Mr Sun Studios - All about Design, Programming and Game Development.

Table of Contents

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Following my first flash game I quickly decided that I enjoyed programming them. But, I didn’t want to go through the mess that I had to last time with Glowsticks. That is why I decided to learn AS3. This time, however, I had a much better teacher (no offense to Cartoonsmart). I found a great [...]

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 [...]