INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY INVADERS
**** This game is already up and running on a free web site that I have set up at:
http://www.geocities.com/zach_morris_2000/IGPI.htm
The game and online documentation can be found at the above address. ****
1) Idea:
Space Invaders with a Beastie Boys theme to it.
2) Programs Used:
The code was done using the program Flash MX and completed on an Apple computer. Additionally, pictures were edited using Photoshop and audio was edited using Amadeus II (a simple audio editor you can download for free from www.versiontracker.com).
3) Digital Media Used:
The original code was created by Paul Neave (www.neave.com) and then modified extensively by me. Mr. Neave provides his webgames flash code free of charge and without copywrite to everyone who wants it (see his website for further information). A special thanks to him for giving his code to all of us.
Pictures were taken from the official Beastie Boys website (all characters were either cover art or web page art), additionally, the cool title screen was found simply by searching for images using google's image search.
Audio was taken exclusively from the Intergalactic track (from Hello Nasty). Additionally, the intro midi song can be found at the Midi Database (www.mididb.com) for free.
4) Description of Entry Contents:
Contained in this .zip file are the following:
>> IGPI.swf
The game file coded in FLASH.
Requirements for this game:
A web browser (IE, Netscape, etc.) with the Macromedia Flash Plugin installed. Additionally, your browsers preferences must have 'Javascripting' or 'Scripting' enabled. This can be downloaded for free at (www.macromedia.com). This game may run more slowly on systems running slower than 300 MHz.
The game can also already be played online at:
http://www.geocities.com/zach_morris_2000/IGPI.htm
>> invadersscores.pl
This is a perl script file which should work with the game when placed into the /cgi-bin/ folder on a server capable of running these scripts. The free site that I currently have set up does not have this capability so it loads 'dummy scores'. The IGPI.swf in this .zip file uses the scores stored on www.neave.com. Should this contest want to set up it's own scores database, this script and 'invadersscores.txt' file could store it on a server. Please let me know if you want this and provide me with the web address where this file will be stored so I can send you a modified version of 'IGPI.swf'.
>> invadersscores.txt
This file stores the scores for the game. See the above file for the script file to post new scores.
>> Doc.txt
The document your reading right now.