Been a while
28 04 2008Well its been a long time since I have posted so I thought I would do some updates. Two months ago, I bought the new Macbook Pro and I love it. It has been nearly two years since I last had a laptop. I dont know how I managed without one when going to work or elsewhere without it. For the past four months or so now, I have been working on a new game in using Flash 9 and ActionScript 3. The main objective of the development of this game was to make it as dynamic as possible.
To work toward achieving that goal, I have, for example, one function for creating all the lasers that can be fired. I pass around 12 different parameters to determain the color, size, speed, direction, etc for each laser created. The lasers themselves are being created just with code, so I have next to no actual assets outside the menu. I still have about another month or two before I actually finish it, but its coming along well. It has been quite a learning process throughout the whole thing. At first it was pretty slow with all the visual effects I have going on, but I kept on finding new ways to do everything to make it more efficient on the cpu. So I have seen it go from really slow, to really fast even on older machines. I’m quite proud of it so far.
