My first game (rubish)

[Super Adam]

This is my first ever game
It's a simple game where you have to shoot Kill (a charecter from my website)

Play here

[Osteel]

Yup I definitly put those angry faces in their place ... haha

Well my suggestion is to make a score system, maybe even a highscore system so that the players have something to strive towards

Also, try making it extremely easy at first, and as the player brings in the points slowly gets faster and multiple dudes come flying out

Good job on a first game

[Ostil]

Nice game with lots of potential =D

There are different things you could do to it to make it a lot more effective like Osteel said. Heres some ideas of my own...

-Randomize the order of the heads
-Have a point system (maybe different heads that give you 2 points, -1 points, etc.
-Making the head explode so that the user can't relick it when its going back down

Very good game, maybe try some of our suggestions or some of your own ideas to try to make it better =D

Keep up the work

-Ostil-

PS.
I did 'win' something, I won the honour of writing second in your thread! =D

[Super Adam]

Thanks guys for the responses

It was basically just an experiment to see if I could make a dead simple game using no actionscript whatsoever

Thanks guys

[The Helmsman]

Sorry buddy, but the gameplay is boring.
Try to use following appearence:
- divide game to levels
- add bonuses
- change environements
- add scores
- make some story which will explains on what is all about
- add instructions page
- create some intro (and don't forget a skip btn, dude )
Then submit your new, updated, fresh version here and everyone will be happy!!!!

[Super Adam]

Sorry buddy, but the gameplay is boring.
Try to use following appearence:
- divide game to levels
- add bonuses
- change environements
- add scores
- make some story which will explains on what is all about
- add instructions page
- create some intro (and don't forget a skip btn, dude )
Then submit your new, updated, fresh version here and everyone will be happy!!!!

Thats a bit of a list I'm only new at this.

[The Helmsman]

Thats a bit of a list I'm only new at this.

The last three suggestions from the list don't require any special knowledge or programming skills.

[Osteel]

Super Adam

You might be new at this flash game making (so am I haha), but thats the best part because we get to learn all these cool things by trial and error and by getting help here on the forums

So try each suggestion one at a time and learn how you can go about accomplishing them bug free and then you'll find you have what it takes to make a better game

If I think back to the first times I used flash back in highschool, I can honestly say Ive come a LONG way just from making a few simple simple games ... very good learning experience

Good luck

[j.manfogle]

Great Start! just make few upgrades and u got a GREAT Game!!

[Pugger]

Games don't need intros. I don't think I've ever seen an intro that adds anything to the game - maybe because I instantly hit that skip button.

Seems like a lot of work for something people are just going to skip. So I wouldn't worry about that bro.

Oh, by the way, yeah, not a bad start. A preloader would be nice, but must emit it is not easy for someone starting programming to program.

[Gorilla_Dude]

lol great game, it was fun.

[Osteel]

Pugger

Yea I agree with you that games really arnt good with an intro unless its absolute nessessary

Like you I too skip the intros when I play small games as I know I wont be playing it long and so dont take the time

[Ostil]

Well, if you want an intro that must be watched in order to understand the game, just make it short and sweet...and no skip button :P

-Ostil-

[jesserules]

eh, i don't really like it.
but i didn't like the whole concept of the website, either. it seemed like you were trying too hard to seem like a strange parody.

[Joshman_123]

Hey, this is on topic so don't flame me... how do you do random things using AS? I know a bit about AS but I know nothing about randomness. What do you type to make something random?

[mr_malee]

Hey, this is on topic so don't flame me... how do you do random things using AS? I know a bit about AS but I know nothing about randomness. What do you type to make something random?

//there are two way's i know of.
//whole number
var randomNumber = random(10) //returns a random number between 0-9
//decimal
var randomNumber = Math.random() //returns a decimal ie. .1, .2, .3, .4, .5 ...

[Joshman_123]

OK, I just had my own turn at randomness and this is what I came up with. I'd appreciate it if someone inspected the file and informed me of better ways of going about it.

To the starter of this thread: You can have a look at it too, you might learn something.