Multimedia Project - Week 3

Since last weeks post, I've been testing out other things that can be done in Flash and I may scrap the idea of making a Flash Website, and instead concentrate on making a Flash game instead. The reason for the change is because making a Flash game would be more worthwhile to me, as it gives me the chance to incorporate some of my own ideas, interests and style into it.

Let me explain:

Making a Flash game will allow me to have -

• freedom of content: 3D models, music, etc
• animations: for characters, cutscenes, etc
• my own graphical style: added to backgrounds, may also influence the games' look
• ActionScripting: explore more advance features and test new functions.

Those are just some ideas that have influenced my decision. Maybe more features will come in the future.

Before commiting myself to this project, I'm going to have to think of how I'll achieve them. My plan is to test out some ActionScripting in my own time for a game engine and get some basic features and functions working.

So far, I've managed to get the score and health features of a test game working, and make the game jump to the next screen when a certain amount of points have been achieved. This particular function actually took quite a while to fix - even using tutorials from the web haven't been helpful -so I've been consistently going through lots of trial and error in the actual game code but I've finally managed to get it working.

My next task is to carry on the score and the health onto the next level. At the time of writing this, I'm still tweaking the game code to do this but still getting problems. Hopefully I can find some help from the net on how to do this... My aim is to get some basic things such as this working before starting my project, or else I'll be left with an incomplete or a game with bugs!