Game challenge #8 Final Entries!

Here are the entries of FlashKit's 8th game challenge!

PhobiK
Click Here

Pazil
Click Here

Jonathanasdf
Click Here (requires Flash Player 10)

XPloder
Click Here

Pseudobot
Click Here [swf]
Source [F8]




So now we can start voting! The categories are:
•Best graphics/eye candy
•Most fun game
•Most original game
•All around goodness
•Best use of theme [apocalypse]

and the special one, the one who wins most categories [and wins the comp]:
•Category winner

NOTE: Can't vote for yourself in any of the categories!

Now start voting! :)
-Pseudo

EDIT: Voting ended!

====== RESULTS ======
•Best Graphics/eye candy
1st: Pseudobot
Runner's up: Xploder

•Most fun game
1st: Pazil
Runner's up: Jonathanasdf

•Most original game
1st: Xploder
Runner's up: PhobiK

•All around goodness
1st: Pazil
Runner's up: Pseudobot

•Best use of theme [apocalypse]
1st: Pazil
Runner's up: Psedobot & Jonathanasdf [tie]

This means our category winner is...
1st: Pazil [6 points]
Runner's up: Pseudobot [4 Points]
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The points where archived like this:
1st place in a category: 2 points.
Runner's up in a category: 1 point
:)


======= The Winner!! ========
So now we have declared the winner: PAZIL
Congratulations Pazil! :) You will now be awarded with this...
...Biting Pear
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...OL_WUT_IRL.jpg
Just make sure it dosen't eat you first...
:p

•Best graphics/eye candy - XPloder
•Most fun game - Pazil
•Most original game -Phobik
•All around goodness -pseudobot
•Best use of theme [apocalypse] -Pseudobot

Just a note, not many people will play the games if they need to download them explicitly. Best if you post them online.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/jona...e-lone-missile

• Best Graphics - Pseudobot
• Most fun - Phobik
• Most original - Xploder
• All round goodness - Xploder
• Best use of theme - Jonathanasdf

Thanks for pointing that out UnknownGuy. I have uploaded all the games (except for Xploder's which is already online) so everyone can access them easily, please if someone doesn't want me to, tell me and I'll remove it. Also, if you want them to be viewed as html and not swf please give me the file dimensions.

Here are the links:
Pazil: http://www.giddelcreations.com/games/FKCompGame.swf
Jonathanasdf: http://www.giddelcreations.com/games/shooter.swf
Xploder (which was already up): http://devkiwi.com/archives/35
Pseudobot: http://www.giddelcreations.com/games/LHC%20Defender.swf
PhobiK: http://www.giddelcreations.com/games...pse_jelly.html

And now the votes:

•Best graphics/eye candy: Pseudobot
•Most fun game: Jonathanasdf
•Most original game: Xploder
•All around goodness: Pazil
•Best use of theme [apocalypse]: Pseudobot

Hey PhobiK, you got my wrong version up there! Download the one pseudobot put up, and put that up. Also, could you please make mine HTML, so the dimensions are correct? (600x600). Otherwise it just looks like crap...

And thanks for hosting them! I was actually about to start looking for some good free hosting sites! (I really REALLY need to get mine up soon...)

P.

Links Updated.
Thanks PhobiK!! :)
Anyway:
•Best graphics/eye candy: Xploder
•Most fun game: Jonathanasdf
•Most original game: Xploder
•All around goodness: Pazil
•Best use of theme [apocalypse]: Jonathanasdf
:)

Oh dear...now phobik can't download the correct version...unless you can search through the other thread and find my latest version. It's important, since there's updated graphics and sound, which in the end is very important for my game...

P.

Link for Pazil's better version:
http://board.flashkit.com/board/atta...1&d=1229910521

Done Pazil :) also here's the html link for your game:

http://www.giddelcreations.com/games/FKCompGame.html

Oky! Thanks!

Just...gosh am I picky tonight...pseudobot, can you link the the .html, not the .swf directly please? :)

Thanks

P.

BTW, I think after all the links are sorted out that a mod should delete all non-voting posts...

•Best graphics/eye candy: Pseudobot
•Most fun game: Jonathanasdf
•Most original game: Phobik
•All around goodness: Pseudobot
•Best use of theme [apocalypse]: Pazil

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Pazil

Oky! Thanks!

Just...gosh am I picky tonight...pseudobot, can you link the the .html, not the .swf directly please? :)

Thanks

P.

BTW, I think after all the links are sorted out that a mod should delete all non-voting posts...

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Linked the html. Thanks again PhobiK!! :D
But I think that a mod shouldn't delete the none voting posts, I really don't see anything wrong with them.

You're welcome :)

* Best Graphics - pseudobot
* Most fun - Pazil
* Most original - Xploder
* All round goodness - Pazil
* Best use of theme - Pazil
low quality I shoulda finished mine, all this games are the same type of shoot'em up the easiest type. I understand it's 72 hours but couldn't you come with something cooler, overall nice comp, I choose pazil as the winner.

Apologies to Jonathonsdf - I don't have Player10, and I'm not chancing the stuff I need to do today by downloading it.

So...

•Best graphics/eye candy
Phobik/Pseudobot
•Most fun game
Pazil (I determined this by the fact I played this game for the longest.)
•Most original game
Xploder
•All around goodness
Phobik/Pazil
•Best use of theme [apocalypse]
Pazil

Any chance you can share your .fla files? =) good way for new game makers to learn

Since I noticed last comp, that the only feedback you would get, is if you were or weren't at the top of a category is a bit lacking, I would like to give you each some feedback to build upon.

Phobik
Your game just wouldn't work. The page loads, but the Flash menu says "Movie not loaded". Given you're previous work, I was curious what you had come up with so I even gave it a reboot. In my lazy book, that's a lot for a flash game ;) Still no dice.

Pazil
The game lacks visual feedback. Are the zombies attacking? Is a zombie almost dead (yeah, yeah, I know)? Is a barrier holding or broken? Also a Very basic node system could have helped the zombies navigate the house. Just let them first go straight to a barrier and then towards te player.

A very solid shooter. A faster build-up of enemies would've helped the suspense and adrenaline levels to suck people in early game.

Jonathanasdf
The startbutton in the original one doesn't work :confused:

Nice scrolling shooter. Only one of everything, so you might want to add some variation. Not much to say as it's pretty solid.

XPloder
Very original gameplay. It must have some great coding, but it's still a bit buggy. It doesn't always create objects and it is hard do determine what the effect will be if it actually does create the object. This makes the game very hard.

Too bad for the buggyness, I really would to like to see this when it's finished. Also very novel implementation of the genre and theme.

Pseudobot

Nice graphics. Lots of happening onscreen to get that rush every shooter should have. Powerups and scoring goodness! Sometimes enemies spawn on top of the player.

It feels very much like a complete game. It only misses that polish, which is perfectly understandable given the timelimit. The spawning and the quick ramping up of enemies makes the game very hard. If it were a bit easier I might have played a while longer.

Voting
Note that I couldn't get to see Phobiks entry, so my voting could be considered a system-missing

Best Graphics - Pseudobot
Most fun - Pazil (Pseudobot and Jonathanasdf are very close runners-up)
Most original - XPloder
All round goodness - Pseudobot
Best use of theme - XPloder

@TOdorous : I realize that...My next step was adding barrier animations so you can see if it's broken, instead of walking over to it and checking. Also, the zombies do go to the barriers first, IF it's not broken down. I admit, that then, the AI sucks, since if their barrier's broken, then they just follow the player. A node system will be next (Actually, I'm redesigning the whole game...
(Plus, my game isn't even that solid of a shooter)

@M4R7IN : Sure! I'll just clean up the library, and add comments!

Im open-sourcing my project. See attache file.
Hope some othre contestants are doing this aswell.
:)

@pseudobot, yep. I'm also going to open-source it on the weekend.
Its just that the code is a mess right now, and I need to fix some bugs.
And maybe add some comments??!

GRRR...I was about to upload my project, when it ran into problems, and now I lost my whole library!!! The only thing I have left is just the code, which actually isn't too bad, since I can just redraw the map, the zombies, the player, etc...even the guns!!! But for my open-source version I'll make a nicer map, maybe upgrade the AI, and add more guns.

P.

Ok.

I finally went and redrew all my library symbols, and it now works again. I have 4 guns, I added a better shotgun. Now, the bullet strength also changes with each new gun. The level is a bit different, and the zombies and the player look different, but I think they look a lot better. Plus there will be a lot more variety among the zombies (I just copied and paste my body drawings from my old Paintball Xtreme game...)

P.

EDIT:
There are 2 movieclips that everyone should add to my game engine.
---One, is an animation of blood spattering. Make sure that the spatter starts from 0,0 MC local coord.'s, and that it is going to the left (One blood drop would start at 0,0, then move to the left). You should give this symbol the linkage ID of "blood". Remember to delete any instances that are already on stage. And there you have the blood MC that is attached whenever a zombie is hit by a bullet.
---The other is any coloured bar (originally red) with the width of 100px. The height doesn't really matter, but looks best if it's around 20 or so. For this one, you'll need to drag it onto the stage (Not the world MC, but a layer somewhere above world MC), and put it beside the kills dynamic text box. Give the bar the instance name of "hbar"! This is the health bar, to who's _xscale I reference to near the top of the onEnterFrame function.

If anyone needs any help, just give me a shout!

Hey, when's the next game challenge going to be?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by TOdorus

Phobik
Your game just wouldn't work. The page loads, but the Flash menu says "Movie not loaded". Given you're previous work, I was curious what you had come up with so I even gave it a reboot. In my lazy book, that's a lot for a flash game ;) Still no dice.

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So bad it didn't load :( Though, thanks for trying to play it and for taking the time to review the games :)

Thanks for sharing, never knew you could write

Code:

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                delete onMouseUp;
                delete onEnterFrame;

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that would have saved me so much trouble >_<

No problemo!

@Woad : The next comp. should be around February. It's going to be a team comp., so with partners, for a week! Hopefully you'll be joining too?

And thank-you TOdorous for writing those review also! It did help a lot!

P.

EDIT: Another fix for my Source File release. You need to make an animation of 2 feet walking to the right, and put them in the player MC, in a layer under the body, and give it an instance name of "legs". These are the legs that you can see under the player in the original version. Nothing too important...

Yeah I'll join if I can remember it, I'll write it down some place, thanks.
Nice game btw.

Ok, more info. Comps will start either [you decide] on tyhe 1st of the month, or on the first weekend in the month. So in february, it would either start on the 1st, or on february 3rd.

Results Posted in 1st post!!

Congrats Pazil! All games were awesome games, even with the time constraint. Thanks to Pseudobot for organizing it. I can't wait for the next one. Working in teams should be fun.

Ahahaha! Can't wait to get my teeth into that pear! Love it!

Everyone elses game's were really good...in fact, I don't really feel right winning this, since I felt that everyone else put in so much more work...
Well, thanks anyways guys! And I can't wait for the next competition! Should be interesting to see how the team thing comes along!

All your games were great!
Thanks again!

P.

Hey, here's the source to Notepad War http://devkiwi.com/flash/NotepadWar.zip
Enjoy!