Alright, So here’s what I’ve been working on over the last few weeks.
As part of my research project for my 4th year at University studying Graphic Design, I’ve finally come to some kind of resolution or break through in regards to what I want to do for the rest of the year. I’ve come to a realisation that, in actual fact, it would be very helpful for me, to have a sound knowledge in writing Action Script 3.0 in the future. So I’ve begun learning it. Now I have done some programming before, but not for a number of years and I’m unsure of whether that’ll be much help anyway. After using Adobe Flash for a few years now, I’ve made a fair bit of progress in using it for animating, but never delved into Action Script.
I’ll lay it out simply. I’m proposing to spend the next six-months, generating on my own actual game, in Action Script 3.0 using the Flash environment. Now, the basis for this has come from the last near 3 months researching everything and all that interests me in the world of Design, and I ultimately belive that creating a game will be the ultimate culmination of a number of areas that I am rather obsessed with.
I love typography, and there for this will play a huge part, if not solely being the primary content producer for the piece. I love games, and they are a huge inspiration for me. I love the idea of Interaction design, and how people interact with art, and make it something of their own, bringing to it something new. And, I love the fact that I’ll be able to install this work into a space, using a high resolution projector, with the possible use of sound, to totally immerse the viewer, and giving them a controller or input device to interact with the piece. Now, this could well just spawn off more elaborate works or extensions of current ideas, but at least I have some where to begin, a thread to unravel, explore and express.
I don’t actually have anything much to share with you yet, as I’m only just beginning the basics of Action Script for Game Programming, aside from this nice poster I’ve made, containing one of the typefaces I’ll be exploring throughout the piece, Futura.
Its obviosuly in the early stages of merely being a conceptual idea, but I’m very excited about it never the less.
Has anyone done any Action Script 3.0 programming? More importantly, for game development?
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Tags: Flash, Research
Hi Brendon thanks for checking out my blog. It was very interesting looking at your blog, the podcast links are very helpful. It’s good to compare graphic design from the UK and New Zealand.