Thursday, October 2, 2008

Drag and Drop Demo

Meet your new pet.

This project is designed to demonstrate the drag and drop action in flash.  The bird can interact with a number of objects on the side.  Depending on the object you choose, the bird reacts differently.  If fed a number of mosquitoes, the bird will become sick, and refuse to do anything but feel sorry for itself.  Feeding it one more will make it die.... until you feed it a medical pack.  I set it up this way to mirror individuals who like taking care of pets as well as those who get amusement out of the misfortune of fabricated creatures.

In all honesty, i did not run into any major difficulties when programming this, it just took a lot of time. I came across the idea of making certain animations that i want to do invisible on the main timeline until i want to actually play them.   It also took a bit of figuring out in regards to the assignment of variables as well.  However, once fixed, everything flowed nicely.

As always, logic errors are a pain.

Note:  What do you think of the program as a whole? Is it too colorful?  Are the pastel colors too much?  Should i use a different color scheme?  What about the spacing of everything?  I know this is just an experiment, but i am open to all ideas and options in regards to improving it.

5 comments:

Ms. Singleton said...

Is that a first aid kit,how are you planing to use it? I like your bird. The object interact well with the animations.

Qaaim said...

The color scheme you have for the overall animation is fitting. I think you did a superb job coding it and I thank you many times and many moons for helping me in my dark times. My only crit is that the bird seems to twitch oddly. I think if it ruffled its feathers a few times it should be fine.

wyatt said...

pretty cool illustrations think you could animate the process of the bird eating a little more, like when the bird reads the comics.

ericHUBER said...

Id like to see how and why the health kit plays in. But overall nice aesthetic.

More buttons of course...ha

Jordan said...

I'm going to name him Xercis!


Aethetically the project is solid.

Again when the Bird reads the comics that is awesome. Some more unusual and un predictable things would be nice.

Like when you give him a mosquito.
He eats a hot dog instead.
"bugs are disgusting"