In the previous section, we created a base class for all our game objects, and created and rendered our space ship. In this section, we’ll add keyboard control to make our ship be able to move around on screen, and actually see our game start coming to life! Getting Keyboard Input, and Storing Multiple Key …
In the last section we setup our main game class, created our main game loop, and created the background we will be rendering all of our game objects on to. In this section, we’ll make a base class for all our game objects, create our ship, and use the arrow keys to move it around …
Creating a Asteroids Flash Game Part 3: Creating and rendering the ship Read More »
In the previous section, we planned out what we are going to accomplish with the game, and setup the flashdevelop environment for creating our asteroids game,. The game can’t be asteroids without being in space. For this, we’ll create and add the background bitmapdata to our stage, and create a game class to handle everything …
This tutorial will create a vector based asteroids game using the completely free, and best solution for creating flash games, FlashDevelop. Why use FlashDevelop? FlashDevelop is open source, and much better for programming than the flash IDE (and with a $800 savings!). It is truly a remarkable program, and I suggest you donate and let …
Creating a Asteroids Flash Game Part 1: Setting up FlashDevelop and Planning Read More »
This last weekend I have been working on the site design for the new site. I have changed it to use wordpress, for easier blog posting, since blogger had removed the ability to use ftp to post to my server directly. I’ll create a write up on creating a custom theme for wordpress in the …
I changed the site layout, and added wordpress so that I can start putting out more tutorials. Expect to see Tutorials for making a simple asteroids game soon!