My Demo

I worked on my Demo some today. I haven't done anything with it for about a week because I was trying to catch up on my projects page. My Demo came along pretty easy, and with finding a demo online, I was able to figure out the whole buttons deal alot better. I think that if I have the exact script infront of me and an example, then I can figure it out alot easier. I'm almost done with it, and just need to do some touch ups with the wording and all, then I'll have it finished. I was having troubles with adding animation with a mouse tutorial last class, so this was giving me a break before I jumped back into that coding again. The bottom line problem was, yet again, I was working in flash 3.0 and not 2.0! Someone else recognized that problem for me and I just copied it into 2.0 so when I do pick up that tutorial again, which would hopefully be sometime next class, I'll be able to get it done and not have such trouble with it.

Keyboard Animations

I'm not entirely going in order on my blogs, but this time, I did an animation using the keyboard. I had actually did this animation on the minigame project I did towards the beginning of the year. I put a Tassie as a moveclip on my Demo and had him move around by the arrows. This was really just an experiment and I can use that exact coding for a mini game some where during my whole game. I started on doing an animation with a mouse, but flash failed on me!!!! I was in the middle of drawing a banana and it shut off! After I do this tutorial, I will actually be able to use the whole slide for a minigame. So really, I almost have a minigame complete. And yes it involves a banana. :)
         I like working with flash a little bit. I'm not all too happy about the coding. But I like doing the drawings. I think I'm getting the hang of that part, even though it's sooooo hard to draw on a computer. The coding is confusing and I can't understant it. All the coding that I have I've been able to find and experiment with and make it something that will work for my game. I've actually been doing a pretty good job with it, but I still don't like how much time I spend looking at the computer thinking, "what if I did this?", or "what in the world did I do wrong for the game to act like this???".

Tutorials

I've gotten two tutorials done that I need to put together a Game Demo that I will be presenting. These two were Drawing a Scene and Adding Scenes. These two weren't very hard for me to pick up on, especially since I've looked at some videos explaining these a while back. I've learned a good bit about Tasmanian Devils ever since I've started making the game about them. Things I've learned are the measures that are being taken to save this species. I'm working on the scenes throughout the game and I'm learning how to tell the story through the different scenes. I'm going to encorporate some things into it to tell the audience more that just the cancer, but everything effecting the population. Throughout my scenes, I'll have explanation about the Tassies, where the Tassies are, and updates about everything on this topic. I hope that players will learn alot from this game when I'm finished with it.