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Hey all,

Last week I posted about a game called AMBEX. I said I'd made it in a couple of hours based on some suggestions of words on Twitter. I did it again this weekend and made NOSE AND TAIL, a five-level puzzle platformer in about three hours. The source and art are public domain on GitHub, but you'll need LibGDX and flixel-android to compile it. More on the site itself.

Download here. (http://www.cutgar.net/4wgj/nose-and-tail.zip)
Source on Github here. (https://github.com/cutgarnetgames/noseandtail)

(http://www.cutgar.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-12-03-at-02.39.50.png)

This time I asked for two careers, a noun and an emotion. They were a little loosely inspired this time but it still works. I had a basic idea (asking for two careers because I wanted to make a game about swapping between characters) but the randomness of the suggested words gave me new ideas (like swapping costumes at particular boxes, which would've been action figure boxes could I actually draw).

I really like the idea of asking for four specific words and then making a game in one sitting (or a short period of time). It's more flexible than a group jam, and the short time periods mean you focus on making anything - which is teaching me a lot, like what code I use the most, what things I've never tried before, and so on.

Instead of creating a thread for every game I make, I'll edit this one and put a new post in. I hope to do more of these in the future. All feedback appreciated!

Updated the post with a non-404'ing link! That always helps.