Click to visit Pigeon and Pigeonette
Dirk Derom and Sarah Verroken have written a children’s book called Pigeon and Pigeonette. It’s for 3-6 year olds, and it’s about two pigeons: one who is very large and blind, and another who is small, with wings that can’t carry her.
To promote the book, Dirk and Sarah put together an avoider game based on the AS3 base tutorial, but using their characters and Sarah’s wonderful style of illustration.
You can check it out at the book’s website (head to the Games section) — bear in mind that it’s designed for kids, so those of you with millions of badges on Kongregate are unlikely to find it much of a challenge!
Click to play Robot Saga: Escape
Matthew Ammann — who wrote the previously-mentioned SoundObject class — has written a game called Robot Saga: Escape.
It’s based on the AS3 version of the Flash avoider game tutorial, and is the first AS3 game Matthew’s made. He’s uploaded some development notes on his blog, which I found pretty interesting 
Upon release it was also the tenth most popular game on all of Big Fish Games — congratulations!
Click here to play Robot Saga: Escape.
Click to play Wesley
Bram Van Damme has written a game about a man, a pizza and a whole bunch of rhinos.
He made it for a Belgian magazine called Humo, which runs (or used to run) a comic strip about this guy Wesley. Now, I don’t spreak Dutch, but Bram translated one of the strips for me. It seems Wesley ordered a pizza, but was delivered a rhino instead. He phones the pizza guy, who apologises, and sends along another pizza. Except when it arrives — uh oh, it’s another rhino! And the situation escalates, of course. Eventually the rhinos drink some cola, which solves the problem in a sense, because naturally cola causes rhinos to explode (a fact I did not know previously).
The game pits Wesley against a whole horde of rhinos, trying to stop them stealing all his pizza by throwing cola bottles. It sounds a little silly (it IS a little silly) but it’s actually great fun.
I got to see this game develop from the start, which was really cool. Bram added in the walk-cycles and cola-throwing before I’d even written the animation and shoot-’em-up tutorials!
Play the game here, and leave a comment to let Bram know what you think
Fabio from Animassauro has put together this awesome game based on the AS3 Avoider Game Tutorial.
It’s called DinoScape; you play as a little green dinosaur trying to fight off eyeless monsters so that you can build a spaceship. Also, your main weapon is a giant HB pencil.
Click here to play it. It’s really awesome! Not only are the graphics amazing (check out the Animassauro showreel for more of this), but the gameplay is very different to the basic avoider game.
Fabio comments that “it’s a little game, but for myself, it was a great experience to learn more about game programming and actionscript.”
Thanks Fabio
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