drak68's messages

Its the truth. I’ve been adding more and more stuff and it will come out this summer as I will have more time to fiddle with it. Right now I’m deep into my studies and I can’t really work on it.

You should make 3 vars. One for each button. When a button is pressed, the var goes to, I dunno, 50-60. Then on an Enter Frame listener that var keeps going down if its over 0. ( if(var>0){ var—; } ) Then when you click the button, it checks its var. If its not 0, nothing happens. You could also put a text box on each button that shows its respective var value divided by the framerate you set for you flash game so it shows in seconds (divided by 24 for example). Using Math.round(var) helps to make sure it doesn’t shows decimals as well.

I hope this all makes sense :P

You have no idea how I’d love to put all these things on my game. The problem is, I’m very limited in my programmation knowledge as well as in my drawing skills. Also I have nobody to help me out in creating this game. I’m afraid I can’t really go any faster than that, and there probably wont be a quarter of all these features when the game comes out sadly…

I will keep working on it though, and it may reach that degree of awesomeness one day!

The game itself is pretty artistic I think. The concept isn’t bad at all but you game needs a little work. As some people said as well, you game lacks challenge, but challenge isn’t everything. You need to find a way to make your game more challenging without making it frustrating. Right now the obvious problem is that some shades are almost the same, making it very frustrating to start over just because you thought that shade was darker than the other.

Also, your game lacks a bit of professionalism. The plain sky blue background as well as the cartoonish clouds don’t reflect the true potential of your game. You need to change your background into some sort of soft gradient, as well as some clouds around maybe to make the background a bit more complex than it is, but not too much as the game is pretty “zen” right now. The clouds definitely needs a lot more complexity. Right now they would fit for some kind of cartoon game, but your game focuses on complex art. Your design must fit with what your game proposes.

You should check the “allow smoothing” option of your image files in your library (if you are using Adobe Flash CS of course) as it will remove the current grungy look. You should also make the images black and white or partially hide them until you remove ALL of the clouds because you can already see what picture it is before you’re finished.

Other than that, I like how the game is explained to the player as you go through it, its something I can’t really do with my current game. I also like the fact that you show the art specs after you’re done with the clouds, making the game a bit more “educative” in some way.

Alright, I’ve said enough. You don’t actually need to read the whole thing :P

Nice game you got there though. It kept me hooked until the end, which is a good thing.

Drak,
that was some great feedback and even better advice. thanks alot man, i wasn’t expecting such a great response from everyone! i’ll definitely take everything you said into consideration. as noob-ish as this must sound, i’ve never done “allow smoothing” before and i’ll try it immediately! after this feedback, i hope you don’t mind if i message you before my next game is released to get some pointers!
thanks alot man, i really can’t thank you enough.