I spent all night last night making this simple flash game for a university class. :P I think it turned out ok! I made it in like 8 hours with Photoshop and Flash 8. It won’t take you hours to play, maybe not even minutes if you are crafty! The song is from Free Play Music, which is a great resource for free stock music, by the way. Also, I’m not too savvy with flash yet so I didn’t know how to make a mute button. Also I was lazy. :P So I’m sorry if the funky pirate music is too silly, hehe.
Click to popup the flash game and play!
Bob the Pirate wishes you to help him find his treasure! So what are you waiting for, matey?! Swab the decks and shiver your timbers! Polish your sword and buckle your boots! Hitch a ride on Bob’s pirate ship and sail into the high seas of adventure!
Resources for the designer!
CSS Naked Day has come and gone! All around it was a good time and very informative, I think. It’s interesting to see what your website looks like “nekkid”, hehe. Without all its color and pizazz it is actually easy to pick out things that should be changed behind the “scenes”. A better hierarchy of content order and navigation. Anyone else have this revelation while strippin’ yesterday?
I discovered BrowserShotsthe other day! Why haven’t I found this before! Here I was downloading all of these different browsers to view my site in when I could have just used this website. Silly me. And apparently this site is already well known around the web, so I feel extra silly. Sillyish, even…*wriggles*. ;)
Another cool thing I found is this huge linkbait for CSS menus, which I will keep an eye on for future layout designs. There are so many amazing things you can do with CSS! You can make corners, boxes, speech bubbles…hell, you can even make a pixel car! Also, if you are heavy into CSS and want to maybe optimize your stylesheets more, definitely check out CSSTidy, which is an open source CSS parser and optimizer. I’m working on a new style for my site and am totally using this to help me break down my main stylesheet.
Just in case you missed it…
Hilarity ensued on the Q*Bee after we finished an awesome forum game a couple days ago. If you are active on a forum, I highly suggest starting a game like this, it has hilarious results! :D The game is called the Three Word Story, and it works by creating a story, post by post, of three word sentences. For example, the topic starter will say something like “Bob went to” and then someone could reply to the topic with “the fun house”, the third could say “and he shimmied”, and so on. Each post must only be three words!
It’s awesome and way too much fun to read the whole thing at the end! Feel free to read the amazing story that came out of the BBS! :D I’m hungry and have not slept for almost 36 hours. XD Ha! At least it’s Friday, yay weekend! :) Hope everyone has a great one!
Yay found! :P :star:
Wooo congrats! :D
I love Bob the pirate hehe had a lot of fun playing :medal:
Thanks for the tip on browsershots, I must be totally behind too as I had no idea it was there :gb:
Yay for Bob! :D And yeah, hehe I feel outta the web loop! XD
Haha, this game is so funny! You yellow bellied trout! XD Was it hard to make? Oh, you to let you know, it didn’t open in a popup for me (it’s probably because I did something stupid anyway), so I just typed the URL in the addresss box and it worked.
Have fun!
Thanks! And it wasn’t as hard to make as I thought it would be. Once you figure out some things with flash it’s pretty easy! And it may be something with Javascript that didn’t allow you to open it, but I’m glad you were able to get to it!
Hey Melissa, thanks for linking to my speech bubbles!
Arg and I kept falling off the end of the world, i guess the pirate life is not for me.
Hey no problem! I really love using them myself, very nice and useful! :) And LOL, don’t worry, Bob the Pirate is forgiving!
Your game is so cool Melissa! I think you did a great job. I found the treasure! Yay!!
I’ll have to check out BrowserShots. I only ever check my site in IE and FF.
*Off to add to the Most Amazing Story 2 at the BBS!*
Yay, thanks! *hugs* And WOOT for the Amazing Story!!
Bob the pirate was a awesome game! I really sniggered when I played it, hehe :D
Ooh, I have to check out browsershots, I only check my site in IE and FF. And I will definitly bookmark that CSS navigation site! :gb:
Well then, see you over at Snark!
Woo, thanks! And yeah, I normally only check mine in those two as well. I’m so glad I found that site! Yay for SNARK!! :D
I can’t view your flash game *sobs*
I love how you do your comments!! I need to learn how to do them that way *hint*hint* lol.
Hehe, glad that link I just gave you helped earlier and you could play it! Hopefully I can help you tomorrow with the speech bubbles, they are great!
Yay I found the treasure!! :D
Those CSS menus look great… but I can also use them for other things aswell! >:}
The new game rocked. I cried a couple of times when the native people attacked. Na I didn’t, but it was annoying! As is any game. Well done. :gb:
O rly? XD Do tell, do tell! And glad you liked the game! Thanks! :D
Hehe I love that game :D! And yay for nekkid day. I definitely learned a couple things myself ;).
I really should post links I find more often haha. Somewhere I have a CSS tidier, where all you gotta do is input your CSS and it tidies it for you if your lazy :P.
Yay nekkid! And YES you should! Totally post them, because I know you’ve found a bunch of good ones!
The one thing I think would help out with the 71 CSS page is if they posted up example graphics, though I can see why s/he probably didn’t–too lazy! :P
I linked it, so thanks for that one.
Oh I agree with that definitely…that would make it a much nicer list to browse! Wooo! ^_^
Two very good links from that post! Thanks for the music and the css navigation sites. Will looka at them both in much more detail later. :rainbow: Cheers!
Woot, no problem! They are great sites! :D
Haha I found the treasure! But back to work with me!
:heart:
Thanks, babe! :D Love you! *muah!*
Oh my gosh, the game turned out great! I loved watching you make that. I thought I showed you browsershots and css menus. Have an awesome weekend, you rock!
Joey
You may have, sweetie! I know I found those off of a feed I watch but you probably showed them to me too, hehe! :D Now go make a blog post!! :D
Oh Bob the Pirate was a joy to play! Go Bob! That was such a cute little game. I finally found the treasure… after dying a few times. :(
BrowserShots is brilliant! Thanks for posting that. I never knew about it before today. It’s certainly gonna save space on my computer. No more downloading different browsers.
Hooray for the Qbee’s first amazing story! That was great to read! :gb:
Yay, thanks Amy! :D Did those sneaky natives get you? XD
Ooh I know, I’m glad to be able to save some much needed space on mine as well!
And YAY for the Q*Beeeeee!
Yay, I found it too :)
Lol, I love the pirate talk! xD
You’re not the only person that had never heard of Browsershots before… I feel so stupid, I could’ve saved so much time if I’d found this website earlier. Thanks loads for the link ^^
wow you made a game in flash! wow must play! I wish I knew how to use flash. Those CSS thingys look cool I like the talk bubbles, I might use them in the future. :gb:
I love pirates and I love random use of the name Bob, hence me loving the game! :D It was cute and silly!
Thanks y’all! :D
Oooh! I loved the game :)
I completed it quickly, but I played it over and over even though I knew what to do. I love pirates! :) :star:
Hahaha I could never make a game like that!!
Good job (:
Melissa, this is hilarious; It was really cute, I died a couple of times, and the music you found for it is perfect.
Glad you all liked it! ^_^
I could have sworn I left a comment the other day, I dunno anymore.
Anyhow I played your game. Don’t be suprised if my ip shows up a lot if my kids find the game.
I loved that story too. :D It was hilarious!
You left one on the Amazing Story! :D And yay, I’m glad you liked it! Hehe, I hope your kids have fun if they find it too, hehe! ^_^
In regards to the ebay fiasco:
Ebay contacted all the sellers telling them that my account was hack and I’m not being held liable for anything that was bid on. I felt horrible telling some of these people that, No, I am not paying you $3k for a computer and I’m certainly not paying you $4.5mil for some weird ass patent, hah.
Holy crap! Wow…that’s some insane hacking. :( Glad you got everything fixed!! Whew.
You’ve got to teach me this :) Pretty please =D Where do you learn flash? I’m involved in this competition so I’ll need to learn it in two weeks. Sigh, I only wish I was put under web design again instead of Flash :(
I’ll find the tutorials I used and link them to you! They helped lots and I’m sure they will help you too. :D
Thanks!
Happy Easter! =D
Ooo, ooo, I’m really excited! I just noticed you book-marked Pink Garden & Perlina, that has just made my day, thanks for that! :gb:
Lotsa luv, Gemma xx
Of course, I love your site! And your jewelry is lovely! :D
Yay! I got to play the flash game. Hihi. And now for the spoiler… *zips mouth*
It’s good to hear that people are getting conscious about webstandards nowadays. :D I also joined the Naked Day and it made me realize how butt ugly my markup was. :D
Also, thanks for the link. I got a couple or so tutorials to study on.
Haha! Glad you liked it. ^_^ And yeah I’m glad they are too, I hope more people become aware so there are nicer sites on the web!
Oh COME ON!! After I had to restart the game the fourth time I wasn’T in the mood anymore :P Nice work though.
Browsershots? Never heard of it, but I’m trying it out.
Thanks for all the links you’ve posted actually, they seem quite helpful :star:
Awww! XD You know…maybe I should put up a "cheat sheet"…to be honest…the game actually stops on the 3rd island! XD And yay for links! I like talkin’ abouts the ones I likes! ^_^
I found the treasure! Wow, you did an excellent job on that flash game. It’s super!
Whoa, I will have to check out BrowserShots. That sounds like an insanely useful tool.
I still haven’t been approved for the Qbee but I’m eager to so that I can join in on all that fun, hehe.
I hope you had a great weekend and a nice Easter.
Yay, thanks! :D And I haven’t seen you pop up into the application approval queue yet, but we’ll get to you soon I’m sure of it! :D Yay, I hope you had a good one too!
haha! That game is so cute!! I haven’t managed to find the treasure yet. (poor pirate, he has travelled one too many times of the edge of hte earth.) I’m probably not the best first mate.
You did a great job on your game, and your site pretty awesome.
Glad you liked it and aww, thanks for the compliment! ^_^
Cool game! I want to learn flash too but I’m just too lazy so I never get started.
And that site checking your website in different browsers rock! I guess I’m a bit behind because I’ve never heard of it until now.
The game was great! It took me a bit to get to the end :P
If you want a mute button its just a matter of actionscripting the behaviour of stop all sounds. Its the easiest rather than going through the volume control which is kind of painful.
on (press) {//stopAllSounds Behavior
stopAllSounds();
}
Its really fantastic. I love the art style :)
Thanks! Oooh, and thanks so much for that script bit! I will have to remember that and/or add it to the pirate game! Yay! :D
Well, heck, I don’t know why I didn’t comment on the game when you finished it. I loved it! And normaly I hate computer games! Awesome job!
Thanks for the Happy Easter comment; Hope you had a nice one as well ;) :star:
Thanks all! ^_^
hi melissa!
your flash game is amazing! :D i hope you get a good grade on it. :heart: :heart: :heart:
thanks for the link recs. those are awesome finds. will definitely spread the word (and credit you!) on the forums I post in! :star:
i love your domain, everything about it. this is what every person wanting to own a domain should aspire to be. cheers!
belated happy Easter and God bless. :butterfly
Hey thanks! :D And I’m glad those links will help you! Aww, thanks for the compliment on my site, yay! :D
I was here a few days ago, played the game. I must say, I still haven’t figured it out. Care to spill the secret some day? I always miss the BBSs games. That story is funny – then again, all of those 3-letter ones are funny. Thanks for sharing.
Hehe, well…it actually is a really short game. It stops on the 3rd island and the treasure is only 7 clicks after you start the game. XD
I tried out the game! I guess I would die if I was ever on a ship/boat because I died every time lmao!
Awesome job on the game though!
Hey wow i love all the helpful stuff on your site!
You,ve done a great job. You wouldnt be able to help me to customise wordpress and incorporate it into an existing site would you? hehe
Anyways keep adding cool things to your site!
Oh, kwap…I’m pitiful. I kept dying the other night when I played it! I’m truly having a blonde week.
A CSS parser? Oh my! I’ve got this thing bookmarked, thanks for the tip!
– Scot
this is a sweet lil game u have here, i wish i could make something like it.
XD Wow! I died in every single way possible before I found the treasure. x.x *laughs* I always manage to do that somehow. Anyways, this was awsome! :D
OMG this game is awesome, the pirate makes me laugh. It would be great if you made a simple tutorial on how to make a similar game like this.
Wooo! found the treasure ^__^ :award: :star:
I found the treasure too! This is a neat little game, Melissa.
hahah! such an awesome game :goodie:
LOL, I found it! :ohyeah: That was sooooo cute… omg XD <3 I died just about every time first though. hehehehe
I died… many times, lol. But I found it! :dance:
Very cute, I liked it :D
Yay I found the treasure!
I love this :D
I kept dying, but I finally got to the treasure! This is so unique, I love it! :D
Woot! I found the treasure :ohyeah: . Haha really cute game!
Ahaha, natives! ^_^ How cute!
I found the treasure. :cheer: I feel so proud.
I found the treasure on my first try without restarting XD
Good job to all who found the treasure! ;D
It’s fun to do! XD I finally got the treasure. (I died a few times o_o )