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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From AS2 to AS3: The Migration


Written By MrSun at 12:47 pm - Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Categories: Flash

With the release of Adobe’s Flash CS3 about a year ago came a newer version of Actionscript, AS3. Even though it has been quite some time since that release, many have not begun to use the newer version. Though the migration is not required, I find it very necessary. The differences in these two languages […]

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