Use arrow keys to go to the bar, drink beer and run to the toilet before time is out. How many beers could you stand? This is the first game by the Falanxia team I currently work with.

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I love this kind of projects: you got a limited time – 7 days should be enough to prepare a small application. Game, audio or video stuff, you name it. When you work alone, you could manage your time more precisely, there’s no one who tells you what to do and what you should avoid. It’s solely your work and you can do whatever you want to – but it has to be done before the deadline, which can’t be moved in any circumstances.

This time I’ll prepare a small audio application. No business plan, no desires to sell it. No visible sight of making money of it. Just simple fun. This app was on paper for too long and this contest made me start it.

The app will mix samples in a never-ending stream of blabs. Everything will be mixed randomly from predefined settings, adjustable by you. And most importantly you’ll be able to make your very own generator by recording audio from your computer’s Line In or Microphone input.

I want to show you some of technologies I developed during last few years. GUI widgets with loadable skins, audio processing (I made few multitrack sequencers and mixers), a slice of 3D rendering. All Model-View-Controller via PureMVC.

I want to use these technologies if you’re interested to know:

• Air 2.0 beta
• Ogg Vorbis / Alchemy
• PureMVC
• Away3D Lite
• PopForge
• BulkLoader
• DestroyToday’s Scale9Bitmap (slightly changed by me)
• Greensock TweenMax
• and a small help of my libraries.

If you want to take a few lessons from ActionScript and these areas, this project is a lovely place to start. I did not tell you? Everything I am going to produce here will be licensed as Creative Commons, open for everybody. And that doesn’t apply only to source codes, I am talking about assets, source PSDs, illustrations, samples etc.

So if you’re interested in what I am going to come up with in next 6.5 days, enjoy me on the voyage. It will be a rather fast, but very fun trip. Watch this place and Twitter stream at @mumbojumbot.

Update

MumboJumboT project is done. Read more here.

We thought isometric view would be awesome for a game of this type. My part of this job was to bring to life the whole client side, except drawings (done by Vladimír ‘Frognfly’ Chalupa) – that means all user interface graphics, icons, animations, Flash, Papervision3D and interactivity is my work.

I really enjoyed this job as I was able to do what I love, from scratch to finish. While designing skinning core, I developed a new skinning library I will open for public use soon. Watch my space on GitHub.

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Initial game screen. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Basic screen elements. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

First game mockups. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Overall map with an already bought house and current avatar position. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Original overall map. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Original character designer screen, page 1. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Original character designer screen, page 2. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Defect window. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Jackpot window. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Casino window. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Help a Friend window. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Job window. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

New Message window. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Taxi window. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Jail window. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Webcafe window. Click the image to see the full resolution screenshot.

Animated preloader preview

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A game done in one night for the Jsem.cz project.

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