The first game I ever did is incidentally my favourite one. It was inspired by a game called “Milk the Cow”, where you had to fly over a grass plane and milk as many cows with your mouse.
Although the election campaign of our client, The Liberal Democrats Party of Slovenia, was generally very bland, but they were the first to use the internet as a medium for reaching potential voters, especially the younger ones.
The game’s concept is that the character of your choosing runs across a grassy plane, handing out flyers inviting people to vote. The people are represented as silhouettes, one of which is Kekec, a hero from old Slovenian movies. The obstacles that your character must avoid or jump over are symbols representing competing parties.
We laughed when we saw the characters that Ozi designed and animated, because the boy reminded us so much of him. We referred to them as Safet & Sanela, which was then changed to Tomaž & Milena for the official version.
I am to this day amazed at what we managed to pull off with the primitive scripting language in Flash 4.