We’re working on a weird little game we’re calling Alphanauts – it’s a game where you try to protect a bunch of characters from black holes that appear at random. You select a character by pressing its letter key on the keyboard and you move him with the arrow keys. You can, although it’s a little fidgety, control more than one character by holding a bunch of letter keys at once!

When a character dies, he explodes and leaves a bunch of black holes behind. The crazy thing we’re doing for the You Are the Villain theme, is that if you press the letter of a character that died, say, “G”, a skeleton comes out of the black hole where “G” died and starts running after you, so your characters become the villains when they die. It started out as something a little closer to the theme, but this is what we ended up with!

Right now, we’re working on polish and tutorials, hopefully the game will make sense to players!

This is being made by Dom2D, Technobeanie and Seventy-Sevian!

Tags: alphanauts, jam, letters

Work in Progress

Hi jammers!

This is Dom2D, teamed up with Fernando Serboncini, and this week-end we’re working on a little game we like to call Every 10 Seconds a Window Washer falls to his Death! The idea spawned from this silly article on The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-every-10-seconds-a-skyscraper-window-washer,19734/

NEW YORK—A study released Monday by the Department of Labor found that every 10 seconds, on average, a window washer somewhere in the United States accidentally plummets to his or her death. “One would expect an occasional fatality in this occupation, but our research indicates that whether a rope snaps or a slip-and-trip situation occurs, more than 8,500 window washers are killed each day,” said statistician Carl Eberling […]

This gave us the really dumb idea to make a game in which this is actually true – a world where window washing is the most dangerous job ever. We thought it’d be cool to have the hero try to save these poor little dudes who are just trying to clean windows… And of course, our hero has a jetpack!

Fernando wrote something about coding magic, I don’t really know what that means?

On the technical side, it was written in Haxe3 with OpenFL/HaxePunk. We plan to release a Flash version (and maybe HTML5) for LD, with a later release on Native platforms.