Lightspeed Blog

Earlier, I thought to myself: as a fledging blog, I need content. At the moment all this space consists of is a very “meta” first post and a hastily designed header image - I need something concrete, and not just a link to some insanely addictive flash game or hilarious youtube video (although rest assured there will be plenty of those.)

As I was mulling this over I started poking around on my hard drive. I have a folder called “dump” in my root directory where I put anything I can’t find a place for/haven’t bothered with yet - the result being that everywhere else on my computer is nicely organised, other than this sprawling hole of infinite chaos. Stumbling through arcane and illogical directory structures, I came across a folder called “Old Flash”; inside was another folder called Old Flash, which housed yet another folder labelled “Misc.” (see what I mean about disorganisation?) Inside this folder, however, lay - no, not more irrelevant folders - but all of my old flash projects from 5 years ago! I was in school studying for the leaving cert at the time, and needed something to distract me, so I started to teach myself ActionScript to make some flash games.

So, I present to you, 17-year-old Eugene’s rudimentary version of pong. You can play against the computer, or another player; W and D are player 1, while Up and Down control player 2. Whatever you do, don’t press ‘I’ - you’ll get stuck in an incomplete Instructions page

(N.B. This isn’t my only foray into publishing my flash work - a game of mine called Orb Catcher is available on Newgrounds here. It’s published under my brother’s name, since I didn’t want to put it up because it wasn’t “ready” - and he disagreed. I found an unfinished “Orb Catcher v2.0″ project in with the above pong game, but it looks like someone already beat me to it!)