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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 before we even start making multiple levels, we [...]

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. All you have to do is change this code in the [...]

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 to program, so it will be split up [...]

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 the symbol, “mcBall”.

I’m also going to give my [...]

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
Alright, I’ve decided to make a tutorial for you guys on how to create a brick breaker game in ActionScript 2.0. It’ll be very similar to my one for AS3, except coded differently. So, here [...]

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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 MovieClip. Mine is just going to be a red [...]

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 [...]