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 :)
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.
HeroPower
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.