exercise 2 sprite sheet

Alright, so here is the homeless guy.... the process was relatively straight-forward, but it took an awfully long time to do something that seemed really simple.  Well, I drew the guy by hand then took pictures of it, then cropped the individual body parts in photoshop and put it together in flash.  I'm pretty satisfied with the character but the animations aren't really done yet because I could easily tweak little movements of the guy to make it look much better.  The walk may look jerky but I like the crack-addict look that goes on from it.  I'll probably add some more accessories too .

part 1 exercise 1

okay, someone deleted my file in the lab so I basically had to redo this half of the assignment... not much different than the work in progress....

The idea behind it is straightforward, Roger Clemens looks towards the media in a press conference realizing that he is in deep shit with this steroid stuff, and  the other image is Pinhead from Hellraiser... I combine the two and I think the pins signify his "possible" guilt and the act of injecting yourself with roids at the same time.  He looks pretty stupid with those pins in his head, and that Yankees symbol sucks too.

clemens work in progress

clemens work in progress

uhhhh hi 1st post

Alrighty, well my research into flash games has been intense this past week, and I am excited to show my findings.  I played a bunch of games and here are a few that I remember for better or worse.

worse -- Skies of war -- way t0o complex, you have to go through too many screens making too many decisions for a simple flying around game

better -- parking zone -- cool style of those puzzle games that where you have a picture that you have to rearrange with only one open block

 

better -- acne be gone -- fun take on games based on speedy clicking and mouse accuracy 

better -- 4 wheel madness 2 -- side view racing game where you have to drive your monster truck as fast as possible past obstacles like cars and jumps.  Have to be good with balancing the weight of the truck.

worse -- beer monster -- fun take on typical side scrolling platform games... bad collision detection and repetitive.  cool creepy ass music though

worse -- halo capture the flag -- horrible game where you run from one side of the screen to the other, pick up a flag and run back to your side.  enemy and flag re-spawning is horrible and there is really no point to playing this game.

worse -- stink game -- shitty catapult game 

worse -- heat man 2 -- this game had such a long introduction that I didn't even get to the point of playing the game

worse --  age of war -- this game seemed cool at first but I've been playing for over an hour and basically nothing happened.  You also couldn't pause the game which pissed me off beyond comprehension because I wanted to eat my baked chicken SON 

I played quite a few others but these were the ones I remembered..

Reading the flash demystified article didn't tell me much I didn't know already about flash, except for a few of the reasons why flash is not the best for video games.  I think some of these deficiencies are sort of understandable though just looking at most of the games you see online, they obviously aren't going to get that sophisticated.

Well I am excited for this semester I am planning on making some good games, still not sure on what type of game yet however...