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[rococo]

I also made this little ditty.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9942053/serenity.mp3

I feel like this reminds me of something nostalgia-y, but I can't put my finger on it.
But I like it. It's pretty chill.

[unsilentwill]

just getting that out of my system. carry on.

[rococo]

just getting that out of my system. carry on.

hey, so.. this is the best thing ever.

you make it seem so exciting! my version is like blahh boring.
i really dig your style.

[TobiasW]

I made a sort of joke game for a school project on the Odyssey, and my teacher offered me a buttload of extra credit if I made a serious one

Show it!

[rococo]

I made a sort of joke game for a school project on the Odyssey, and my teacher offered me a buttload of extra credit if I made a serious one

Show it!

ohh no. it was like, extremely shitty, and made in an all nighter the day before it was due. I'll describe it, but posting it would just be embarassing, haha.

the gist:
it's a platformer where you're odysseus, and the world is basically a clone of the first super mario bros level with elements from the odyssey kinda just floating in there (while i tried to haphazardly explain what happened). there's a short segment where your mouse is a sword, and you have to click bedsheet ghosts with distressed faces to keep them from reaching a pit of blood until Tiresias shows up. and the part with the sirens is DDR to 8-bit "bad romance" while the sirens gradually dress up in various lady gaga costumes as the song goes on. and the entire game is in black and terracotta.

[TobiasW]

Haha, that sounds totally awesome :D

I'd send this over to http://experimentalgameplay.com/blog/2011/03/march-april-are-filled-with-cheap-clones if I were you, it totally fits as Mario/Odyssey clone!

[rococo]

Haha, that sounds totally awesome :D

I'd send this over to http://experimentalgameplay.com/blog/2011/03/march-april-are-filled-with-cheap-clones if I were you, it totally fits as Mario/Odyssey clone!

hahaha. if i cleaned it up, then definitely.
i hadn't heard of that before though, thanks for the link.

[JaSp]

Today, well, roughly the last two weeks, I gave Flixel a try (along with iTween, Ogmo Editor and SFXR) and came up with this platformer/shooter wip.
I'm just amazed at how fast the project is growing thanks to these API/softwares!

[Halcyon]

Cool, the physics are a little too floaty for my liking though.

[X3N]

Today, well, roughly the last two weeks, I gave Flixel a try (along with iTween, Ogmo Editor and SFXR) and came up with this platformer/shooter wip.
I'm just amazed at how fast the project is growing thanks to these API/softwares!

Running in Firefox, sometimes my keydown gets held after I jump.. and then run into spikes.

[JaSp]

Running in Firefox, sometimes my keydown gets held after I jump.. and then run into spikes.

I'm on firefox too and can't seem to reproduce that; does it do that with both monkey and crocodile?
I'm using Flixel's default keys handlers so...I don't know :/

[Richard Kain]

I'm just amazed at how fast the project is growing thanks to these API/softwares!

Yeah, Flixel is a pretty easy API to start working with. One of its biggest advantages is the number of capable example projects that it has available. You always have working methods to look to when trying to figure features out. And SFXR makes sound effect creation quick and easy.

I managed to cook up a Viewport system for my OpenTK game framework. I was originally planning on developing a full camera manipulation system Framebuffer Objects. And I did actually produce a working prototype for that. But I decided that it would be faster and more performance-friendly to create a Viewport system instead. I'm still ironing out a few wrinkles, but I think its going to work well.

[paste]

Today, well, roughly the last two weeks, I gave Flixel a try (along with iTween, Ogmo Editor and SFXR) and came up with this platformer/shooter wip.
I'm just amazed at how fast the project is growing thanks to these API/softwares!

It's definitely cute!  My biggest complaint (although not that big) is that it's kind of hard to turn around.  I want the character to turn around faster when i press the direction opposite the one he's going.

[iffi]

Today, well, roughly the last two weeks, I gave Flixel a try (along with iTween, Ogmo Editor and SFXR) and came up with this platformer/shooter wip.
I'm just amazed at how fast the project is growing thanks to these API/softwares!

It's definitely cute!  My biggest complaint (although not that big) is that it's kind of hard to turn around.  I want the character to turn around faster when i press the direction opposite the one he's going.

Seconded. Cave Story maintains a sort of floaty feel to it similar to this even though starts facing the opposite direction immediately after pressing the opposite direction, if you want an example.
That, and I find the controls a little awkward. (I'm not used to having the jump key above the fire key. I personally prefer using Z to jump and X to fire.)

[JaSp]

You mean like facing the direction pressed even though you are still decelerating toward the other direction?
Yeah that makes sense

For the controls, I might have gotten too much used to Klik'n'Play's default keys
I tend to avoid the Z/Q keys though, as it may cause problems with AZERTY keyboards; but I'll definitely add a "customize keys" option.

As for the physics I'm still not sure what I'll opt for, I think I'll go toward something more like SMB3 than the float-ish physics of Cave Story. I should try it with a gamepad too to get the right feeling.