# First flash game, feedback please

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**Created:** [April 17, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-flash-game-feedback-please/257855 "2008-04-17T17:35:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![justkevin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@justkevin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/justkevin)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-flash-game-feedback-please/257855/1 "2008-04-17T17:35:40Z")

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My first Flash game in now in a fully playable state (minus sound) and I would appreciate any feedback:

[http://lab.wx3.com/defender/](http://lab.wx3.com/defender/)

Screenshot:

![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/4603/9e301828a8dba374.jpg)

I wrote it as an exercise to learn ActionScript/Flash, and as a first program, I’m fairly happy with the results. It’s a “tower defense” style game where the player must defend Earth from various approaching alien craft. The graphics are mostly done using bitmap manipulation, which seems to be a bit of a departure from the more common vector style graphics in these games, but allow for some (I think) cool effects.

Any responses would be great, but particularly I’m interested in:  
How does it run on your machine?  
What other features do you feel it needs to be a successful game?  
Is the interface intuitive?  
Most importantly, is it fun?

Thanks a lot!