Here’s a fantastic article that voices out against all the bullshit that flash portals like Kongregate, ArmorGames, and Mofunzone force upon developers who submit to their sites.

I cannot tell you how much this echoes my grievances within the flash gaming industry.

Just working on the color scheme for the first part of the new Level 2 redesign. What do you think? Now on to shading and highlights.

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Shadows and highlights are done.

Here are the rough layouts for the new level 2 design. My buddy Ryan and I have altered its original layout it to give it more of a purpose, starting from the outside road, showing off the remnants of a good city sacking, into the city, and finally finishing off in an arena.

Now on to deeper, darker, spiderier ice caves in level 3. Yay, I made up a word.

Looks like I have some work to do if I’m going to get Conjurer done in time.

The redesign is going great! The new code that loads a level is all in place, in Flash 10, and running quite efficiently. I can load up animated background and foreground props like the water fall animation and rising dust in the sun beams. Check out the following for a peek at the new level 1 training stage. Man it feels good when hard work pays off.

Now on to block out the new artwork for the remaining levels. Wish me luck.

Do me a favor, would you? I have the latest version of IE and the latest Flash 10 plugin, and for some reason it tells me that running the movie from the link above only takes 1% of the CPU. That’s gotta be bullshit. Tell me what kind of computer you have. Click the link, hit control+alt+delete. Go to the task manager. Go to the performance tab, and tell me at what percent CPU usage the line bounces around. Make sure you don’t have any other windows or tabs open, please.