Dev Blog #19: Chroma Road Progress Report

Aloha! How is everyone today? I'm pretty good, myself. In case anyone missed it on my twitter (or, I should say, since you probably missed it) I'll mention here that I've decided that my weekly blog posts will come on Mondays from now on, instead of over the weekend like before. That's when I've been getting around to it lately, anyway :P

Anyway, hello again, and welcome to the 19th edition of my dev blog posts! This week I have some fun and exciting news regarding my upcoming #1GAM game, Chroma Road! What's more, I have screenshots! Whoopee! Read on :)

First and foremost, I have running, lane switching, and color changing all implemented in the game. Chroma Road is a 3-lane endless runner/color puzzle game, so these are the main things the player can do. Here's a sampling:

The background scrolls by, and the player runs forward automatically.

Press Z, X, or C to change color, and try to correspond them to the gates.

You can activate more than one color at a time to turn to a secondary color!

 
So far so good with the game! The scrolling gates are just images for now, but in the final game they'll be obstacles that are impassable unless you are the correct color. Also soon to be added: a timer, a score tracker, incremental difficulty, and improved graphics :)

Also, I've been using this game as an excuse to learn to use the HaxeFlixel framework. It has been going well so far. HaxeFlixel has a bit of a different approach to what I am accustomed to with game development APIs, in that its approach is sort of to have everything packaged and available if you choose to use it. HaxeFlixel has a learning curve, especially if you haven't got any experience with Flash ActionScript, but it is well worth the effort of learning. I'm hoping to be able to contribute somewhat to the project in the future, once my Haxe chops have improved.

Quick screen of my IDE, FlashDevelop. Check out that sick color coordination :0

(By the way, if you want to support HaxeFlixel, they currently have an IndieGoGo campaign going on right now. Support them if you can!)

That should do for today :) Hopefully I've given you something to look forward to when my game comes out later this month! See you soon!

Dev Blog #9: Screenshots

Hey there! Time for another quick update on the progress of my March #1GAM game, Keyro! I'll be keeping this blog a bit short, since I mainly have very little to say as far as an update goes :P However, I do have one thing that might interest those who are anticipating this game: screenshots!

Keyro is starting to look pretty good. As I mentioned in my previous dev blogs, it is a vertically-scrolling game. I have the walls, background, and the all-important keys artwork-complete. Check 'em out!

This is the main screen that you'll be looking at during gameplay. The
HUD is not yet implemented.

Look, a key!

Ooh, another!

So far so good with Keyro. It is a much smaller game than my last two entries, but it should be done quite soon! I have the whole of next week off, so I intend to complete it in a burst of productivity during that time! :)

See ya!

(P.S. This is the first blog post I've made from my newly-built gaming PC :) Its been about six months in the making, but its done now! I have yet to get my GPU [A 4GB Nvidia GTX 960. I'm going for the EVGA one], but the computer runs!)