Finally joined to post something. My first flash game on Kongregate!
http://www.kongregate.com/games/innomin/f-p-s

So I know the last thing you guys probably want is another game to play, but I was inspired by a bunch of people here. I made this game in exactly 3 weeks, while learning Flixel.

It’s a programmer friendly puzzle game, where you create simple programs to solve visual puzzles. Move forward, rotate right, etc.

Or at least, that’s how it starts. The later levels include programming a binary calculator, among other things. I did it in 50 commands. Programmer challenge set!

Hey guys, this is my first ever LD! I started about 16 hours late, so I’m aiming for the Monday deadline. I’ll just leave this image to show my progress:

To explain, I have random levels generating (guaranteed contiguous, with all art) and a map system. It’s not much “game” to look at yet, but everything is set up for gameplay tomorrow. I’m incorporating the theme through roguelike one-shot mechanics. You only get one life, one key (ignore the alignment keys/images), one arrow, etc. Hopefully everything comes together tomorrow, but I think I’m on-track to finish… famous last words? =)

How is that possible? Maybe because I don’t use twitter or facebook or any social media. XD

I’m definitely in, and I want to try something simpler this time around so I can actually finish. I spent the last hour of my first Dare coding a custom pixel-perfect drawing routine for a compass needle in the player’s inventory – all of these words are bad, and I was bad for doing this!

I may do an Anti-Dare instead, which I’m coining right now. It’s when you don’t like the theme and just make an existing design instead, but still in the same weekend time-frame. I have some good ideas that I just need motivation to test and work out quickly, so we’ll see if the theme is good enough to ignore them…..

The last few LDs I’ve been disappointed by the final theme choice. It always felt like 19/20 themes were manageable, and one was just bad.

Well this time I decided to pick my least favorite theme idea and work out a really great concept for it. And what do you know? Two button controls won.

I am so ready for this. PICO-8 is perfect, too, since it’s built for two-button controllers. Nice try LD, but I’m prepared.