Oontz! - Flash

PRIMITIVE GAME THINGS

These are wee little things I did a long time ago, mostly in Flash 5.

I did this when a cow-orker told me that it was Flash couldn't handle a platform game.
This is a spacewar-ish game. Mostly I wanted to play around with gravity, and an asteroids-ish control thinger.
Arrow keys to rotate and thrust the blue ship, 0 on the number pad to fire. A and D to rotate the orange ship, W to thrust, space to fire.
This is a prototype for a Pinball game I did.
It's not actually a pinball game yet, it was just so I could nail down the physics. It uses a grid to limit collision tests, meaning the ball only checks the grid squares that it travels through. The other tough thing I had to deal with was looping through all possible collisions multiple times each update, because if you don't the ball could bounce off of something, into something else, and fly right through it.

Use the left arrow key to move the flipper if there is one, and you can pick up and toss the ball around with the mouse. Flipper collisions aren't perfect.
The first textbox just loads an XML file with the field data for each board. Try out
- pseudo.xml
- lines.xml
- lineExp.xml
- curve.xml
- cross.xml
- bigloop.xml

MISC CRAP

Lookie! It's a scrollbar!
Collision detection experiments, and homing experiments
The lead triangular thing homes in on the mouse. Every other triangular thing homes in on the next triangular thing.
I was playing around with tiles here.
use the arrow keys to move around, click on a tile to change it from light gray to dark gray, and vice-versa. You'll notice that it keeps track of which tile is which color, even if they move out of sight, and back again. This is because tile color is contained in a huge array, and we're only displaying the tiles that fit in the screen.
Pick up the robot with the mouse, and toss him around!

COLLISION DETECTION

This illustrates a swept sphere to line collision
You can click and drag any of the circles around. The circle in the top left represents the starting position, the one in the lower right hand one represents the end position. The black line is the actual line, the red line prepresents where we're looking for an intersection of the motion line and the actual line.
This represents a swept sphere to sphere collision It's similar to the sphere to line.