Duane Adventures

Progress over the last 5 weeks....

Week 1

In week one we got together and discussed the plans for the game, the flash introduction and how the menu system would look. We also discussed what jobs people were going to do in the up and coming weeks. My job was to be the game and sprite maker, Emily's was to do the concept art and flash introduction, Arjun is making the credits and some background images from the game and Guy did the presentation and and is going to do the flash menu.

Week 2

In week two i worked out how to load application files from flash. At first i had some problems figuring out how to attach this to a button, it turns out i was using the wrong actionscript. This will help us load our game from the flash menu system as well as any other application we wish to load.

Week 3

In week 3 we discussed our plans for the presentation and planned out what sections people were going to talk about. Guy made the slides for the presentation, I got some art work from Emily to be turned into sprites. We assigned Joel to make the music for each of the four levels. We also added an extra bit into out project which would be and information section with pictures, this section will also be make in flash.

I started making some cloud sprites, but i did not like them as they were rough and i did not know what size the cloud where going to be yet.

Week 4

This week was our presentation day, unfortunately Guy got the chicken pox. That left me, Emily, Arjun and Joel to do the presentation. The presentation went well, we got a bit of constructive criticism and have now have changed the jungle level to the woodland level, and the Fire(larva) level to iron ore. This fits in with the Sheffield steel industry and the museums better.

I made the turtle and the cloud sprite, i also make a practice game to test out the sprites as well as test and figure out how to program the game.

Week 5

This week i made the first prototype of the actual game, i got the animations of the turtle working. Walking left and right. I got a path working which makes one of the cloud objects move horizontally, unfortunately when the turtle attempts jump onto the cloud, they both stop. I need to work a bit more on the collision detection for this.