Mortisland

I very nearly misspelled Thief in the title just now. Embarrassing.

Man! Look at the production values on this one! This is the second short I ever made and it it a whole hell of a lot better than I remember it being. Figuring out that higher frame rates look better, rotating guys, better tweens in general. Still didn’t quite master editing images in MS Paint though. A few white pixels peeking out there. I remember thinking how I was going to blow everyone’s minds!! when the Mortal Kombat song kicks in and the guys start running around. Even though breaking the Final Fantasy battle system convention was the exact same joke from the original. Maybe I thought record scratches were still novel and interesting. It is still the default dimensions for a Flash animation. Adorable.

I just went digging a little deeper through my Ye Olde Flashe Shite folder and there is a lot of stuff in there. A couple unfinished, unreleased things. Also lots of 8-bit Theater derivative jokes.

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Ever so briefly, here is the third in the “BoyVs Sprite” series. Except, as the loading screen mentions, it does not focus on them at all. It’s a number of characters I like. Some of the spell effects made me realize I am not a very good graphic designer. Also a lot of the end parts feel really tacked on. But I do like the slow motion impact of the scythe. There was a note in the credit about sound effects but this appears to be one of the first ones where I was dropping all sounds effects because they were time consume. Weird.

Oh, this one’s plot was fleshed out by a set up short from a fan and I feel kind of strange about if I should throw that one up here or not since it’s not really mine. I’ll leave it up to Future Me to figure out.

Continue reading ‘Crono Vs Black Mage (Boy Vs Sprite 3)’

This initial Boy Vs Sprite thing was based on a very real situation I’m sure everyone who played Secret of Mana “co-operatively” encountered. Whenever a chest would show up, everyone would abandon their duties and race to get it first. Although you couldn’t hurt other players, it certainly led to some people getting killed by monsters that should have been dealt with first. The world really could use some more co-op action RPGs. This is also one of the ones I put up on Newgrounds that was actually rated pretty ok because everything on Newgrounds at that time was garbage.

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Alright, we’re back!

Continuing in descending order of how much I like them, next comes Zombie 2. This is the largest file-size-wise short I made. Not the biggest in length or the most intricate tweening, just file size. There’s some good timing and a little use of ease in/out in this one. It’s starting to look a little professional. I wonder what might have happened if I had stuck with it instead of programming? This one ends with an OCR song from IronSword that I still really like.

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This one ain’t so bad. While re-watching it, I was surprised by how much I liked it. Except for the song in the ending. Can’t remember much about the process other than I put a lot of pieces of this together on a laptop floating across Puget Sound on a ferry to school. It is really hard to work in Flash using a laptop track pad. Additionally, it’s not clear what the intended title of this one is, so I opted for the title that is not a trademarked character belonging to a huge multinational corporation.

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