AS3 Flash Games for Beginners: Character Movement / Handling Multiple Keypresses
Movement is extremely important for any game in which you take the role character or object. Bad movement can completely ruin your game, and good movement can make it feel well polished. So you need to give it some attention. |
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AS3 Flash Games for Beginners: More Advanced Character Movement
It's easy to setup simple character movement based on keypresses, we are going to take it a step farther. Don't worry this is still easy but this time around we are going to add velocities in x and y directions that will be affected by friction and your keypresses¦ The end result will be a much smoother movement for our spaceship.
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. Today we're going to learn how to make that helicopter move the way it does.
AS3 Character Movement: Asteroids Style 360 Degree Movement
Well if we are going to discuss character movement… one of the most important has got to be 360 movement based on rotation. I don’t know if there’s a special name for it, I’ve heard it called everything from 360 degree movement, rotational movement, directional movement, to asteroid style movement. Anyway you want to look at it, it’s a movement style that dates back to arcade games and is definitely a usable option in today’s flash game industry. So how hard is making this angle based movement going to be? Not hard at all.
360degrees Character Movement with Hittest
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a complete character movement which will include rotation and hit test for your flash games characters. You will also learn how to put scoring.
AS3 Character Movement: Follow the Mouse Controls
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.
Advanced Character Customization for Games
Flash and AS3: Learn how to let the user add custom colors to different parts of character, add hand drawn designs to the character's clothing and how to modify a basic walking animation.
AS3 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.
AS3 Flash Games for Beginners: Adding Library Objects to Stage with AS3
The initial steps to creating a flash game. Setting up a document class and using class to pull your graphics from the library into the game so they can be used with actionscript 3 code.
Flash Character Movement
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a character movement.
Energy Bar Flash Game AS3
In some Flash games author often has a need to display energy bar for hero character or enemy character or both. In this tutorial you will learn how to create reusable energy bar which you can ..., well reuse, in all your future projects. Code is pure ActionScript 3.0.
Character Movement
This tutorial will look at the basics of movement. That is, moving an item with the up, left, right and down keys on your keyboard. Typically used with overhead or platform games, when the character is moved with these keys. While this tutorial shows you the basics, you can add level designs and animations to bring it to life, to create an engaging game. You will need to read some of our other tutorials to understand how to make enemies etc, but they are still in development.
Uneven Terrain Clamping in Flash Games – AS3
This subject comes up a lot in flash game design. When I’ve got a character in a game I’m building, and I want him to be able to walk across uneven ground, and keep him mapped on the curves and slopes. It makes a flash game much more engaging, fun, and realistic when the character can go anywhere, rather than being just limited to flat planes floating around in space. While this demo and tutorial doesn’t cover the most comprehensive ground mapping for a character in flash, this is a quick and easy solution if you’re working on just a small game or some specific part. It also has the potential to be scaled up for a much larger scenario, which I’m sure you’ll be able to see.
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.
Extremely Basic Movement
This tutorial will enable you to controll simple movement of your character, (or anything).
Character Selection for Games!
Using basic variables, we can make a character selection ideal for fighting games.
Random Movement
Giving objects automatic random movement can be helpful for games or even simple effects like falling snow or swarming bugs.
Building Games in Flash5 Part1: Player Movement and Fire
This tutorial covers controlling the movement of the player with the keyboard and firing weapons.
Random MC Movement
Giving objects automatic random movement can be helpful for games or even simple effects like falling snow or swarming bugs.
RPG PART 1 - Simple Inventory System and movement
This tutorial is for new Flash user who wish to create RPG games .
Dodge Game
A easy, simple, and fun little game in flash, it deals with looping objects, health, and character movement.
Handling Keyboard Events
Handling keyboard events, play a key role in ActionScript, has been widely used especially in SWF games nowadays. It includes five types. I will introduce them with examples.
Event Handing in ActionScript 3.0
Learn how to make your movie jump to life, whether it was by reacting to a mouse click, a keyboard stroke, or any event happening in Flash using the Event Handling system of AS3.
Advanced movement in Flash 4.
Learn how to use the mouse pointer for movement in unlimited directions in this 20 step tutorial.
Collision Detection in AS3
We are arrived at a very interesting subject. Specially for who wants to develop Flash games, the collision in between objects are fundamentals and often needed.
RPG Character Movement
Make it to were you can move a character, and make it look like it is walking!
Introduction to Box2D for Flash and AS3
Box2D is a popular physics engine with a solid Flash port, which was used to create the excellent game Fantastic Contraption. In this tutorial, the first of a series, you’ll get to grips with the basics of Box2D 2.1a for Flash and AS3.
Random Movement in Flash
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a random movement in Flash using ActionScript.
GTA style game part 1
Every body must have played the first two games in the GTA series. this tutorial is designed to help you to create a replicer version of this in Flash. this tutorial will cover the map and basic movement of your player.
Space Shooter - Movie Clip and Movement
Part 1/5. Series of tutorials on how to develop Space Shooter game. In this part we are going to learn the basics of Movie Clips and character movement.
Create a simple scroller with Flash and as3
This is a basic tutorial, that will match your creativity using OOP to scroll anything in Flash. What you need to know is how to populate content with XML and how to animate with EnterFrame. If you have problems with .XML files don't forget to check my other tutorial called working with .XML files in Adobe Flash as3.