week 14 onwards

our final presentation has finally been fixed for the 9th of july which is week 15. it was supposed to be on week 16 but ms jeya put it forward. initially i was a bit worried about the date being brought forward but atleast this pressured me to work and finish it sooner.

i'm actually done with the system already. im just carrying out alot of testing so that nothing fails me last minute! we've got exams on week 16 so having the presentation sooner was a good thing..

anyways, i faced a few last minute problems with the system.. they are probably very minor problems to people who have more experience but to me, it was time consuming to figure out what was going wrong.

firstly, when i was creating the game, the basic concept of the game was to find the hiding mosquitoes and once u find all of them, the game ends. the problem i had was that it didnt recognise the mosquitoes that were already caught. therefore, i was able to click on the same mosquito 7 times in order to end the game!!!!!

finally, i added an array to check which ones were already chosen.. writing the action scripts also were a bit challenging for me because im not too familiar with any of the scripting part! :( believe it or not, when i first started this project i didnt even know how to link from one scene to another! so i guess ive learnt quite alot while working on the project..

i found most of the information from forums and other tutorials online... i also looked through a book called 'action script for games in flash' which was very useful..

the other problem i faced while creating the system was sound overlapping!!!!! im sure there is a simpler way to control this maybe using action script or another method.. but i spent about three days just searching for the solution for this !! because in my system, everytime u click on a button, theres a voice over that says all the text that appears.. and sound over lapping in such a situation was becoming very messy!!!

i created a new layer and inserted the event: stop at every single point i wanted it to stop!!! it was a very tedious method of doing this but i found no other solution.. since i was running against time, i did it with this method. however, i am still curious to find out how to solve this method !!!

im sure when i finally found out, its gonna make me jump off my chair and say 'THAT WAS IT' !!!

anyways, this would probably be the last post since i have nothing else to say! :)

good luck to everyone for the presentation and good luck for the upcoming exams too !!!

WOOOOHOOOOO...... WE'RE DONEEEEE !!!