My first game. This sure brings back memories! I first got the idea of starting to make dress up games in the autumn of 2009 after I had played many of them on DA and seen tutorials which looked easy to understand. To my dismay Flash turned out to be an expensive program (even the student edition was hundreds of euros), but my parents promised I could get it as a Christmas present so that I'd only have to pay a part of the price. I don't remember how much I ended up paying in the end though (uh-oh)...

When I first heard I was going to get Flash in a few months I started to collect Nami reference pics on the net and later drew them in Paint Shop pro X. I had seen dress up games where the art had been drawn somewhere else than Flash, so I thought I could draw the artwork first and later just import it to Flash. It turned out to be too difficult, as I knew nothing about masks, and the result was horrendous. So I had to admit defeat that time and redraw everything in Flash.

Nowadays the game is quite embarrassing to watch, as the art is quite old and the game mechanics seriously suck, as I had no idea how to make drawers for the clothes and everything has been stuffed on the same page. But I'm most delighted to see that there has been evident progress in my game making skills.

Also, I find it fun how even my very first game demonstrates my insane obsession with adding all the possible outfits the character had. An average visitor would probably have done with a lot less clothes, I mean, it's not like someone cares if I didn't include that shirt which was visible only in one merchandice box available only in Japan. Except me. From the very start my games have been more or less collections of the outfits of a certain character, and that trend has continued till now.

Aaaaand after finishing my first game, insanely big for a first game attepmt, what is my second project? A bigger version of the first game of course!

Seriously though, I have no idea what I was thinking when I decided to redo the Nami game, because I had a lot of reference collected for other game ideas. I don't even like her that much... I guess I found the first game horrible even back then (?).

This game has a lot more experienced coding (= drawers, snapping, bra disappearing when wearing a bikini top, the back of the coat snaps onto doll if you drag the top part on it) than the first version. Actually the last two don't work properly, as you need to put the item precisely on the right place to get the bra disappear or the other part of the cloth follow, but I didn't know how to code it properly back then. And later I've been too lazy to fix an old game. But I felt really awesome when I got these codes working, even improperly. And I think this is the only game where the snap-on-place code requires the item to be close enough to its place, i.e. the shirt only snaps if it touches the top part of her body. Later I got lazy and coded it so that it's enough for the item to hit the doll somewhere.

The game has quite an interesting drawer button system. Maybe I should reuse this idea some day. And I love the black gothic dress.

...four pages of shirts?