There is this new programming toolkit called Flixel that makes sidescrolling pixely games much easier to make. I want to make a game somewhere in between Super Mario and Megaman.
You are a pixel skeleton. You start at the bottom of the map, the BOTTOM OF HELL. You then have to ascend out of hell by fighting baddies and working your way up the map.
You navigate the player using the arrow keys on the keyboard like a normal game, but you can point the mouse at another part of the map and TELEPORT to the mouse location. Could be interesting!
You start in a big empty cave with a tiny hole in the top. There are bats flying everywhere. As you kill bats, they fall to the ground and pile up, and you can jump on them and try to reach the hole in the top. Once you go through the hole, you enter another room with a similar scenario.
Yeah, I like the mouse teleporting idea too because it speaks to the medium - this is a Flash game in your browser, you've got a keyboard and a mouse to use.
I also am pretty excited about being able to change the map in-game. Like LodeRunner. I think there is a lot of potential there.
hmmm a fairly complex implementation of 2d mouse + keyboard has been my idea i've always wanted for the wii.
Have a fairly typical 2d top down scrolling shooter (W,A,S,D movement controls with space bar to shoot, it'll be natural for FPS guys to play it) and your right hand controls a mouse that can be used to simultaneously control a tractor beam type weapon. Click on power ups and they'll gradually come towards you, grab debris and place them in front of you as a shield, grab hold of quick enemies to keep them in their places, a quick flick across the screen can reflect bullets etc.
I like the bodies-of-enemies-piling-up-climb-out-the-hole-at-the-top-escape-hell idea. Place ledges strategically, so that enemybodies won't fall under them, and you can't shoot through them, so you'd have to strategically kill stuff to pile it up right to be able to jump high enough onto the platform. FUN.
Yeah, it could be fun! And the ascent out of hell makes for a pretty straight forward level design. The trick then becomes crafting interesting enough levels and challenges...
I can't even figure out how to play the sample games... so maybe some instructions would be rad.
as soon as I can get out of the underwater bit, and/or stop exploding when I run out of points, I'll think of ideas...
oh, but as a kid, I always wanted to do a Joust 2... sidescrolling adventure type. The underwater movement when you have to pump out bubbles to "swim" seems like it would work.
You should make a facebook game, where to get out of hell you have to recruit more friends or pay money, and every time you climb up you push someone else down, so people have to recruit more friends or pay more money just to remain competitive.
You can take either a well known fairy tale or some fantasy book. You can find lots of them at the book search engine http:pdf.rapid4me.com . You may think that what everybody needs is shooting but it is not everything. People would like to become their favourite games and to save the world, they want to see the goal, that would make them fight.
You can take either a well known fairy tale or some fantasy book. You can find lots of them at the book search engine http://pdf.rapid4me.com . You may think that what everybody needs is shooting but it is not everything. People would like to become their favourite games and to save the world, they want to see the goal, that would make them fight.
I resume it is really hard to create something new today on the video games market. Everything is already done, and even don't know how does it possible to invent the completely new conception...
dude, make whatever you want, just make sure you make it 5-D.
anybody complains that anything up of 3-D cannot be expressed on a tv screen- you just explain that they are the only one that thinks that. Convince them that they are obviously stricken with learning disabilities .
posted on Thursday, Jun 11th by benbrown
There is this new programming toolkit called Flixel that makes sidescrolling pixely games much easier to make. I want to make a game somewhere in between Super Mario and Megaman.
Here is Flixel:
http://flixel.org
And here is some work I did on a version where you can draw the map as you play:
http://xoxco.com/x/flixel/wope
But I need some good ideas to get my brain started on a proper game!
Here is one idea:
You are a pixel skeleton. You start at the bottom of the map, the BOTTOM OF HELL. You then have to ascend out of hell by fighting baddies and working your way up the map.
ANOTHER VAGUE IDEA:
You navigate the player using the arrow keys on the keyboard like a normal game, but you can point the mouse at another part of the map and TELEPORT to the mouse location. Could be interesting!
@benbrown As you kill the baddies, their skeletons build the level up. Like breakout, only down. Breakdown: OUT OF HELL
River City Ransom remake!
OH that would be cool. Like ok:
You start in a big empty cave with a tiny hole in the top. There are bats flying everywhere. As you kill bats, they fall to the ground and pile up, and you can jump on them and try to reach the hole in the top. Once you go through the hole, you enter another room with a similar scenario.
THAT COULD BE COOL.
Bad Dudes sequel where Barack Obama is sent to save Blade and Striker!
"are you a bad enough president to save the dudes?"
Oh, a Super Pixel Obama game would be pretty awesome, and I already have some of the sprites.
serious answer: i like the mouse teleporting idea, make it a more puzzle based platformer
Yeah, I like the mouse teleporting idea too because it speaks to the medium - this is a Flash game in your browser, you've got a keyboard and a mouse to use.
I also am pretty excited about being able to change the map in-game. Like LodeRunner. I think there is a lot of potential there.
hmmm a fairly complex implementation of 2d mouse + keyboard has been my idea i've always wanted for the wii.
Have a fairly typical 2d top down scrolling shooter (W,A,S,D movement controls with space bar to shoot, it'll be natural for FPS guys to play it) and your right hand controls a mouse that can be used to simultaneously control a tractor beam type weapon. Click on power ups and they'll gradually come towards you, grab debris and place them in front of you as a shield, grab hold of quick enemies to keep them in their places, a quick flick across the screen can reflect bullets etc.
I like the bodies-of-enemies-piling-up-climb-out-the-hole-at-the-top-escape-hell idea. Place ledges strategically, so that enemybodies won't fall under them, and you can't shoot through them, so you'd have to strategically kill stuff to pile it up right to be able to jump high enough onto the platform. FUN.
Yeah, it could be fun! And the ascent out of hell makes for a pretty straight forward level design. The trick then becomes crafting interesting enough levels and challenges...
BUT COME ON, let's brainstorm some other ideas. That was just my first stab!
I can't even figure out how to play the sample games... so maybe some instructions would be rad.
as soon as I can get out of the underwater bit, and/or stop exploding when I run out of points, I'll think of ideas...
oh, but as a kid, I always wanted to do a Joust 2... sidescrolling adventure type. The underwater movement when you have to pump out bubbles to "swim" seems like it would work.
You should make a facebook game, where to get out of hell you have to recruit more friends or pay money, and every time you climb up you push someone else down, so people have to recruit more friends or pay more money just to remain competitive.
@Centropomus That is a fucking sick but totally brilliant idea.
@benbrown I got the idea from Knighthood.
Heck, theme it on The Divine Comedy, and have people try to get to heaven. You could sell indulgences, among other things.
I think we're a bit stuck on this whole Hell thing now. heh.
What about squid? I want to make a squid game too!
Here is a very rough test of the concept of dead bad guys stacking up:
http://xoxco.com/x/flixel/ascent/
You can take either a well known fairy tale or some fantasy book. You can find lots of them at the book search engine http:pdf.rapid4me.com . You may think that what everybody needs is shooting but it is not everything. People would like to become their favourite games and to save the world, they want to see the goal, that would make them fight.
You can take either a well known fairy tale or some fantasy book. You can find lots of them at the book search engine http://pdf.rapid4me.com . You may think that what everybody needs is shooting but it is not everything. People would like to become their favourite games and to save the world, they want to see the goal, that would make them fight.
I resume it is really hard to create something new today on the video games market. Everything is already done, and even don't know how does it possible to invent the completely new conception...
dude, make whatever you want, just make sure you make it 5-D.
anybody complains that anything up of 3-D cannot be expressed on a tv screen- you just explain that they are the only one that thinks that. Convince them that they are obviously stricken with learning disabilities .