#flappyjam

It's April and the jam is "officially" over!

Some stats

Games: 14

Games with incomplete data: 2

Downloads: 33924

Avg. downloads: 2423

Standard deviation: 5122

Avg. days on the markets: 27 /31

#FlappyBird-like games: 5

App Store games: 8

Play Store games: 11

Complete Sales Spreadsheet

Post Mortems & Other data

Hedgy Jumper

Maduzo Falls

Madrid Game Conference 19 Marzo: Desarrollar un videojuego en 2 horas #gamedev #quickjam #flappyjam #flashdev

:)  De esta vez, en la Madrid Game Conference, vamos a intentar cambiar un poco el enfoque de las ultimas, y intentar validar la posibilidad de poder desarrollar un videojuego en dos horas, a través de un  flashdev, quickjam o flappyjam, sea como se la quiera llamar.

El objetivo es de evaluar la posibilidad de desarrollar por parte de todos los asistentes a desarrollar un videojuego en el…

Choppy Fox was my entry for the Flappy Jam. I am a bit late at debriefing it, but better late than never, right?

What went right

I am proud to have posted my 1st ever jam entry.

It took me only the equivalent 3 workdays of development, thanks to HaxeFlixel, that I started playing with a little before.

Having managed team during the development of middle-size game projects, I had to lead my fellow developers to make clean code. This was all about communication and maintanability. But alone, no need to do so: one main class was enough!

At some point I began thinking about optimization (object-pooling), but a little voice in my head asked me to forget it. The idea was to make a game very quickly.

The final result is playable, and my wife really enjoyed it.

What went wrong

I first wanted to combine the Flappy Jam with the 1GAM theme of February, "Loops" but I was unable to come with a concept really combining this theme and the Flappy Jam constraint, so I abandoned my original idea, Looping Plane.

I am originally a graphic designer, but not a pixel artist. I spent a bit of time experimenting, but it would have been too much time-consuming to continue that way.

You can't turn off the sound, because I did not take the time.

What went right and wrong on the same time

So I went "sprite-chasing". As Flappy Bird's set in a Mario-like universe, I decided to set my game in a Sonic-like one. The sprite I found inspired directly the way the hero moved, but I realized afterwhile that the jam asked not to rip assets. Whoops.

Next jam, I will...

not make pixel art, or keep it very, very simple, or use free pixel art (found a lot of good stuff at http://www.derekyu.com/tigs/assemblee/)

have my concept tested ASAP so I can polish it.

not even think about optimizing, and not overengineer.

not impose myself another constraint that the jam constraints.

use a framework I have played with BEFORE.

attentively read the jam brief.

Developers: Luderia

Platforms: Web, Android, iOS (soon)

Release Date: 07/03/2014 (Web, Android)

Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube

Flap in Time is a twisted Flappy-like game for those looking for more challenge! Master the physics behind your creature’s jump to make them come out alive of every scored point.

Every time you reach a gap and score a point, time slows down. Then, you must flap in time along with a timeline, placing jump markers where your character should jump, in order to survive and reach the next gap.

A new character is unlocked every 10 points. Try to beat your friends’ high score, and get 31 unique characters as you play!

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I'm a little late on posting about Flappy Jam, but I finished the game and even posted it on Game Jolt! I've added everything I wanted to in the game including:

-Highscores

-Menu,Credits, and Restart Screen

-several levels or increasing difficulty including moving pipes

-Sounds, and Music

I'm overall really happy with the turn out of the game and want to do more clean up code-wise and art-wise, but that is for a later date. If you want to check it out Balloon Fight is hosted on Game Jolt, and if you'd like, rate it, leave a comment, and share the game for others to see! I'm already looking forward to my next project.

The first Flappy Jam IV game has been published by Apple on its App Store: Fly Tony by Balzo Games

Meanwhile Postman by TopWEB has been released on Android