Keith Peters has recently announced on his blog a new contest that’s being held, the 25-Line ActionScript Contest! It is being held as soon as the next version of Flash, CS4, is released.

As you may not be able to guess, the goal of this contest is to make the best possible Flash application using only 25 lines of code. Sounds pretty intense, right? But, what kind of prize does the winner receive, you ask? Well, the contest, sponsored by Adobe, is going to give a new Adobe Suite CS4 to whoever can make the best code. Here’s their announcement about it. They aren’t only going to give it out to just one winner. No, they are going to have a monthly winner who receives this great prize.

But of course, there are rules to the contest. You can’t simply just place everything on one line of code. They’ve created an extensive set of rules (still in its draft phase) right over here.

You can read the entire announcement on the contest’s own site here.

A continuation of the post I made yesterday, hurrah! Here’s the description of yesterday’s post:
We, as people, all make mistakes. We, as game developers, make mistakes as well. Some of these mistakes are trivial and don’t bring upon us too much consequences. However, there are a few that we need to avoid with as much [...]

We, as people, all make mistakes. We, as game developers, make mistakes as well. Some of these mistakes are trivial and don’t bring upon us too much consequences. However, there are a few that we need to avoid with as much effort as possible, lest they turn our games into disasters.
Mistake #1: Releasing the Game [...]

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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 to do it. Of course, if it’s new or [...]

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 make an object that the player has to touch [...]

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 class. We can do this by creating an external [...]

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

Adding Ladders
First on our list is to add ladders. Our ladders are going [...]

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 is to make it so the blocks are the [...]

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 to create some other level variables. Place this code [...]