Flash gaming

So we are trying to learn how to program flash and it is not going so well. Certain ways of programming flash is easy and other types make no sense at all. But I'm getting the hang of it slowly but surely. I finally got my character in the flash program to move up and down. So we are making progress. Probably the best part so far in getting the flash movie together is using Illustrator to make the different pictures.

Possible ideas

So after reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" I have had a few ideas of what we could base a game around. So far nothing concrete has taken hold, but these are just starting points.
Near the beginning of the book, just as they moved to their new place they were in the grocery store buying food, so I had the idea we could base a game around a grocery store and how well the player can buy organic without spending a lot of money. Sort of the "best deal" kind of thing. Maybe mixing Organic to non-organic and having the player aim at getting a majority of organic. Still working on this.
Another one was the fact that all the traveling and energy experditure it takes to bring food throughout the country so I thought it might be interesting to do some sort of travel style game. Road trip, perhaps. Not too sure exactly where to go with this one but I think it has potential.
Right now that those are the most interesting ideas I've had as of yet.

New Game Rules

So we have written our new game rules and we think this should be a great improvement to our game. Hopefully we will get to test it today and see how it works out. I'm counting on the game to be more fast paced and easier to understand. But we shall see.

Game tested!

This blog is a bit overdue but we just had our first test run with a group to see how our game worked out. Overall it was a good test and we learned a lot and came up with some other ideas thatv may improve the gameplay.