Heya buddies.

Here's a wee demo of some of the upgrade and item menus in EBF4.

I'm working on Epic Battle Fantasy 4 full time now, so I should manage to make weekly posts on here again.
I reckon the game's around 50% done, and I'm hoping that's not too optimistic.

Below is a screenshot of the new interface, which is a fair bit more graphical compared to the old one.

I've also made a Twitter account for posting more frequent updates, if anyone's interested in following me on there.

Just finished my exams and now I'm done with school forever!!

I'd like to say I'm a full-time game developer now, but I'm probably just going to do nothing for a while.

Also, I uploaded my dissertation about Flash game development, just in case anyone's interested in having a look at it.

Anyone have much experience using Flash CS5 or CS5.5?
My demo expired before I managed to play around with it very much...

I noticed it's got some new features for managing projects across several files and sharing symbols.
How well does that work? Could I compile a lot of .fla files into a single .swf file? Do you get any sort of library conflicts?
I'll probably not be able to compile EBF4 if I keep it in one file this time...

Also, what sort of system specs do you think I'll need to get really smooth performance out of it?
I'm planning on getting a new machine soon-ish, and finally upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7.
I don't know if I should get an amazing machine, or if better project organization would be enough to make Flash run a lot faster.

Anyway, just interested to hear from someone who's done any development in the newer versions of Flash.
I'm still using CS3 & 8 for now.

Got a few complaints about the redesign, although I'm still exploring...

The icons near the top of the front page need some descriptions next to them (same goes for the browsing pages). I like the look of the "P-Bot's picks" bit, most areas should look like that. Just a thumbnail may work fine for art, but I think games and movies need a bit more information without needing to mouse over. I think you should also include the score next to those.

The backgrounds are a bit overwhelming. They look cool and all, but it's hard to get used to them when they keep changing. Maybe just lower the contrast/brightness on them or something?

I don't really like how stars represent ratings now, that seems a bit unoriginal. But I don't have any better suggestions and I'll probably get used to it.

On the movie/games pages, I think the stats (filesize especially) should be a bit higher up on the page. But maybe it's just me who looks at that stuff.

Anyway, overall it looks pretty good, and I like how the big game icons look on my user profile :D

HalcyonicFalconX released a new CD, containing the soundtracks of Bullet Heaven and Adventure Story, since the EBF3 soundtrack eventually sold out.
If you like her music then consider grabbing a copy.

Also finished the animations for Godcat:
Part A
Part B

Spoilerz.

Well Adventure Story has been out for a few days now and it's doing reasonably well.
Go check it out if you haven't yet.

Kinda submitted it at a bad time; a lot of good games came out on the same week, but hopefully that won't matter much except for losing a few competitions.

Anyway, back to working on EBF4... oh wait, I still have to write a 100-ish page dissertation on Adventure Story, oops.

So much for having any sort of holiday...

Adventure Story is finished, just doing some last minute testing.

It should be up on Kongregate in 2 or 3 days, and if there's no problems it'll probably be up here the day after that.

Spoilerz.