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Table of Contents

Coding Paddle Movement
Programming the Ball
Setting Up the Bricks on Stage
Hit Testing the Bricks
Creating Levels
Finishing Touches

Step 5: Creating Levels
Now that we’ve got the basic gameplay down, we can create some levels. Because we’re making only a simple game, we aren’t going to make that many. But before we even start making multiple levels, we [...]

Table of Contents

Coding Paddle Movement
Programming the Ball
Setting Up the Bricks on Stage
Hit Testing the Bricks
Creating Levels
Finishing Touches

Step 4: Hit Testing the Bricks
Now that we’ve actually made the bricks, we can now break them with our ball… Anyway, this will be pretty easy to accomplish. But, if you are new to ActionScript 3.0 classes, it’ll be [...]

Table of Contents

Coding Paddle Movement
Programming the Ball
Setting Up the Bricks on Stage
Hit Testing the Bricks
Creating Levels
Finishing Touches

Step 3: Setting Up the Bricks on Stage
Ok, we’ve got the paddle and the ball. Now, the only major thing left to program is the brick. This is also the hardest to program, so it will be split up [...]

Table of Contents

Coding Paddle Movement
Programming the Ball
Setting Up the Bricks on Stage
Hit Testing the Bricks
Creating Levels
Finishing Touches

Step 2: Programming the Ball
The next obvious step in creating a brick breaker game is making the ball. So, I’m just going to make a small 10×10 pixel white circle into the symbol, “mcBall”.

I’m also going to give my [...]

Table of Contents

Coding Paddle Movement
Programming the Ball
Setting Up the Bricks on Stage
Hit Testing the Bricks
Creating Levels
Finishing Touches

Step 1: Coding Paddle Movement
Ok, this is going to be my first tutorial on hopefully a simple subject. This is probably going to be broken up into a few parts. So, here we go.
First of all, we’re going to [...]

As you may not have known, my latest flash game, Xylophone Master, has recently been released. It was my first attempt at a real feature-filled flash game, and it was quite a bittersweet success.
Let me first tell you about the actual game itself. It is a rhythm-based game where all 8 of he home row [...]

I’ve just added a little section to the site called “The Spotlight”. You can see it up on the navigation bar. I took the concept of the Game Development Spotlight and expanded it a bit into something more. In order to motivate myself to make better flash games and have a great time while doing [...]

Emanuele Feronato made a couple of posts about making a flash arcade site in Wordpress. He gives some useful information on it and just released a 2nd part today.
Are you Getting Pumped for Flash CS4?
Will at Ahrooga made a nice post for beginners called Tips for Learning ActionScript 3.0
Gabriel Bianconi made a series of tutorials [...]

Hey, if you haven’t noticed, the blog has been moved up a notch, meaning that it has been moved to the top level of Mr Sun Studios itself, not /blog/. Just a heads up.
If you linked to my blog, you should re-find the links and change it where you post it. Sorry for the inconvenience

One issue surrounding the development process of a flash game is the difficulty level. How hard should it be? How easy its too easy? These are questions whose answers I hope to simplify for you.
I’ve often made the mistake of making my games too hard many times. What I think is easy in my game [...]