Its been about a year since I started on rQuest and it’s come to my attention that I don’t have all the necessary resources to pull it off just yet. As I keep fleshing out the game / tools / platform, the feature list keeps growing so do the required resources ie: time and money.
So I’m pausing on the idea of doing a single player RPG (For now) – I will definitely be doing one sometime in the future, I’ve been wanting to make one for – oh too many years now.
But – I do want to revisit some of my older games and return to doing a couple of web based games. So over the next few months I’m going to play around with Flash. If anyone’s got any tips for me, or knows of any good resources let me know!
#1 by Erik Hogan on August 20, 2009 - 5:25 am
I’ve made multiple posts on changing direction recently, and will make another one soon! I hate being so fickle…
Sorry to hear about rQuest, but I’m looking forward to playing your flash games.
#2 by Matthew Gatland on August 22, 2009 - 1:22 am
There must be something in the water because I am also trying to change direction and learn new tools.
(I’m looking at using ActionScript 3 with free tools only – FlashDevelop and the Flex SDK.)
As for good resources, I am reading the ‘Avoider Game’ tutorial http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/2008/09/17/avoider-game-tutorial-1/ – It’s very basic but introduces some good practices and it’s easy to spot how ActionScript is different from Java.
#3 by Stephen Knightly on August 25, 2009 - 3:19 am
There’s a discussion about AS3 going on over at Playmaker.org.nz, with some links to some good tutorials.
http://www.playmaker.org.nz/mod/vanillaforum/vanilla/comments.php?DiscussionID=59&page=1#Item_0
Funnily enough I’ve been thinking of playing with Flash again too! Mostly for prototyping, but at least you know you can easily share and spread your prototypes.
#4 by Lennard Feddersen on May 6, 2010 - 3:23 pm
Hi Joshuah, I can’t find your email but would like to get in touch – can you send me a note?
Thanks,
Lennard