2D Games Engine Reflection

For this part of Unit 68 we had to create a 2D game that could be playable on a Wii console, we did this using Adobe Flash Player. This was a new experience for the majority of us so we had assistance from tutorials in order to complete this project. I decided that I would create a game that incorporated the Nintendo Wii in somehow. To do this I made the very first screen of the game a sinple “click the Wii logo”. Throughout the game you will see things to do with the Wii, this could be a game or a controller for the console. The most difficult part of this project was adding the “actions”, this is how your parts of the game connect. You would have a multi choice question and with one right and either one or two wrong, the right answer would let you progress through the game whilst the wrong would bring up a screen telling you that you lost and making you start again.

As I said before we used tutorials to help is make this project and this is where I really needed it. I struggled to understand about Keyframes and ActionScript. Working with the tutorial walked me through these steps and I was able to create a fully functional game that is also fun to play. From the beginning my idea was to create a game that incorporated the Ninetendo Wii into it so I was very satisfied with how my game turned out. I believe that if I would have had more knowledge of Adobe Flash that I would have been able to create a more professional looking game.

Visually I think that the game is very good, the only problem that I have with this was that when you clicked the wrong answer the screen that said “Try Again” looked very rushed and unprofessional. Other than that the game looks and plays fine.

There were no problems at all with time management as I had the game completed in time for the deadline. I feel that I learned quite a bit from this project as I now have a better understanding of Adobe Flash, this will help in case I need to use this program for any future project. Another thing that I learned was patience as this is necessary when working with this program as it will sometimes have faults that you need to re-try until works.

I succeeded in creating this game for its original intended audience and I think that it could be very popular if installed to the Nintendo Wii.

Once I had created this game I then compared it with other professionally made flash games. To do this I researched other games online, Kerb Games was a very useful website that showed me a wide range of user created games. While playing games such as Rap Attack & Student Park, I realised the amount of effort and time that is put in to create these games and made me respect their creators even more than before. Not only do they have levels and screens that transition well, they also have fully animated characters. Even the sound is implemented well, something that I never had in my game.

To play this flash game on a Nintendo Wii first I had to put my flash game up onto a website I was going to do this through my blog. Once it was up on the blog I would use the Wii’s Opera web browser to go to my blog and access the game. Then once I had done this I could play the game.