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[MrRoboman]

So I have a tendency to set my goals a little out my reach. That coupled with the holidays, school, work, excuses, and discovering Magic the Gathering, I'm a little behind.

I've been working on this damn belly mechanic for weeks. It's probably way more simple than my code represents, but I finally got it. It looks janky as all hell, but dammit I'm pleased.

I made a simple training level. Give it try. Send any suggestions my way.

Controls:
Run - Arrow left or right
Melt - arrow down
Crawl - arrow left or right while melted
Roll - arrow down while running (extra speed yo!)
Jump - z key. (don't waste your time. he's too fat to jump [gonna remove it probably])

Belly - x key. This is your bread and butter. Use it to grab tiles and vault yourself up by pressing x again. hold up to shoot straight up.

Navigate to the top. It's a long runway that you can jump off to start at the beginning.

All I have to do now is slap a game together by Sunday.


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This competition is great! So much great art and music has surfaced. Thank you! I've been lurking around for a while, but I think I'm finally ready to join the forums.
I'm going to try and finish a very simple platformer in flash. I love the fat guy with the crazy belly (not sure who the artist is). He's going to be my main character and his belly will give him abilities similar to Bionic Commando.

Not quite sure what to call it just yet, and I better get this one finished!

[J. R. Hill]

Yes awesome!

[pgil]

You win Best Title.

Also, as much as I love the fat unicorn and Pencerkoff's fat guy, it never occurred to be to team them up.

[Galaxy613]

This could very well become the Mario for the indie community. I look forward to further developments. 

[MaloEspada]

Hello this is Ein

this is going to rule so much. SO MUCH.

-EIN

[Derek]

Wow.

Can we get this in hi-res please?!

[saluk]

Looking very fat. And phat. Do people still use that one? I dunno. I'm not cool.

Unicorn is nice, but there should have been a unicow and a cownicorn too.

Mewantoplay!

[Crackerblocks]

Good luck sir! I see you identified the 2 most tragically unused assets. That screenshot brought a tear to my eye.

[Kazerad]

yes yes YES!

The climax better involve riding the fat unicorn.

[MrRoboman]

Hey thanks for the positive vibes! I'm really excited about this.

Quick question:
I have all the fatty's animations in one MovieClip with frame labels at the beginning and end of each segment. I have some code that supposed to loop specific animation segments

Code:

function animate( f:String )
{
	var begin:String = f + "Begin";
	var end:String = f + "End";
	if( fatty.currentLabel != begin && fatty.currentLabel != end )
	{
		fatty.gotoAndPlay(begin);
	}
}

But when I test it, it plays the first frame of the segment twice each time it loops. Has anyone come across this?

And, Derek, here's a hier-res pic

[HanClinto]

Wow.

This totally rocks.

[Pencerkoff]

Hello this is Pencerkoff

I saw "fatformer" and knew... I knew it would be greatness.  Then I saw that picture and promptly burst out laughing.  I can't tell you how bad I want to see you finish this.

I really hope I have enough animations to satisfy whatever you'll need for horse-back riding... er unicorn-back riding.

-PENCERKOFF

[Fifth]

Also, as much as I love the fat unicorn and Pencerkoff's fat guy, it never occurred to be to team them up.

Heh, likewise.

It is a glorious combination, though.  Be sure to do it justice!

[moi]

Pic is win.

[Synnah]

I thought the picture was a screenshot from the next Team ICO game.

[s0]

I think we have a winner. We can stop the compo right now and get on with our lives. 

[J. R. Hill]

I think we have a winner. We can stop the compo right now and get on with our lives. 

I WILL HAVE THE GLORY OF SECOND PLACE!!   

[MrRoboman]

I'm replying to see if this thread will pop to the top so I can show off my game in progress. I edited the first post and it didn't. Here goes nothing...

[MrRoboman]

Yes! It worked!!

[Lon]

Dude, MrRoboman, your mock-up is full of all kinds of win. 
Played your demo, fun stuff.  I think I made it to the upper most platform.
Rather interesting and funny swinging from platform to platform.  I also got a kick out of falling from a great height, seeing the fatty 'belly-flop' the ground. XD
Nice music, and I am glad to see Pencerkoff's fatty get some good use (fun animations)!

So far so good, keep up the nice work.