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[Dom2D]

I present to you, in its pre-programming state....



 

Anything Beats Everything is a game I'm making in Flash, in ActionScript 3.

I needed a small, simple game project to complete on my own. So I thought of this energetic game concept and made a non-playable prototype two nights ago, showing lots of colors and a variety of simple but colorful graphics.

Here's how ABE's played. You start with a certain time, say 30 seconds. Basic instructions on what to look for appear quickly as happy hardcore music starts playing. Then the screen fills up with items, one of which fits the description. Timer starts counting down.

(old interface)


If you click on the wrong object, you lose time. If you get the right item, you gain a bit of time. The goal is to survive as long as possible as the "levels" get harder. And by harder I mean more animated chaos, more items, smaller items, smaller differences, more craziness.

(old interface)

(old interface)


Hopefully I'll have things animated to the beat of the music and will achieve a fast-paced, hyper game of chaos and observation.

More news on that as soon as I can manage to learn enough ActionScript to code the randomization of the levels, the timer and the score counter.

So yeah, not much to show for now, you have to see it in motion... See further in the thread for more level examples.



I'm thinking of having a WIDE variety of items in there. For now I have those:
Bacon, bird, carrot, clown, birdman, mummy, death, flame, tomato, shovel, cake, RUNMAN, masks, leaf, cookie, skull, fishbones, nazi helmet, dollar bill, sandglass, cheese, alien, snowman, robot. But I plan on adding random stuff like Obama, Eiffel Towers, Lego Bricks, my head, planets, Yetis, Vampires, Hitlers, gorillas, nukes, coins, flags, ink stains, Hulks, rocketmen, pirates, pin-up ladies, baseball cards, etc.

I'm hoping to get a bunch of artists to participate once it's easy to add in new "levels". If you're ever interested to have, say, your RunMan in there, or your Spelunker, your Viking, or anything really, I'll keep you posted. 


Cheers!

[Inanimate]

I'm not bad at these! It's a nice simple game, and has lots of style.

[Zaid Crouch]

Nice and stylish, lotsa pretty colours!

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Looks especially like something my wife would love

[Inanimate]

Also, totally love that new highlighted idea!

[Dom2D]

Thanks guys.

As for the highlighted idea, I think it would be fairly easy for any artist to submit one or a few basic pieces, like a running animation (RunMan) or a Knight just dashing through the air... I was definitely gonna ask my artist friends first, to have a solid version to send to artists I'd want to see in the game.

Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself.
*opens Beginning Programming for Dummies book*

[Jason Bakker]

More news on that as soon as I can manage to
a) learn enough ActionScript to code the randomization of the levels, the timer and the score counter
b) find someone to tell me how to do it
c) find someone who can do it for me 

I vote for a) or b) - you can do it dom2D!

[Dom2D]

Updates:

• Half-way through "Beginning Programming" book
• Designed object-based program on paper
• Ordered ActionScript 3.0 book, found a bunch of tutorials too
• Installed FlashDevelop and Flixel, read a bit about those two
• Wrote guidelines for level design

So yeah! It might take a while, since I'm actually LEARNING programming as I'm making the game 

But I'm getting good feedback and have a few people on board for the collaborator designs!

[allen]

AH, just now saw this. Look's very cool. If you need any help on programming front I could help you out. This game would be quite easy for you to do by yourself, so it's a good starting point if you want to program in flash/flixel in the future (any reason why you decided to use flash?).

Really diggin' the style of it. Good luck 

[Dom2D]

I just came back from Ottawa's International Animation Festival, where I got to hear two Indiecade presentations and attend many more great talks from succesful animators. The whole weekend was really inspiring and motivating; I'm now 300% as pumped about making this game as I was on friday.

AH, just now saw this. Look's very cool. If you need any help on programming front I could help you out. This game would be quite easy for you to do by yourself, so it's a good starting point if you want to program in flash/flixel in the future (any reason why you decided to use flash?).

Thanks Allen, I'll be sure to bother every single time my program does not compile for some reason. 

As for "Why Flash?", I guess I want to create a game I really want to do and put it somewhere easy to access for all types of people, without the barrier of download or Windows only or whatever. 

[Dom2D]

A couple new levels, breakfast-related:





I'm hungry now.

[Gainsworthy]

I freaking love breakfast.

[mokesmoe]

It's the most important puzzle of the day!

[Dom2D]

[allen]

man I love your artwork.

hows the coding front going along?

[Dom2D]

Thanks I'm glad other people like breakfast. 
I'm reading about programming in general, doing tutorials in Actionscript and Flixel stuff. It's going kinda slowly, I'm hoping to get a lot done this weekend!