After School Showdown

Video game made in ActionScript

After School Showdown was one of the first bigger coding project that I made in ActionScript. This was also the first big group coding project that I worked on. It was a great way to learn about team dynamics and how to help each other. It was also a great learning experience as to having to rely on your team and the importance at doing your part efficiently because what you do effects everyone. There were two major parts to the project.

Graphics

My two team mates divided the work, one would focus on the backgrounds, title screen, health bars, etc. The other would work on the characters. Each member of our team came up with an idea for a character. After that my team mate got to work creating all the different frames for the characters, hand drawing them so that we could animate them.

Coding

When I started getting objects and backgrounds I could start coding. I created code to make the health go down, to animate the characters, to play music and to change the graphics to display the turns. I also made it so that only the persons’s who’s turn it is, is the only one that can press the buttons.

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Try out the game! (There is sound)

Screenshots

Cartoon green chalkboard on top of a cartoon sky background. On the chalk board there are different drawings in the corners there are little doodles, in the center it says after school showdown. There is a hot pink start button underneath the chalkboard.

Start Screen

This is the opening screen of a video game my team and I created. I did all of the coding in ActionScript and my two other team mates made all the art.

A cartoon dragon, dog, and wolf standing in a line. Above it says, Your Possible Characters. Below it has a ready button.

Possible Characters

Screenshot of the character display page, with a ready button to start the game.

Cartoon Dog and Dragon ready to fight, their standing on green grass and there's a cartoon building in the background. There are health and heal bars and it start's with player 1's turn.

Start of the Game

This is how the game first looks after you press the ready button.

Cartoon dog and wolf Standing on cartoon green grass with a cartoon building in the background. It's a screenshot from a video game. There are health bars and it's player 1's turn.

Dog Attacking

Screenshot from the game, here the dog is attacking.

The cartoon wolf is covering himself with his arms.

Wolf Blocking

Screenshot where the wolf is blocking.

Cartoon dog and dragon Standing on cartoon green grass with a cartoon building in the background. It's a screenshot from a video game. There are health bars and it's player 1's turn.

Dragon Attack

In this screenshot the dragon is midway through his attack.