Play My Great Flash Game Demo!

[zannebrain]

I don't want to overhype this by calling it "great" but seeing how most Flashes are complete crap...I had to get your attention somehow. Anyway, I set out to create one of the best looking flash games on the web. You can judge for yourselves :).

You play as Reuben as he tries to stop a coup de force and prevent the coming of melovalent forces and a dark age.

Four weapons, each upgradable, each unique. Lots of action and lots of fun. Enjoy!

Comments/suggestions welcome. Also, I'm not sure on the speed with the embedden HTML it seems slower and I'm looking into that. Is Flash 10's compiler faster?

Here's the link. Hopefully Angefile doesn't crap up.
http://blackepoch.angelfire.com/Black_Ep och_Vengeance_DEMO.html

Anyway, enjoy the game and let me know what you think :)

[7IsUnlucky]

Kinda weird, but neat-o

[Magical-Zorse]

It's good, but I don't like how high and fast you jump.

[YoinK]

how do you shoot??????? it's good... but I want to be able to shoot.

[7IsUnlucky]

Just click...

[zannebrain]

Just click the left mouse-button and you're good to go! :) Numbers 1-4 and the Mouse Wheel can be used to change weapons. Each weapon is good for different things.

Also, I failed to mention the flying wing things upgrade your weapons(only one time). Die and you loose the upgrades.

[Huenah]

Hmmmmm kinda creepy

[blah569]

At 10/25/09 02:50 AM, YoinK wrote: how do you shoot??????? it's good... but I want to be able to shoot.

Are you using a unix based system? I'm unable to shoot as well.

[Nuttro]

This game is a win

[Logidude]

You do know on a skull, there is no nose, it is just flat. Look at this: Plus that was pretty cool, how do you do the mouse aim and shoot? please help me!

[Nuttro]

At 10/25/09 06:28 AM, Logidude wrote: You do know on a skull.

You do know that this is a completely random game that makes no sense right? The giant Boss has red eyes and spiked tentacles that shoot lasers and spawns mini skulls.

Besides, it looks like the top half of his head has skin seeing as he has gum around his teeth and eyelids. Only the teeth and jaw is bone.

I'm such a perspective ass, hate me!

[Xeptic]

The way you set up the mouse click won't work on Macs.

[Logidude]

Yes. You are rigt. But it is a preety good 3d model though.

[Nuttro]

At 10/25/09 06:43 AM, Xeptic wrote: The way you set up the mouse click won't work on Macs.

Maybe he should make it compatible with both pc and mac if that wasn't obvious. I have no idea on Linux...

At 10/25/09 06:47 AM, Logidude wrote: Yes. You are rigt. But it is a preety good 3d model though.

I wasn't slapped? I love you! <3

[hdxmike]

Decent game, i see you put some effort into this unlike some people

Keep it up !

[Yambanshee]

thats really good :] a lot of effort into it!

as for the problem with the macs, you probally used the if(Key.isDown(1)){ method?
just make a new boolean variable, name it mouseDown and do this:

function onMouseDown () {
mouseDown = true
}
function onMouseUp () {
mouseDown = false
}

hit ctrl+f and replace
if(Key.isDown(1))
with
if(mouseDown)

[ProfessorFlash]

Nice game, looking forward to the full version. In couple of places dying get you past the area. I mean that I was on the bottom of that climb where the flame things shoot sideways, I died to the flying goo things and was respawned on top of the climb, so I passed the area by dying :). Hope that made sense, good game.

[Rustygames]

Aside from the fact you are clearly quite a cocky individual, and also aside from the fact you just alienated everyone here by saying "most flash games are crap", something still bothers me about this game. It just seems the assets have had too much time spent on them and the code has had very little. It either means you're from a design background or something dodgey is going on here...

Either way good luck

[zannebrain]

No, I did not mean to be cocky. I wanted to get people's attention. There are a lot of flash games that are created very half-assedly and people often times post things on forums without really putting effort into their work.

Okay, some good comments thus far.

As for the code, I know I didn't spend a whole lot of time on it and I recognize some of its flaws. I come from a Com Sci. background, but I do admit a bit of haste in my coding so i can devote time to the art and design aspects.

Sorry about the mouse, and you are correct. I did use "1" for the input. I'll fixed it later.

[zannebrain]

Also, I do wish to apologize as I'm not refering to flashes that reach the front page or the top of the portal. A lot of people have created some wonderful things and I realize now my language wasn't actually clear. I refer, again, to the majority of flashes that are released that people don't even see.

[zuperxtreme]

Good stuff, and I agree that people upload half-assed stuff the portal. So good for you for polishing your game.
I'm getting the same problem as the Mac people, I'm running Ubuntu with the latest Flash ver and can't shoot. Also, the speed of the jump and gravity seem a bit too high.

[zannebrain]

At 10/25/09 09:35 AM, ProfessorFlash wrote: Nice game, looking forward to the full version. In couple of places dying get you past the area. I mean that I was on the bottom of that climb where the flame things shoot sideways, I died to the flying goo things and was respawned on top of the climb, so I passed the area by dying :). Hope that made sense, good game.

Yeah, I know what your talking about. I'll see what I can do. Sometimes I wonder if the player deserves a break or not.
I'm actually going to have the gellies load later too in that spot after watching my friends play I saw how frustrating it looked.

I'm glad people seem to be enjoying it! I uploaded the repaired version using flashes mouse function so the Mac(possibly UNIX based) systems can enjoy it.

As for the skull-zombie, I hope you guys find it acceptable that he's a bit weird. That's actually the first graphic I did btw. The character makes me smile.

[zannebrain]

Oh, another thing, how do you guys feel about the jump? I got a couple of comments about it? I'll change if more people agree. I need to preserve the height of the jump, the speed isn't as important and the drop rate can pretty much be whatever.

Also, as for performance, does it "jerk" at all? I noticed it isn't as smooth in the broswer. I'm thinking about doing the final in Flash 10 if the compiler is faster. Does anyone know?

I also like to hear what you think about the fairness/difficulty. I want it to be a challenge this will be the standard difficulty. I already marked a few of rough spots that are a little cheap.