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Basic movement based game tutorial – part 1

Jan07
2010 2 Comments Written by Eliott
This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Basic Movement Based Game Tutorial

What are we making here?

(Arrow Key Control)

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Let’s Begin

The demo above shows something similar to what you should have by the end of this tutorial, this will be multipart so do not expect to be able to have a complete game by the end of this singular tutorial, but as a collection – you will. I say complete game i mean game prototype – but for illiteral means a full flash game.

To begin this tutorial, start a new Actionscript 2 document and create a symbol;

The player – I chose a ball

So let’s begin. So once you have created the movieclip of the player, listen up as we shall learn some important functions, such as;

onClipEvent()

if()

and Key.isDown()

So now – click the movieclip instance and open the actions panel (F9 for windows, alt + F9 for mac). Then we can begin coding.

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Basic movement based game tutorial – part 2

Jan09
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Eliott
This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Basic Movement Based Game Tutorial

What are we making now?

(Arrow Key Control)

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Let’s Begin

To begin this tutorial, open the file we created in the last post.

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Basic movement based game tutorial – part 3

Jan10
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Eliott
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Basic Movement Based Game Tutorial

So, this time. What are we making?

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Let’s Begin

Ok so, as i mentioned in the last tutorial…

We will be learning how to implement scrolling and effects.

So, a game concept idea so far, scrolling right with obstacles. Obviously we will add more but at this stage that is what we will make.

And The code…

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Basic movement based game tutorial – part 4

Jan13
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Eliott
This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Basic Movement Based Game Tutorial

This time, what is it?

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So, as mentioned before – MORE WALLS :D . We’ll be creating walls that are; speed related, angle related and other various nifty things.

So first up, calculating the speed…

This is easy :D , no really VERY easy.
We just use a bit of maths and voila…
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Basic movement based game tutorial – part 5

Jan15
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Eliott
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Basic Movement Based Game Tutorial

The production line for today.

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Firstly, bouncing off the walls.

This, is really easy. All we need to know is the radius of the ball (half width), and we can just reverse the speed by using *= -1, but here i am going to use friction on the walls to enable much more realisticness (?!?, what’s the word?). :P , anyhow here’s what i mean…
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Basic movement based game tutorial – demo

Jan17
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Eliott
This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Basic Movement Based Game Tutorial

So you read the tutorials huh?

Here’s my demo of what can be made. Some adjustments have been made – some extra code but tomorrow i will release the code and sources :D . Hopefully you realise the full potential of this full flash game tutorial. I know i don’t but hey – i bet you have a ton of ideas…

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Basic movement based game demo – source

Jan19
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Eliott
This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Basic Movement Based Game Tutorial

So you saw the demo, and how did i make it?

The demo uses four movieclips… The ball, the coin, the stick and the background.

So on the first frame of the timeline we use this code.

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save = SharedObject.getLocal("Stormation-Movement-Demo");
if (save.data.highScore == undefined){
	_root.Ball.highScore = 0;
}else{
	_root.Ball.highScore = save.data.highScore;
}
_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
	save.data.highScore = _root.Ball.highScore;
}

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Basic movement based game tutorial – overview

Jan21
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Eliott
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Basic Movement Based Game Tutorial

We have covered some basic code and some advanced code, here you can locate it all…

History

Part 1 – Thursday 7th January 2010

Part 2 – Friday 8th January 2010

Part 3 – Saturday 9th January 2010

Part 4 – Sunday 10th January 2010

Part 5 – Monday 11th January 2010

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