Thank you - And I used SwIsH! ^^

Glad you enjoyed it ^^

I can't honestly recap on how long this took to make, as I do a lot of other project work and this was forged out of multiple on-off hours over on-off days stretching up to three weeks.

I spent each week doing different tasks - First was spent gathering as much resources as I could, the second (and worst) was spent photoshopping each and every single frame of every sprite and creating the animations (as close as possible to the game) which was required due to how awkward and borked SWISH handles Sprite and Animated GIF imports... Third was spent coding and putting together the fight, so apart from the first two weeks, I spent the week learning little tricks on how to spice things up. You can tell by how the quality in the movie changes in each phase - It starts out in a static room with little movement, the second experiments with moving rooms and more active sprites (hallway) then I got to experiment with bigger effects and movement in the Portal room - By then I had so many ideas of what to do that things went completely ballistic when I made the falling segment as it was quite tough to do using the program and I even photoshopped/created all of that portion of the castle, with the only true-to-game part being the Bridge (which breaks) leading to the finale.

I'm very proud of this as it's my first and only full flash movie, but it could easily be beaten by more experienced flashers and I'm sad to say I've not the time or patience to create a new one, at least not right now.

I got started in flash years before this, back when I wanted to figure a way to make my own type of flash-website and used to use free-online flash-site designers. Eventually I discovered a program called Swish which I took a month out to try and learn, though it was very slow.

Eventually I left flash-editing for a few years then I remembered trying to make this movie before and decided to do it properly (I lost the first movie and all my other work in a C:Drive meltdown) so I opened up Swish after spending a week or so gathering all the sprites/sounds, editing them all myself (every single character frame and room was edited in photoshop) and then one final week to script it and put it in motion.

Best way to start is to check online for guides on how to use Macromedia (the most popular flash-editor) and go from there, assuming you can get a copy of the program, of course.

I wont be touching flash again for quite some time as I do other projects, but I may get the urge again sometime in the future.

Can't really tell as I used to work on it on & off continuously, think maybe three weeks or so... Took a week to gather resources, a week to make custom sprites and backgrounds, sounds and the likes, and a week of putting them together and scripting them in Swish.

As for Alucard, I know he can punch & kick (He uses his kick at least five times, each in a different way) but as for punches, I figure if he had his sword he'd have no real reason to punch, and seeing as Ricther was agile enough to evade every single attempt at melee from Alucard, grabbing him made more sense. Also allowed me to have fun with custom sprites (Like Alucard grabbing and throwing people) because apart from punch/kick/sword, Alucards moves are EXTREMELY limited.

I may do so in the future - Glad you enjoyed it ^^

Bit busy with other projects (I do a lot more than flash, so I try not to neglect them) but don't be suprised if I try to create an additional sequel in the future ^^