So I've been working on learning AS3 the past year. Took a lot of breaks due to schooling and, well, laziness. But it's the start of a new year and I have decided to dedicate the next year programming and to see how much I can accomplish in a year's time. I have always loved Flash and made tons of small animations (although my art has never been good which you can clearly see if you watch the two animations I have up here haha). Last summer I made a small demo game using math.random() code I had learned at the time from a book I was using to teach myself to code. Well at the start of this year I revisited the game because I really liked the concept of it. So I've been reworking the coding so that it can be playable to others. You see it's a turn-based game where players take turns trying to defeat the other. The original demo was single player so you were kinda just playing with yourself XD There are elements to it that make the outcome of the battle unpredictable which I'm hoping will make it enjoyable for players. I would eventually like to add AI to the game so that players can play solo against the CPU. Just haven't decided if I should launch the game as player vs player or wait until it has a 1 player option. Nonetheless, I am stoked about learning AS3 and am looking forward to where this new found passion will take me :)
Been teaching myself programming since the start of 2014. Making simple games for now but as my knowledge grows so will my projects!
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To get more people commenting on your blog posts, you need to comment on other people's blog posts, and then they will return the favor.
This is how completely retarded morons manage to get 100+ fans lol.
Oh ok I did not know that haha I think I did a few times years ago and I never got any responses so I didn't know if it was weird to do that. Ever since I've got into programming this past year, and even more so at the start of the year when I decided to dedicate a whole year to actually learning AS3, I've been checking people's blog posts that help out in the forums.
Question: Is there a way to get notified here on newgrounds of when someone posts a new blog? Or will being a fan of someone do just that?
Fan system will add to your feeds News, Movies, Games, Art of the people whom you fanned.
Many people have a strategy to "fan back". It means that they periodically check their list of fans and they remember every single one of their fans and fan them back.
It means that to get more fans you need to fan common people (not super-talented or popular artists, just normal people).
And fans will read your blogs because they'd show up in your feeds.
kkots
I think the art is pretty good, you just need to work on the highlights and shadowing a bit. Let this be your own personal art style.
You should add very strong shadows and highlights, and lots of them.
The gameplay is always the most important thing, though.
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Ha that's funny given in your first post you said, " I think I should completely ignore the artwork aspect" :P But thank you nonetheless :) Never been much of an artist....at all. But I do I have my own personal art style as you said.
I thought I did enough shadow and highlights for it. However, I could see how doing very strong shadows and highlights could really make my less than stellar art pop more. I will definitely give it a try as soon as I finish figuring out some more coding. I'll post a new screen shot after updating the art to see what you, and others (although I think you are the only one so far to check my page), think about it.
Thanks for the advice kkots and thank you for always helping me in the forums. Much appreciated.