Mr Sun Studios - All about Design, Programming and Game Development.

The Brainstorming
Create the Required Symbols/Art
Programming the Arrows
Programming the Arrows Part 2
Make a Level
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 7: Finishing Touches
Well, now for the last step, adding the finishing touches. Just like in my previous tutorial, I won’t really go into much description in this section, in hopes that you can figure out how to do these without my [...]

The Brainstorming
Create the Required Symbols/Art
Programming the Arrows
Programming the Arrows Part 2
Make a Level
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 6: Scoring
The next step in making our rhythm game is scoring. The user will get points depending on how far away the arrow is from the receptor when it hits it. We’re also going to make the health bar gain and [...]

The Brainstorming
Create the Required Symbols/Art
Programming the Arrows
Programming the Arrows Part 2
Make a Level
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 5: Make a Level (or five)
Now that we’ve programmed the basic gameplay for our game, we can make a menu system with levels. It’s going to be very simple, only one page because we aren’t going to make many levels. If [...]

The Brainstorming
Create the Required Symbols/Art
Programming the Arrows
Programming the Arrows Part 2
Make a Level
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 4: Programming the Arrows: Part 2
Ok, now that we’ve gotten the arrows onto the stage, we can actually make them move up the stage and hitTest them with the receptors. We’re going to do all of this by making a [...]

The Brainstorming
Create the Required Symbols/Art
Programming the Arrows
Programming the Arrows Part 2
Make a Level
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Programming the Arrows
Well, we finally can program some stuff. In this part, we will create the arrows dynamically and make them move up screen. Let us begin.
We are going to make an array for our levels, just as we did in the [...]

The Brainstorming
Create the Required Symbols/Art
Programming the Arrows
Programming the Arrows Part 2
Make a Level
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 2: Create the Require Symbols/Art
Well, we aren’t going into the programming yet until the next step, so you have got to be patient. Anyway, in this step, we’re going to draw the symbols and art that are needed for the game [...]

The Brainstorming
Create the Required Symbols/Art
Programming the Arrows
Programming the Arrows Part 2
Make a Level
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Ok, this may not seem to be the most exciting step, but it is pretty important. Because this game is going to take a while to make, brainstorming is key.
So, we have to figure out what movieclips we are going to have [...]

It is always a challenge to become an expert at anything, including a flash game developer. It takes a lot of time and a lot of patience. But, after enduring through time, the benefits can be enormous. I am here to share some of them with you.

Table of Contents

Programming the Character
Programming the Character – Part 2
Creating the Enemies
Programming the Enemies
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 6: Finishing Touches
As always, the finishing touches of this game won’t be explained too much by me, in hopes that you actually can do some of this stuff by yourself. Of course, there will always be source files at the [...]

Table of Contents

Programming the Character
Programming the Character – Part 2
Creating the Enemies
Programming the Enemies
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 5: Scoring
Now that we’ve got the hardest part down, it all gets easier from here. This chapter will be simple, just some code that has scoring. Also, as promised, we’re going to have a function run when the player is [...]