The Shed

So, I managed to survive the back-to-back Friday 13th / Valentine’s Day terrors by locking myself indoors with a supply of tea and scotch finger biscuits, and getting better acquainted with the Flex API by kicking off Project Lazy once more.

Project Lazy is a platform game framework, which I’m hoping will someday develop into what has been described as a Massively Single-player environment. I’m planning on posting all the AS source files somewhere online sometime soon. At the moment, it’s all really just experimentation - getting used to the API. At the moment, I’m trying to sort out collision detection, which is always a problem, of course.

Okay, so a few posts ago, I created a makefile that compiles a .as file into a .swf, then launches it in a browser. Only problem is, I have to call that from the terminal, which is a bit tedious. I’m working on one particular flex project for a while, so I decided to make it work for me more easily. Here’s where Ubuntu comes into its own - sometimes it can be hard to work out how things are done, but you can really get your machine running exactly the way you want it.

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Thankyou, Adobe, for going Open Source with swf! Now, it took me a while to find out how to get the flex compiler working in Ubuntu, but it’s pretty easy when it comes down to it.

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I haven’t worked on Project Lazy for about 6 months now - still a long way to go on it, but not sure of the appropriate direction. Thought I ought to put it together on a webpage so people could give me some feedback. You can find it at yzal.wisdomecology.com. Please be patient - it has no loading screen (but it’s only 300k)

Love to hear what you think of it.