OK, OK, so I'm behind on Music Reviews...here's a game as an alternative

OK, yes, I'm still not back to a weekly schedule of music offerings, but as said before, work and projects take precedence over things done in my free time. And lately, I've had to get a lot of designs up and running, and update some skills in Flash, Actionscript, Illustrator and PhotoShop...or more like learn Actionscript 3 (not really that difficult, as things turn out, since I spent years and years as a C++ multimedia developer) and apply it to new projects using Flash Video, XML, and some very fractal recursive animations I want to do in a more OOP way.

So as a peace offering to those that miss their weekly fix of MySpace Music pointers...and since this blog is also about Design as well as Artists and also about Humor...here is a link to a recent Flash minigame I wrote. It's backward compatible to Flash 5 and even downloads quickly over a modem...sort of humorous take on an old Flash 5 tutorial called Mosquito, which I dearly loved when I first saw it. This one is much more complicated in logic and behavior, and more designed in that it actually cares about backgrounds and visuals, but not too much more complex...it's still as fun as the original that inspired it.

Have fun!

here is the link:

http://home.myuw.net/cganders/FoodFight.html

and yes, you need the entire path (and it is case sensitive.)

Now back to my studying...and my manga reading...maybe I'll do a minigame/demonstration project with manga as the focus...sort a living manga. hmm.... that would be a good project to keep me interested in learning the ins and outs of Actionscript 3.0 (just looking at code bores the socks off me)...I prefer the design side...but with a twist, I like to find ways to make the stuff come alive in surprising ways...hence, the reason to update to 3.0, and explore the fun of Flash Video. As for Illustrator, well, that's more because I want to get my cartooning skills up to par via electronic means---I can do fine with pencil and paper, or charcoal or whatever, but trying to get a tablet pc to "feel" the same way (esp. since I don't have a pressure sensitive pen device) is a bit more difficult...and I can't just twist the pencil around to use the side, the edge, you know...feel the texture of the paper...

All those things you take for granted as an artist...the feel of the media just isn't there with a computer.

Bye!
CG Anderson