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The Brainstorming
Create the Required Symbols/Art
Programming the Arrows
Programming the Arrows Part 2
Make a Level
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 2: Create the Require Symbols/Art
Well, we aren’t going into the programming yet until the next step, so you have got to be patient. Anyway, in this step, we’re going to draw the symbols and art that are needed for [...]

Today, we’re going to make a rhythm game like Flash Flash Revolution in ActionScript 2.0. This will be a pretty intense game, so it will be made up of quite a few parts. This is the first. Here is a list of the steps in making this game:

The Brainstorming
Create the Required Symbols/Art
Programming the Arrows
Programming the [...]

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Coding Paddle Movement
Programming the Ball
Setting Up the Bricks on Stage
Hit Testing the Bricks
Creating Levels
Finishing Touches

Step 6: Finishing Touches
Well, we’re almost done with our game, now we just have to add some finishing touches. I won’t make a menu system like you usually should in a game before releasing it. But, this is just [...]

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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 [...]

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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 are new to ActionScript 3.0 classes, it’ll be [...]

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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 [...]

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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
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, here we go.
First of all, we’re going to [...]

As you may not have known, my latest flash game, Xylophone Master, has recently been released. It was my first attempt at a real feature-filled flash game, and it was quite a bittersweet success.
Let me first tell you about the actual game itself. It is a rhythm-based game where all 8 of he home row [...]

Flash forums are amazingly useful resources for me while I develop my flash games. The best part about them is that many of your problems are probably already answered in a forum, you just need to make a quick Google search and be enlightened. If your problems aren’t already answered, then you can simply post [...]