotify, and YouTube for music

Here are some things I could potentially use to help with LD. Feel free to use it! Any credit is appreciated 😀

– 2015/ARBFSource
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2015/Ludum Dare Extra Code 2
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2014/DynamoleSource.txt
2013/Str1ngleSource.zip
2013/Ludum%20Dare%20Extra%20Code
2013/Convey.zip
2012/LudumDareEngine.fla
2012/LudumDareEngine2.fla
2012/Dragon%20Boss.fla

Let’s see how it goes :)
Zanzlanz

Comments

11. Dec 2015 · 23:46 UTC
All the best!!!! I’m hyped as well!

Behind the scenes!

I ended up naming my game DESEEDER! Because you’re destroying seeds.
For this game I tried out diagonal pixels! Sounds weird, but here’s what it looks like:

DESEEDER Diagonal Pixels

You might be interested to see what it looks like when you DON’T rotate the game 45 degrees! Let’s find out:

DESEEDER Not Rotated

The programming logic was a bit confusing, until I started imagining the entire game in the unrotated version (second gif). I ended up only having to convert the coordinates in the renderer, to make my collision still based on rectangles!

If you have any questions about how I did any part of the game, let me know! Here’s the link again: DESEEDER

I’m excited to check out everyone’s games! I’ll definitely prioritize yours if you let me know about it! There’s no shame in self-promotion right now <3

Comments

14. Dec 2015 · 07:03 UTC
Thinking in an easy-to-understand coordinate system is indeed the way to go! The rotation is just visualization, as far as the game is concerned.
14. Dec 2015 · 07:15 UTC
Your game looks amazing, but I can’t play flash, d’oh!
d_0o_d
14. Dec 2015 · 07:20 UTC
This is a cool idea, I will have to remember this for the future :)
Gyfis
14. Dec 2015 · 07:23 UTC
Cool game! I really like the rotation – a not-much-seen and very welcome change to the pixel-art pool of games. Though it is a bit too hard for me – needed to try that tutorial a too much times, imho.