Adobe Flash Games

Math game in Actionscript 3
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Math game using Actionscript 3 in Adobe Flash.

Create a Racing Game Without a 3D Engine
This tutorial will give you an alternative to 3D for racing games in ActionScript 3.

Create a Complete Typing Game in Flash CS5
Leading on from my earlier tutorial on detecting keyboard combos, we’ll see how to build a full game that tests your typing skills.

Hit the Target With a Deadly Homing Missile
This tutorial will guide you through adding deadly accurate homing missiles to the arsenal of your next game.

Create Minesweeper Game in ActionScript and Flash CS5
In this tutorial we will learn how to plan and code a minesweeper game using AS3 and Flash. Can we make it in just 200 lines?

Detecting Key Combos, the Easy Way
Have you ever been amazed at the variety of attacks in fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Bros, Soul Calibur and others? Now you can learn how to create an engine to detect key combinations and build your own fighting game as well!

Build a Classic Snake Game in ActionScript 2.0
In this tutorial, you’ll create a simple ActionScript 2 snake game.

Clean up With a Beautiful Watery Game
we'll be building a vertical scrolling game, with a very watery feel..

Custom Crosshair Cursor and Gunshot Sound
In this Quick Tip we will create a custom crosshair along with a gunshot sound. This could be the basis for a shoot-’em-up game. In this example, we place bullet holes on the stage at the point where you click.

Create Your Own Pseudo 3D Pong Game
In this tut I’ll describe how to create a basic 3D scene using the native 3D options of Flash Player 10. Then I’ll explain how to add interactivity to the elements and set up a basic pong game.

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.

Turn Based Combat
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a turn based combat system. I am using Flash 8, but Flash MX 2004 will work aswell.

Create a flash game like Security
Some days ago a reader told me about Security 2 game. It’s a simple game: navigate through a level by using the arrow keys avoiding security traps and guards.

How to load levels in a Flash tile based game
This tutorial, that comes in one single part, will cover the topic about loading levels in a Flash tile based game. Let’s start explaining what is a tile based video game.

How to Create a Tile Game Like Destruct-O-Match
Now I'm going to show you how I did it using Flash CS3 and Actionscript 3.0.

Creating a Multi-Directional Shooter
Learn how you can make something shoot left and right, like in a side scrolling shooter. How you can add a bit of code to it to make it shoot in 4 directions easily though.

Hangman Game
Hangman is a popular game which can be coded using a few symbols and a short amount of code. The object of the game is to reveal a word by guessing the letters of the word one by one. The player loses by guessing 5 incorrect letters. A random answer is selected at the start of each game.

Applications for Tile Engines in Flash Game Design
How tile engines simplify the game design process and how to apply them to different game types.

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.

Create the snake game using Flash
The "snake game" is one of the simplest game concepts ever. There are a lot of variations of this game written in Flash, and this tutorial will explain one way to create it. It's a relatively easy game to code, but many fail to make sure that when keys are pressed in rapid succession they are all registered. This is necessary if you want to have full control of the snake at all times. This tutorial will include storing information in a two dimensional array, the concept of a queue, using a key listener, attaching movie clips at run-time and some other things like the very useful modulo operator %.