Tutorial: Pagination in ActionScript 3


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

This is going to be another tutorial about pagination. This time, however, it will be done in ActionScript 3.0. Here’s a brief description of what this tutorial will be about, taken from my previous tutorial in ActionScript 2.0: This is going to be a smaller tutorial about how to paginate objects in ActionScript 2.0. By […]

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Tutorial: Pagination in ActionScript 2


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

This is going to be a smaller tutorial about how to paginate objects in ActionScript 2.0. By paginate, I mean taking a large group of objects, and making it so the user can navigate through them by page. For example, in our previous tutorial, Make a Rhythm Game in AS2, we made a list of […]

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Why Making Tutorials Will Make You a Better Developer


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, August 09th, 2008
Categories: Flash

What Writing Tutorials Has Done for Me Writing my tutorials has been a great experience for me. Not only are they useful to many beginners at flash, but they’ve taught me a lot as well. Before writing some of my tutorials and articles, I did not practice some of the tips I’ve told others to […]

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Books vs Video Tutorials for Learning How to Program


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Tuesday, August 05th, 2008
Categories: Flash

Both books and video tutorials are great mediums to learn anything from. But, which one is better for you? Let us investigate Books The Pros There are millions of them You can find them in many places They cover any difficulty level They are easily referenced The are written by the pros They usually give […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS3 – Part 6


Written By MrSun at 11:00 am - Friday, August 01st, 2008
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 AS3 – Part 5


Written By MrSun at 12:44 pm - Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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 AS3 – Part 4


Written By MrSun at 10:33 am - Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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. But, if you […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS3 – Part 3


Written By MrSun at 1:25 pm - Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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 AS3 – Part 2


Written By MrSun at 9:47 am - Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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 AS3


Written By MrSun at 9:44 am - Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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 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, […]

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