At 5/14/09 07:52 AM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote:
In terms of coding, flash just can't do it properly. The actions panel hasn't changed since flash 5. Pretty much any external code editor is better, even ones that aren't platform specific like TextPad. Flashdevelop just happens to be the best of the free ones
I've pretty much moved to doing all my AS3 work solely in FD. I can do without the IDE now that I know how to make Flex's SDK do what I need it to do (and hey, if I ever need animation I'll just [Embed] an swf...). Thanks for showing it off to me last summer at the meetup. I can't do without it any more.
Plotting, Scheming...
A few people on my MSN list have ended up hearing my rants about sponsorship, and I'm working out an unorthodox model.
One of the games I'm planning to make with that tile engine I've been whoring out for the past month is a future bloodsports game and figure the best way to capture the glorious corporate sponsorship of sports television would be to actually get corporate sponsorships. From you lot.
Heres the plan. A single pound sterling (less than the price of a bottle of cola nowadays) gets a permenant advert display in the game. The advert is displayed on the wall and sits there with your message or image, proudly advertising whatever it is you wanted to advertise. Just part of the scenary.
Double the price and you get a clickable advert and it pops up in the level loading screen as "Words from Our Sponsors". Pay a tenner and you get an entire subsection of the game sponsored by you - with the colours of the enemies and the decor created to match your needs. Pay twenty quid and the entire level of the game is named after your product - trophy sponsorship, half time shows, people in the crowd holding placards with your name on it... whatever.
The idea of getting money from a hundred smaller sources rather than one massive souce appeals to me somewhat even at the cost of not potentially raising as much money from it (when did we all get so mercenary anyway?). Especially since that way it's the adverts and sponsors *i* want to display rather than whatever gets foisted on me from interstatial ads.