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This is the FlashPlok project page. Here you will find information about the project as well as screenshots and videos relating to it. You can play the game via the link included under the ‘Play’ section.
Project Overview
FlashPlok!! is a simple, fun and addictive Flash puzzle game. It is coded in ActionScript 3 using the Flex 3 compiler and FlashDevelop IDE. It is built on top of FlashPunk, a library to facilitate the development of games that are targeting Flash Player 10. This was convenient because it provided a lot of groundwork code that I’d otherwise have to write (for about the 50th time!) such as object management and simple rendering code. The game is played by swapping blocks within columns to match either 4 blocks horizontally or 3 blocks vertically, at which point all the blocks on top of the line (and including the line) are destroyed giving points. The game is lost if the player lets the whole screen fill up and doesn’t clear the full columns within a set time. The difficulty increases as they gain points until it is eventually a frantic struggle to shift the blocks, pushing the player’s mental and physical reflexes to the limit.
I had a lot of fun making this game and I learned a lot about how to make a game addictive. I also learned a bunch about ActionScript 3 which was surprisingly a really enjoyable experience contrary to that of ActionScript 2 which I didn’t really enjoy all that much at all.
Play
This game is available to play for free online on various sites, or you can buy it for 99 cents to play on your BlackBerry Playbook.
Screenshots
Screenshots will be added soon.
Videos
Other
Work-In-Progress Preview Page – This is a work-in-progress preview page I made while in the middle of working on the project. I made it to show the game to a potential sponsor who was looking for touch screen games to put in pubs and bars. It shows some mid-development screenshots and explains some game mechanics.