Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS2 – Part 6


Written By MrSun at 8:05 am - Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

Table of Contents Coding Paddle Movement Programming the Ball Setting Up the Bricks on Stage Hit Testing the Bricks Creating Levels Finishing Touches Step 6: Finishing Touches Well, we’re almost done with our game, now we just have to add some finishing touches. I won’t make a menu system like you usually should in a […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS2 – Part 5


Written By MrSun at 8:04 am - Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS2 – Part 4


Written By MrSun at 8:03 am - Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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. All you have […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS2 – Part 3


Written By MrSun at 8:02 am - Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS2 – Part 2


Written By MrSun at 8:01 am - Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS2


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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 Alright, I’ve decided to make a tutorial for you guys on how to create a brick breaker game in ActionScript 2.0. It’ll be very similar to my […]

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11 Tutorial Sites for Learning Flash


Written By MrSun at 12:56 pm - Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Categories: Flash

Flash Kit Actionscript.org Kirupa GotoAndLearn Pixel2Life Tutorialized Good Tutorials Tutorials Garden Tut City Flash Magazine Flash Perfection

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Tutorial: Buying Adobe CS4 Suite and Saving Hundreds of Dollars


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Misc

Hey guys. In this tutorial, to celebrate the announcement of Adobe’s CS4 suite, I’ll show you guys how to buy programs from Adobe’s new CS4 Suite much cheaper than what you’d get from Adobe itself (and legally too). You can also buy many other programs for much less than you would get if you’re eligible. […]

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Tutorial: How to Draw Simple Shapes in AS3


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

Hey guys, today we’re going to learn something fun and exciting! That is, drawing shapes in ActionScript 3.0. I’ve actually covered a little bit of this in my platform tutorial, but I want to make it the focus of this tutorial. So, let’s get started shall we? First of all, we’re going to create a […]

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Tutorial: Simple Dynamic Perspective in AS2 and AS3


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, September 06th, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

This tutorial will show you how to create a simple illusion of perspective, dynamically in both ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0. Although this technique isn’t the most advanced or realistic, it gets the job done. Let’s see it, shall we? ActionScript 2.0 We’ll first make the effect in ActionScript 2.0. To begin, we have to […]

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