I thought I better start a new thread for this, as it is something I'd still like a lot of feedback on, and the feedback I have gotten already is very helpful, but its kind of buried in my other thread. So! A new one.
To sum up: a few weeks ago I registered the URL 'wiigotfliis' on an impulse, thinking it might be fun to make a flash game using the new
Flash Wiimote API by Wiicade. Around the same time I was playing Kirby's Adventure and Kid Icarus on the Wii VC, and
Poyo on the PC. So I got thinking about all the old puzzle platformers that demolished my childhood, like Solomon's Key and Lemmings, and thinking I might like to try and make a little homage to those games. So I started thinking about this game that would be pretty simple as far as controls go, just a "follow me" toggle button and jump button. You play a momma flea guiding her crazed baby fleas through a surreal/abstract (and as you will soon see crappy) single screen platform area. This started to get mixed up with some NES mockup ideas, and well, just generally went south:
Mockup 1:
I was rightly and justly admonished for "phoning it in" and "sucking" (to paraphrase!), so last night I tried a little too hard to make it all retro and NES-y, resulting in Mockup 2:
Looks good compared to mockup 1, but then, anything would! So, version 3:
Ptoing and Panda finally convinced me that this experiment was a failure, and for that I thank them, because I have a NEW IDEA now!
"Wii Got Fliis" - The New IdeaThe new idea is you play a tiny exterminator named Jeffrey, as pictured here:
This game will have a jump button and a "blow" button. The blow button shoots air out of your gun, pushing things about in a hopefully pleasantly physicsy way. The goal on each level is to exterminate all the fleas, frequently by using your gun to push them into water, spikes, etc. There will be various temporary powerups, such as Poison (kill any fleas that your air gun touches) and the Gasmask (allow you to walk through poison before it dissipates). The plan is for this game's graphics to NOT be crappy and phoned in; I'll post a new environment later today. Thanks!
EDIT - mini-update before I start working on the environment, jeffrey is on the move...