Overview | Play | Screenshots
This is the Mr Fat Snake project page. Here you will find information about the project. You can play the game via the link included under the ‘Play’ section.
Project Overview
I was approached by the lead designer of Revive Games to be the main programmer for their new game, Mr Fat Snake, on a fixed contract basis. The game took approximately 40 hours of coding time to complete and is a fairly simple game from a development viewpoint. It shares some of the code I developed for FlashPlok and builds on some of the systems included. Most interesting of all the improvements to the code used in FlashPlok was a new asset management system designed to allow use of external files during development, but embedding those assets at compile time when a release build is made. I later added to this system by allowing the game to look for ‘override’ files at runtime and if they are not found, to use the embedded assets as a fallback. This way, the artist could test their new assets without sending them to me first, greatly streamlining the development process.
I also decided to try using an SVN repository for this project. I am used to using SVN for larger projects, particularly my work done at university, but I skipped using it for FlashPlok so that I could gauge the usefulness of SVN in smaller scale projects such as these Flash games. Even in a 40 hour single-programmer project like Mr Fat Snake SVN proved to be useful by providing essential code backup facilities – there were a few times during development where an idea or bunch of code didn’t work as intended and stepping back to the previous code might’ve been a pain had the repository not been in place.
Although Mr Fat Snake was not entirely of my own design, it still felt at the end like it was one of my games and I was pleased to see that it did quite well in terms of sponsorship. It was picked up by 3 sponsors (a primary and two non-exlusives) including the illustrious facebook giant Mindjolt.
Play
This game is available to play for free online on various sites, and is available for play on Facebook via Mindjolt’s application.
Screenshots
Screenshots will be added soon.