THE FUTURE OF FLASH 5 GAMING !!!

http://www.pose.ch/gen_trap_demo.zip

It's just an early demonstration of the Action-RPG: GEN-TRAP

There are three rooms at the moment (first room with objects to explore). To go to the second room (right side door) you need the key (on the bed). Third room is open (left side)

-Arrow keys to move character
-Space to shoot
-Space and arrow keys (left & right) to move gun
-Enter to look at objects and open doors

There's lot of collision detection in it. The game engine is fully object orientated (new room in about five minutes if you take all objects from the library)

There are some cameras following you.


Every good idea for the story or something else are welcome!

http://www.pose.ch/gen_trap_demo.sit

This is ****ing cool! It's like Resident Evil! I love it! Hats off man! How long did this take?

... about four working days. I hope I can finish the hole game till new year. There's a lot of machines, lab utilitys, death peoples, movies ... to design and a lot of text content.

The game engine and graphic style is one thing, a great story is the other.

It's the first console game style thing I do and you know, on games like Resident Evil or Parasite Eve, many many peoples are working lots of months.

But with Flash 5 you can do games that come nearer then ever to this "biggnes".

Very cool man! Best of luck! You're going to be a star!

Great job!!
This is really pro stuff. The small file size is almost unbelievable. Works and moves fast and well.
Cheers,

yeah. really cool. i couldn't figure out how to pick up the key, though. it's probably becuase i'm dumb, and don't read german to boot. :)

keep us updated on this one. i'm very interested to see it evolve.

flash 5 actionscript (and the fact that it's so much easier to manage with the new editor) is soo much better than flash 4. it's really starting to evolve into a very useful development environment, and it shows in projects like this.

sal

Anybody else with the key problem? A friend has the same problem, but I tested the file on the same hardware and It's running well.

Maybe close the thing and open it again :) (on windows machines)

ROCK SOLID !!! No more words

Key problem>? I never picked up much - just walked around

VERY VERY COOL. I had no key problem. Your post explained it all, Just walk over to the bed and press enter.

Need something to kill, must make enemies pay for something...hehe

All rooms of level U1 are ready to walk thrue and the map function is running, too.


PC : http://www.pose.ch/gen_trap_demo2.zip

MAC : http://www.pose.ch/gen_trap_demo2.sit

That’s cool, keep up the good work!

Hi Subway,
http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net4/0000007.gif tiles, tiles, tiles with a smooth transition. Very very cool Sub.
Mad_sci

PS question: how do you adjust the screen coord down to a map coordinates ?:D

mad_sci

[Edited by Mad-Sci on 10-13-2000 at 01:48 PM]

I just know from the "room-object" which room is on the screen.

The "cursor point" on the map is now just on the middlepoint of this room.

The big thing behind the game, are the collision objects. They are at every time on the stage. That means that you can go thrue all the rooms, reading some texts, picking some objects ... and when you are back in the first room, the textpositions and the pickup objects are still the same, without a function to save this things when you go out of a room and with the propertie _visible = false; the actions don't slow down (an other technic with the graphics for to have a fast gameplay)

In the first room (U1-2) are 15 collision objects, an shape for the "room-bounds", a following camera and the person controll-object.

I'm very happy with the start of the project, the engine can easely handle this actual 50 rooms.

i tried it again today, and could pick up the key perfectly. it doesn't sound like you've changed anything, so you've got a little problem.

on the functionality front, the movement speed is good when you're exploring, but too slow if you know where you're going. add a 'run' modifier key or some other way to move faster when you want to.

after checking out the other rooms, i'm even more impressed. really really cool stuff.

sal

SUB, did you use the build in hitTest() or you compare the hero coord. with a preset map.

1. Good idea! Run function is on the way ...

2. I use a lot of hitTest with some extra code to handle the different objects. (Especially to make it very easy to create new elements, just by drag and drop and set some variables)

Sub the problem which I had is that when using hitTest() there is some overlap between the hero and the object, for example when moving with step of 5px and 10px how do you handle this?
ms

I have 12 points around the man, each point is looking for a collision.

Some extra programming do things like evade if you walk in an object at the side of you (You can test this with the chair in room U1-2)

now if only I could pick up that darned key. :) ~Jer~

PC : http://www.pose.ch/gen_trap_demo3.zip
MAC : http://www.pose.ch/gen_trap_demo3.sit


Run function (shift and arrow keys) is now implemented and some new graphics are ready to explore.

what are you using to put the flash file in an exe. file? ~Jer~

FILE -> MAKE PROJECTOR

Simple hehh!

Big Ol DUH@me :) Thanks for the tip. ~Jer~

PC : http://www.pose.ch/gen_trap_demo4.zip
MAC : http://www.pose.ch/gen_trap_demo4.sit

NEW graphics to explore!

Hi Subway,
Sugestion: ammo for the gun.
How are you planning to deal with the file size. It is 400kb at this level more graphs and pickup items, baddyes here and there it might go up to 1Mb ?

Mad_sci

At the moment I'm doing all the graphic things. Later I implement the inventory things like keys, ammo, guns, health utilitys ...

What you see in this file is the second level and the filesize goes to 1MB, but I load it when you play the intro level (max. 250k / >10 min to play)

Nice game subway, very cool, very fast too and looks nice.

Not sure about the future of flash 5 gaming bit though, i think that will be 3d!??!

my two cents!

Keep up the good work!
Regards FlashGuru

I don`t think 3d is the future of flash at the moment
cause it`s still to slowly.
Have a look at http://www.coin-op-city.com/main.htm
And you will see what I mean.

I must admit I was very impressed with that coin-op website - I agree that the flash 3d is too slow (at the moment) but they are certainly heading in the right direction!

Well done that man!

You have to be clever to make it not slow then, thats why it is the future of flash cos as soon as someone comes up with a way of creating 3d at a decent speed it will all be 3d!

oh my GOD that coin-op website is amazing !!!

i wonder how come i've never run across it before.

it makes me want to hang up my laptop and go back to school :)

I think the increasing speed of both computers and the internet will do the rest...

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Originally posted by Subway
I don`t think 3d is the future of flash at the moment
cause it`s still to slowly.
Have a look at http://www.coin-op-city.com/main.htm
And you will see what I mean.

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agreed. if you want real streaming true 3d games then check
out what http://www.wildtangent.com are doing w/direct3d/java and javascripting. very cool. although your
target audience is going to be only people who have 3d
cards and are running an os that uses direct3d (win95/98/ME). although some of their games will run in
software mode.

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3D is a great thing (I'm really waiting for MGS2 for the PS2), but I don't play this "old technologie" like 3D games, cause there are much better things to do (or to play)

I think the most essential part of a Flash 5 game is story, great graphics and big fun factor.

If you want to fascinate people you don't need 3D (my opinion)

That was INSANE!

I understand that some of the object were made by a 3d engine, but most weren't. This is some AMAZING manipulation of 3d objects.

This IS the future.


KUDOS to the developers. This site deserves some special attention.

-Dave

Subway , absolutely right. Even a simple click and destroy game is charming dont you agree....?
Mad_sci