Unit 63 evaluation

(taken from a word document completed earlier)

Flash game evaluation
By Matthew Carrington

Before this evaluation I had discovered that my game did not look complete so I decided to edit it a bit.

The game was actually suppose to be a pong game but due to the difficulty making it I decided to modify a balloon game, what I did was replace the balloons with different coloured Pringles and then I edited some of the writing making it look different, also I modified the colour scheme to make it look bright and colourful.

I modified the balloon game in adobe flash because I already have used flash on a number of occasions, during the project I first had to find a tutorial for a pong game, but the tutorials looked difficult so I decided to modify a balloon game into a shooting game which took me about 2 to 4 weeks, the research took about a few weeks to do. Even though the crisp shooting idea was not as originally planned because I was planning a pong style game, But this was changed due to the fact that a pong game would be difficult to make, there were not many problems, one problem was that some of the update’s did not save properly so I had to redo them which included redoing the writing, another problem was finding a pong tutorial which was solved by changing the original idea. This game is also appropriate to the audience in question because I have managed to not include any inappropriate in it and I have made it child friendly.

The images I got during planning were from various website’s found on Google images, I have posted a page with most of the links on it (I could not find the link for the vending machine), they basically show Pringles either in a funny or in a standard fashion, and the inspiration behind the game was

The objective of the game is to shoot as many Pringles in a minute, this is a basic game which has been modified from a balloon shooting game, and the points system is kept over from the game which makes it a bit similar to the game I modded. On the main game screen the Pringles fly up from the bottom of the screen whilst the red ones appear on an uncommon occurrence, after a minute the games ends and you can play again if you wish after viewing your final scores.

Overall I think this game is good but it requires several improvements to make it better, like more coloured crisps and a soundtrack