Re: FLASH: ARCANE UPDATE

[David Gary]

Steve Couture wrote:


> >

> >I agree with Wayne here. To have such a creative and thoughtout project

> >as ARCANE ignoring the "frontend" is lethal to your exposure with such a

> large

>




> To apply a "dummy" "active" button state to the whole

> screen

> >with smaller active states is a mistake in my opinion. If you want "dummy"

> >objects that

> >dont do anything, create _One_ symbol button and place it on every object

> in the

> >scene triggering "oh thats not it" type of audio MCs. With a hand on the

> complete

>

> Im not sure about this.... We dont want that the player click everywere to

> finnaly find the way without thinking... We want that the players Think

> before click...  But for dummies users we could add a HINT KEEPER...    That

> could help the player to find solutions but it could advance the time and

> wakeup THE MONSTER :)..... What you think about this???  Is this a

> interresting solution for dummies???

>


Haha, no, no, not idiots who cant figure the game out. I mean "dummy"(is it

dummie"?)

button or buttons that _dont_ do anything.


Most CD-rom games, like that, will have dummy items in the scene to confuse the

player and make them think what they are looking for.


Its confusing to have an "active " button area scaled to the entire screen. It

doesnt let the player know if they are activating the right item and the "REAL"

active area of the correct button(item) they are to choose. THis leaves

the player clicking all over the screen and having no clue what he is

activating.


YOu can make the game just as difficult and more enjoyable by taking this

"problem" feature out.


Also for more of a "general" processor audience, it would be better to take out

the "zoom" in type features, i.e. on the well, where when you look at the handle

of the well and then the camera zooms in for a close up of the handle. This is

very sluggish on my low end system(tester/p166). It would be better to show the

handle from afar in the first keyframe and then directly up close. Since

tweening the scale of bmps are usually very processor hungry, this would

probably be a more effective and realiable approach.


I dont usually critique people's work, but this could be one great game and it

seems

the producers and artists really spent some time on it. If you did a few more

things to streamline it, it would be very enjoyable.

MAybe even have a soundtrack swf. that loads on a different level after the game

has completely loaded. YOu can do this easily with a "if frame" routine. This

way the player

is already playing the game and a soundtrack will play every now and then in

different scenes.


So many "Flash" developers forgot all about sound. I love the guys voice in this

game. It sounds like you actually hired a voice model instead of some

cheapskate's employee blowing his hole in sound recorder.


-DG-





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