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Link Post Sunday 08/31


Written By Mr Sun at 12:00 pm - Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Categories: Link Post Sunday, Links

Flash

ActionScript 3 for Java Programmers by infoQ
Flash and Silverlight: 3D Image Rotation by Shine Draw

Web Design

Elegant glass style navigation bar using CSS and toggle animated effect by Woork
CSS Hacks and Vector Graphics for Web Design by Hidden Pixels
Pitfalls to Avoid When Designing Forms by Google Blogoscoped
How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business by Smashing Magazine
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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 7


Written By Mr Sun at 8:06 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: AS3, Advanced Tutorials, All Tutorials, Flash, Game Development

Table of Contents

Basic Character Programming
Creating The Level
Programming the Level
Adding Level Elements
Adding Enemies
Goals and Level Completion
Finishing Touches

Step 7: Finishing Touches
As I’ve done with most of my previous tutorials, this “Finishing Touches” part of the tutorial will mostly be me telling you what to do, but not how to do it. Of course, if it’s new or [...]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 6


Written By Mr Sun at 8:05 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: AS3, Advanced Tutorials, All Tutorials, Flash, Game Development

Table of Contents

Basic Character Programming
Creating The Level
Programming the Level
Adding Level Elements
Adding Enemies
Goals and Level Completion
Finishing Touches

Step 6: Goals and Level Completion
Ok, now that we’ve added level components and enemies, we can finally make it possible to complete a level. In our game, we’re simply going to make an object that the player has to touch [...]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 5


Written By Mr Sun at 8:04 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: AS3, Advanced Tutorials, All Tutorials, Flash, Game Development

Table of Contents

Basic Character Programming
Creating The Level
Programming the Level
Adding Level Elements
Adding Enemies
Goals and Level Completion
Finishing Touches

Step 5: Adding Enemies
The next step in making our exciting platform game is to add some enemies! In order to do this, we’re first going to have to make an Enemy class. We can do this by creating an external [...]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 4


Written By Mr Sun at 8:03 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: AS3, Advanced Tutorials, All Tutorials, Flash, Game Development

Table of Contents

Basic Character Programming
Creating The Level
Programming the Level
Adding Level Elements
Adding Enemies
Goals and Level Completion
Finishing Touches

Step 4: Adding Level Elements
In this lesson, we’re going to add elements to the level, like obstacles and ladders. Here’s a list of what we’re going to add:

Ladders
Bumpers
Trampolines

Adding Ladders
First on our list is to add ladders. Our ladders are going [...]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 3


Written By Mr Sun at 8:02 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: AS3, Advanced Tutorials, All Tutorials, Flash, Game Development

Table of Contents

Basic Character Programming
Creating The Level
Programming the Level
Adding Level Elements
Adding Enemies
Goals and Level Completion
Finishing Touches

Step 3: Programming the Level
Now that we’ve set up all of the blocks onto the stage, we can actually add some code to them. The first thing we’re going to do is to make it so the blocks are the [...]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 2


Written By Mr Sun at 8:01 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: AS3, Advanced Tutorials, All Tutorials, Flash, Game Development

Table of Contents

Basic Character Programming
Creating The Level
Programming the Level
Adding Level Elements
Adding Enemies
Goals and Level Completion
Finishing Touches

Step 2: Creating the Level
Now, we have to set up blocks on stage that will account for a level. We’ll use an array to accomplish this manly feat. We’re also going to create some other level variables. Place this code [...]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3


Written By Mr Sun at 8:00 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: AS3, Advanced Tutorials, All Tutorials, Flash, Game Development

Table of Contents

Basic Character Programming
Creating The Level
Programming the Level
Adding Level Elements
Adding Enemies
Goals and Level Completion
Finishing Touches

Step 1: Basic Character Programming
Well, here we are in our first advanced tutorial. This time we’ll be creating a platform game similar to my GlowSticks except in ActionScript 3 and coded better. Let’s begin, shall we?
Let’s first begin with the [...]

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Where do Flash Game Developers Come From?


Written By Mr Sun at 8:06 am - Friday, August 29th, 2008
Categories: Flash, Game Development

Recently, I stumbled upon an interesting article from Mochiland that gives stats on where most flash game developers come from (who are signed up at Mochi). The top three countries are the United States (with 39%), United Kingdom (with 10%), and Canada (with 6%). It’s no surprise to see that most of the Western countries [...]

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The Myths of Developing a Popular Game


Written By Mr Sun at 7:58 am - Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Categories: Flash, Game Development

There are, and there have been, thousands, maybe even millions of very successful games that have been released to the world. Some of them fully deserve their popularity while others aren’t the best. But, the one thing they have in common with each other is that they are liked. There are many beliefs about making [...]

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