Return of the blog

Okay so it happened again, I went on Easter break and then I forgot about the blog. Fortunately I did do some work.

I animated a book jumping up and down and added some cool looking light effects and recently I have added actionscript to the background so it would scroll like the cave one.

You can see the Library by clicking this. Oh, and you can see the cave one by clicking this.

Use the left and right keys to move the backgrounds and watch it do stuff.

Basically, although I do hate these kind of catch-up posts, the past few weeks I have been adding animations and code bits to my background. I think I'm at that point in this particular background project where I just want to add touches to make it better.

The bouncing book was actually quite time consuming, especially since I drew each frame individually, also there was a lot of problems with the timing for the jump and during the jump. I had to play around with it for ages not only to get the picture on the frame to look right and as if it belonged to the sequence but also it was pretty hard to figure out how long it should spend in the air.

The red-spirit thing also took quite a while to implement because it was bigger than the book, but thankfully it needed less attention put in to it. Before I'm completely done with this background I'm obviously gonna make it scroll through the screen as if to make it look like it's hovering eerily throughout the level.

The lights on the other hand were pretty easy, and use the same code as the bats from my previous backgrounds, unlike the bats, however the lights barely had to be animated so I had finished those quite fast. It was just a matter of getting the flickering animation right and that wasn't all that hard.

So, getting back into the routine of updating my blog hopefully for the rest of the year. I'm slightly annoyed at myself for neglecting this blog but what's done is done I guess.