I had a fun time looking at Charlie and Kurt‘s Flash stuff that they recently posted to their blogs. Very experimental stuff with deep meaning that goes way over my head. I have a few Flash creations of my own that I figured I’d share. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you my World of Flashcraft:

Mario_quote

Mario runs and runs and runs. He’ll never find his princess.

Disco Fantasy II

Grab your E and a $10 bottle of water and hit the dance floor! Unfortunately this pixelated warrior is hogging the spotlight and he’s scared everybody away.

Glacies Ex Machina

My magnum opus and comment on the treatment of janitorial service workers in the United States today. Actually, that isn’t even close. I was just trying to create a Myst-like game demo in under 8 hours.

TinyQuest

I made this for an assignment in T570. It was initially too easy so I ramped up the difficulty to near-impossible levels. It’s at cell phone resolution which was a real pain to design.

Lucky Wander Boy

A tribute to a wonderful novel by D.B. Weiss. I actually received an e-mail from Mr. Weiss a while back and he asked me if I could figure out how to make a Flash game that “reads my mind and gives me a vectorized version of my deepest desires…” If only!

I am waiting for you, Lucky Wander Boy!

Games.net presents “Game Series That Jumped the Shark”

Where the hell is Sonic the Hedgehog? It jumps the shark every time Sega decides to introduce some lame-ass character who nobody cares about and who sticks around for an average 1.5 games. It jumped the biggest shark when they gave “Shadow” (the series’ badboy… wait, wasn’t that Sonic?) a pair of handguns. There are two new Sonic games coming to next-gen consoles and Sega has already anounced a new hero. Why can’t we get Sonic and Tails and nobody else? Why not raise the stakes? Have Dr. Robotnik (He will always be Dr. Robotnik to me. Not ‘Eggman’) kill all of the other characters. Especially Big the Cat. I want that feline ripped apart by 10 mecha-Sonics. With all of the characters out of the way, we’ll be back to old school Sonic and we won’t be forced to play as sub-par characters.

http://www.goodtogarden.com

The artwork featured in the two previous posts is on the above site. I had a lot of fun making the pixel art despite going almost 24 hours without sleep. When Will, my teammate, brought up the idea of a gardening site, the first style I thought of was pretty much what I ended up using. I really liked the Atari look of Junior Senior’s “Move Your Feet” and I had been looking for an excuse to try something similar.

Big shout-out to Will for doing the code. And for getting our team together and, ya know, coming up with the idea and everything.