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Developing a Flash game from scratch - part 6

The game is now officially a game. It’s far from complete but it does at least function as a game. There have been a large number of changes, some easy and some incredibly difficult and I had to combat my tendency to keep tweaking bits and pieces and start aiming for the end product.

I’ve made a project page to house the latest version of the game. Visit it now to see the game and more information on its development. There’s a buglist, a todo list and more in there. If you do find a bug that’s not listed … Continue Reading

Developing a Flash game from scratch - part 5

The latest version of the game can be found at the bottom of this post.

Unfortunately I had to stop developing the game for a couple of weeks as I had real work to do. I’ve been doing bits and pieces here and there but nothing much until today. I’ve finally managed to get enough improvements into one place to make it worth creating and uploading another swf file of the work so far.

There’s been lots of code improvements, as usual, and a lot of major changes.

I decided having the aiming arrow move back and forth of its own accord wasn’t … Continue Reading