I thought it would be nice if I could make it so players could create their own characters. The idea being that you draw what you want your character to look like and then I would import the drawing into flash where I would have a system in place to animate the sketch with the required animations for the game.

Drawn to Life is a game that lets you do just that and I think it’s a really nice idea that would work great in my game.

I set about trying to work out a way to do this but unfortunately I was unsuccessful. Theoretically I can work out how it should work, but unfortunately my skills in flash aren’t quite good enough to get it to function properly. I could not work out how to make it so that when you drew on specific areas of the guide it would change movie clips meaning everything would animate the same way rather than breaking up into individual parts.

Below is an example of some of the tests I did. If I had more time I would have continued to pursue this but unfortunately there are more important parts of the game that I must focus on.