Introduction

"And soon I will have understanding of videocassette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them, I shall have understanding of computers. And when I have understanding of computers, I shall be the Supreme Being!" (Time Bandits 1981)

Chris Ellis is a freelance Senior Flash Programmer, former Lingo Programmer and resident of London.

He has an MSc in Interactive Multimedia from Westminster University, graduating in 2000. He started programming at the age of 8 with a BBC Model B and a few books on BASIC.

What follows are some snippets from what he's currently up to.

Thursday, 30 April 2009

Skellig Game

I recently had the luck to work with some really tallented guys over at Sky on one of my favourite projects of recent time.
Behold Skellig - Shed or Alive!





>>>>Play it here<<<<

It's a sideways scroller, based around the film made by Sky, "Skellig" which is out around now.

You have to fly the fly out of the shed to freedom. You get three lives and limited energy for each fly. The shed is comprised of three levels and has a host of different garden implements to avoid such as spanners, saws, blowtorches, hungry frogs, wasps and more. There is even a bit where you get caught with fly spray which makes our hero trip out for a few seconds!

There are loads of great graphical bits in it and the sound for each level has a unique feel to it. It plays pretty well too, even though I'm having to do a lot of collision detection and scroll massive bitmaps as well it seems to run quickly enough.

It was a great team effort and a lot of fun to work on.

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