I’m guessing that many of the people on here might not have seen this early game that I made:<\/p>\n
Feed the Nine-Mouthed Baby<\/a><\/p>\n If you’re a person who knows a bit of programming in Flash you might be surprised to hear that almost the entire thing is driven by the timeline and not actionscript. <\/p>\n This was back in the days when programming something like my hedgehog game<\/a> would have been completely beyond me, so I put all of the sound files on the timeline with a frame name then animated the mouth over the right place. <\/p>\n I found that the dropTarget command wouldn’t recognise a movie clip, for some reason, so all of the mouth movements are animated individually from their graphic instances. <\/p>\n Each of these one-phrase sections then only had one draggable object, the one being asked for. These days I would use an ‘if’ loop to make the correct object draggable, but this was the only way I knew at the time.<\/p>\n I then had a couple of simple scripts running, one to generate a random number between one and nine for the movie to know which one-line section to play, another for a timer, and another for the end of the timer to judge whether enough objects had been correctly fed. <\/p>\n Sometimes old methods can be the most effective! If you’re making something in Flash don’t always be obsessed with doing it the most technical way, sometimes a bit of the old-fashioned skills such as timeline tweening can be equally effective in achieving the results you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m guessing that many of the people on here might not have seen this early game that I made: Feed the Nine-Mouthed Baby If you’re a person who knows a bit of programming in Flash you might be surprised to hear that almost the entire thing is driven by the timeline and not actionscript. This … Continue reading Feed The Nine-Mouthed Baby<\/span>