Thursday, June 21, 2007

Third flash game

I've recently posted speed squid - my third flash game on squidsquid.com. The game is pretty simple, you have to grab prey as quickly as possible using 8 keystrokes corresponding to 8 squid limbs! It took a lot longer than expected to code, in part because it had more actual animation than my previous games. I've included a highscores system, based on this useful tutorial. I also decided to embed all my flash files with SWFObject, which has a number of advantages over using the standard Adobe embed tags, not least of which is getting around the annoying 'Activating Active Content' in later versions of IE (meaning your flash files will play straight away without needing to be 'activated' or whatever).