Woven Interactive » Flash Games http://woveninteractive.net Flash, Flex, Papervision, Interactive Agency Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:36:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Electronic Arts Spore Islands Facebook Game http://woveninteractive.net/2009/11/electronic-arts-spore-islands-facebook-game/ http://woveninteractive.net/2009/11/electronic-arts-spore-islands-facebook-game/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:18:05 +0000 admin http://woveninteractive.net/?p=146 spore-islands-facebook-game

Woven Interactive had the privilege to assist Area/Code with the client programming on Electronic Arts new Spore Islands Facebook game. Spore Islands is EA’s first Facebook and social media game. Fully integrated with the Facebook API; the game encourages players to invite friends and interact with others islands.

Spore Islands has only been live for one week and has already topped 64,000 players.

Check out a few of the reviews so far:
Tech Crunch
Washington Post
Trans World News

Or just go try it out yourself today on Facebook.
http://apps.facebook.com/sporeislands/

Woven Interactive, LLC

]]> http://woveninteractive.net/2009/11/electronic-arts-spore-islands-facebook-game/feed/ 1 Side Scrolling Fish Swim Game with APE Physics Engine http://woveninteractive.net/2009/04/side-scrolling-fish-swim-game-with-ape-physics-engine/ http://woveninteractive.net/2009/04/side-scrolling-fish-swim-game-with-ape-physics-engine/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:57:50 +0000 admin http://woveninteractive.net/?p=90 ape-engine-game

In an effort to find a very simple and easy to use physics engine we stumbled upon APE. Although this is not the most powerful of Flash physics engines it does seem to have a rather minimal learning curve.

There are several other physics engines in AS3 available. The one that seems to currently be the leader of the pack is Box2D. Box2D is a port from C++ so package names / method names etc do not follow Actionscript best practices (lowercase package names & uppercase method names). Not really a big deal but a little odd at times.

For this game it seemed that APE had plenty of features and power to get the desired result.

Monsters (fish), and coins were easily placed in an array

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Actionscript:
  1. var monsters:Array = [ { x:1500, y:150, type:Starfish }, { x:1700, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:2500, y:180, type:Starfish },
  2.         { x:2700, y:330, type:Octo }, { x:3200, y:150, type:Starfish }, { x:3700, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:3900, y:180, type:Starfish },
  3.         { x:4000, y:330, type:Octo }, { x:4300, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:4500, y:180, type:Starfish }, { x:5000, y:330, type:Octo },
  4.         { x:5500, y:150, type:Starfish }, { x:6000, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:6200, y:180, type:Starfish }, { x:6700, y:330, type:Octo },
  5.         { x:7000, y:120, type:Starfish }, { x:7700, y:350, type:Octo }, { x:8300, y:180, type:Starfish }, { x:9000, y:330, type:Octo },
  6.         { x:9300, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:9800, y:180, type:Starfish }, { x:10000, y:330, type:Octo },
  7.        
  8.         { x:1600, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:1900, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:2200, y:220, type:Coin },
  9.         { x:3500, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:3800, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:4600, y:220, type:Coin },
  10.         { x:9600, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:11000, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:12000, y:220, type:Coin }
  11.        
  12.        
  13.         ]

Movement is as simple as adding force to an object:

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Actionscript:
  1. protected function onKeyDown(evt:KeyboardEvent):void
  2.         {
  3.  
  4.             if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.UP)
  5.             {
  6.                 forceAmountY = -25;
  7.             }
  8.             if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.DOWN)
  9.             {
  10.                 forceAmountY = 25;
  11.             }
  12.             if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.RIGHT)
  13.             {
  14.                 forceAmount = 6;
  15.             }
  16.             if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.LEFT)
  17.             {
  18.                 forceAmount = -6;
  19.             }
  20.         }

All together the creation of this game was not difficult. With some more time spent on adding sounds, animations to monsters, and general fluff you would have a sweet fun game.

If you or your clients need any help, feel free to contact our interactive agency.

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