http://www.lobsterweb.com Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:03:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.lobsterweb.com/2008/10/developing-a-flash-game-from-scratch-part-6/ 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 ... http://www.lobsterweb.com/2008/10/developing-a-flash-game-from-scratch-part-5/ There's been a lot of changes to the game since my last post. Hopefully I can remember them all! I managed to work out how to add animation to objects depending on what's happening to it so I thought I'd add some eyes to the little ball and then make them ... http://www.lobsterweb.com/2008/09/developing-a-flash-game-from-scratch-part-4/ More changes and general refinement of the existing code and graphics. Also added some sound effects and graphic events. There's even a hint of gameplay in the example below. Can you get to the exit? http://www.lobsterweb.com/2008/09/developing-a-flash-game-from-scratch-part-3/ Small improvement all round to the ActionScript and different graphics this time. Again nothing special but testing the possible theme for the game. Changes to the game include: Slowed down the pointer so that aiming is easier Aimer is only visible and working when the ball is not in motion Feedback to show previous ... http://www.lobsterweb.com/2008/09/developing-a-flash-game-from-scratch-part-2/ It begins. So far it's going pretty well, although I realise that this is only early days. I found a great tutorial from Emanuele Feronato which explains a neat method of moving the ball around using the mouse and a range/angle gizmo. With a few very simple graphics there is ... http://www.lobsterweb.com/2008/09/developing-a-flash-game-from-scratch-day-1/ I figure that as there's millions of Flash games out there on the Internet they can't be all that hard to make, right? I don't mean to say that good flash games are easy to make and I fully appreciate how much time and effort go into making them, but ... http://www.lobsterweb.com/2008/09/developing-a-flash-game-from-scratch/ With all this hype about CERN's LHC and the nonsensical hypothesis that it's possible that it may destroy the universe I thought the world needed a Universal Destruction Test to check on our current status. Check back whenever you're worried about whether you, and everything around you, actually exists. http://www.lobsterweb.com/2008/09/large-hadron-collider-universal-destruction-test/