Question about software used for the games.

[plinkoplus]

To Todd,

Hello my name is Chris and I have posted on your
forums and have played your games before. They are
the greatest games I had ever played.

Anyways, I had a curious question to ask.

What program exactly do you use to create your games?
The reason I ask is because I have some game show
projects I have in the works, and I'd like to make the
gameboards in flash.

Also do you know how I could utilize a randomizer,
like flashgameshows.com did with their "Whammy!" game.

Because for actually two of my projects, I plan on
using a gameboard with a Press Your Luck style of
play, all the while with a unique twist of course to
distinct its own from PYL.

Also do you know how I can fade images, also like how
PYL did with the squares when they changed from one
slide to another. I know flashgameshows.com did with
their "Bullseye".

If you want to share this information with me, please
email me at,
[e-mail]
Or you can post them on this forum.
It's up to you.

I really appreciate it, and good luck with your games.
I know I'll keep playing them.

Thank you so much in advance.

Take care and god bless.

[Todd Robinson]

This has already been discussed in this thread:

particleman1701.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=tvdiscussion&action=display&thread=1086095888

Please remember to do a search of the board before posting a question. It may already be answered in a previous thread.

Flash is the program I use to sequence all effects, sounds, music, graphics, etc. Some of your questions about specific features of it (fading, random number generation) are the most simplistic and basic of Flash's functions. To explain these features would require you to know how movies in Flash are structured. But, if you still want me to explain:

-To randomly generate a number, go to the properties of an action frame and use the function builder to create a line of code to include the RND function and adjust the parameters to get the kind of numbers you're looking for.

-To fade, have the current picture or movie in a higher layer than the background black layer. At the point where you want the graphic to fade, create two keyframes, one where you want the fade to start and another where you want the fade to end. At the second keyframe, adjust the alpha level of the upper layer with the graphic to zero. Make sure the graphic is an object instead of an image pasted from another program or you can't adjust the image properties. Also, if the lower layer isn't black, make sure you set the movie properties to have a black background.

Confused? You should be. There's a lot to learn. I highly suggest reading a book on Flash before you start touching the software.

If you still need help, you know where to find me!

[plinkoplus]

Ok, sorry Todd.

I must have not searched thoroughly for this thread.

My apologies.

Thank you so much for your info.

I really do appreciate it.

Chris.

[Todd Robinson]

That's okay; it's easy to ignore the search feature sometimes. Good luck learning Flash.