2D Computer Gaming

2008-05-08T17:29:00.000-07:00

Final Project

2008-05-08T17:28:00.000-07:00

For the final project I decided to draw another character in detail because I enjoyed making my first character. I chose to make a bunny and since I like to dance so much I made a couple dance moves for him also. The main one is a “spin move”, and he also does an arabesque (ballet). The environment would be a ballet studio, showing the floor and the bar.

I would like to have objects that are moving back and forth leading to the top of the bar. I am not sure what I would like to use for the objects yet, but at the top of the bar there will be a goal to reach, probably a trophy. The character will jump from object to object eventually reaching the top; along the way you will be picking up the letters D, A, N, C & E to spell out dance.

Wafaa Bilal

2008-04-29T06:59:00.000-07:00

I am kind of torn on the issue of Wafaa Bilal's exhibition closing; since there is so much opposition to it being closed, I am assuming that he didn't mean to hint at terrorism in any way, but I guess I just don't understand the concept of the work. It is called "The Night of Bush Capturing", and even though many are opposed to the way that Bush is running the country (including myself), I still don't see how its okay to make a game about capturing our president. However, his other piece of art that I heard about sounded very creative and intriguing, where he allowed thousands to shoot at him with a paintbull gun for a significant amount of days, weeks, or whichever it was. The way he described it was that he put himself in a similar situation to those in Iraq or at war, and he must have learned a lot from that experience.

Project 2: Egg Craze Platform Game

2008-04-29T06:44:00.000-07:00

Photos from the finished game

Project 2: Side Scrolling Platform Game

2008-04-29T06:37:00.000-07:00

For the Side Scrolling game, I wanted to use my original dinosaur character that I created. Since we made gestures in Exercise 2, that was all set and I had a working movie clip of all the Dino's actions. The next step was the concept, which my friend helped me come up with. I decided to make a game where my main character was the "good guy" and he was collecting all the baby dinosaur eggs that the T-Rex had stolen. The T-Rex is the main enemy in the game, and there is also a "bad egg" that is not colorful like the others, you will "die" if you touch either of them. However, you can defend yourself against the T-Rex by jumping on top of him. You must collect all of the eggs to advance to the next level and beat the game, where you save one of the babies.

Project 1: The Joys of Syracuse

2008-04-29T06:20:00.000-07:00

For Project 1, I decided to make a game showcasing some of the worst aspects of attending Syracuse University. Everybody knows tuition is ridiculous, the weather is bi-polar and our football team sucks. Those were the main things I decided to use. I also have myself throwing money at them, these are some pictures from the game itself.

Paintball

2008-04-08T00:29:00.000-07:00

For the 'shooter' assignment in Exercise 3 I was trying to figure out what to draw that shoots things besides a regular gun, and paintball came to mind. I tried to make a forest environment and have the paintball gun shoot at people that appeared randomly on the stage. I wanted to have it shoot random colored paintballs, but I wasn't sure how to do that so it just shoots blue right now.

Exercise 3: Cars, Trigonometry & Physics

2008-04-08T00:11:00.000-07:00

A few stills of the 3 car assignments done for exercise 3

Character Gestures

2008-04-07T23:24:00.000-07:00

Above are a few pictures from my character gestures. I made a movie clip for the dinosaur walking left and right, ducking, jumping, and 'using magic'. Since the dinosaur came out cute and innocent looking, I decided to have him shoot out sparkles of magic instead of fire or something else.

Sprite Sheet

2008-02-05T07:05:00.000-08:00

I am still not exactly sure what the concept of my first game will be, but I liked the game 'Spyro the dragon' when I was younger & even though it wasn't a flash game I decided to do something similar. Instead of a dragon I created a baby dinosaur and this is the basic model & walk cycle for him.

Exercise 1A- Bitmap to Vector

2008-01-31T08:11:00.000-08:00

Terminology & Games

2008-01-22T04:38:00.000-08:00

I thought the reading from 'Macromedia Flash MX Game Design...' was a good introductory reading for this class. Although some of the information may have been familiar from playing games ourselves, some of it was new also. It was nice to have a list of general terms to read and refer to; for example I keep hearing about Algorithms, but couldn't really tell you what they were until now. The only thing about the reading is that I believe it deals with an older version of Flash, so maybe the information has changed since then and needs to be updated. Looking at some games, you can see what is reflected in the reading. A lot of Flash games will deal with 2D gaming, from a 'side' view. There are thousands of games online that are easily accessible to the public, I found a lot of games that I have never heard of before, but also came across familiar ones from last week's class such as 'Super Crazy Guitarman Maniac Deluxe 2'.