User Interface
Planet Selection Screen
on this screen the spacecraft & background image will follow the mose around, allowing the user to explore & find the other planets which are located off-screen. There will be some animations running on this screen, for example the moon going round the earth & the sun glowing.
General level screen
For each planet there will either be a splash screen or, simply just some text to explain the what the user has to do on each planet. The user interface for each individual planet will be slightly different based on what you have to do, but they will be simple and it will be very clear and easy to understand & use.
Earth Screen
When the user returns to Earth at any point during the game it will show them their progress, & how many crystals they have managed to collect, in the screenshot above, the crystals from the moon & Venus have been collected.
Sources
While most of the game is all original work, for some of the images I needed a base image to start with, they were then modified before actually being used in the game.
below are the links to the original images & a note to say where in the game they are & how they were modified.
The dirt ground
Used on the intro video - the overall colour was changed & most of the detail removed.
The moon
Used anywhere the moon appears in the game - made smaller & most of the detail removed, added a darker shadow to the edge
Mercury
Used anywhere mercury appears in the game - as with the moon, made smaller, details removed & a darker shadow on the edge
The sun - image1, image2
Used on the planet select screen - A section was taken from each image, the redness around the edge removed & they were scaled to line up perfectly on top of each other to create the glowing effect.
Everything else in the game is all original, either drawn in flash it's self, or in PaintShopPro & imported.
Sound
Most of my sounds were created using a free version of fruity loops, or sourced from the internet & then edited using Audacity.
The planet selection screen
This was created entirely in Fruity loops
The alien talking
This was sourced from http://freesound.org and then edited to make it longer & have more of an echo effect on it.
Nebulabot talking sounds
This was created entirely using Fruity loops
Spacecraft Launch/Landing sounds
Launch : Landing :
These were both sourced from http://freesound.org & for each one i edited the original sound using using audacity to make them it shorter and make it sound more like a rocket taking off or landing by alteing the volume.