Branded Quiz Games

Date: 9th June 2009 at 12:23 pm | Filed under: flash, portfolio | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , ,

I have developed a quiz game engine based on this original multi choice quiz by animike. The improvements I made to the original flash file are:

  1. Removed the need for an external XML file, which makes it easier to distribute virally as a stand-alone file.
  2. Added the ability to add infinite arrays of questions, so the quiz will have a different set of questions each time you play.
  3. Added the potential to build arrays of questions based on statistical data, perfect for sports quizes.
  4. Added the potential to plug the game into various scoreboard and in-game advertising APIs such as MochiAds.
  5. Added brandable features such as a 'More Games' link and a preloader screen.

To test the quiz engine I released the first version of my football quiz, with 12 questions drawing from an array of 120 possible questions. It got mixed reviews on newgrounds.com, but seemed to do reasonably well on football / sports specific games sites thereafter. You can try out the first version of the quiz game here: Football Quiz

More recently I have released the first sponsored / branded version of the quiz called Premiership Football Quiz, which is sponsored by one of the UK's leading football websites - FootballFanCast.com. I have plans to work with the FootballFanCast team to develop other football quiz games, relating to specific teams, competitions, etc.

I am also hoping to branch out now into quizes relating to other sports, and to other subjects entirely, such as Pop Music, Movies, TV, Celebrities, Arcade games, World Geography, etc.

If you need a quiz game for your site, or wish to distribute a branded quiz game across a range of games sites please feel free to get in touch. I can quote on a per quiz basis, prices will depend on the level of branding, the number of questions, whether the questions are provided, whether you want me to distribute, etc. So there is no fixed price as such.

1 Response to “Branded Quiz Games”

  • Comment by Jimmy
    Date: September 19th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    I use latest wordpress what do I do wrong? I get each column one row lower, whatever I do it still does this. Is it a bug with newest Wordpress? Ive followed everything step by step.

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Corporate Flash Animated Banner

Date: 23rd May 2009 at 12:13 pm | Filed under: flash, portfolio | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , ,

Working with design agency Pollen London, I developed this simple, eyecatching flash banner for client Project Associates' website home page.

pollen-screen

The banner shows a constantly moving, rotating array of their team, each image linking to the specific person's profile on the site.

Check out their home page to see the banner in action:

www.projectassociatesltd.com

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Zombie Killer Gorefest 3 - Flash Game

Date: 2nd April 2009 at 8:58 pm | Filed under: blog, flash, portfolio | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , ,

zombie killer gorefest 3

I have been working on a couple of Flash games recently for my new arcade site zapgamez.com. The first of these games is Zombie Killer Gorefest 3, which is now previewing on Zap Gamez. You can play the game here:
http://www.zapgamez.com/games/action/zombie-killer-gorefest-3

The official release text for the game is as follows:

Currently exclusive to ZapGamez.com, Zombie Killer Gorefest 3 is a point and click shoot 'em up where you have to defeat the zombie hordes in 3 chilling action-packed levels. Inspired by 70's and 80's Horror and B-Movie genres, this game includes it's fair share of blood and gore, so is therefore not appropriate for younger players.

I created the game in actionscript 2, possibly one of my last as2 projects before I move over to as3 fully. The graphics and animation are a more prominent part of the game than the scripted aspects which are fairly basic hitTest functions.

The game will probably stay exclusive to Zap for the next couple of weeks before I release it through MochiAds distribution. If you are interested in getting the game for your site when it is released please subscribe to my RSS feed and I will announce the release here on my blog in the near future.

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Flash Tutorial - Adding an animated shine effect to your logo

Date: 12th February 2009 at 6:14 pm | Filed under: development, flash | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

This is a basic flash tutorial which explains how to apply an animated shine effect to a logo or image, as displayed in the example. This technique only really works well with colour logos.

You will need Flash 8 or above, as the effect utilises the filters which were a new addition in version 8. The source file for this project is available for download at the bottom of the tutorial.

Leave a comment if you find this useful!

GETTING STARTED

  1. Open a new flash document
  2. Go to 'File ->Import -> Import to Stage...' (or CTRL+R) and import your logo image.
  3. Move your logo to the top left corner of the stage (position 0,0)
  4. Go to 'Modify -> Document' (CTRL+J) and set your document's height and width to the height and width of your logo image. Set the framerate to 12fps.

CREATING THE SHINE

  1. Create a new layer above the logo layer for your shine
  2. In your new layer draw a white rectangle with no outlines (about 25ph high and the width of your logo)
  3. Select your rectangle and go to 'Modify -> Convert to Symbol' (F8) and choose 'Movie clip' as the symbol type, name it 'shine'.
  4. Double click on your new movieclip to open it, select the rectangle again and repeat step 4, converting it into another new Movie clip, but this time name it 'rectangle'.

ANIMATING THE SHINE

  1. Inside your 'shine' movie create a new keyframe at frame 25. This keyframe will be the point that your rectangle ends at after it has moved accross the logo. Frame 1 will be it's starting point.  See images opposite.
  2. Set the starting point for your rectangle on frame 1. Then go to frame 25 and move it to its ending point. You can also rotate your rectangle as I have done in the opposite example.
  3. Right click on the first keyframe in the timeline and select 'Create Motion Tween' from the dropdown menu.
  4. Press return to preview your animation
  5. You will notice that in my example I have added some blank keyframes to the timeline to add a couple of seconds pause between each shine.

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ADDING THE EFFECTS

  1. Select your 'rectangle' movie clip on frame 1 of the timeline, and open the filters properties ('Windows -> Properties -> Filters').
  2. Click on the plus symbol to add a new filter and select 'blur' from the list.
  3. Set the Blur X and Blur Y values to about 25, and set the quality to Medium. See opposite.
  4. Make sure the same values are set for the blur filter on frame 25.
  5. Go to Scene 1 of your flash project. Select your 'shine' movie clip and in the Properties panel change its Blend mode from 'Normal' to 'Overlay'

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DOWNLOAD SOURCE FILE




3 Responses to “Flash Tutorial - Adding an animated shine effect to your logo”

  • Comment by vale
    Date: April 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Hi!
    I’ve been searching for such a tutorial for a long time!thank you!!
    I just wanted to ask if it’s possible to activate the effect on rollover with actionscript, it would be for a website!
    thank you very much,
    Valentina

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 2nd, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Hi Valentina

    You could attach the effect to a button or movie clip rollover. You could attatch it to the rollover state of a button without any actionscript. You could also activate the rollover effect in as2 using the following method:
    1. Select the shine (Symbol 3) movieclip and give it the instance name ’shine’
    2. Add this action to frame 1 of the ’shine’ movie clip:
    stop();
    3. Create a button. you could make it transparent by setting it’s alpha to 0.
    4. Add this action to the button:
    on (rollOver) {
    shine.play();
    }

    I hope this helps.

    Sam

  • Comment by Valentina
    Date: April 8th, 2009 at 8:17 am

    Hi Sam and thank you very much for your infos. I am a newbie of flash and actionscript so I always need every step to be clear like in your tutorial to do it :)
    Could u help me out with a sample flash file?you could send it to my email if that’s not a problem for you.
    I would really like to understand both ways to make such a rollover button, love your tutorial!
    thank you very much,
    valentina

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Flash Sound Spectrum Visual – ‘Train Window’

Date: 28th January 2009 at 3:35 am | Filed under: flash, gallery | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , ,

This Flash Sound Visualisation is based on the idea of the audio waveform becoming a rolling cityscape as viewed from a train window. It combines the computeSpectrum method with the blur and glow filters.

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