Play it at Newgrounds.

I had been prototyping 4 or 5 game designs over the past several months and during that time I hacked out the core code blocks that eventually made it into TLE. The game itself took me about two weeks of off-on work, with the last few days being pretty intense to meet the deadline. I built it using the Flixel framework.

There is absolutely nothing original about this game. It is not going to win awards, though if I won that contest I would be super-stoked. I mean, you fly a rocket ship and dodge asteroids and alien gunfire. That’s it. Remember SkiFree for Windows 3.1? It’s like that, but in space. I didn’t mean for that to happen, it just did. Coincidently, I hated SkiFree as much as I hate TLE.

NOTE: I am aware of the slowdowns. I upgraded Flixel to the latest version at the last minute due to some unforeseen requirements and it’s been bad since then. I’ll look into it when I’ve had more sleep.

Each drink adds a certain amount of “drunkeness points” for every sip (you can tell how many sips you have by the icon on your nametag) to your avatar and over time your avatar will show signs of intoxication, such as bubbles above their heads and the propensity to fall down randomly. You avatar has a drink tolerance that’s determined by your MP level and how many drinks you’ve had in a session.

As of this writing there’s only 4 types of beers to choose from. In the future I’ll be adding a lot more, and not just beer but wines and spirits too. Good stuff.

If you have any other ideas for what drunk effects I should add, let me know. (Note that I can’t touch the avatar graphics so I can’t add new animations. I also can’t currently blur the screen because that would kill performance and it can get annoying.)

Module page. Search the marketplace for “bar system” or my username, “vonwolfehaus”.
Price: 1700 coins.
Configurable options: x and y position that the bar menu appears at when opened

I’m not sure why I made this module but I did. If user sit in a piece of furniture with this behavior attached to it, they’ll be giving a dunce cap with the word “FAIL” on it. They’ll also be scorned by a message from the world owner. If the user tries to leave the chair before their time is up (time is also configurable) they will be kicked from the world.

Module page.
Price: 30 coins.
Configurable variables: timeout length, timeout message (title too), x and y position of the hat.

Usage:

// Optional format
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font = "Verdana";
format.size = 10;
var bmt:BitmapText = new BitmapText(300, 500, true, format, 12, 100); // only width and height are required
bmt.addText("This is html text, which can't be mixed with regular text.", true); // set last param to false for regular text
this.addChild(bmt.render());

More instructions/explanations are in the class itself.

Now when you scroll down to view more content, it just loads it up automatically, giving the illusion of endless scrolling and a page of seemingly infinite length.

View the example page.

Also. I’ve updated autoScroll, fixing some stuff. You know how I said I’d release early and often? Turns out that doesn’t work well with me. I get lost in the code and after I finish and upload it, I completely forget to do anything else with it, such as adding a DocType to the page. Heh, yeah, not gonna do that anymore.

Quick suggestion: combining endless pages with my autoscroll script would make the page browsing experience completely seamless and effortless. Try it!

View the example page.

Cold Constructs is, as you might have guessed by the subtitle up there, a place where I publish stuff I’ve made. What kind of stuff, you might ask. Scripts, plugins, games and other creative works, among many other kinds of things — eventually, anyway.

Most things here are geared towards one central goal: making computers better as best I can. I’ll provide new interface designs, largely as Flash projects, or try to make interesting new game designs (exclusively in Flash).

But this is also my personal site where I like to share my work and get feedback on it. So please don’t be shy with the comment form, and I will always enjoy an email with constructive criticism as well.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you dig the place.