Flash- Evaluation

I began this project by researching some game on the web and noted down the game themes I liked. Then I brainstormed theses themes such as ‘sports’ ‘action’ and ‘puzzle’ games, and added some specific games types.
Theses include football games basketball shooting and tetris.

I wanted to develop the football idea and researched more about the different game types there were, these included penalty kicks, kick ups and free kicks. I found that the penalty games were difficult to play so I firstly thought of making a more improved version. After initial designs I decided to abandon the penalty game as I found it was very similar to free kick games and they are pretty good already.

So I looked at my other ideas and decided to make a headers game, after looking on the web I only found 1 good version of the game and decided to make my own.
I came up with sketches and moved them to Photoshop and then flash. I used movie clips for the player and ball and expanded on previous codes to make my game.

I think the final game works fairly well. The player movement is smooth and the ball speeds work well, I slightly edited the speed by changing the frame speed.
I wanted to add a heading sound each time the ball hit the player but I couldn’t find a free one online so I had to use a replacement sound.

If I were to remake the game I would try make the ball movement more realistic, I wanted the ball to bounce of the players head and squeeze in to look realistic. And also get the player to jump up using the space bar. Also I need to learn about classes as I think this would have made my game easier to make.