Adobe Flash Drawing tutorials
With the digital age of illustration, the efficiency and aesthetic of design has been shaped by the functionality of tools. Though it does provide relief for laborious tasks; we all too often receive a payoff that lacks spontaneity and life. Rather than working rigidly and formulaic, it is more rewarding to produce art in a pliable and organic manner. As an animator, I strive to preserve and push rhythm and flow in design. Let's review some helpful approaches.
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Makin' a RPG: Part 1 - Your character
When you need a game, you need a character! Learn how to script you character to move and animate when a key is down! Real easy to do! Just follow the steps!
Frame Flow and Jumps in Flash Designer
This tutorial explains how to change default animation flow in Flash Designer.
Animated Controlling Character
Learn how to make a Character you want the user to use move in animation when they press that button.
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. Of course, movement is just one part of your game, but it’s the foundation of everything your character will do, so you need to give it some attention.
RPG style basic interactivity with characters
In this tutorial i will show you how to move your character around the screen and interact with a character, i will use a simple inventory system and an item collection system.
VIDEO: Character Library
Using your animation skills to create a character library.
RPG Character Movement
Make it to were you can move a character, and make it look like it is walking!
Flash Character Movement
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a character movement.
Simple Game Character Display
This shows how to create a simple character.
Make a Complete Fighting Game!
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a fight game in flash. I will only be teaching you how to set up the character and the action script, not how to animate the character.
Cartoon Gun Shooting - Part 1 (Video Tutorial)
This is our longest free tutorial showing how to animate a character shooting a different character.
Character Selection for Games!
Using basic variables, we can make a character selection ideal for fighting games.
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.
Character Animation with Symbols
In this tutorial you will learn character animation with symbols.
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.
Changing Colors inside Symbols
Changing the colors inside a symbol isn't hard to do if you know how to do it! Whether you want to customize the colors of a Character Pack, or change the colors of a hand pose to match the character you are animating with, this video tutorial demonstrates how easy it can be! Watch for Ryan's tip on quickly selecting the colors you need to change.
Making an RPG type game
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a RPG type game in flash. I will only be teaching you how to set up the character and the action script, not how to animate the character. You should already know some action script and know how to find your way around flash.
Controlling loops across scenes
Make your loops play seamlessly between scenes, while maintaining start/stop controls without overlapping the track.
Controlling the timeline
Simple ActionScript for controlling the flow of your movie. Ideal if you are just beginning to learn programming in Flash.
How to use the trace method in ActionScript
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use it so that you can check the values of variables, the number of iterations in a loop and the flow of a conditional statement. You will also learn what are comments in ActionScript and how to use them.
Shape Hints
Change a character to another.
hitTests
Explains how to make sure your character doesnt go running into walls.
Get an item
This tutorial will teach you how to make it so when the character goes by an object it will be able to pick it up by the press of a button.
Making walls and hotspots using hitTest
This tutorial will explain how to make the character move using the arrow keys.
Games, all you need to know.
This tutorial covers, simply, the basics of how to make a character move, bounce off walls instead of going through and - as he rolls over - goes to someplace else.
Making a Basic RPG game PART 1: enemies, boundaries and Going into another room!
How to make a Character walk around, get killed, and go into other rooms.
Extremely Basic Movement
This tutorial will enable you to controll simple movement of your character, (or anything).
RPG game part 1
How to make an iventory,start game button,character,NPCS, etc.
Easiest Keyboard Character Movement
Move your game characters with the easiest ActionScript code, in less than 5 minutes.
Dodge Game
A easy, simple, and fun little game in flash, it deals with looping objects, health, and character movement.
Design Methods for Flash Sites
I want to design a site in Flash. Now, what is the best way to go about doing that?Many of us feel that we have to do at least one site completely in Flash. If for no other reason than to say that we have done it. So, I am not going to argue that other means of design are superior or not.
How to make chracters move in flash using the keys
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a character that on certain key presses will move in certain directons.
Strip carriage returns
This tutorial will show how to strip carriage returns (or any other character) from text strings by splitting the string up and then reassembling the resulting array.
How to make a flash game with moving platforms
The tutorial shows how to get a character in a platform game to interact with static and moving platforms in a realistic way.
Creating a Game - Step 1
In this part of creating a game we will be creating a character that can be controlled using the arrow keys.
Howto make your flash character look like its walking.
Learn howto make a Movie clip move and look like its walking with the keyboard.
Eyes following mouse cursor
A simple and easy tutorial for you to know how to use the mouse interactivity in Actionscript 3. Well create the eyes for an alien character that will follow the mouse. Also well hide the mouse and change it with something else. All this is done in a general Movie Clip so you can drag it in your project .
Simple RPG attack 'engine'
This tutorial is to make a basic RPG style attack engine that's dependant on character and enemy statistics like health, hit rate, attack, defence and min/max damage.
FLA Optimization - Design Considerations
Discover what considerations you should look at when design in Flash for optimal performance.
Design Your Own Button
This tutorial you will get the easiest and fastest way to design a button by using Sothink SWF Quicker.
 
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