Bibliography and Citation

Bibliography
Electronics Sources

1. MorrisLessmore.com  (n.d.).The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.. [WWW] Available from: http://morrislessmore.com/[Accessed 21/03/2013]

Online Images

1. Flash,Flex and ActionScript tutorials – flashadvanced. (2009). Creating a small shooting game in AS3. [Image Online] Available at: http://flashadvanced.com/creating-small-shooting-game-as3/ [last accessed: 21 March 2013].
2. MorrisLessmore.com  (n.d.).The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.. [Image Online] Available from: http://morrislessmore.com/ [Accessed 21/03/2013]
3. Tap! The iPhone & iPad Magazine.  (2006-2010.).The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.. [Image Online] Available from: http://www.tapmag.co.uk/review/438052647/fantastic-flying-books-mr-morris-lessmore [Accessed 21/03/2013]

Citation

Code Script

1. Dave Harfield. (2009). Implement the basic Flash CS3 drag-and-drop technique. [WWW] Available at: http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/tutorials/implement-the-basic-flash-cs3-drag-and-drop-technique/ [last accessed: 21 March 2013].
2. Emanuele Feronato. (2008). Creation of a matching game with Flash and AS3. [WWW] Available at: http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2008/05/02/creation-of-a-matching-game-with-flash-and-as3/[last accessed: 18 April 2013].
3. Flash,Flex and ActionScript tutorials – flashadvanced. (2009). Creating a small shooting game in AS3. [WWW] Available at: http://flashadvanced.com/creating-small-shooting-game-as3/ [last accessed: 21 March 2013].
4. Justin. (2011). Actionscript 3 code for quitting an Android App. [WWW] Available at: http://cartoonsmartblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/actionscript-3-code-for-quitting-an-android-app/[last accessed: 24 April 2013].

Story

1. Wikipedia- The Free Encyclopedia. (2013). The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. [WWW] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse,_the_Bird,_and_the_Sausage [last accessed: 1 December 2012].

Background Music

1. Rappaport, J. (2005-2013). OlaOla.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://thejasoneffect.net/maple-story-ost/ [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
2. Galbadia Hotel. (2005-2011). Shizuka na egao.mp3  [WWW] Available at: http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/3573 [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
3. OrisinalMusic. (2010). Among the Clouds – Orisinal (MP3 Download). [WWW] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDTnUYjFH5E [last accessed: 23 April 2013].

Sound Effects

1. SoundJay.com (2013). page-flip-9.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.soundjay.com/page-flip-sounds-1.html [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
2. SoundJay.com (2013). boiling-water-2.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.soundjay.com/kitchen-sounds-1.html  [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
3. AudioMicro,Inc. (2013). Fill bucket with water.wave [WWW] Available at: http://www.audiomicro.com/free-sound-effects/free-water-sound-effects/page-3 [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
4. SoundJay.com (2013). wood-cracking-2.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.soundjay.com/nature-sounds-3.html [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
5. AudioMicro,Inc. (2013). Bird song.wave [WWW] Available at: http://www.audiomicro.com/free-sound-effects/free-animal-sound-effects/free-bird-sound-effects/page-3 [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
6. SoundJay.com (2013). button-11.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.soundjay.com/button-sounds-2.html  [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
7. Sounddogs.com. (1997-2013). SingleChop.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.sounddogs.com/results.asp?CategoryID=1032&SubcategoryID=33&Type=1 [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
8. Sounddogs.com. (1997-2013). Salt.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.sounddogs.com/searchresults.asp?Keyword=Salt  [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
9. Sounddogs.com. (1997-2013). Swimming.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.sounddogs.com/results.asp?Type=1&CategoryID=1049&SubcategoryID=73   [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
10. SoundJay.com (2013). matches-1.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.soundjay.com/nature-sounds.html   [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
11. Sounddogs.com. (1997-2013). night_cricket.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.sounddogs.com/results.asp?Type=1&CategoryID=1049&SubcategoryID=73   [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
12. AudioMicro,Inc. (2013). Comedy effect spring.wav [WWW] Available at: http://www.audiomicro.com/free-sound-effects/free-cartoons-and-comic-effects/page-3  [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
13. SoundJax.com (2008-2013). 11734^laugh.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://soundjax.com/laughing-25.html [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
14. AudioMicro,Inc. (2013). Blow nose.wav [WWW] Available at: http://www.audiomicro.com/free-sound-effects/free-cartoons-and-comic-effects/page-3  [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
15. PacDV.com (2013). Hmmmm.wav  [WWW] Available at: http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/people_sounds.html [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
16. freeSFX. (n.d.) eating.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/eating?p=2 [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
17. SoundJax.com (2008-2013). 94095^death.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://soundjax.com/laughing-25.html [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
18. Sounddogs.com. (1997-2013). flap.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.sounddogs.com/results.asp?Type=1&CategoryID=1009&SubcategoryID=40    [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
19. SoundJig. (n.d.) beep26.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.soundjig.com/pages/soundfx/beeps.html [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
20. SoundJax.com (2008-2013). 1149^hmscream.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://soundjax.com/scream-1.html [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
21. freeSFX. (n.d.) fire.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.freesfx.co.uk/soundeffects/fires/ [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
22. freeSFX. (n.d.) bubble.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/bubble  [last accessed: 23 April 2013].
23. SoundJay.com (2013). button-9.mp3 [WWW] Available at: http://www.soundjay.com/button-sounds-1.html [last accessed: 23 April 2013].

Credit

Narrator voice over by Yuki Lim Li Sher

New Problem

I found a problem which occurred at the exit part of the application. The application did not fully exit when I pressed the back button, and when I pressed back to the app, it displayed the previous page when I exit the application. Therefore, I found a script online and it worked well to solve the problem. I had tested this on my phone as well.

the source are from http://cartoonsmartblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/actionscript-3-code-for-quitting-an-android-app/

Script

if(Capabilities.cpuArchitecture==”ARM”){

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(Event.ACTIVATE, handleActivate, false, 0, true); NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(Event.DEACTIVATE, handleDeactivate, false, 0, true); NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, handleKeys, false, 0, true);

}

function handleActivate(event:Event):void

{

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.systemIdleMode = SystemIdleMode.KEEP_AWAKE;

}

function handleDeactivate(event:Event):void

{

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();

}

function handleKeys(event:KeyboardEvent):void

{

if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.BACK) {

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();

}

}

Sound Record and Editing

I am done with animating and coding for the game. It is time for sound recording and editing. There are a few resources that I managed to find for background music, and I also got to ask my friend to help with recording the narrator's voice over for every page of the ebook as written in my script. I also need to find the suitable sound effects for each of my animated part as well as for the game.

After this, I can proceed to the editing those sounds and/or music using Adobe Audition, such as to change the volume or editing the noise of recorded sound. I need to build the hierarchy of sound for background music, narrator's voice over and the sound effects so they will not clash with each other.

Game Development 2 - Pair Game

I found a new script for the matching card game, and it worked well on the frame after a little bit of tweaking the code. However, there is still an error when I tried clicking back to the previous page with the game on page 4 displayed, but cannot be disabled when going back to the previous page or the next page. Since the problem still occurs, therefore I keep going back to the old script to make the tile disappear when the same tiles are matched. I put the solution behind the game after the game is played. I put in a movieclip to show the arranged new duty roles for each characters. 

I still try my best to solve the problem although I had plan B for it.

Animation and Coding

I am currently working on the animation and game coding. I keep testing it on my phone when I am half done with it so that I can find any bugs or problems and fix them earlier. I found out that there is a minor error which is fortunately easy to solve. While doing this, I went to hunt for background music to suit my ebook and some sound effects to go together with the animation and games.

The first game went well, but the problems lie in the second game. This is because the second card game uses OOP and Actionscript file to call into my file. But it appeared in every frame, while it only needs to be on a certain frame. So I went online to look for the solution and hope that it will work out well. I tried very hard but to no avail, even trying different ways to solve the problem but nothing worked out. So I resorted to another script which is shown below:


Matching Card Game

Script


package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.utils.Timer;
public class color_match extends Sprite {
private var first_tile:colors;
private var second_tile:colors;
private var pause_timer:Timer;
var colordeck:Array = new Array(1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8);
public function color_match() {
for (x=1; x<=4; x++) {
for (y=1; y<=4; y++) {
var random_card = Math.floor(Math.random()*colordeck.length);
var tile:colors = new colors();
tile.col = colordeck[random_card];
colordeck.splice(random_card,1);
tile.gotoAndStop(9);
tile.x = (x-1)*82;
tile.y = (y-1)*82;
tile.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,tile_clicked);
addChild(tile);
}
}
}
public function tile_clicked(event:MouseEvent) {
var clicked:colors = (event.currentTarget as colors);
if (first_tile == null) {
first_tile = clicked;
first_tile.gotoAndStop(clicked.col);
}
else if (second_tile == null && first_tile != clicked) {
second_tile = clicked;
second_tile.gotoAndStop(clicked.col);
if (first_tile.col == second_tile.col) {
pause_timer = new Timer(1000,1);
pause_timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE,remove_tiles);
pause_timer.start();
}
else {
pause_timer = new Timer(1000,1);
pause_timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE,reset_tiles);
pause_timer.start();
}
}
}
public function reset_tiles(event:TimerEvent) {
first_tile.gotoAndStop(9);
second_tile.gotoAndStop(9);
first_tile = null;
second_tile = null;
pause_timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE,reset_tiles);
}
public function remove_tiles(event:TimerEvent) {
removeChild(first_tile);
removeChild(second_tile);
first_tile = null;
second_tile = null;
pause_timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE,remove_tiles);
}
}
}

This source is found online :http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2008/05/02/creation-of-a-matching-game-with-flash-and-as3/


Although it is an Actionscript file, it is much easier to refined compared to the previous version I had.

Display Measurement

I found out that Galaxy Tab display have two different measurements: 1024px x 600px and 1280px x 800px. Therefore, to ensure my graphic remain same size and able to fix into different size, I try to publish it as an application and test it on my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone with displayed on 1280px x 720px and my friend's Samsung Galaxy W displayed on 480 x 800 pixels. It is a relieve to know that it just needs to be set into full Screen and it will work fine in any device.

Samsung Galaxy W

(480 x 800 pixels)

 Samsung Galaxy S3

(1280px x 720px)

Digital sketches

There are 12 final digital sketches. It took me a lot of time to match the colours other than sketching the outline. I have also added dialogues into the pages, and I am currently working on the animation before proceeding to coding the full game.