If you don’t know what Anthem is, I suggest you check out Gel’s blog, which has a bit more info on the game itself (Gel is Anthem’s designer and artist). But if you’d prefer a quick summary (stolen from the design doc), it’s a fast-paced 2d side-scrolling, platform-based melee action game. Oh, and it’s a flash game, but hopefully you won’t notice, unless you’re playing it in your browser. (:

Anyway, Hi, this is just an intro post, when I have a bit more time I’ll post some juicy info about Anthem and the engine powering Anthem, and programming Anthem and all that.

Should be good.

For now though, here’s a photo of where I work, and basically live.

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Design doc always open on the left monitor, Flash CS3 on the middle one, and SE|PY ActionScript Editor on the right (I don’t know what I’d do without SE|PY, seriously).

Also, I downloaded this c/c++/c# line counter today, and modified it to look for .as files and ran it on my Anthem directory.

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Not sure if 3875 lines of code is a lot (for a flash game in development) or anything (not that a lot of code is necessarily a good thing, a lot of code can mean all sorts of bad things, like duplicate code, or even worse: slow, bulky, unoptimized code!), but I thought it would be interesting to see how much the code base grows in the next month leading up to the deadline, after roughly 8 months of on/off (mostly off) development. And if the comment:code ratio starts to drop as the deadline nears.

Feel free to leave a comment, it should work without having to register or anything.

Cheers,

-Matt