Internship Week 4

This is the fourth week of our internship. The chief wanted us to think of a project and work together on it. We came up with an idea of making a flash game. At first, we think about making a puzzle game, the same kind of the PC game "Machinarium".

Machinarium

In this game we have to pick up items in the stage and use them to solve problems. However, we have limited time, so we tried to think of a game that is easier to make. At last, we came up with an idea of a cursor dodging game. Then we make a story for this game.

Our Game

The player plays as the boy who is kicked off the airplane. As he fell down, he encounters a lot of obstacles. The player needs to control the boy with the mouse to dodge obstacles such as rockets, missiles, and birds. Each obstacle is programmed differently, so the player needs to use different method to dodge. The boy can be hit only three times in a stage. If he is hit three times, the player needs to start that stage all over again.

My job is to program the game, both obstacles and the character. I have learned a lot about Flash Action Script 2.0. For example, how to make the character follows the cursor, and how to make the hit point bar. Also, I drew and animated some obstacles that are hard to program like missiles, and rockets while my friends drew and animated the character, background, and other obstacle.

Character follows cursor code

Right now, it is going faster than we expected. We hope to finish it in time.