Friday, October 30, 2009

high score

I've become so baffled with my latest hurdle, the score bar, that I created an account and posted my troubles on Kirupa. click to see thread


Thursday, October 29, 2009

updates/improvements



KitRun now has a chicken symbol that unloads when you catch it and adds numbers to your score. Next I want to program it so it wanders left and right and moves away from you if you get too close.
The main sprite also jumps and stops left as it should, and doesnt jump as high and moves a little faster.

Next step is a breathtaking background, followed by removing the white from the bit maps. Then I'll be animating the chicken and adding other eatable sprites, and then putting level two together. Which should go pretty fast as it will just be dragging and dropping :)


Sunday, October 25, 2009

movin right along and feeln fancy free

kit run has progressed slightly. to witness these wonders, go to the previous post "background troubles", which is now replaced with a new swf. It was an accident, I'm actually sad I replaced the old one- in the the future I'm going to try and show all of the progressive updates to the file.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

floating platforms


complete with animated propeller


the game design of KitRun has been changing a bit in the hopes that it can progress faster. (you know, for grades and all the not so artistic shit) . The ground is going to be platform based- more like Super Mario as opposed to something like Dino-Run, which has a crazy dynamic ground that I would never be able to figure out gravity for. Because KitRun is going to be about finding items within a time limit, platforms are a better idea anyway. For example! A tree! with platforms instead of branches that you jump from one to the next to get the chicken on the top branch. Theres a terrible but admittedly helpful tutorial for this added to the research box.

My next update will hopefully be a functional terrain in this style. there may even be a chicken so stay vigilant.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

chicken

kit run now has a chicken. Of all the things to catch in the game, the chicken gets you the most points. Hurray!



Monday, October 12, 2009

background troubles



anyone know how to edit the white out of the bit maps?

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Project Goals and updates ART 450


at the end of the term I would like Kit Run to have an entirely functional action script. Though the game will likely be incomplete as far as length and embellishments are concerned, the goal for now is to have a mobile sprite, functional "prey" sprites (chickens, mice, birds) that slowly fill up a bar on collisions, a variable background with functional gravity, a working time limit, and a functional completion scene when the "prey" bar is full.

current work:
1) I need to rewrite the jump action script
2) create the prey sprites
3) get the main sprite to move left properly