Don’t Make Them Think: How to Make a Usable Flash Game


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Categories: Flash

“Usability” is a term used many times in web design and development. It basically means the ease of use or navigation that a website has. It also includes some other specifics like design conventions which we will touch on later. An amazing book on the topic is “Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach […]

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How To Brainstorm for Your Flash Game


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Thursday, August 07th, 2008
Categories: Flash

As I’ve noted earlier, brainstorming is an essential part of the game development process. Although there are many effective ways to do this, I’m going to give you some guidelines. When you begin brainstorming your flash game, you have to at least have a vague idea of what youre going to do with it. Then, […]

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Tutorial: Make a Rhythm Game in AS2 – Part 7


Written By MrSun at 7:37 am - Monday, August 04th, 2008
Categories: Flash

Table of Contents 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 […]

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Tutorial: Make a Rhythm Game in AS2 – Part 6


Written By MrSun at 7:36 am - Monday, August 04th, 2008
Categories: Flash

Table of Contents 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 […]

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Tutorial: Make a Rhythm Game in AS2 – Part 5


Written By MrSun at 7:35 am - Monday, August 04th, 2008
Categories: Flash

Table of Contents 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 […]

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Tutorial: Make a Rhythm Game in AS2 – Part 4


Written By MrSun at 7:34 am - Monday, August 04th, 2008
Categories: Flash

Table of Contents 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. […]

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Tutorial: Make a Rhythm Game in AS2 – Part 3


Written By MrSun at 7:33 am - Monday, August 04th, 2008
Categories: Flash

Table of Contents 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 […]

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Tutorial: Make a Rhythm Game in AS2 – Part 2


Written By MrSun at 7:32 am - Monday, August 04th, 2008
Categories: Flash

Table of Contents 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 […]

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Tutorial: Make a Rhythm Game in AS2


Written By MrSun at 7:31 am - Monday, August 04th, 2008
Categories: Flash

Today, we’re going to make a rhythm game like Flash Flash Revolution in ActionScript 2.0. This will be a pretty intense game, so it will be made up of quite a few parts. This is the first. Here is a list of the steps in making this game: The Brainstorming Create the Required Symbols/Art Programming […]

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6 Ways To Make Money From Your Flash Game


Written By MrSun at 12:00 pm - Saturday, August 02nd, 2008
Categories: Flash

Like it or not, we all love money. Making flash games can usually get you some of it. Here’s a list of a few ways to do so. 1. Get it Sponsored This is the most common way that game developers use to get money, If you don’t know what it is, it’s basically when […]

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