The course of action
It is our first Ludum Dare… Our creative process is simple, one emits an idea, the other takes what is pleasing and reformulates something else or reverse the idea and so on.
So we try to find the best in every ideas. With an old friendly bottle and some chocolatine’s, we took 1 hour to find the idea, not the most original one, but one which the both of us agreed and liked.
We had some issue with the theme being you are the vilain and the slaughter of newtown. What to do, jump on it, take from it, shall we change our game to make something different. All in all the theme was a pain, processing violence in that climate of “game too violent” is sh*t. So we took the humour way.
Take random guy, choke him to death, make bim bring justice to innocent souls… Why ? are we just values on death pathes ? Why someone with no way had to die more than… some other ?
/end of brainfuck. go make something fun and highlight the ridiculousness of the situation.
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I unilateraly agreed to start an engine from scratch drawing from my personnal lib and borrowing deepnight and benjamin’s lib. Take from the best. Always.
A quick start with the design of the character and the main bg quickly made. At the end of the first day, we had all the main character animation and a full bg for the game, the platformer engine was roughly functionnal with some xml level design and sprite sheets.
The gamedesign was very clear from start, make a harsh timed platformer. Time + points is a good constraint easy to tweek.
Matthal quickly agreed to participate for the sound and his music adds lot of depth, we knew very hearly the game was going 111 second why ? because 666 is way too long so he tuned the song and it was perfect !
Went to sleep at 3am, and came back to work at 9am.
The second day we focused on content creation and bugs. BM produced 150 punch line in the morning.
Gyhyom operates in stances, he just did the introduction in 2 hours, props creation and collision tiles took a lot of time. Then at 2 pm he crashed. His mind were absent, did no longer understood anything. BM in despair. We had no level design and no good tiles. BM goes desperately chasing his bugs.
Hopefully, starting 7pm, and with the help of a good meal, Gyhyom’s head restarted, and he went all crazy : the level design was made in 1 hour, and he had plenty of time to do the title screen and the html page for the hosting page of the game. We were saved 
BM added some feedbacks like character slicing, glows, tried to iterate over playability and intuitiveness.
BM struggled a lot around game timing (flash sent me update every 15ms 1ms 15ms 1ms dunno why…) but i had started too late. so i just unlocked the game in 60 fps and submitted
What went right :
– content creation was quick if we except blackout phases
– the game is pleasing, hardcore with some glitches but a fun ride.
-writing a platformer engine from scratch is coooool…
– Haxe our old friend, thanks so much ncannasse to bring such a powerful tool for game creation. The MT libs and tools like hxods (bless ya) , bmp embedding (soo gooooood) and xml fast (bless ya twice) allowed us to speed up content creation sooooo much.
– sound integration and music what nice
– we are already professionnal the exercice is soooo stimulating.
What went wrong :
– …but writing an engine from scratch costs much
– we underestimated the 48h timing constraints.
– game scope is limited… we could not push all the ideas in the game we would have added some levels, combo system and “slowing” patterns. Dying would habe been of the party too. and I miss scythe interactions (grip)
maybe for an extended version
Conclusion
A very good experience this ludum, but very tiring. It ‘s a bit like going to do live concert after years of studio. Refreshing, exhausting, stimulating.
We hope that all the ludum’s members will enjoy our game !
OmgOmgOmg ! we’re up to night to get Horny !
We miss you Ben, Extreme Indian Ludumer 
