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Table of Contents

Setting up Level
Adding Turrets
Adding Enemies
Making Turrets Attack Enemies
Winning/Losing the Game
Expanding on the Game
Finishing Touches

Step 7: Finishing Touches
Welcome back! This part of the tutorial is where we just add all of the finishing touches to the game! Unlike the other parts of the tutorial, I won’t comment any of the code I give you, [...]

Table of Contents

Setting up Level
Adding Turrets
Adding Enemies
Making Turrets Attack Enemies
Winning/Losing the Game
Expanding on the Game
Finishing Touches

Step 6: Expanding on the Game
Welcome to the 6th part of the tutorial, Expanding on the Game! Well, what do I mean by “Expanding”? Well, by expanding, I mean that we’re going to create more enemies and more levels. Sounds [...]

Table of Contents

Setting up Level
Adding Turrets
Adding Enemies
Making Turrets Attack Enemies
Winning/Losing the Game
Expanding on the Game
Finishing Touches

Step 5: Winning/Losing the Game
Welcome back to the 5th installment of this tutorial series. In this lesson, we’ll make some playable levels, along with a winning and losing situation. Let’s dig in, shall we?
Lets start off by opening up the [...]

Table of Contents

Setting up Level
Adding Turrets
Adding Enemies
Making Turrets Attack Enemies
Winning/Losing the Game
Expanding on the Game
Finishing Touches

Step 4: Making Turrets Attack Enemies
Well, it’s now time to let the enemies we just created be destroyed. Let’s dig in, shall we?
First, we’ll define a single health variable for the Enemy. Find this code in the makeEnemies() function (~ [...]

Table of Contents

Setting up Level
Adding Turrets
Adding Enemies
Making Turrets Attack Enemies
Winning/Losing the Game
Expanding on the Game
Finishing Touches

Step 3: Adding Enemies
Welcome back. In this part of the tutorial, we are going to add enemies to the field and we’re going to program them to move through the paths.
Let’s begin by adding the enemy to the stage. Like [...]

Table of Contents

Setting up Level
Adding Turrets
Adding Enemies
Making Turrets Attack Enemies
Winning/Losing the Game
Expanding on the Game
Finishing Touches

Step 2: Adding Turrets
Okay, so in this part of the tutorial, we are going to make it so when the user clicks on any of the empty blocks, a turret is created. Let’s begin, shall we?
Open up your main flash [...]

Table of Contents

Setting up Level
Adding Turrets
Adding Enemies
Making Turrets Attack Enemies
Winning/Losing the Game
Expanding on the Game
Finishing Touches

Step 1: Setting Up a Level
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So you want to be a flash game developer, eh? It’s something that’s easy to get into, but hard to get good at. I’m going to guide you through the process that a total newbie must get into in order to get into the business.

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, there will always be source files at the [...]

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 have a function run when the player is [...]