Treasure Tower - Flash edition

[davidn]

Climb the Treasure Tower before the clock strikes midnight!

Spurred on by an offhand comment on Fusion Roundtable, I spent this week hammering at one of my old games to convert it to a Flash project.

Treasure Tower - Flash edition

Not a whole lot of the game had to be changed to allow it to be converted - most notably all the music and sound actions had to be replaced and I had to modify the way it saved so that it was allowable in Flash - I'll post a fuller article on what I had to do to convert it later on. Otherwise, most of the work just went into polishing up the presentation a bit. It's also now connected up to MochiMedia and its high score boards, so you can still compete with other players for the best times and other records - I've even gone as far as trying out sharing it on Facebook.

I must say that I quickly found myself on the receiving end of karmic retribution for scoring the game entirely with Scott Joplin ragtimes, because all I can hear in my head now is endless manic piano music - for the benefit of everyone else, as special consideration in this version, I've put in the option to make it stop.

Comments

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

This is pretty fun to play! I like how the clock's gears are constantly spinning - gears are a favourite element of mine, and coupled with the clock, gives a rather big sense of urgency.

If I can suggest, I noticed that the text in the instructional pages refers to "Button 1" as opposed to "Shift", and only displays the first line of text on each page. It could be just my computer - running Firefox on Kubuntu, Flash version 10,0,22,87.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Did I just see my character consume a plant in a flowerpot as food? *laugh*

[davidn]

I love having stories to tell about game elements like this - the clock was actually something that was created as an emergency replacement for something that didn't work! When first making the Windows version in 2006, it was going to be a Knightmare-themed game, so I was planning to use the life force sequence from the programme (which looks like this) for the timer. But I quickly found out that loading and jumping to a specific point in a video for every room just took far too long, so the clock with its spinning gears was thought up to take its place - and it became very iconic of the game for something that was never planned to be in it from the start :)

I think that the differing fonts between opreating systems will be the problem that you're seeing (although I should have caught that "Button 1" mistake...!) - I tried to catch everywhere where that happened, but it looks like I missed that. Never mind, Linux people will be the most likely to get the idea without instructions anyway ;)

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

the Fusion To Flash thingie doesn't let you embed fonts?

[davidn]

It does, but my issue was that I was doing the conversion on a different computer from where I'd done the Windows version of the game, so the font files that I used originally weren't there either.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Well, then replace them with the fonts that you're using for now, and embed those. ;) Flash doesn't play nice with non-embedded fonts, in a number of ways...

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! So that scary skull-like icon you have is from Knightmare?

[kjorteo]

 

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

 

[davidn]

Yes, it is! It was one of the most game-like TV programmes ever, and that was in the last few frames of the "health bar" (it was replaced by decreasingly morbid things later on in the programme's lifetime, because they went soft).