Flash games tutorial

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Overview

This is part of the flash tutorials.

Learning goals

Learn some more action script

Learn about time-based animation

Prerequisites

Flash CS3 desktop tutorial

Flash drawing tutorial

Flash button tutorial

Flash components tutorial

ActionScript 3 interactive objects tutorial (important !)

Other recommended prior tutorials (not necessary, but can help)

Flash video component tutorial

Flash sound tutorial

Flash drag and drop tutorial

ActionScript 3 event handling tutorial

Flash ActionScript 3 overview

Moving on

Flash games tutorial

The Flash article has a list of other tutorials.

Quality

This text should technical people get going and may not be good enough for self-learning beginners. It can be used as handout in a "hands-on" class. That is what Daniel K. Schneider made it for...

Level

It aims at Flash design beginners, not beginning ActionScript 3 programmers, although programmers can read this to get a quick overview before digging into a real documentation like Adobe's Flash 9 reference manual

Learning materials

Grab the various *.fla files from here:

http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/flash/ex/game-intro/

Links

Technical

• http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2098269#post2098269 Key.isDown (problem is that focus can be lost outside Flash)

Other games tutorials

• Examining the Puzzle Game sample application, by Valerio Virgillito, Adobe (see also entry page with downloads.