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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]