Digital Dave

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Apr 29, 2008

Reaching For Stars, GTAIV

I made a couple changes to Reaching For Stars.

This concludes the 2 weeks that I intended on spending on this project, which ultimately ended up being about 5 nights of actual work. Overall, if you understand another programming language, coming to AS3 will not be any issue. Like they all say (books, friends, instructors), once you learn one language, learning another is a matter of syntax. Coming from C++ and Java, this wasn’t an issue for me. If you have a background in Java, coming to AS3 definitely won’t be an issue. The syntax is scary similar.

Play Final Version of Reaching For Stars

I’m not sure there is anything I can say about GTAIV that hasn’t been written, throughly, through several reviews, but this game is pretty slick. The storyline, especially, has incredible depth, which I’m having a blast with. Not to mention, all of the other side quests and things that you can do… I haven’t tried the multiplayer aspect of it, but I hear that’s another bag of treats. Overall, it’s an awesome game. No, this wasn’t a review… Consider it a reassurance of excellence. ;p

 

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  • http://trazoi.net Dave “Trapper Zoid”

    “Like they all say (books, friends, instructors), once you learn one language, learning another is a matter of syntax.”

    Not *strictly* true – that doesn’t hold if you move between language families, like going from a procedural C based language to something functional like Haskell. I’m also finding that different languages have ways of tackling problems that fall into their strengths, like using lists in Python.

    But in this case, ActionScript 3 does seem to fit in well with the C /Java minset. I really need to scrape together some time to get back into playing with it and give your prototypes some competition :)

David McGraw

Founder of iGotIt Games. Trader. Runner. Warrior. Motivator.