Brandon and Joshua Games

Fruity Canon

It’s been about six months hasn’t it? I apologize, but we’ve been quite busy with other important matters.

Anyways, to celebrate our return we’ve made a small fast-paced game called Fruity Canon! For the first time the idea of a game was not made by Josh or myself. It was made by our third member, Jessica. Fruity Canon is a very simple game that shouldn’t take long to understand. Simply place the displayed fruit into the barrel to obtain points. Once the barrel is filled you can feed fruits to a monster.

When feeding the fruits, the barrel will move up and down the screen quickly. Simply left-click anywhere on the screen to stop the barrel and fire the fruits at the monster. Doing this correctly will score you a nice amount of points. We’ve placed a high score table in the game so you’ll know how you did.

Aerial Attack

New game released! This game is a classic arcade-like game. The goal of the game is to destroy the bombs falling from the sky. You start with 20 hp and you can buy more for $200. Make sure you don’t let the bombs fall to the ground or else you lose hp!

The game may seem easy at first, but every time you score a multiple of 5000, more bombs will start appearing… GOOD LUCK!

-Josh-

Farm Hazards

Yep, that’s right. The first real Flash Game we’ve made is finally available. It’s an RPG. To score points simply destroy enemies with the animals you buy. Enemies will get tougher and tougher as the game progresses, but that means that they will give more gold and points too! See how long you can last. You might want to take a look at the in-game instructions too for detailed help. Farm Hazards has three highscore tables. One for easy, normal and hard. Can you get the best?

I’ve been pretty busy with other stuff lately, but I’ve started up a few projects. That brings the total amount of games in progress right now to 4. I don’t want to display a whole bunch of news then cancel it, so I won’t display news on the two new projects I’ve started until I’m close to being finished. I’m not sure if I’ll abandon the Zelda fangame, but I don’t want to abandon Dragon Rush. I had good ideas for that game. Anyways, once I get a game finished I’ll put it up here for everyone to play.

I’ve been able to learn Actionscript 2 and 3 in a month. I’m still learning, but I know some stuff. If you’ve got the latest version of Flash definitely choose Actionscript 3. AS3 is much faster than the previous versions and it has more capabilities. There are some drawbacks however. A few of the functions that were great before have been replaced or deleted.

HitTest is a function that should not have been messed with. It has been replaced with an extremely complicated alternate. I’ve spent hours trying to learn how to use this function and still have not used it. It would be easier to use HitTestObject, but that doesn’t check for pixel collisions.

I tried seeing how many times you could use HitTestObject before it started lagging and I was really surprised. I used 33 FPS for this. 300 000 HitTestObject per second could be used without lagging on my 5-year-old computer! That really amazes me. If you’ve got a lot of collision detection to do don’t worry about it unless you’re using hundred thousands every second.