GAME: Learning to code with As2 and As3

Hello everyone! I've started a new collaborative project recently and one of my contributions will be making a flash game! I found a very helpful website to help me with this: http://www.flashgametuts.com/. It's got lots of popular flash game concepts and teaches you how to create them yourself very simply. They've got both As2 and As3 tutorial versions for each game tutorial which makes the code more accessible to everyone. I highly recommend this website!

My game will be a platform based game since I think it'll be a cool concept to understand and work with. At the moment I'm still creating the basic structure of the code. I've decided not to copy and paste all the code from flashgametuts.com and work step by step to understand some of the code. This way I'll be able to easily edit the code to my preferences. This is a slower process but it'll benefit my learning incredibly... I also recommend this to anyone else who's learning code.

That's it for now. Sorry if it was a little dull. I hope to later have some pictures of the actual game which should be a lot more interesting!

I recently watched Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop which is a brief documentary about street art. One of the more famous artists shown was Shepard Fairey, the creator of the Obey campaign. I found his Obey project very interesting so I looked further into it...

Obey was created as a way to experiment with the public's reactions to the concept of the symbol. The project is exercised by placing the symbol (a sticker, or a stencil, or act of graffiti) all over public walls, billboards, bins etc. I think that the idea behind it is that we are harassed by commercial graphic images all the time within American/UK society and this small campaign helps some of us realize how passive we are about the process.

As for the rest of Banksy's movie, there seemed to be a general theme presented by the main artist, Thierry Guetta, which is that media is a form of being brainwashed. *SPOILER* This is why later in the movie he becomes a graffiti artist and titles himself Mr. Brainwash. *END SPOILER* The whole movie itself looks into the life of a famous low-level criminal artist and also looks into the absurd world of art that criticism and/or loves it. I would highly recommend it. I give it four stars! ****

To conclude, I found street art a very interesting area of study and can relate it a lot to Media Activism (my area of study at the moment).

Links: Banksy's website / The Obey website / Mr. Brainwash's website