New Hobby

Here's a random, non-Germany related blog entry for today, just 'cause I can.

I picked up a little new hobby this year, just because I wanted something to do in my free time. Programming. It sounds boring, and a lot of it is, but making a game can be fun (I am using Flash). I wouldn't suggest it to people who get easily frustrated, have trouble finishing things, enjoy sleeping at night, or have trouble writing tons of unintelligible lines of code without typos. Strangely, those are all things that describe me. I guess it's kinda like someone that has a fear of spiders taking on a hobby as a spider breeder.

I chose this little hobby because I was looking for video games (my other little hobby) for my Mac and I realized how few there are, and how expensive they are (*Windows version -> 10$* *Mac version -> 50$*). I thought if I started easy, I could maybe work my way up eventually and help out all the people like me who just want to entertain themselves on their Macs without spending a bunch of money.


Here is a sample of a days work on a Flash program, you can't even call it a game yet, but I like how it's coming along. At my current level of programming skill, something like this takes a few hours (animation and coding).







Movement -> Arrow Keys
Jump (when standing still) -> Up Key
Crouch -> Down Key
Weak Punch -> C Key
Strong Punch -> X Key

Note -- Don't expect anything to come at you, like enemies, because there aren't any, you just walk around the one part of the stage.

To start, click on the ---PLAY--- link below and then just click anywhere inside the animation box on the new page, you will need Flash Player to get it to work.

------PLAY-----

Have Fun
-Kevin