Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS2 – Part 2


Written By MrSun at 8:01 am - Saturday, January 03rd, 2009
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS2


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, January 03rd, 2009
Categories: Flash

Table of Contents Basic Character Programming Creating The Level Programming the Level Adding Level Elements Adding Enemies Goals and Level Completion Finishing Touches Due to popular request, I’ve decided to make an AS2 version of my tutorial. For consistency, it will follow the same format as the AS3 version and will also use excerpts of […]

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Tutorial: How to Draw Simple Shapes in AS3


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

Hey guys, today we’re going to learn something fun and exciting! That is, drawing shapes in ActionScript 3.0. I’ve actually covered a little bit of this in my platform tutorial, but I want to make it the focus of this tutorial. So, let’s get started shall we? First of all, we’re going to create a […]

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The 25-Line ActionScript Contest


Written By MrSun at 7:55 am - Wednesday, September 03rd, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 7


Written By MrSun at 8:06 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 6


Written By MrSun at 8:05 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 5


Written By MrSun at 8:04 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 4


Written By MrSun at 8:03 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 3


Written By MrSun at 8:02 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Platform Game in AS3 – Part 2


Written By MrSun at 8:01 am - Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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