Today started with me trying to install Sam HaXe (An asset packaging tool for Flash / haXe). After some fudging some things, I got it working, and it works great.

Then, later on, I played this game. It inspired me.

I’ve decided to change my concept somewhat and make an arena shooter with robots fighting.

The player will have a choice between a handful of robots, each of which they can upgrade in a handful of attributes. (Speed, rate of fire, etc.) There will also be a number of levels, each with different terrain. The player must fight their way through 10-25 waves of baddies (Haven’t decided on the actual number) and a boss in each level.

The game will be fairly fast-paced, but the difficulty settings will affect the speed that things move with. I will favor using more powerful baddies over massive hordes of them, as masses of “popcorn” baddies aren’t much fun after a while, I think.

At the moment, I’ve got sprites for three different players (The look of the game will be very simple) and a flash applet that displays a player character that rotates to point at the mouse. I’ve got haXe working, Sam HaXe packages my images correctly, and things are looking good!

Tomorrow, I’ll try to get some kind of player movement in.

– Mr. Dude