Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 5


Written By MrSun at 8:04 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 4


Written By MrSun at 8:03 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 3


Written By MrSun at 8:02 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 2


Written By MrSun at 8:01 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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The Myths of Developing a Popular Game


Written By MrSun at 7:58 am - Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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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5 Ways to Make a Popular Clone


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Categories: Flash

We all know that clones are just copies of other games. But, it is possible to make one popular, even if it isn’t totally original. Just use these tips and maybe your game will be well-received. 1. Base It Off of a Current Event I cannot count how many game clones are based on current […]

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Tutorial: Make a Vertical Shooter in AS3 – Part 6


Written By MrSun at 8:05 am - Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Categories: Flash

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, […]

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Tutorial: Make a Vertical Shooter in AS3 – Part 5


Written By MrSun at 8:04 am - Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Make a Vertical Shooter in AS3 – Part 4


Written By MrSun at 8:03 am - Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Categories: Flash

Table of Contents Programming the Character Programming the Character – Part 2 Creating the Enemies Programming the Enemies Scoring Finishing Touches Step 4: Programming the Enemies Now we have to make it so the enemies can be shot. This probably will be the most complicated of the steps. But, it also is what makes this […]

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