Game Creation - Week 13

I have completed the task of getting the background to move along with the character and I began work on getting the colision working between the character and the cave entrance which sends the player to the next scene. This has so far proven to be difficult to code and it currently does not work correctly, as I could not get it working I temporarily left it to work on the collectables. I have now coded my designed collectables and they work correctly, when the character touches them, they disappear and the score increases by one. I am now returning to the next level issue to see if I can resolve it.

Game Creation - Week 12

During this week I was able to get my character moving with the help of a moodle tutorial and I moved onto getting the background to move along with the character. This is now nearly complete and I will be then moving on to getting the character to hitting a certain object which will send them to the next level.

Game Creation - Week 11

During this week I carried on with the animation work on my character. This is now complete and I am now working on the actionscript for the character which will allow the player to control them with the arrow buttons. This has so far proven more difficult than I original thought and it is taking me a while to figure out the correct action script.

Game Creation - Week 10

Now that I have completed the basic pieces of code that are used in my game I have now moved onto the complicated areas. I have started by trying to code my character so that the user has control over them. This code has so far proved to be quite difficult to do and it is a lot more complicated than what I originally thought. By using some tutorials as examples I am learning how to do the code for myself.

Game Creation - Week 9

During this week I was able to finish my character walking animation which now plays smoothly and the walking looks realistic. Next I began work on the games action script and in the time I had left for this week put in the basic pieces of code throughout the animation such as the stop's and the gotoAndPlay's.

Game Creation - Week 8

This week I continued with the walking animation for my character which was taking a long time to get all of the frames created and then running smoothly together. I have only a few frames left to do and I will continue with them next weeks lessons.

Game Creation - Week 7

During this week I continued work on the characters walking animation which I found to be quite time consuming as it required a lot of detail and it was all frame by frame animation. I am spending more time on this so that the animation plays smoothly and looks like the character is walking realistically.

Game Creation - Week 6

This week I continued with and completed the introduction animation for the characters appearence to the level. He now falls from the sky, lands in a bush, hits a hedgehog and the level begins. I am now working on the characters walking animation as well as mixing it with action script.

Game Creation - Week 5

This week I continued work on the small animation to introduce the character and the level. This is taking longer than what I previously anticipated and I have now only just finshed the intro to the level with the letters animation. I am now continuing work on the character animation which includes him falling from the sky to begin the level.

Game Creation - Week 4

My intro flash movie is now complete and i am now moving into actually creating the main game. I have designed the main layout for the first level and I am now working on a small animation that involves the main character entering the scene.

Game Creation - Week 3

This week I continued with the creation of my flash intro movie. I have now completed most of the animation and i am now moving onto the final scenes. I have added dialogue so that a narrator can speak the story as it is displayed on the screen and so that the character can speak in the animation.

Flash Intro Movie - Week 2

I have begun creating the animated intro for my flash game.
I have begun creating it and i have looked into different ways to use music to make the game more interesting. My target is to complete my game introduction movie by the end of this week.

Implementation - Week 1

At this point in time my game has reached the point where it has been designed and i will move onto the next stage which will be creating the game introduction.
The main parts of the game development that I am most concerned about is the complex areas concerning the Action Script of the complex parts of the game.
In several places there will be some complex pieces of code that i will need to build which may require me to get some assistance so that i can create the game.
I have completed assignment 1 but i need to add a bit more to gain the distinction criteria on the evalution section.
I think that it will take me most of the time that I have left at college to be able to complete the game.

Implementation - Introduction

Welcome, my name is Ben and this is my blog which will focused on my progress throughout my progect on creating my Flash Game "When Time Gets Warped".
This Blog will be used purely to keep up to date with the creation of my game and the several steps that I have gone through. This blog will be used to help keep track of what i've done and what I need to do next.
My college is Halesowen College and my course is BTEC IT Practitionaire National Diploma.
The game that i have chosen is called "When Time Gets Warped", it will be a side scrolling adventure game that will consist of the main character traveling through different era's in time attempting to track someone down.
I have chosen this type of game because these are some of my favourite genre's that I enjoy playing and it is a type of game which I would enjoy making. I have also decided to create this type of game because I have had quite a bit of inspiration and ideas from several other flash games that i have played online. It is also a type of game that I have had experience creating in the past but on a different piece of software.
I am fairly confident that I can build this game but as I am still learning the full capabilities of action script I still may need assistance in some of the more complicated areas of creating the game.