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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 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
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 [...]

After Glowbricks, I decided that I still didn’t have the skill to tackle a more feature-filled game, so I decided to make The Alphabet Eater. This time, however, I made my game a bit more original. The Alphabet Eater was inspired by the game, Fishy, which I discovered many years ago and enjoyed playing very [...]

With the release of Adobe’s Flash CS3 about a year ago came a newer version of Actionscript, AS3. Even though it has been quite some time since that release, many have not begun to use the newer version. Though the migration is not required, I find it very necessary. The differences in these two languages [...]