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Greetings, this is my small contribution to the flash-community. Itīs a series of tutorials about tilebased games in Flash. They are not aimed at total newbies, they are not complete solutions to all your problems in anyway. They are meant to give you an idea of how simple and powerful this approach could be. They used to be published at my old website www.jailbitch.com, which is no more. Note: When I started writing these, in late 2001, Flash MX was still in beta-testing, so they are written with Flash 5 in mind and all the .fla-files are in Flash 5 format. Note 2: I havenīt written anything in years now ;) So if you want to read more, I suggest you go to "TonyPaīs" excellent site. There are tons of more good reading for you... Ok, I hope these tutorials will help someone out there, if not, at least I tried :) It would be very good to get suggestions of what to write about, so if thereīs something youīre missing here, please let me know... So why do I write these? Basicly because thereīs so much crap beeing produced in Flash :) Gamedev sums it up nicely in their description of Flash: "Flash, unfortunately, is becoming a victim of its own success, as it's on its way to becoming synonymous with "style over substance"." Which I think is very true in many cases. So I guess the reason is to, try to change that in some small way. |
Tilebased games in Flash 5 These are the tutorials so far: 01. Drawing a map. 02. Adding a character. 03. Thoughts, ideas and rant. 04. Scrolling. 05. Isometrics. 06. Simple enemies part 1 (cars). 07. Simple enemies part 2 (maze). 08. More on isometrics. 08b. More about z-sorting. 09. Editors. 10. Scrolling part 2 (optimizing). 11. Sloping tiles. 12. Jump physics. Planned are(were) these: 13. Moving tiles. 14. Large Sprites(not sure). 15. ??? (Open for suggestions) |
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I started working with flash when version 2 came out, had mostly been doing graphics and html-scripting before that. When Flash 4 came out in 1999(I think?), I was studying Multimedia at a University, and thatīs when I started to learn actionscript. Have been doing it ever since. That later got me a job at a rather succesful company called Paregos, in the north of Sweden. I worked there for almost 2 years as a flashprogrammer. Finally I got fed up with the web-industry and quit my job, sublet my appartment and moved. Then I didnīt use a computer for a couple of months. Didnīt really know what I was gonna do instead, finally I ended up working as carpenter, and I really like it, much better than sitting on a chair, staring at a screen, moving your hand an inch or two, all day long :) Well what do you know... :) As of 2005, I have started working in the web-industry again. Now at North Kingdom a company started by some of my old colleagues from Paregos. |
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Feel free to e-mail me if you feel like. The e-mail is secondhandhora[AT]telia[DOT]com. Change the [DOT] to a . and the [AT] to a @. Just trying to keep the spam out of my inbox.
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