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Creating a Flash Shooter game like SkyForce: Completely “explained” prototype

By admin • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Tutorials

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.



Creating a custom animated email/forum signature in Flash

By admin • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Tutorials

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. [...]



Creating a Flash Shooter Game like SkyForce: Part 3a

By sunil • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Tutorials

So its shooter time again. I’m back with part 3 where I’ve completed the prototype for the game. Whew!!



Creating a Flash Shooter game like SkyForce: Part 2

By admin • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: Tutorials

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 [...]



Creating a Flash Shooter game like SkyForce: Part 1

By admin • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Tutorials

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 [...]



Managing multiple ball collisions in Flash as2

By admin • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Tutorials

This was a tutorial I had created for another website some time ago. I thought its quite useful. The people who helped were tonypa, voidskipper and kazama_bee from Mochiforums.