Now as things heat up we begin with keyboard inputs in our little series of actionscript 3 basics tutorials. I guess after a couple more I could start a series named actionscript 3 gaming tutorials. So make sure you read this one through.
Continuing with my series of AS3 basics tutorials, here’s the newest and one of the most important ones in the field of interactive entertainment, The event handling. I’ve tried to keep it as simple as it could get.
As you know I decided to start to make my transition from AS 2.0 to AS 3.0. On my way I’ve decided to cover a series of tutorials about the basics of actionscript 3. I will mostly be using very simple language and it would be easy to follow if you’ve already worked on AS2, although it shouldn’t be too hard if you’re just starting to work on flash.
After a great thought I’ve decided to scrap all my on going AS2 projects. The language is as good as dead now. Its better for me and you to move forward and look at the great opportunities that AS3 has to offer to us. Good-bye AS2, We’ll miss you.
I kept asking myself how do I create a tower defence game that works. Finally I cwas able to create one from an unfinished prototype from another site. I made a lot of changes and this one “almost” works. So I’ve uploaded an source file. Go play!!
Something was definitely eating me, Ever since I released part 3a-“the complete prototype” I had been thinking why I didn’t explain what I’ve done.
Now let’s deviate from making games a bit. Flash can obviously be used for other purposes. One of them being making animated gif images. In this tutorial I explain step by step how to make a custom animated gif signature. Its pretty simple really. No coding required, just the good old frame by frame animation. [...]
So its shooter time again. I’m back with part 3 where I’ve completed the prototype for the game. Whew!!
I’m proud to present the second part of this tutorial. In this section I’m covering the motion and shooting of our ship. If you haven’t already read the first part I suggest you go here.
First let’s talk about the shooting, I like shooters where the ship shoots continuously in a direction and keeps getting power-ups [...]
If you haven’t already played Sky Force then I suggest you try it outhere. It’s a fantastically addictive shooter game that I was hooked onto for a couple of weeks at a stretch. Although some people think that the days of shooter games is over, I am one of those who believes that humans can [...]
