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No offense mate, but don't call someone a noob when all you have done the last couple of days is asking basic questions yourself. Keep it constructive.
But at the topic starter, of course this is dependent on the style of your game, but I'd say it doesn't look good at the moment. Look up some background artwork in other animations, or look up some pictures on Google Images. That's what I always do, and it always helps.
I'm surprised at how many explosions, smoke, arrows, axes, animated units and dynamic backgrounds I can have on-screen, without knowing jack shit about (efficient) programming, whilst keeping a steady framerate. Today is a good day.
You could put all you bullets in an array, and loop through that array checking if any of the objects in the array moved off the stage. That would be the most simple solution I think. Something along the lines of:
for (var i:int = array.length-1;i>=0;i--) {
if (array[i].x > 550) //or array[i].y < 0 etc.
{
array[i].parent.removeChild(array[i]);
array.splice(i, 1);
}
}
Most likely not, well, it might pass, but not with a high score. I think people have seen enough Madness inspired flashes lately (I hope they do). The voice acting is not too bright. The animation looks stiff, and the graphics are a bit bland. Your friend should try making something in his own style. Doing a little madness animation as a starter or warming up isn't bad, but I'd rather see some original content.
Depends on your style and the effect you're after I guess. Back when I used to animate I would sometimes have two water layers, one layer would be on top of the other and is basically a enlarged duplicate of the lower layer. I would mask that toplayer and when a drop of whatever hits the water I would motion tween a ring on the masked layer so you would see a ring of distortion moving about on the layer. That's about as clear as I can explain it. Looks quite good and is fairly simple. But you could of course do it the hardcore fbf way. Look up a few videos on Youtube as inspiration or something, it helps.
Hm... So you're going to make your first animation, but you don't have Flash and you want someone to make it for you? Or are you going to make a game and do you need an artist for that?
I'm gunna go see Inglorious Basterds again in a couple of minutes. Looking forward to it. After that, since I'm not the designated driver today there will be some drinking. The rest of the weekend is reserved for running and programming.
At 9/10/09 03:23 PM, Toast wrote:
god fucking dammit do people still make these games? i cant believe there's people who would still want to play flash tower defence games - the most unoriginal, uncreative, generic, unartastic, least unique, boring, overrated, and overdone genre of flash games in history.
Yeah, that was... what's his name... Wasn't it criticsquid? or whatever alt-account he has nowadays. Anyway, he stopped his hostingservice and all clients where transfered to another provider.
It's been too long and too many lost projects to not utilize the power of Time Machine and unfortunately it usually takes a disaster like a complete harddrive wipe for most people to realize the necessity of it.
I'm one of those fools I'm afraid. I'm just glad I still have my most important project left. I can rebuild my huge music collection over time, most of my photos I can salvage from my friends I hope. The rest is just gone. All of my university files as well, hope I never need those again :) The music I've made over the years, all my old Flash projects, gone as well. It's interesting to see how you also start to miss the little things you normally never notice, bookmarks for example. Became to comfortable with the fact that as long as I've been using a Mac (the past 10 years or so) it has never crashed on me (well the occasional freeze, but never anything like this). So I never thought the hassle of making back-ups of everything was worth it. So yeah, I'm an ass and I learned my lesson the hard way...
At 9/7/09 11:13 AM, Xeptic wrote:
Guess whose computer crashed, destroying absolutely every single file on the harddisk...
Obama's?
Good try, but nay. Ironically it happened when I tried to install Windows on my Mac. That's the last time I'll ever try that again. Lost all my old projects (some of them finished), luckily bar the one I was working on atm. Photo's, music etc. is all gone >:(
Looks like fun, although from the trailer I can't say for sure what the game is about. Obviously trying to hit certain objects with bubblegum, but I'm not sure why or how.
So yeah, apparently that typo almost made me kill myself. I wish Flash had just given me an error message. This is the last project that I program with Flash.
At 9/5/09 07:25 AM, Paranoia wrote:
I guess just start a new file and recycle all of your non-classes
That's hardly statisfactory... I seem to have found a different solution, apparently my library contains one or more corrupted items. I think I found the corrupted library item, now I have to restore it somehow and see if that solves my problems.
