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

If you’ve ever made any type of game, you should know that it usually takes a pretty large chunk of time to develop. Nobody likes to waste time, well at least I don’t, so here’s a list of methods that I use to prevent time wasting.
1. Brainstorm
I know I’ve talked about this step quite a [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]