Where gamers grow… Somehow
While working on my upcoming game, Bounce, I have faced difficulties, challenges and problems - Some bit of code I wrote doesn’t work how I wanted it, the new graphics don’t work together, etc. etc. But the hardest thing I have attempted so far has been making a menu.
Back in the day I was addicted to the game tanks. So a little while ago I decided to have a go at making a tanks clone. Since it has now been a very long time since I worked on it and all it’s doing is collecting dust, I’ve decided to post the .fla here for download.
If you’ve written a great tutorial, that’s awesome. But how are you going to get it out there, and get people to visit it? The answer? Submit it to as many tutorial sites as you can, and cruise along for the ride.
Bounce is a new game that I will be posting progress reports about. All I can say right now is that it will be a physics based platform(ish) game with a built-in level editor.
Some sketches I have done:
I’ve started work on the game and have built a basic engine and the level editor. More updates to come.
After three days of being online, floating shooter hasn’t done aswell as I thought it would have.
This isn’t as much as I had hoped for, by a long shot. But, still, this is ok. The game recieved reviews from players which help me in what I need to implement in the next game that I make. My name is out there and people are looking out for my next game.
As well as mochiads I have earned $0.20 from Kongregate’s ad sharing program. Not much for sure, but better than nothing.
Yesterday I made a new game. The game took less than a day to complete and is called Floating Shooter.
I wanted to see how well I could monetize a Flash game that I had made in less than a day.
I submitted it to Newgrounds, Kongregate and Addicting Games to mixed reviews. Most said the game needed work, which is fair enough considering the time spent making it, but there were no negative reviews.
At the time of writing this, around 10 hours after I submitted the game, the game has had 443 ad impressions and has made $0.27 with mochiads.
Getting all these reviews was really helpful to me and I’ll make some drastic changes to the game based on them.
Link: Play the game.
As a bit of a treat, I’m going to show you how to make particle “explosions” that will come in handy in games, visulisations or other projects.
Here is what we’ll be making: (click to create an explosion.)
Download .zip source files here (6.83KB)
First of all, create a new Flash document. The width and height you choose doesn’t really matter.
Say hello to the newest residents of our game, the Citizens.
Protect these guys with your life. Once you run out of citizens, your game is over.
The features of these guys:
Screenshots:
These little green balls are the citizens of the burning town
This little fellah is really hot
Link: Play the game
The plan for gamersgarden is to make it a user-driven Flash games website. Users will have the chance to submit and vote on games, therefore increasing the size of our Flash-game library. Competitions will be run, forums opened and games played.
The site will be written by Trevor and I, mostly in PHP. The site will hopefully be completed by February 08 :).
The first game Gamersgarden will be producing will be a game called fire fire fire fire. The game involves putting out fires, strangely enough. Click and hold the mouse to release water which will put out the fires.
Some features the game will include:
The game is still in beta mode so there’s still a lot of work to do.
Screenshots:
Put out fires with your mouse
These little round firemen shoot the fires
Link: Play the game