Adobe Flash Tutorials Part 2

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at September 8, 2008

Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong. Many of you have played them. And some of you wondered how to make them. In our previous post, we give you an introduction to Adobe Flash. Now we are going a little “advance” with ActionScript. ActionScript is the main core of your games. How your character moves, how the enemy attack depend on your ActionScript. Below are some tutorials on ActionScript and how to use them in making games. We also compile a list of games engine you can use for your games.

Physix

Introduction

Get Started If you’re anxious to get started with ActionScript 3 but don’t want to have to learn Flex or MXML, the form of XML Flex uses to design applications, this tutorial is for you.

Flash Programming Fundamental teach you the fundamentals and then study an example: multiple choice quiz.

Flash Game Creation 5 series of tutorial to make a simple game.

Getting Started With ActionScript shows how to make a simple program with ActionScript.

Implementation

Shoot em Up The game has 3 targets. These targets are placed in an array, and are then selected at random

Clicking Games The game consists of an object which appears on the screen repeatedly and user has to clicks on the object that appears. There is a total of twenty turns available and the number of hits is counted.

Click Game

Side Scrolling Game describes scrolling in two dimensions, that is the screen can be scrolled both horizontally and vertically. Here’s a Demo. Another implementation of this tutorial is in here

Side Scroll

Survival Horror is a video game genre in which the player has to survive against often undead or otherwise supernatural enemies, typically in claustrophobic environments and from a third-person perspective.

Survival

Line Rider is a game where player has the capability to draw the stage (with lines) and the rider will ride the line.

Line Rider

Snake move the snake and eat as many “food” blocks as possible

Snake

Tile Based Games a series of tutorials about tile based games in Flash. Here’s another Tile Based Tutorial you might find interesting.

Tile Based

Projectile learn how to shoot a projectile out of the sky

Projectile

Tower Defense the concept is : there is a road, and some minions walking that road. You have to kill all minions before they reach the end of the road. You can build several facilities to kill minions and earn money to upgrade weapons as the minions get stronger and faster.

Tower Defense