Today we have received the brief for our final project for Programming and flash for College.
So far we have been creating little games for flash to understand the program and programming. First we created an Avoider Game. This was a small step by step tutorial showing us how to create an enemy and how to place them in the game, an avatar and how to control it. We learnt how to create the enemies to appear randomly on the screen, the game over screens and start screen, creating buttons and also a score. After we created the Avoider game we learnt how to create a shooter using the Kongregate Shootorial. I managed to get to tutorial 5 before we was given our brief.
The brief was given to us today to create a:
2D Flash Game using Flash
It's an Arcade Shooter
Has to be original with 1 level or an area of the game. Must be about 4 minutes of play
Has a story
Has replay function
Has music and sound effect
Easy controls
Suitable for all ages and gender
The game must be finished by the 4th May 2011. At first it sounds like a long way away, but considering I only have four hours a week in class, it will go quickly and I know I will have to use outside class time. Working with programming so far was easy, but that was using step-by-step tutorials.
I have been thinking about the ideas and have come up with a few ideas, but I'm not sure. I'm mostly going to create a game around my other development, Unit 73 HCI Fenrir:Quest for Peace. But so far, I'm not sure how to create it into a shooter. So far the only idea is maybe a little tournament game. Like a jousting game, where the player has to tap to pick up speed before holding the button to keep the player on his horse. Or maybe a little archery contest like bowman, but not like bowman. But then again, when I heard it was a shooter, I thought of a crossbow shooter. The player runs across the screen and fires a crossbow. Only rough ideas at the moment.
