A preview of Flying Zombie Bus

Flying Zombie Bus is a physics I've been working on, which should be complete in a week or two's time. The goal is simple: zombify all the people! You must guide the zombies to the people, making sure that none of them fall or/and die.
As you can see, every group of levels have their own theme. In this level, the theme is grassy.

So far I have implemented the following features:

• Trampolines
• Gravity Switchers
• Clicky platforms

And I am planning to add these features by the end of the week:

• Shrink pad - halves the size of any people/zombies that go over it.
• Growth pad - doubles the size of any people/zombies that go over it.
• Level editor - because what's a game without a level editor?

Hello HaXe!

HaXe is an object-oriented programming language that is similar to Java and Actionscript, both widely known programming languages. However, unlike them, haXe is not dedicated to one virtual machine or interpreter, or anything of the sort. Instead, haXe does something really sneaky yet clever and awesome: it compiles to other languages and bytecode. Not just that, but haXe has it's own APIs for the language that are easy to learn and use.

To get started, download & install haXe from here. It is available for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. Then, look for a compatible code editor here and install it. Open up your sleek code editor and make a new project or folder for our classic example. Make a new file/class called "HelloWorld.hx", and open it. Then, enter this in:

class HelloWorld {
   public static function main() {
      trace("Hello, HaXe!");
   }
}

(look familiar?)
Now, either press run in your IDE or open a command prompt/terminal and find your file, then enter this in:

haxe -swf HelloWorld.swf -main HelloWorld compile.hxml

This will tell the compiler to generate the flash file "HelloWorld.swf" from the classes in the project/folder which uses HelloWorld as it's main class. Now, open up HelloWorld.swf in your browser and be amazed.

Welcome!

On this blog I'll post games, game progress etc and occasionally write an article on haXe and stuff.