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Power Surge

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Power Surge

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Lights Out Clone - first flash game
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Power Surge


How to play:
Click the grid to toggle that square and its adjacent squares on/off. Try to turn off all the lights. The game becomes more random each time you clear the grid.
Keys:
(-) decreases grid size
(+) increases grid size
Note: Looks like you have to click on the grid before -/+ work. I'll try to avoid that on my next game


I'm looking to use flash as my game prototyping tool. This is my first flash app. It took about 6 or 7 hours on a workday. 45 minutes to write the intial game class, which ran in console output. About an hour to get the game rendering in the window, about an hour to get input and basic level flow, and the rest for tweaking and polishing.


Lights Out was about the simplest game I could think of to clone off the top of my head. I used to play another clone of it in History class in high school on my TI-83. It worked well since it could be done stictly from input events(no timing required) and could be rendered/played as text. This meant I could write the game with basic programming knowledge and learn the syntax of Actionscript without worrying about platform details. Then it was just a matter of doc and sample reading to wrap the game with actual platfrom input, timing, and rendering.

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I like this one

So this was nice and a good concept of a game you really bring on some nice details of the game and it's one of those kinds of games you could end up playing all day anyways nice job

~X~

Would be nice if

it loaded. Might want to double check it. Once then I'll raise the score.

JudasCleric responds:

This appears to have been resolved.

The game was originally compiled for Flash Player 10 and won't load and fails silently in earlier Flash Players. I recompiled and uploaded a version for Flash Player 9, which hopefully more people have.

Great!

A nice and simple game to play, good controls, unique concept, challenging and interesting to play. Great entertainment, keep it going!

-cd-

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Score
4.15 / 5.00

Uploaded
Jan 23, 2009
4:00 PM EST