Navigation Excersise

I've currently got a low-detail pre-alpha stage Main Menu for my game in my Projects page. It was merely something to wave at Globaloria for my grade tomorrow (err, well... Later today... about 6 hours actually...). The experience was fun in hind-sight, and I do believe I enjoyed it, if only because I like to problem solve and make my work as nice as possible... But I would be a liar if I said it was not rage-inducing in at least one spot, the first time around.

The .swf I currently have uploaded actually has one or two duplicated pages, which are essentially fragmented, incomplete versions of the pages a user on the web will actually have access to. These pages are not in anyway accessible to web users. Only persons with a copy of the .fla could know of these duplicate pages. But deletion of said pages (which, do not contain any Actionscript, I might add) prevents my Main Menu from properly working... Odd, to say the least...

Of course, I lucked into this little fix. I fought CS3 for probably a solid 45 minutes, before a short break and then I got lucky. By the break period, I was quite tempted to find a large hole, don a cape and thong and kick my computer in. Luckily I did not... I must've not messed up my character build as bad as I thought...

Interaction Excersise

Come on, guys... Coded the Rabbit just like everybody else...

...Fine...


The Rabbit minigame was my first hands-on dive into Actionscript. It was fun, and with the clever and aware instruction of Patrick Smith and Josh Joseph, it was pretty easy. Minor bugs here and there, all good for one's learning curve. I now enjoy Actionscripting to a great extent, as I find I'm quite good at it... As do my classmates, seeing as I've done Actionscript work on 3 projects this semester, including my own.

Animation Excersise

In my projects page, near the bottom, there exists a single-winged windmill with quite an obscure color scheme. I was bored in class one day, and drew this whilst everyone was making stick legs that made awkward kicking motions. I began with the line tool, but changed to the paintbrush about half-way as the slightly "hit-and-miss" artstyle feels more comfortable for the scheme of the scene I desired to create... Not enough so to warrant reconstruction of the inital drawing though.

I know, I know... I over-analyze.

Nearing Dead Week

We have completed quite a few in-class assignments, including Sounds, "Animation" and Navigation. Dead Week's coming up fast and my project is still nowhere. Flash becomes increasingly boring and gives me no sense of adventure, accomplishment, conquering new ground or general feelings whatsoever. It just makes me sleepy. Woo! Fun! /sarcasm


There's my blog, my homework is done.

Preliminary Flash Game Concept

Going into this course, Gaming I, I really wanted to do a musical rhythm game like Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 3 since I'm limited to just Adobe Flash. What I came up with was an educational concept where the player takes the role of the lead guitarist of a metal band during a battle of the bands competition and will, throughout the course of the game, learn the specific notes of the fretboard, as well as a small amount of music theory.

I have a lot more to do to complete this concept, but I believe this is a nice solid basis for a starting point...

My Favorite Game

My favorite game is... Varied. I can't choose just ONE game. But, I'll choose one of my old favorites I've recently picked up again...

Max Payne

Classic noir style with John Woo's signature over-the-top gunplay style all tied together with fast talking Gangsters and displayed across wonderfully detailed, gritty New York environment.
Max Payne is the story of a homicide detective, namely Max Payne, who comes home one sunny evening to the grizzly murder of his wife and child by drug junkies. Fast forward 3 years and Max is on the D.E.A. working undercover. One fateful night blows his cover, drops leads linking his current undercover work with the deaths of his family, and pits him in the middle of New York's worst recorded winter storm. What else would a man with nothing to lose do? He goes on the world's greatest criminal street sweeping spree.

The major appeal of this game, besides the magnifent, easy to learn yet hard to master gunplay mechanics, and deep story was the incorporation of "Bullet Time." More precisely, player controlled bullet time. Max Payne was one of the first major titles to bring Bullet Time to the gaming community as a gameplay component. The component worked wonderfully in creating multitudes of insane scenarios the players could work themselves into and then, consequently, shoot their way out of, in the animosity of a firefight. The feature was controlled by a single button, and was totally optional. If a player prefered a faster "Halo" style of combat, their was never any moment that forced bullet time on them. Though, personally, I think it made many parts easier without turning the game into joke, difficulty-wise.

The gritty backdrop, the deep story, the wonderful combat that never really gets old, the jaw-dropping (for that point in time) graphics, and the top-notch voice acting all strung together in classic noir fashion made for a great pulse-pounding shooting spree throughout three New York nights, spanning about 10 - 12 hours of gameplay.

Minigame Project

Was it hard to make my mini game?

Not overly... The Action Scripting was very much a new and foreign concept when I began, but its getting easier quite fast. I also didn't have to draw or obtain any graphics, so that area was pretty easy. The games concept was laid out by the professors, making that also very easy.

So... Not really hard at all, no.

What was the best part of this topic? The worst part?

I, personally, enjoyed it all. I may have been bored on the day we learned Collision detection, Keyboard Control, and Keeping Score, since I worked ahead, but I did enjoy my first significant success within Flash.

The worst part was probably fixing errors within Action Script's code, but it wasn't all the bad.

Do you play games in your free time? Which ones do you play and why are they your favorite?

Some... I'm really more of a developer than a gamer now. I constantly develop new maps and models for modding, more so than achievement grinding or playing the latest best sellers.

I liked the new game, Batman: Arkham Asylum pretty well. Other games I play, when I get around to playing are: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Race Driver: GRID, and Gears of War 2.

Gaming I - Day 2

Newbies... Influx of newbies... Re-hashed introduction today, kinda bored... Gives me time to catch up with other stuff on my various profiles and such though, so its all cool.

I'm anxious as hell to dive in ActionScript, I have an idea for an elemental RTS that could work quite well in Flash.

Oh, right... Ummm... I'm supposed to write something in here about setting up my accounts, for class... Uhh.... It was easy and very old hat. There, that sums up my experience with it pretty nicely xD

Gaming 1 - Day 1

First day of college, oh yeah! and posting from class too :O That's right, all your base are belong to me...

Well, I have to put SOMETHING of purpose in here, hmmm...

Check out this Colt Peacemaker I've been working on...