Create a game with hall of fame Adobe Flash / Games
The game is simple: just enter your name, press "Play" and start moving your mouse clockwise trying to make 100 rounds as fast as you can to enter the highscore table.
Flash game creation tutorial - part 1 Adobe Flash / Games
This is a quite long tutorial, so I decided to split it in pieces.
It started as a didactic example about flash game creation.First of all, I got inspiration from Ball Revamped series (do not remember the link, search it on Google), but I'll add a lot more features.
Flash prototype: walking on disappearing tiles Adobe Flash / Games
I remember an old c64 game (and some flash and javascript remakes) where you had to walk over all tiles in a stage, never walking on the same tile twice, because as you leave a tile, it disappears.In this far-from-being-finished prototype, I took some pieces of code I found in a tutorial published on gotoandplay and coded this prototype.
Flash game creation - part 3 Adobe Flash / Games
Here we go with the 3rd step.
Remember to read 1st and 2nd part if you are new to this tutorial, and let's go.
We left our hero colleting coins, so next step will be...
The score
Scoring system consist in a variable set to 0 (zero) when the game starts and some events that may increase/decrease the score.
In this case, you get 1 point when you collect a coin, and lose 2 points when you crash into a wall.
Create a flash draw game like Line Rider or others - part 1 Adobe Flash / Games
In the last months I saw a lot of flash drawing games, like Line Rider and Softball.
The concept is very simple yet addictive because the player has the capability to draw the stage.
In the first part of this tutorial I'll cover the drawing.
The first thing to do, in the first frame, is to create the object where we are going to draw.
Create a flash draw game like Line Rider - part 2 Adobe Flash / Games
In this part I'll explore how to detect collision between a ball and the line.
Please read part 1 if you didn't already.
You may say: "hey, I don't want a ball, I want a car!!". There's no problem, you will learn everyting, I will explain, during next tutorials, how to insert complex objects, but the basics are the same for every collision.
Flash game creation tutorial - part 4 Flash tutorial Adobe Flash / Math and Physics
Knowing the direction of the player may be very useful if we decide to add some special features to our game.
Always remember that it's useless to make a simple clone of a game. If you decide to inspire yourself to an existing game, add some new features, or people will ignore your work.