Mini Project

'Design a flash game that includes animation and sound, try and implement this in flash CS3'.

My expert knowledge on flash games probably isn't as good as it should be, I only really remember playing the old school games, such as tetris and pac man. So, to think of a simple idea for a game prooved to be quite a struggle for me.

My first idea was to have a stray leaf which is trying to get back to his home tree, and with monster children obsructing it's path. However, once i tried to create this I went off this idea quite alot.

The next idea was to create a game called 'Shooting Stars' based on the Milkyway Magic Stars.

How the game will work from the users point of view:
+ The first screen will be the loading page with the name of the game.
+ The second screen will be the game, and this will have a gun at the bottom which is controlled by the mouse, and / or the left and right arrow keys.
+ The stars will begin to fall, and each with a different personality will score different points.
+ The game is over when the stars hit the ground and the player has failed to shoot all the stars.

10 point = baby star
20 points = happy star
30 points = pop star
40 points = happy star
50 points = clever star
60 points = sporty star

(The names for all of these came from the back of the Milkyway Magic Stars packet).

What the computer needs to do:
+ Loading screen based on speed of users computer,
+ Load the second page automatically, or on mouse click,
+ Play sound when the game starts,
+ Link the mouse to the gun, or code to link to the left and right arrow keys,
+ Animate the falling stars randomly,
+ Gun on separate layer that shoots on click, or enter button,
+ When bullet shoots, if it hits one of the stars, they will explode,
+ If it misses then the star will fall to the earth and the game is over.
+ Display game over screen