==[THE GAME]==
10 Seconds Gunner is a classic Asteroids clone were your weapon changes every 10 seconds.

Controls: W or Up arrow moves the ship.
A / D keys and Left / Right arrows rotates the ship.
X key of Spacebar to fire.

==[THE TOOLS]==
Code: AS3 with FlashPunk and FlashDevelop.
Graphics: Voxatron Editor and Blender for rendering;
Paint.NET, Texture Packer and Fireworks for sprites treatment;
Photoshop for title screen.
Sound: FL Studio with reFX Nexus and Audacity.
Revision control: Dropbox.

==[POST MORTEM]==
And here we are. After almost three days of messy code, our second Ludum Dare Jam entry is done. We get really excited when the theme came out as its allowed us to build up an idea very quickly (the far opposite of the Minimalism nightmare, ugh). At the beggining we tried some different mechanics to make the game more Geometry Wars-like, but as issues grew bigger, we droped most of the initial design and ended with an Asteroids clone with, we believe, were fair enough to demonstrate the 10 second mechanic we initially thought.

We are very happy with the result as we managed to get done everything that was crucial to the idea, with relative ease.

Know issues and possibly future updates:
Inaccurate collisions: because the lack of rigid body physics the collisions sometimes are buggy and we were also unable to make the asteroids collide with each other;
Sound issues: we couldn't make the beats loop properly and for some reason the sound effects got a delay on the release version, it doesn't happened on the debug one. Plus some adjustments in volume and mixing are needed.
Gameplay balance: even if we are happy with the asteroids spawn rate, it would be cool if some balancing were done according to the weapon;
Weapon change: The simple random selection is not cool. Even if we prevented 2 weapons to happen consecutively, some probability logic in it would make it much better;
Animate backdrop / Camera movement: We tried this at beggining, but failed;
Messy code: with low time the coding was harshly rushed with caused a very messy and hard to manage code. Refactoring must be done in almost all classes if we want to continue the project;
Controls: although this was made to mimic the classic Asteroids inputs, the controls feels weird and gamepad support is a must have.

Also, it needs more enemies, some power ups and some animations too.

==[FINAL THOUGHTS]==
We had a great time again taking part in Ludum Dare. The result were good and we are considering a commercial release sometime. For the future, we will try to learn and use another engine as we bumped on some FlashPunk limitations this time. We are happy mainly because our organizational, design and communication skills improved a lot since last time and despite being a two-man team and feeling more comfortable about the theme, this is a very significant step we took.