Skills that All Game Developers Need Part 2: Psychology


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Monday, September 22nd, 2008
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Although psychology isn’t necessarily a skill, it is a subject that game developers should at least take a peek into. You may be thinking, “How is psychology going to help me make better games?” Well, I’ll tell you. First of all, we need to know first what psychology is. What is Psychology? The American Heritage […]

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Link Post Sunday 09/21


Written By MrSun at 12:00 pm - Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized

Flash Links Showcase | Flash CMS Roundup by Flash Enabled Blog The State of Flash by Casualty Gamer Thoughts about Adobe, Design, and the Future of 3D by DuMmWiaM The Biggest Mistakes Made by Indie Multiplayer Game Developers by Game Poetry Web Design Links 20 Free Page Analysis Tools by Design M.ag Utilize Space Efficiently […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 7


Written By MrSun at 8:06 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 7: Finishing Touches As I’ve done with most of my previous tutorials, this “Finishing Touches” part of the tutorial will mostly be me telling you what to do, but not how […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 6


Written By MrSun at 8:05 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 6: Goals and Level Completion Ok, now that we’ve added level components and enemies, we can finally make it possible to complete a level. In our game, we’re simply going to […]

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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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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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