An update to the game. Click the screenshot to see it in action.

Still very rough, but playable for the moment. Arrow keys to move clockwise/widdershins, and SPACE to fire.

Click the image to see the experiment in action.

 

Arrow keys to move clockwise/widdershins. Click the movie if nothing happens at first.

My tile game experiments led me back to an old project where I was trying to recreate/reinvent the game Gyruss in Flash. I was playing around with the Perlin Noise generation functionality in Flash, and co-incidentally came across a polar distortion class at BIT-101. I took it, played with it a bit, and figured out how to go from Polar Distortion to Twirl, with the addition of one very short line of code. Voila! I had the thing you see above. The addition of a simple gradient provides the depth.

An update to the game, this time with color substitution. Click the screenshot to play around

Use the arrow keys to move around. Hit the reset button to swap out the background.

Iteration 2 of the latest experiment: using a bitmap as a world map. Click the image to play.

Use the arrow keys to move around. Hit the reset button to swap out the “world” bitmap.

A tile game engine, using a bitmap to determine content in the larger world view.