Games from the Scratch

In about 24 days there is christmas eve and my company come to me some weeks ago. They want to have a XMAS Game wich has to be easy to play and the user has to be amused, because there is some product placement inside.

In the last weeks there was a lot of stress in my life, because nearly for all people around me i had to do something.

So i had to thougt about a concept which is powerful enough to bind the players and which is easy to build. The games i have built this year were very complex and heavy to program. I have built up a (to)big class library especially for game enviroments like Mode7, Isometric and Tiles.

Since 2 years i am also using external editors, like SEPY or the Powerflasher FDT-Plugin. This are very powerful tools, but every new tool requires some time for introducing into it.

So i thougt about my earlier times, when i started with Flash 5 and my first Action Script 1 programs.

I decided that this old concept maybe has to get another chance. I have been drawing some scribbles, turned on my 3D-Modeller and have rendered some animations. After this concept and gfx-step i reserverd a keyframe for every frame and action.

Most of you now will say, oh my god this is so quick and dirty.

Yes, you are right! But have you ever thougt about this statement.

Quick and Dirty

You can write AS1 syntax which is very easy to understand for nearly every webdesigner(also for those who are more designer than producer) and you do not have to think lot about design patterns, OOP and something like this. There is no need for a concept time, only programing.

OK, the dirty part. As i have already said, there is no concept and no structure in your code. You have to search for your scripts in the whole .fla file.

But if you ever have some stress like i have the last weeks you better thougt about a solution like this. The only difference between AS1 programing i have done years ago and today is the use of AS2 features.

Strongtyping

Look at Spielzone.at tommorow(Dec, 1.) for getting the result of this concept.