Comments on: A Flash Mini-Game

By: Scott Miller

Scott Miller — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:38:50 +0000

Phil, played it for about five minutes. Nice little game.

o I’d make the bounces (off the basket edges) higher to give you more of a chance to get it.

o New to have a special fruit dropped that earns you a miss. Perhaps, I’d make this special fruit one of the diagonally thrown ones.

o Several times I lost because my cursor left the screen, and was no longer controlling the baskets. Highly frustrating — not sure if this is fixable.

o After level two, start with three baskets. Catching in the top basket is worth the most points.

o I’d show fruit piling up in a basket, and when it’s full it leaves the screen and you earn even more points for a filled basket.

Just some quickie ideas.

By: Didier

Didier — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:37:43 +0000

I like the graphics!

By: Chuck Arellano

Chuck Arellano — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:31:50 +0000

Although I haven’t really tried it out myself, you might be interested in haXe ( http://haxe.org/ ), which I think you might be more comfortable with, because it’s more similar to C/C++ than Flash, yet it produces Flash output. For a working example, you might want to look at the Tile Studio demo by Mike Wiering ( http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/flash/Demo.html ).

By: Phil Steinmeyer

Phil Steinmeyer — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:40:02 +0000

Yeah - overall, I had to trim enough details (like the badges), and cut other corners, such that it feels a bit flat, as I said in my original post. I could probably add a lot more ’stuff’ to it with a couple days work.

For now anyways, I got a good sense of Flash (which I wanted), and since I probably wouldn’t use this as a true representation of the full game (because this is only one of the offshoot mini-games), I’m not sure it’s worth the extra effort.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:36:26 +0000

The control isn’t as fluid, and because you can mouse out of the active area, it becomes frustrating. Also, not having the badges makes doing some of the harder feats (like a perfect, no-bounce round) pointless.

Good for promo material though.

By: Kevin Bjorke

Kevin Bjorke — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:40:03 +0000

I like the bouncing as a PRIMARY FEATURE and wished I could get a bonus for it (and for catching bunches in the lower basket)

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:12:34 +0000

Kaboom!, modernized. I like it. I especially like that the coconuts can hit the edges of the basket and bounce - a subtle, nice touch.

Now all you need is to distribute Atari paddle controllers to every player.