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This is a "Further Information" section of my main CV.
I have undertaken several Flash game design projects. The first was to design a game in which would attract visitors to my own website. In 2002, I had the idea of a driving game where you could shoot out speed cameras at the side of the road. The finished game was created using a combination of Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop and WavEditor and was named Camera Killer. The finished game was only 72k, and I promoted this game using 2 newsgroups, a few forums and the viral email power of 10 friends. The combined traffic to my site peaked at some 10,000 visits a day and brought over 2 million players to mfhughes.com since the game's launch. I later created a sequel (Camera Killer 2) which can be found here. The sequel has also had over 6 million players and has appeared on many other websites. It makes much more sophisticated use of Flash and Actionscript, containing a tiled scrolling backdrop and much better mathematics controlling the car, bullets and drone cars.
During the height of the Iraq Weapons of Mass destruction crisis, I was asked to design and write a game called "Weapons Inspector" for a website called Forced Reunited. Being a topical and cute/amusing game, this gained some 40,000 players during the first few weeks of release, and many more players since.
I have since gone on to design and program many other Flash games. Some of these games are listed here:-
For each of these games I have designed both the graphics and gameplay and also written the Actionscript code. On average, my games get around 4000 combined plays per day.