Today, I am happy to announce
that my Interactive Programming project for this semester is finished! The last
of the programming is complete, and all the glitches have been dealt with.
Charlie is now capable of walking left and right depending on which buttons the
user presses, and he can jump when the user presses the up directional button. The
character is now unable to walk outside of the movement zone and can no longer
walk beyond the edges of the forest. He interacts with two objects - a bunch of
cables, which causes a bird to appear, and a colour-changing mushroom - and he breathes
and tilts his head when he’s idle.
The main issues I faced in the
past two weeks have been to do with program failures, absurdly large files, and
extreme lag. These were largely the result of importing illustrator files into
Flash CC, which created thousands of movieclip layers. The best solution I
found to this problem was sacrificing vector graphics, and replacing them with flattened
PNGs.
This project has certainly been challenging, but nonetheless I had a lot of fun with it. I learned a lot from the process of completing it, and I’d like to create something similar with a new character in a new environment.
Click here to download the program and use the directional buttons on your keyboard to try it out for yourself.
If the link above doesn't work, try this: http://www.penandpixel.ie/#submissions[portfolio]/17/
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