I am a bachelor in game development (although I am looking to be a game designer) and while I am looking for a job still (graduated a few months ago) I am spending my time working on a blog of mine and making games. The most recent game I made is a TCG that anyone may print and play. If you wish to see what its all about check out my blog - you can download it from there.

nom7ak.blogspot.com

If anyone would like to do a project with me I would be happy to! You will find the Battlefields TCG archive attached to this post. I hope you enjoy the stuff I do on my blog and I am looking forward to any questions or suggestions.

It's good, seems to work fine and has some good questions. My advice would be to give it some more questions and actually randomly generate some of them so it's not always the same.

Not bad for your first FreeBasic game. :)

And by the way, is this source code or an .exe? If it's source I can' try it, I don't have FreeBasic.

download link

The object is to correctly answer the questions.

/u9

It might "compile" to byte code, but it is highly unlikely that it compiles to machine code.
In fact their own page calls it an interpreter.

http://www.underwaredesign.com/staticpages/playbasic/compare1.htm

Also, I have realised a slight problem/bug with the game. It would seem that after dying and restarting, you may encounter the problems that others have experienced. I'm fairly sure this is due to my method of shutting down the game after death and then re-initialising it- because, to my frustration, upon going to a different Scene from AS, Flash will continue to execute the previous code, so I simply resorted to placing all the game code into an if (alive) condition. However, I'm thinking that upon re-initialisation, my lack to properly clean up the left-overs of the previous run may be interfering with it. If I can be bothered, I might try fix this, but considering it's too late for anything to count (competition-wise), I may not.

What i want it to do is move around a bit smartly. I want it to use the rocks for cover, and not just be an open target. My research seems to be telling me that the tank that is further away from the rock between the two, has an advantage. This is because it actually can get the other tank in line-of-sight without itself being in line-of-sight, ergo, it can fire without being fired upon.

Here's a "drawing"

' | ___ +-|-+ / \ +---+ | o | |rock| | o | +---+ \____/ +-|-+ |

So i guess i need to take damage and distance to the covering rock into account. and probably some other stuff too.

Aaaanyways, I check the first post for download info.

The collision test is done when you fire by simply calculating if the line between the tank and the target collides with any object on the screen. This is a simple line-circle intersection test. I give my shell thickness by adding the shells size to the radius of the circle i am testing against. Works like a charm :) Anyway, the farther the intersection with a circle is, the more the explosion is delayed giving the impression that the shell is traveling through the air, even though you don't see anything but the recoil of the cannon and the explosion some ms later.

Now if anybody could just tell me how i make the enemy AI and i would have a game done here! Currently the enemy cannon is tracking the player. I need to make some kind of decision when to fire, and i need to make the enemy move around to protect himself and/or chase the player.

As for the feedback for the Special modes, that was generally what the screen overlays were for, e.g. if you press Rewind the screen should go partly blue. But ah well.

As for the download, I'm gonne re-upload the actual .swf for now and upload the (larger) .exe once I'm back to broadband speed (tomorrow).

Ok, it's Low Battery. You play Tim the TV Tuner, who was out servicing a TV one day when he got sucked into it. :) As such, your aim is to get out of the TV. This is done by playing through the 3 zones of about 4 levels each, through differing enemies and Channel Boxes that get in your way and by using your Time Controls and, should you get them, the Videos that each give you a special ability.

This was made for a competition over here in Australia, that's basically nation-wide. Normally, of course, I'd have made this in Basic4GL- but, the competition required I work in either Flash or Game Maker, so I chose Flash. I still like B4GL, but learning ActionScript has at least been interesting, and hopefully I can make use of it later on.

As such, you need Flash Player on your computer to play it. It's a Flash Player 7 file.

Instructions are in the game itself.

Download the .swf here.

There would seem to be a slight bug in the game- on a very rare occasion, the level might not load properly and as a result it may be impossible to finish the first level. Normally, of course, I'd fix this- but out of the many tests I've done, it's only ever happened once, and that was only after I checked it after on of my friends had the problem. So you probably won't get it, but if you do, it should fix itself by closing the .swf file and running it again.

And by the way, the enemies that don't move in the 2nd Zone aren't a bug- they're meant to be that way, they're fake.

Anyway, I think that's all there is to say. :P Any problems, just ask me.