{"author_name":"angrywaffle","cat":"LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"September 14, 2009 4:31 pm","epoch":1252963860,"text":"Hey.. nice flash pressure game! Is there a whole pressure-genre of games like this out there I’m unaware of? I recently just encountered this week “Pressure Panic” and it’s sequel and then I ran into this here. Anyway, I believe I remember your original (non-flash?) version of this. Nice that you converted it over. It works well as a flash game.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1252903500,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"72417","p_author":"angrywaffle","p_authorkey":"348","p_urlkey":"108239","p_title":"Xue (and Crushing Pressure, too!) post-LD updates","p_cat":"LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1252903500","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"348","us_name":"angrywaffle","us_username":"angrywaffle","event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"text":"

I did make some updates to Xue after the compo, which I spun into my “game of the week” for this past week.<\/p>\n

I’m not really super pleased with the result (in the end, I think the game still has too much “oooo…\u00a0parallax”\u00a0and not enough “wow, that was fun!”), but I also don’t have a clear direction that I’d want to push the idea in at this point, so I’m letting it stand as is for now. Maybe someday when \/ if I get a better sense of exactly what I want people to do<\/em> in those caverns I’ll spin off a different game based on the entry.<\/p>\n

Anyway, heres an updated screenshot (once LD was over, I immediately and shamelessly plugged in some graphics from LostGarden.com):<\/p>\n

\"Xue_12092009_172916\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s playable online here: http:\/\/www.thewasabiproject.com\/flash-games\/play\/play-xue\/<\/a><\/p>\n

As Kobel suggested in the comments on the entry, I did use a color matrix to tweak the background layers (actually, the original entry did that too, but it only darkened them, so it wasn’t much of an interesting effect). There are a few different “atmospheres” that the game uses for the caves, each of which fiddle with the colors of the background layers in different ways.<\/p>\n

Gameplay-wise, I added some fireball spewing monsters, along with items that restore fuel. I also fiddled with the controls for the player’s ship (and actually I’m still fiddling with them, even with the game already released online), and adjusted the way the crystals spawn.<\/p>\n

The map is also completely enclosed now, so there shouldn’t be any more invisible walls, and there’s no longer a way to fly off into space off the top of the map. Technically the map generation got tweaked a bit too, but nothing terribly interesting (the maps start out at half size and get scaled up, which both speeds up the generation a bit and cuts down on some annoying small-scale features).<\/p>\n

I’m always happy to get feedback (though on this one, like I said, I’m not sure if I’ll stick my fingers into it again for a while unless a really compelling new direction for it comes up).<\/p>\n

I also realized when I was getting ready to write this post that I never posted the updated version of my LD14 entry — so I hope nobody will mind if I tack it on here!<\/p>\n

That entry was Crushing Pressure, and it turned into this little Flash game:<\/p>\n

\"CrushingPressure_13092009_232123\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You can give it a whirl here, if you like: http:\/\/www.thewasabiproject.com\/flash-games\/play\/play-crushing-pressure\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The original entry for LD14 had the same basic goal (rescue the little people while avoiding the walls), but it didn’t have any other obstacles to avoid (the updated version adds the DoomCubes and WhizBlades). The released version also added music, and little extras like an honest-to-goodness score counter and some quick transitions between levels. It’s still a pretty simple game, but there are a few minutes worth of gameplay hiding in there, I think.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the feedback everyone left on both the original entries!<\/p>\n \n

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009<\/a>, LD #15 - Caverns - 2009<\/a><\/p>","time":"September 13th, 2009 11:45 pm","title":"Xue (and Crushing Pressure, too!) post-LD updates"}