The MS Paint thread made me search for the game named in the topic. I found it, an old Hypercard stack made in the ages of 68k Macs. I also found a Hypercard player that works on OSX Classic. Anyway, here are some screenshots from the game:

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What I like is the rough quality of the graphics combined with a great rpg story.

You mean Johnny Rocketfingers?

No, but at a glance from work it looks worth checking out. Thanks for the link.

Yes, you click. Very minimal animation. And chip like music. When you click on an area that is a hot spot, the area turns negative. It takes you to the next frame or it opens a dialog. The beginning of the story: Sean wakes up, throws his alarm clock through the window. It kills a pedestrian, Sean's neighbour. He gets her keys...

I remember! Fancy Pants Adventures! The animation is so fluid... I like it.

Fancypants was fun. It's NOT an adventure game though. I liken it more to a fast pace side scroller. Much like Sonic the Hedgehog.

What's different about the costs of making a Flash game verses a game with Allegro/C++?

As far as I know you have to own Macromedia Flash MX <version>; and have to pay if you want to legally distribute your movie. You still need artists to do the art, although an animation framework and interface is already developed for you, and that takes time. You still need scripters/programmers to script all of the game's functionality and that takes time.

It might be a higher level approach than say a game written mostly in C++, but that doesn't mean that it's effortless. N is one of the best 2D games I've played and it was developed with Flash.

Also, coming up with innovative 2D game designs isn't an every day thing. It really takes time to do and there's nothing wrong with building another game based around older techniques; especially when it's executed so well.

Afterall, there are many Allegro games that are very similar to each other in terms of gameplay.

Besides, of the games that I have played developed with Allegro I'd say that Fancy Pants Adventures easily stacks up against most of them. I'm not saying that's true for all Allegro games, but for the ones I've played it is.

I'm not a fan of Flash development. I prefer something programmer-oriented where anything is possible. Still though, I respect Flash games for what they are. Mostly a good distraction from class.

I also attribute Flash development as more of an artist's domain than a programmer's.

I think they meant adventure in terms of the game itself; not the type of game. It's about the adventures of Fancy Pants; hense, Fancy Pants Adventures.

I'm sorry, I can't resist: Clicky

I was thinking about making a simple flash game just to say I've done one

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Odd, the url tags weren't displaying properly?

Edit: That explains alot. Fixed!

Check out the demo for World 2!!!

Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2 Demo

World 2 looks even more amazing. A lot of improvements.