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Introduction to Building Games with Flash
By Joe Gilbert
Running Time: 3 hours, 19 minutes
Overview
In this latest release you will learn how to design and build a simple Arcade style shooting game in Flash. Once you learn the basics, there are an unlimited number of possibilities for creating your own games. If you are new to Actioncript, this series is a great introduction to the programming side of Flash that makes it such a powerful tool. And hey, why not have a little fun by creating a game at the same time.
Overview
Detailed Video Descriptions
1 - Introduction (Running Time - 4:07)
2 - Creating Characters (Running Time - 19:16)
In this chapter, you will learn how to use Flash to create
your custom characters. Learn to use the line tool and the
fill tool to easily design the Control and Hostile ships for
this side scrolling game.
3 - Environment Detail (Running Time - 14:46)
In this chapter, you will design the background and foreground
that will loop in your game. This game will take place in
space so we will design a space background and the planet
surface for the foreground.
4 - Booster Animation (Running Time - 10:29)
Every good game contains some good animation. In this chapter
we will create a looping booster animation for the thrusters
of both the Control ship and the Hostile ship. This is a good
lesson on using Movie Clips.
5 - Importing (Running Time - 3:32)
If you decide that you want to create your custom ships in
another program, then this chapter will teach you how to import
those images. Take those images you imported and assign them
as your characters.
6 - Control Ship Movements (Running Time - 12:04
In this chapter, you will learn how to assign movements to the
Control ship. You will learn how to apply actionscript to
this ship to use the arrow keys to move the Control Ship.
7 - Missile Controls (Running Time - 20:17)
In this chapter, you will learn how to program the missile in this
game to follow along the x axis from left to right to give the
effect of firing across the screen. Learn actionscript to
tell the missile to fire and give it variables.
8 - Missile Variables (Running Time - 18:14)
Now that you have created the missile and programed the
actionscript to control the basic movements, now you will
adjust variables to define speed and rate. This is what will
make this game your own, you will learn to test and re-test
until its right.
9 - Looping Backgrounds (Running Time - 20:17)
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use actionscript to
program the looping background and the looping foreground.
Learn to apply a loopstart and a loopstop to a designated
movieclip.
10 - Background Variables (Running Time - 8:37)
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use actionscript to
adjust both the looping background and the looping foreground.
Add a realistic feel by slowing the background while speeding
the foreground. Use the variables you programmed before to
make your own adjustments.
11 - Random Hostile Characters (Running Time - 19:30)
In this tutorial, you will learn how to randomize movie clips.
You will randomize the Hostile ship and program the number
of random restarts and speed that they fly along the x axis.
12 - Lives and Restart for Control Ship (Running Time - 11:41)
This is an important chapter, because you will learn how to animate
the death sequence and restart of the Control ship. Learn
how to designate movie clips that will start the sequence using
actionscript.
13 - Lives and Restart for Hostiles (Running Time - 13:20)
In this important chapter, you will learn how to animate
the death sequence and restart of the Hostile ship. You will
design a short death sequence and add actionscript to the missile
that will activate the Hostile death sequence.
14 - Boundaries (Running Time - 8:20)
In this chapter, you will learn how to designate boundaries to
the game. In any good game you cannot go off screen so we
will need to tell Flash where our boundaries are.
15 - Gameover Counter (Running Time - 8:50)
In this chapter, you will learn how to create a points counter.
Use dynamic text to add a custom counter in the game. You will
also design the Game Over sequence and design the restart button.
16 - Sound (Running Time - 6:16)
Adding sound can transform a good game into a GREAT game. In
this chapter you will learn how to import sounds into Flash,
and how to assign those sounds to Movie Clips.
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