Lastly - Images

These are just some screen shots of Club Penguin and Windowsil that show the sort of thing i wanted to go along with. Also a bit of mario!

Other Notes

I included a sound flip in my game that plays at the beginning and all the way through.

I used an adobe tutorials to get sound working.

I also published my game as an application so can run on its own and made it into full screen mode so you have the feel of a real game.

I had a lot of changes with my game and i have to thank Ciril for helping me understand AS so i could get it too work in mine. Tarwin told me mine was wrong as i had it all on the same layer on diff frames, but then worked it out so they are on layers but same frame just hiding different ones each time something happens.

Text Box include

I had the idea of including a input text box so that players can record there names and then at the end it tells them Well Done......(name) whatever they typed. Was able to get it working at the start but didnt have time to get it at the end screen.

Scenes in order

Image 1- Starting screen

Image 2- Instructions

Image 3- Game

Image 4 - Game with falling particle balls

Image 5- End screen (does have a error becuase the glow balls are still falling so need to stop them)

Buttons and end screen

These were the buttons i created for my game (shown top) The middle image shows the buttons needed, timeline ect. and my final image is the end screen i set up for when the time expires telling the player what they did.

Backgrounds

These are the backgrounds i am gonna use for my game: I wanted to keep them simple but have a flow of the world still being taken over. so from city to darkness.

Plans

Next step was setting out the plans of scenes and what i wanted to happen. Also working with seren to talk about some action scripting techniques to include.

layouts for background

end screen scores tally

how you go one scene to another

Next Stages - Inspiration

Inspiration for this game was pretty easy.

I wanted it to be fun, enjoyable easy to play. fast and good for kids.

so i thought about :

Mario: a quality game easy to pick up quickly and for all ages. Also top selling game (as seen in image i posted a bit back)

Windosil: an interactive game that involved clicking objects and parts so that you could advance to the next level

http://windosill.com/

Club Penguin: a game a friend of mine plays who is about 8yrs old. Interactive, and it about collecting items and things to build up an environment for your character.

http://www.clubpenguin.com/

I sort of knew at this stage what i wanted to do in my game and it seemed likely that i could do it, all i had to do know was understand action script.

Start of Project 4 - Interactive Game

Before beginning i took down notes of what i wanted to do and how i wanted to, and what to include. All of that are found on these images. The first page was my instant idea when i heard the project followed by exploring the idea of it. 2nd was coming up with multiple angles of it and different ideas (image 4). Once i knew i wanted to do a game, i set out the screen shots of it as seen in image 2 and 3 above.

Final Walkcycle

These next 3 shots are of my final walk cycle. i used the clouds idea and sun as seen in my examples and tried to do a grass hills tops but i think it looks bad because i did it in photoshop and it looks fake, when i should have kept along the same theme as the examples.

Practice animation of characters

This was a test animation i did with characters at the begining when learning the flash, tween effects.

More ideas and flash examples

This is another set of flash clips that i found interesting, using colour but also understanding the transformations of characters and how they move in the scene.

Examples of Walk cycles and Flash animations

SO the following sets of images were ones that interested me when researching, taking note of space, and simplicity of the layout and how simple shapes need to be and you dont need to make it complicated.

Things like the trees, colours in the background and light brush strokes on the ground for texture and hills.

Project 3 - The Walk Cycle

So after reading over the brief i drew out a play of what i wanted to have in my walk cycle scene.

It was difficult for me when starting becuase i wanted him 'the blob' to bounce/ glide along like he was really sticky. and i was doing this frame by frame animation then i got told to do it as a tween then back to frame by frame and finally ended up on tween.

Wish i had done it frame by frame as i think i could have made it better than it turned out.

The image/notes show what my plans where in regards to background, moving of character and other things in the scene. ALso other notes that may help me.

something i liked

This is something i found in one of my magazines and though it was interesting. Also gave me ideas for my game, wish i want to make after the walk cycle.

Final Character

My final character can be found below the last couple of posts due to updating of blog from journal notes.

More Dev

So this is the template that i created in illustrator that i would use for my character . the sections being front, side, back view. description, colour scheme, personal details and facial expressions. This way you can fully understand the character and who he is and what he does.

Character Ideas/Dev

So these are some rough sketches that i did when thinking about characters of a blob. trying to look futuristic, fun for kids to play with and exciting.

Update on BLOG

Ok, so I was originally keeping a journal to hand in but I had some spare time to upload all my files and scanned document. Also because most of my roughs were on just scrap pieces of paper lying around.

Final Character

Starting layout and basic shape/idea

Links

Below are links to footage that were interesting when researching characters.

Flubber Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-172hRk_Wao

Monster vs Aliens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_EUNR082u0

Transformers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFBVy5-jcI

Transformers 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcz6yAYDT4g

Mosters Inc - Mike Wazowski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=382X0Wbo3Ko

More Character Ideas