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When you, as a flash developer, make a game, it is important that you inform your user how to play it. Usually if your game is simple enough, the user doesn’t need to read the instructions, but with more complicated games, they are required. There is one problem with making instructions, however. If you have [...]

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Programming the Character
Programming the Character - Part 2
Creating the Enemies
Programming the Enemies
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 6: Finishing Touches
As always, the finishing touches of this game won’t be explained too much by me, in hopes that you actually can do some of this stuff by yourself. Of course, there will always be source files at the [...]

Table of Contents

Programming the Character
Programming the Character - Part 2
Creating the Enemies
Programming the Enemies
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 5: Scoring
Now that we’ve got the hardest part down, it all gets easier from here. This chapter will be simple, just some code that has scoring. Also, as promised, we’re going to have a function run when the player is [...]

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Programming the Character
Programming the Character - Part 2
Creating the Enemies
Programming the Enemies
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 4: Programming the Enemies
Now we have to make it so the enemies can be shot. This probably will be the most complicated of the steps. But, it also is what makes this thing a game. There are two ways that [...]

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Programming the Character
Programming the Character - Part 2
Creating the Enemies
Programming the Enemies
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 3: Creating the Enemies
Well, now that we can make our lil’ guy shoot, we have to make something for him to shoot at! I’m going to first start by just drawing a little enemy guy. It won’t be too artistic.

Its [...]

Table of Contents

Programming the Character
Programming the Character - Part 2
Creating the Enemies
Programming the Enemies
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 2: Programming the Character Pt 2 - Making it Shoot
Well, now that we’ve got the character moving, we have to make him able to shoot. The first step in doing this is to create a MovieClip which will be the [...]

Table of Contents

Programming the Character
Programming the Character - Part 2
Creating the Enemies
Programming the Enemies
Scoring
Finishing Touches

Step 1: Programming the Character
Today, we’re going to make a classic vertical shooter game in ActionScript 3. I hope you learn from it! Let us begin.
The first thing that I’m going to do is make the background of my game black, [...]