[DISC] What way would you do it ?

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I try to make my game fully variblised(don't even know if its a word)
What i mean by this is have a varible for everything which is loaded in the first frame.

me1 = 1;
me2 = 0;
me3 = 1;
me4 = 0;
me5 = 1;
me6 = 0;
me7 = 1;
me8 = 0;

I even add varibles that dont do anything until you change their varible to higher then 0. Just so that i can come in and rather then go through my functions i just change it their and customise my game through varibles.

I try to avoid placing any actions inside movieclips and on them apart from stop(); just for the matter of organisation and confusion so i know where all my code is. I avoid container clips for on enterframe things all my code is in functions and anything that need to be changed every frame i put in a master enterframe function which calls them.

Eg

Code:

---

function trace() {
  for(a = 0; a<= 50; a++) {
    trace("hello"+a);
  }
}

function trace2() {
  for(b = 0; b<= 50; b++) {
    trace("hello"+b);
  }
}

function trace() {
  for(c = 0; c<= 50; c++) {
    trace("hello"+c);
  }
}

---

then the master one

Code:

---

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
  trace();
  trace2();
  trace3();
}

---

An all this is on my actions frame which is a locked layer. This has its benifits but im not sure how effective the way i do it really is.

Another area im curious about is planning of a production.

What steps do you normally take. I know sometimes for clients i just do an inspiration peice when its a little job where i just make their game in one sitting and all ideas are moment ideas and no planning is involved. But for biggger jobs i do alot of planning.

But after planning comes development of the actual ideas for the game. Now i find working out where to start was a big problem for me but ive read into it and come up with a little planning thing that help's me alot in the planning or even the development stage.

The steps i go by are
1. - A text description of the game.
2. - Work out my assets
3. - Go into more detail on what my assets do.
4. - Do a breif sketch and write down what i want my graphics and sound for the asset.
5. - Work out the structure for my assets for they will be put together.
5.1 - Work out each propertie that will effect the asset
5.2 - Identify the user interactions with the asset.
5.3 - Identify the user interactions.

Thats pretty much how i do it what about everyone else?

"Ow and for record im talking about game assets in the above guide not my asstets :D"

chow

Ow and on that sound toggle thing. I agree with both of you cause sounds in games are essential. 50% of the film experience is made up of sound. Heard that today somewhere just really wanted to use it :D but you can get a game with that friggen enoying "boink!" sound. So toggle does comein handy.

Errrrrrrrrr "boink!" "boink!" "boink!" "boink!" "boink!"