Wednesday, October 19, 2011

flash i need

random movement for enemies
score
deduction from score when you hit into a type of enemy
deduction of  life when you hit into a different enemy
character always in center of screen ( screen moves in staid of character)
character selection (if possible)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

character design

for my game i have to design a range of characters. i will have to design the player that you play as. and i will also have to design the opponents. in this case the opponents are the bats and ghosts

The top one was my first design but i didnt like it much. as i am aiming this game at young children. mainly young girls. so i tried to make the bat look more "cute"
the second design i like allot. though this is not a vector image. so i will have to re do it again but in a vector style 


in the end after vectorising them i ended up with these graphics 








Thursday, October 6, 2011

designing

our aim is to create our own version of an asteroid game. but when creating out game we must try to find a way to make it different.
in order to think of my game i have to first think of a setting and goal. this will help me decide as to what you will have to do in the game.

i struggled to think of a theme or setting to base my game on, at first i thought about basing my game inside of a forest and it was like a maze, but after asking someone about it i was told that making a maze would be to hard as it involved to much coding for an armature. so in the end i turned to look at the time of year it is now. Halloween is coming so i had taken inspiration from this holiday. i want my game to be more aimed at young children. so i decided that there will in staid of having to kill things you gave to collect things.
in the end my games idea is that you are a witch or wizard and you have to collect pumpkins for your pumpkin soup. if you get hit by a ghost it will subtract from your pumpkin counter but if you get hit by a bat then it will take away a life.

for the graphics i want it to look a bit like the graphics from Pokemon. for example the way how your character is always in the centre of the screen. also i would like to have it have the same kind of artwork but unfortunately i think i have to keep to vector images to keep the program from slowing down    

research



the game asteroid is one of the oldest games that contain flash elements. it may not have been made with the program flash but it is now easily recreated in flash.
the game was a vector game so everything was made up of lines in staid of complex drawings.

the game asteroids have influenced many games in the future. not so much the more famous games but because of how easy it is to recreate this style of game there are many amateur / fan made versions of this for example if you type in asteroids into Google the first 2 links are links to a newer fan made version
http://www.play.vg/games/4-Asteroids.html
http://www.learn4good.com/games/action/asteroids_online.htm

most of the recreations of this game are all similar with the same ship and smash rocks theme but some people have done different things with their games and almost changed it into a different game.
by using the same codding but adding some extra things into it you can create a totally different game. for example if you take away the ability to go up and down you can create a game like space invaders

space invaders was also another game that had used flash elements in the past. the invention of this game had influenced the idea of having to kill things or shoot things in games. as it was the most popular game of 1982.