1. Build a Striking Breakout Game in Flash

Using the Flash drawing tools we’ll create a great looking graphic interface that will be powered by several straightforward ActionScript 3 classes. The user will be able to play through a series of levels and you, the developer, can easily add as many levels as you like!

2. Awesome Flash BlackJack Game

In this Premium Tutorial, you’ll be building an amazing BlackJack game, from scratch, using Flash and AS3.

3. Create a Slot Machine Game in Flash Using AS3

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4. Create a Space Shooter Game in Flash Using AS3

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5. Hangman Game in Flash Using ActionScript 3.0

Developing a game is must-have skill if you are a Flash Developer, it makes use of many different ActionScript methods and properties, plus you will have plenty of fun in the process! In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an advanced Hangman game using ActionScript 3.0.

6. Design and Develop a Flash Shooting Gallery Game

In this Tutorial, I’ll teach you how to combine several ActionScript 3 classes and skills to create a fantastic shooting gallery game.

7. Create an Epic War Game in Flash

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8. Build an AS3 Tetris Game From the Ground Up

In this Active Premium tutorial we’ll be creating a variant of the classic Tetris game, explaining general game concepts as well as some specific to this genre.

9. Customizing Game Characters with Palette Mapping

In this flash tutorial author will show you how to use AS3 ‘s PaletteMap feature to create a character customization interface for your next game.

1. Create a Flash Login System Using PHP and MySQL

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2. Get User IP Address Using PHP and ActionScript 3

An Internet Protocol Address (IP Address), is a unique number assigned to every device connected to the Internet. For different reasons, it can be useful to get the user IP address, like blocking a spammer user in a chat application for example. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get and display the user’s IP address using PHP and ActionScript.

3. Using Actionscript 3.0 With PHP : Loading External Variables

Creating dynamic websites which combine the power of Flash or Flex with PHP is easier than ever with ActionScript 3.0.

4. Connect to PHP with Actionscript 3 and Post variables to PHP

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5. Flash Contact Form in ActionScript 3 and PHP

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6. Introduction to Flash and PHP

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7. Actionscript 3.0 Tutorial PHP MySQL Bar Graph Dynamic Basics [video]

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8. Creating an Email Form with Actionscript 3.0 and PHP

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9. Hit Counter Flash + PHP for full Flash website pages

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10. Flash Website Voting Poll Tutorial: Actionscript 3.0 PHP MySQL [video]

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11. PHP Session Variables + ActionScript 3

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12. Object Oriented ActionScript 3, using PHP & SQL

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13. Build a Dynamic Gallery with ActionScipt 3.0 and PHP

In this tutorial, we’ll create a gallery which displays all image files in a given directory. A slider is used to browse easily through the images.

14. Create a Comment Form with Flash, PHP, XML and MySQL

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15. PHP/Flash Score List [video]

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16. Creating a Reusable Flash Uploader with ActionScript 3.0 and PHP

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18. Developing Flash based applications with PHP

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We will mostly be covering basic ActionScript techniques, thus it is not required to be an exceptional whiz at programming. For this tutorial I’ll be using Adobe Flash CS3 with ActionScript 3.0 as the default language.

Building our .FLA File

Each flash project you create should be saved to disk as .fla inside a root directory. I’ve created a new document 630×575 and saved as YouTube.fla.

Getting familiar with the Flash interface may take a little bit of time. Most of the work we’ll be doing is integrated in the lowermost panels. More specifically we’ll be dealing with properties and actions.

Properties will allow you to update the current document width/height and other advanced settings. Actions is where all the real fun happens and where our code is stored. Each layer as a series of keyframes which store ActionScript to manipulate transitions and effects.

You’ll notice a layers panel towards the top above the project stage. The first layer should be named “Layer1″. Change that to Actions and tick the small lock symbol off to the right side. This sets a single layer in our file dedicated to ActionScript code, which means we don’t need to go searching around for anything. Locking just ensures we don’t accidently place elements in that layer.

Designing Page Views

The next step is to create our physical layout. I’ve created a new layer titled “views” which is going to house 6 MovieClips. These will actually become placeholders for the dynamic thumbnail shot YouTube generates with each video.

To create these check insert->new symbol or simply tap F8. Here a new menu comes up asking what type of symbol you are creating. Movie Clip is perfect set along 120px width and 90px height. Once the symbol is made alter the clip’s instance name to “ytThumb” + 0-5 for each clip. So for example the first would be labeled ytThum0, the next ytThumb1 and so forth.

Now we can move back into our actions panel to start really developing. If you are having trouble with creating each movie clip don’t fret. They are not truly necessary at this point, but it does save time to create each instance beforehand.

Beginning the ActionScript Code

Click back on the first keyframe in the Actions layer. From here check the bottom panel and move from properties into actions. The panel will expand much higher and include a text box – this is where our code will go.

To start off we will define a few variables to hold namespace references. These ensure that when pulling data from Google and YouTube’s servers we can interpret the return properly. Also we include a Security.allowDomain call to let Flash know we can trust data downloaded through YouTube.

Security.allowDomain("youtube.com","http://youtube.com","www.youtube.com");
var atom:Namespace = new Namespace("http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom");
var gd:Namespace = new Namespace("http://schemas.google.com/g/2005");
var yt:Namespace = new Namespace("http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007");

default xml namespace = atom; // very important!!

var vidCount:int = 6;
var dataArray:Array = new Array();

As an example above we have 3 new namespaces defined as atom, gt, and yt. These correspond with atom RSS feeds and two primary namespaces relating to the YouTube API. By the last line we are setting the default namespace for all XML code to atom.

Without these lines ActionScript will try parsing the return XML from YouTube’s API as plain XML instead of an atom feed. This results in bugs and errors flying around, so it’s much easier to clear this up first.

We are also creating two simple variables towards the very end. vidCount is used to define how many videos we will pull from each feed. dataArray is currently set to an empty array. A future function will pull this data and feed instances of videos into an array list.

var xmlUrlReq:String = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/-/Tech/";
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var xmlData:XML = new XML();

// loader event listener
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXml);
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest(xmlUrlReq));

We now have the defining principles for connecting to an XML page. The XML url we are using is defined outright which contains the standard API call. It is malleable in that you can change Tech to any variable returning video results.

For example http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/-/Gaming/ is a possibility for all gaming-related videos. Our xmlLoader will store the functions needed to load this API URL and xmlData is used to store the returning XML code.

After variables are set we need to call our event listener which checks to see when the API has finished loading. At this point we call a new function LoadXml() which is defined next.

Event Handler Calls

Once the loader eventListener has cleared our LoadXml function is called. This will parse all of the data we need out of the YouTube API response and store simple variables for access later. Below is the entire function code.

function LoadXml(e:Event):void {
	xmlData = XML(e.target.data);
	var media:Namespace = xmlData.namespace("media");
	var gd1:Namespace = xmlData.namespace("gd");
	var elms:XMLList = xmlData.entry;

	for(var i:int = 0; i < vidCount; i++) {
		dataArray.push({});
		dataArray[i]["title"] = elms[i].title;
		dataArray[i]["coreThumb"] = elms[i].media::group.media::thumbnail[0].@url;
		dataArray[i]["vidURL"] = elms[i].media::group.media::player.@url;
		dataArray[i]["duration"] = elms[i].media::group.yt::duration.@seconds;
		dataArray[i]["viewCount"] = elms[i].yt::statistics.@viewCount;
		dataArray[i]["commentCount"] = elms[i].gd::comments.gd::feedLink.@countHint;
		dataArray[i]["favoriteCount"] = elms[i].yt::statistics.@favoriteCount;

		loadThumbs(dataArray[i]["coreThumb"], i);
		loadText(i, dataArray);
	}
}

You can see an initial for loop which pulls out elements from each XML file and stores them into an array. This is referenced with each variable call underneath dataArray.push({}).

Setting dataArray[i] would create 6 individual arrays valued dataArray[0-5]. Within each of these we have sub-arrays containing video information.

This includes the core thumbnail, video URL, duration, number of comments, etc. This function is used to pump through all 6 videos inside a loop and extract bits of data from the response. With this data we then create a new array to house all the values we need and pass these into two more functions to display our finished product.

loadThumbs is the first call which requires two parameters. The first param URL is looking for the external jpg thumbnail file while the second holds the index for which video ID we’re on (valued 0-5).

function loadThumbs(url:String, index:int):void {
	var imgURLRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
	var myImgLoader:Loader = new Loader();
	myImgLoader.load(imgURLRequest);

	myImgLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, thumbLoaded);

	function thumbLoaded(e:Event):void {
		var myBitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(myImgLoader.width, myImgLoader.height);
		myBitmapData.draw(myImgLoader);

		var myBitmap:Bitmap = new Bitmap();
		myBitmap.bitmapData = myBitmapData;
		switch(index) {
			case 0:
				ytThumb0.addChild(myBitmap);
				break;
			case 1:
				ytThumb1.addChild(myBitmap);
				break;
			case 2:
				ytThumb2.addChild(myBitmap);
				break;
			case 3:
				ytThumb3.addChild(myBitmap);
				break;
			case 4:
				ytThumb4.addChild(myBitmap);
				break;
			case 5:
				ytThumb5.addChild(myBitmap);
				break;
		}
	}
}

We are pulling in another URL Loader to download each video thumbnail. From here we are actually creating a brand new bitmap file inside of Flash to re-create each image.

The benefit here is we can cache each image and store the contents for another query. This would be useful if you were offering access to multiple YouTube feeds and didn’t want to call a new request every time a new visitor came to the page.

We have another event listener which calls thumbLoaded once the image is finished. Then we create a new bitmap image variable named myBitmap and store the thumbnail data inside. Afterwards there’s a small switch clause breaking down 0-5 for each video ID. The code inside simply targets each Movie Clip and appends addChild() holding each thumbnail image.

Loading Video Text Data

The last step required is pulling video data from our array and adding this onto our stage. For this we’ve written a function loadText which takes the current video ID and also the matching data array.

function loadText(id:int, vidDataArray:Array):void {
	var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
	myFormat.size = 13;
	myFormat.font = "Arial";
	myFormat.color = 0x0066FF;
	myFormat.underline = true;	

	var myDescFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
	myDescFormat.size = 11;
	myDescFormat.bold = true;

	var mytext = this['ytTitle'+id];
	var mydesc = this['ytDesc'+id];

	var vidTitle:String = vidDataArray[id]["title"];
	var vidUrl:String = vidDataArray[id]["vidURL"];
	var vidDur:int = vidDataArray[id]["duration"]; // duration in seconds
	var vidDurMin:String = Math.floor(vidDur/60) + ":" + vidDur%60; //duration in minutes
	var vidViews:String = splitNumber(vidDataArray[id]["viewCount"]);
	var vidComms:int = vidDataArray[id]["commentCount"];
	var vidFav:int = vidDataArray[id]["favoriteCount"];

	mytext.wordWrap = true;
	mytext.defaultTextFormat = myFormat;

	mydesc.defaultTextFormat = myDescFormat;
	mydesc.textColor = 0x333333;
	mydesc.text = "Time: " + vidDurMin + "\r";
	mydesc.text += "Views: " + vidViews + "\r";
	mydesc.text += "Comments: " + vidComms + "\r";
	mydesc.text += "Favorites: " + vidFav + "\r";

	var htmlstring:String = '<a href="' + vidUrl + '" target="_blank">' + vidTitle + '</a>';
	mytext.htmlText = htmlstring;

}

The beginning lines use a variable myFormat to create a new text formatting. This is a dynamic way to create text input data and import the settings into a project without physically adding any onto the stage. There is no real benefit of this way other than saving file space. However it is good practice to introduce yourself to both methods and choose whichever works best!

We are creating new variables to hold the video data. More specifically we will be accessing the video’s title, URL, duration (and convert this from seconds to minutes), total views, total comments, and total favorites.

Using myText as a new text area we can append these elements with htmlText. From this each video ID will loop through the XML event handler and add all the images and text onto stage.

With this should complete our code! You can test your movie from control->test movie or ctrl+enter on Windows. If you’d like to reference my project code you can download the archive here. Included are both the .fla file and the .swf finished movie product.

This has been an introduction into developing over YouTube’s API. The project was created for the purpose of writing in many different structures and testing different programming styles. ActionScript is very robust and provides an excellent platform for API data manipulation.

However, the technology itself is quite complicated and not so easy to master. Fortunately, there are many great resources that offer step-by-step Flash tutorials. Thanks to them, we have an opportunity to learn the technology from professionals whenever we have time and desire.

For this post I’ve selected the most useful, rich and popular Flash tutorial resources on the net. The beginners will find the tutorials that cover the basic Flash concepts. As for the advanced users, they will also find much new, useful and inspiring for their future works.

You may also like to visit most popular post on flash tutorials i.e 35+ Flash Game Development Tutorials & FLA Files

1. Flashkit.com

Flash Kit is one of the oldest communities for Flash developers and all those, who are interested in Flash. The tutorial section hosts 18 categories. All the tutorials are very good and worth attention.

2. Entheosweb.com

Entheos is a five-year-old Web Design company that is based in Bangalore, India. Their free Flash tutorials cover the basics of Flash animation and Actionscript. This resource gives you a good opportunity to easily learn cool Flash effects and basic Flash concepts. The “Flash tutorials” section is divided into two parts: “Animation and Effects” and “Actionscript”.

3. W3schools.com

W3schools is a free online school for all those, who would like to study web developing. Here you will find a wide range of web building tutorials: HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, ASP, PHP, SQL and, of course, Flash.

Flash tutorials presented on this website will teach you how to use Flash in your applications. The contents include:

•    Introduction to Flash
•    Flash How to
•    Flash in HTML
•    Flash Tweening
•    Flash Guide Tween
•    Flash Tint Tween
•    Flash Shape Tween
•    Flash Buttons
•    Flash Animation
•    Flash Sound

4. Flashandmath.com

A fantastic collection of Flash AS3 tutorials. Both beginners and advanced developers will definitely find useful info to learn from.  There are three section of the website:

•    AS3 Tips and How-Tos
•    New Tutorials and Effects
•    Some of the Most Requested Tutorials

5. LearnFlash.com

This is a great resource for those, who prefer video tutorials. This collection of video lessons discovers most of Flash secrets. The Flash tutorial videos presented on this website are recorded by experts. With this video series you will learn the basics of using Flash, creating Flash websites with animation, sound and video. The expert will show you step-by-step how to use the latest software, and many more…

The Flash training includes the following sections:

•    Beginner
•    Intermediate/Advanced
•    Bundles

6. Tutorialized.com

This popular resource contains plenty of useful Flash tutorials. You will learn to work in 3D, drawing techniques, text effects, tips and tricks, ActionScript and many more.

There are the following subsections of the “Flash Tutorials” section:

•    3D
•    Actionscripting
•    Audio
•    Games
•    Interactivity
•    Getting Started
•    Web Design, and many more.

7. Flashexplained.com

The Flash tutorials from Luka Maras, a web designer and owner of FlashExplained.com, which you will find on this website, are some of the most detailed and well-explained on the Web.

8. Flashperfection.com

A great resource with Flash tutorials only. You will always find the freshest ones here.

There are plenty of Flash tutorials on the site from the lessons for beginners to advanced tutorials.

Among other basic tutorials, there are many scarce ones, such as “Math Physics Tutorials”, “Flash Optimization Tutorials”, “Flash Projector Tutorials”, etc.

9. Pixel2life.com

There is another large collection of tutorials. In the “Flash” section you will find many useful training materials. The section contains 24 subsections of Flash related tutorials.

10. Adobe.com

The best Flash tutorials are from Flash creators! The tutorials, presented by Adobe Developer Center, are all written by high professionals. You will definitely find much useful and unique info, training materials as well as related resources.

11. Echoecho.com

The Echoecho.com tutorials answer the questions: What is shockwave Flash? Why is it often smarter than applet or GIF’s? What do you need to be able to create your own flash movies? Where should you start? And many more…  You will also learn to create draw with Flash, create Flash buttons, change the objects between two keyframes, etc.

There are also some tutorials for advanced users: they will teach you to build a “javascript bridge”. Also, you have an opportunity to browse through the collection of Flash movies that are presented on the website.

12. Kirupa

This amazing collection of Flash and ActionScript tutorials from Kirupa, is very rich: you will find everything you need for learning Flash as well as useful Flash Components.

You will find the following tutorial subjects:

•    Animation
•    Drawing and Design
•    Common Tasks
•    ActionScript Basics
•    Special Effects
•    Isometry
•    Game development

13. Flashdesignerzone.com

The Flash tutorials from Selteco, a web design software company.

They offer the following Flash tutorials:

•    Beginners (Intro and Outro Animation, working with frames, getting started with ActionScript)
•    Design
•    JavaScript
•    New
•    ActionScript
•    Sound
•    Advanced

14. GotoAndLearn.com

Plenty of free video tutorials from Lee Brimelow – a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR development communities. There are really useful tutorials on Flash, Flex, 3D, Papervision 3D, and many more…

15. TheFlashBlog.com

Also, visit Lee Brimelow’s blog that is devoted to Flash: it is just a Klondike of useful Flash resources.

16. Newgrounds.com

These Flash tutorials will teach you all about the Flash environment, with individual lessons about animation and ActionScript programming.

17. Good-tutorials.com

Another great website with plenty of useful tutorials. In the “Flash Tutorials” section you will find the following themes: ActionScript, Animation, Audio, Basics, Drawing, Effects, Game Development, Interactivity, Math and Physics, Navigation, Server-side, Text effects.

18. Sitepoint.com

The extensive collection of Flash Tutorials and Flash How Tos with the Flash related articles on Sitepoint.com, written by professionals, will help you take your Flash and ActionScript skills to the next level.

19. Actionscript.org

A great collection of tutorials from Actionscript.org.  The “Tutorials” section contains the detailed articles about Flash, Flex and ActionScript. Also, you will find other useful resources regarding Flash: articles, press releases, community, etc.

20. Brainbell.com

This website offers free IT training and computer tutorials. From the “Flash” section you will learn how to create a document, a banner, accessible Flash content, layers, layout tools, application, symbols and distances. Also, you will know how to add button animation and navigation, to create a presentation with screens, to draw in Flash, and many more…

21. Baycongroup.com

This resource offers two Flash tutorials written by Denise Etheridge: Flash CS4 Tutorial and Flash 8 Tutorial.
In the “Flash CS4” Tutorial the author will take you step-by-step through the process of creating Flash CS4 Professional movie. Before you start learning, you can view the movie you will create.

Flash CS4 Tutorial

The “Flash 8” tutorial will teach you how to create graphics, work with layers, add motion, sound and text to a Flash 8 Movie.

Flash 8 Tutorial

22. Flashfridge.com

Another useful resource with many great flash tutorials that cover the following themes: Actionscript, Animation, Banners, Buttons, Drawing, Navigation, Sounds and Audio, Special FX, Text effects.

23. Braineak.com

This new, but rather perspective resource contains a lot of different design related tutorials. In the section “3D and Animation” you will find many useful Flash related tutorials.

Papervision 3D Tutorial Resources:

1. Papervision-tutorials.com

This new great blog devoted to Papervision 3D hosts plenty of useful articles, roundups of Papervision 3D Templates as well as Flash CMS Templates and 3D tutorial resources. This website is actually gathered links of the best Papervision 3D tutorials in one place.

2. Papervision2.com

A good resource of Papervision 3D Tutorials: all the posts contain much useful and interesting info.

There are two sections of the website:

•  Updated/New tutorials
•  Original tutorials.

3. Dispatchevent.org

The author of this great tutorial is reviewing and dissecting Papervision 3D 2.0 (Great White) in a multi-part series. There are a 4 part tutorial for those, who are curious about 3D in Flash.

Part  1 will review Wikipedia articles and relate them to Papervision 3D along the way. If you are already familiar with computer graphics as a topic of CS, you may wish to skip this post. Parts 2 & 3 will review the details of many features of Papervision3D. Part 4 is going to be a set of useful notes and tips for anyone who’s not already experienced with Papervision3D. Unfortunately, Part 4 hasn’t been published yet.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

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Here i have showcased 24 experimental flash sites for your inspiration in which designers used actionscript very well to produce these wonderful sites and tried not to follow usual trends. Means all these sites are experimental and innovative.

1. De Voz a Sua Imaginacao

2. Andreas Lutz

3. Diesel – Only the Brave

4. The Turn TV

5. Pencil Rebel

6. Take This Distance

7. Victor Taba

8. Hello Monday

9. White Out

10. Electro Avdelingen

11. Snow Din

12. Sekati

13. SideKick Creative

14. Rice Daubney

15. Dvein

16. Filippa Smedhagen Sund

17. ACLU: Ideological Exclusion

18. Self Titled

19. Typography Kick Ass

20. Prompei A.D.

21. Made Of Japan

22. LAB | Mathieu Badimon

23. Progetty Studio

24. Don’t Click

These 40 flash game development tutorials will really be helpful to everyone. I have also given the link to source files, if they were provided.

Suggest read: The Most Useful Flash Tutorial Resources

Download Flash Game Source Code

1. Create a 3D Sliding Puzzle Game in Flex with ActionScript 3.0 and Away3D

Flash Platform is a great tool to create games, either for internet or mobile content. With the introduction of Flash 3D Engines, the ability and success of creating flash games is even bigger.

Create a 3D Sliding Puzzle Game

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2. AS3 Character Movement: Asteroids Style 360 Degree Movement

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.

AS3 Character Movement

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3. How to Create a Tower Defense Game in AS3

In this section of the tutorial, we’re going to set up the roads and stuff onto the stage. However, the first thing we need to do is create a blank flash document with a black background with the frames per second set at 24.

Tower Defense Game in Flash

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4. AS3 Character Movement: Follow the Mouse Controls

How to make a character follow the mouse at a set speed. Excellent effect for games, and very useful.

AS3 Character Movement

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5. Learn ActionScript 3 By Following This Simple Avoider Game Tutorial

A lot of people claim that AS3 is hard. This is not true. By following this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use this powerful language to make games in Flash.

Simple Avoider Game Tutorial

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6. A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Flash Game Developer

So you want to be a flash game developer, eh? It’s something that’s easy to get into, but hard to get good.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Flash Game Developer

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7. Using Hit Tests & HitTestObject

Learn to use hitTestObject to check when two objects are touching in a game.

Registering Hit Tests

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8. Advanced Mathematical Functions in Flash

Well just to give you an idea of what can be done with geometry check out a flash game.

Advanced Mathematical Functions in Flash

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9. AS3 Character Movement: Helicopter Game

Everybody has played those helicopter games where you have to fly the helicopter through a maze without crashing.

Helicopter Games

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10. Using Frame Labels and Tweening for Enemy Explosions

Not only for Flash Games but for any project in which you have an object that needs to undergo different animations based on conditions.

Using Frame Labels and Art Tweening

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11. AS3 Flash Games for Beginners: Firing Weapons with Delays

So you need to create a weapon, maybe a laser, and you want your character to fire the weapon.

Firing Weapons with Delays

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12. How to Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS2

Learn how to create and code a classic brick breaker game in ActionScript 2.0.

Create a Brick Breaker Game in AS2

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13. Simple Guessing Game with Actionscript

We’ve probably all played this game before: memorize a number between 0 and 1000, and let the other person guess.

Simple Guessing Game with Actionscript

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14. Laser Collision Checking

In this final tutorial on ‘building an arcade game’ you will learn how to create you ship and check when the laser hit it.

Laser Collision Checking

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15. Building an Arcade Game

Take your first steps into flash game development with this series of informative tutorials by Flash Junkie. By Flash Junkie

Building an Arcade Game

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16. Game creation tutorial

This is the first part of a long step-by-step article that will guide you through the entire process of creating a Flash game including input management, basic physics, collision detection and a lot more!

Game creation tutorial

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17. Creating Scrolling Terrain

Add further visual excitement and interactivity to your game will scrolling terrain.

Creating Scrolling Terrain

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18. Flash Racing Game Tutorial

In this tutorial we’ll cover the creation of a flash racing game.

Flash Racing Game

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19. Base Defender

Create this game. Defend the TNT beneath the grass by blowing up any incoming airplanes and the bombs they drop.

Base Defender

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20. Hangman Game

Hangman is a popular game which can be coded using a few symbols and a short amount of code.

Hangman Game

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21. Make a dynamic hangman game with XML and ActionScript

This tutorial is intended for intermediate or advanced users of ActionScript.

Hangman Game In Flash 8

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22. Catapult Game

Create a Catapult Game with a launching arm, trampolines, and fans.

Catapult Game

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23. Balloon Shooting Game

Create a balloon shooting game in flash MX.

Balloon Shooting Game

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24. Game preloader

Generally, Flash games need to be completely download before they can be played. This is why the vast majority of Flash games use preloaders.

Game preloader

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25. Shooting Objects in Flash Games

This tutorial will show you how to shoot bullets to destroy objects, in Flash games.

Shooting Objects in Flash Games

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26. Programming Starfields for Realistic 3D Space Flight

One thing I have noticed is a lack of good tutorials on the web for first-person game programming in Flash 5, so here goes.

Starfields for Realistic 3D Space Flight

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27. RPG Programming

The basics of an RPG, started by denacioust, where he did a decent job of creating a basic, and preliminary Tutorial for an RPG.

RPG Programming

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28. Creating a Vertical Shooter

So, we will create a game using our super hero Pawel to kill dragons that are coming from one side of the screen.

Creating a Vertical Shooter

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29. Creating a Flash Lite Game

Making rich media for mobile consumption has never been easier since the release of the Flash Lite player for mobile devices.

Creating a Flash Lite Game

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30. Create a game like Bloons

First impression is that Bloons is a really simple game, and it is in fact. Also is highly addictive, and is so easy to get stuck at higher levels.

Create a game like Bloons - Part 1

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31. Flash Pool Game

Learn to creat a simple pool game in flash.

Flash Pool Game

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32. Flash Dodge Ball Game

In this flash game tutorial part 1 I will show you how to make a cartoon character that we can animate and play with later on in the next tutorials on flash game development.

Flash dodge ball game

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33. Chicken And Eggs Game

This article is a tutorial which explains how to create a game using Flash CS3.

Chicken and Eggs Game

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34. Flash Ball Game

This tutorial does not cover anything new (well, this first part of this tutorial) but shows you how to create a Flash ball game with a visual from above and some decent graphics.

Flash Ball Game

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35. Build A Game Like Sproing

Sproing is a very simple and intuitive Flash game. It’s also rather addictive. The object of the game is to destroy green orbs by hitting them hard enough with a blue orb which is connected to the mouse via a spring force.

Sproing Game

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36. Simple Sprite Control

If you want to create a game you will probably reach the point where you need to animate a little sprite on the screen, the following tutorial is very simple, I will show you how you can control a sprite using the arrow keys.

Sprite Control Tutorial

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