This is another tutorial in the character movement series. So far on AS Gamer we’ve discussed different ways to move your game’s hero with the keyboard. Today we are going to discuss how to move your player with the mouse. There’s a few ways this can be done, we can set a default speed that our character always moves at or create movement controls where our character eases into the new position. Both movement styles are extremely useful it just depends on which mouse movement method you are wanting to use for your game. First we’re going to talk about controlling the character at a steady speed following our mouse.
February 25th, 2009 | Tutorials | 3 Comments »
AS3 Character Movement: Helicopter Games
There are tons of games that involve character movement and controls and because one of the most popular tutorials on AS Gamer at the moment is about movement… I figured it was time to discuss a variety of movement methods. The first one we are going to discuss is Helicopter game movement. Everybody has played those helicopter games where you have to fly the helicopter through a maze without crashing. Well today we’re going to learn how to make that helicopter move the way it does.
AS3 Flash Games for Beginners: Using Frame Labels and Art Tweening
If you like using MovieClips to animate your artwork in flash then this is a great method for doing it. Not only for Flash Games but for any project in which you have an object that needs to undergo different animations based on conditions. However, this will work perfectly for our Flash Game. So this time in the series we are going to make our Stinger Ship EXPLODE when it gets hit by a bullet.
February 18th, 2009 | Tutorials | 18 Comments »
AS3 Flash Games for Beginners: Registering Hit Tests
Okay so hit tests. Hit tests simply are a check to see if two objects are touching one another. There’s plenty of ways of doing them and every shooter game needs them. AS2 had a nice little function called hitTest, AS3 has two functions…. hitTestPoint and hitTestObject. So what’s new about this hitTestPoint and hitTestObject and which one do you use? We’ll discuss it and how to make our bullets hit enemies and enemy bullets hit us.
February 16th, 2009 | Tutorials | 12 Comments »
AS3 Flash Games for Beginners: Learn How to Make Enemies with Basic AI!!!
All games need enemies…. okay, maybe not tetris. But if you’re in some game where you fly a spaceship it is more than likely that there’s going to be an enemy or two. So in this tutorial we’re going to learn to make our enemy class, making enemies randomly appear on the stage and move, and make them fire bullets at us.
February 12th, 2009 | Tutorials | 17 Comments »
AS3 Flash Games for Beginners: Firing Weapons with Delays
So you need to create a weapon, maybe a laser, and you want your character to fire the weapon. At the same time, you want a nice delay between firing each round instead of a crazy Gatling gun effect. Well this Flash tutorial is for you. We’re going to learn to make our Spaceship fire lasers with a nice timeout between each fire. To do this we’re going to use AS3 Timers, so get ready to use a timer and create the perfect delay for your laser.
February 10th, 2009 | Tutorials | 22 Comments »
AS3 Flash Games for Beginners: Level Mechanics and Animated Backgrounds
Okay, so your character is designed, moving correctly, and all around pretty fun to control… but when you move off the screen, he just disappears. So you want to make him always stay on the screen… Maybe an invisible wall that bounces him back… maybe he flips to the other side of the screen. And your background, it’s cool and simple but you want something that has some movement. This tutorial is about making your character interact with the level correctly and look good doing it.
February 8th, 2009 | Tutorials | 25 Comments »
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