Tutorial: Make a Vertical Shooter in AS3 – Part 3


Written By MrSun at 8:02 am - Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Categories: Flash

Table of Contents 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 […]

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Tutorial: Make a Vertical Shooter in AS3 – Part 2


Written By MrSun at 8:01 am - Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Make a Vertical Shooter in AS3


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Categories: Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Pagination in ActionScript 3


Written By MrSun at 8:00 am - Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

This is going to be another tutorial about pagination. This time, however, it will be done in ActionScript 3.0. Here’s a brief description of what this tutorial will be about, taken from my previous tutorial in ActionScript 2.0: This is going to be a smaller tutorial about how to paginate objects in ActionScript 2.0. By […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS3 – Part 6


Written By MrSun at 11:00 am - Friday, August 01st, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS3 – Part 5


Written By MrSun at 12:44 pm - Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS3 – Part 4


Written By MrSun at 10:33 am - Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS3 – Part 3


Written By MrSun at 1:25 pm - Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS3 – Part 2


Written By MrSun at 9:47 am - Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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 […]

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Tutorial: Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS3


Written By MrSun at 9:44 am - Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Categories: Beginner Tutorials, Flash

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, […]

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