Flash :: I Would Like To Start Making Games?

Making Games...
How to make games? My friend is begging me to make games, and also I want to play some new games instead of the game I play on PS2 and GBA. So, can anyone help?

Oh and I want to make a scrolling game. You know...

Making Games?
Hey Everyone.
Last night durring my slumber a idea came into my head. I have decided to learn how to make games. And I was wondering what is the better choice for creating games. Director or Flash? Can someone shed some light?

Making Games
I know that there are probably several threads about the same topic(s) but oh well.
I am a novice game maker. Im trying to make an rpg engine ( HP calculator, mp calculator, dammage calculator things like that) then when i have several of these "engines" i can put elements from all of them together to make a game. ( thats basically what i have done, i learned how to make something work then changed it to see what happens lol)

Right now im trying to make an HP and MP display above my character. I i can make it move, and play a sound when i hit a key. When i hit the sound key, it decreases the MP by 1, but i cant get it to stop at 0. i was thinking that
if (_root.mp>0){_root.mp=number (_root.mp-1);
might work but it dont, can anyone help me?

Making Games?
hey im fairly new to flash, i can do basic stuff like make menus and wateva, i know a bit of actionscript...

but anyway i was wonderin if somone could tell me the basics of making games, how to make movie clips respond to keyboard buttons and stuff like that

and as the game contest has just ended i thought some of the contestants could give some insight into how they created their games...

ty

Pro At Animation, New To Making Games.
Hello everyone, I'm here needing help on making a flash first person shooter. Does anyone know of any good tutorials or has a tutorial that you have made yourself? With my "basic" AS knowledge, I'd never be able to make one on my own with a little help.

Thanks in advance!!

I also posted this in the flash 5 forum, but i was thinking after i posted this that I'd get more help here.

Making Games Work...
i know it's a dumb question,but how do you get the game you make to work outside of flash?

Making Games With Flash MX
I've been on here for hours on end trying to figure out how to make a flash game. i've looked through all of the tutorials on making games, but it seems like all of the actionscript codes are just for flash 5 and outdated for MX. I can't figure out how to shoot multiple times, how to make more than one enemy, how to do anything but make the character move!!!!
Please if you can tell me what i'm doing wrong...Do it!
Here is my game, you can look at it if you want. It's based off of Metroid Prime.

Making Cheap Games Help Please
Im pretty much new at Flash 5. Im trying to make a mni game where you move a guy around and shoot bullets. Ive got the whole move the guy around done. However when i click control(the button to shoot) the bullets just go left across the screen . I want the bullets to go the way the guy is pointing, heres my action script. Help me please!!!

onClipEvent (load) {
speed = 25;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
_rotation = 90;
_x += speed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
_rotation = 270;
_x -= speed;
}
if (key.isdown(key.UP)) {
_rotation = 0;
_y -= speed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
_rotation = 180;
_y += speed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) && Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
_rotation = 45;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT) && Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
_rotation = 315;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) && Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
_rotation = 135;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT) && Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
_rotation = 225;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.CONTROL)) {
lasercounter++;
_root.laser.duplicateMovieClip("laser"+laserCounte r, laserCounter);
set (_root["laser"+laserCounter]._visible, true);
}
}

Help Making Flash Games
I would like to start creating Flash games. However, I know next to nothing about Flash and would appreciate some help. Could anyone recommend any of the following:

Game design tutorials
Books on creating Flash games
Sources of images for inclusion in games
Easy types of games to start designing with (eg snake, arkanoid shooting galleries etc)

Thankyou

Making Games In Flash
how do i make games in flash mx i can't understand it plaese help me

[F8] To Begin Making Games
Hi, I only have little experience in the whole action scripting scene, so
I wondered if anyone got an idea on where to start.

I Am A N00b At Making Games So Help
Umm.. Hey My Names Matt and im really bad at making games with flash but im still learning you know but umm.. if anyone can help me please help.

What i Need is:
I want the Enemys To Come down from the top of the screen. Then I want when the shooter shoots a bullet and hits the enemy, i want the enemy to play his scene clip // die .
And Also add a high score table too if you can .

Please Help me Im Blocked!

Mattio

Making Games With Flash...
Does anyone know where i can find a good tutorial on making games with flash? Also, is there a better program out there that I can use to make decent games, but only require noob skills? If anyone is familiar with the game Runescape, I want to be able to make a game like that after I get good at programming. I need to learn how to program now, so that I can get better, so I can get a good job at a gaming software company. Any help is appreciated.

MX 2004-best Tutorial For Making Games?
whether a book, site, or something existing even in flash kit that maybe i overlooked...just looking for the best tutorial that goes from the basics of making games and builds up from there...don't know how to use actions that well either so if there's a place that defines what they do exactly and how to use them properly that'd help to...thanks for your help : )

Re: Making Games In Flash Tutorial
I am trying to update the following script to 3.0 and get this error message:

The onEnterFrame is not triggered automatically by Flash Player at runtime in Actionscript. You must first register this handler for the event using addEventListener ('enterFrame', callback_handler)

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (box_mc.hitTestObject(ball_mc._x, ball_mc._y)) {
trace("hit");
}
};

Has anyone else tried to update this tutorial? Help please!

[CS3] New To Making Games In Flash, To Advanced Game As First?
Hello there fellow flash users.

I'm new to making games in Flash. I've got a project on school to make a flash game, and this project lasts for about two and a half month. My idea is to make a game that's typical to Risk, would this be very advanced and hard to do? (Should I make an easier game?)

And also, what book do you guys recommend for learning to make flash games with actionscript 3.0?

What Is The Point In Making FLASH Games Installable?
what is the point in making FLASH games installable?

Making Flash Games Faster On MACs
So pretty much everyone knows that flash games that are a bit more complicated run slower on Macs than PCs.

I've been making flash games on a PC for a while and recently while borrowing a mac I realized that by having a sound playing in "stream" mode in the background games actually play at an acceptable speed on a mac. In addition to this, the games actually run rather smooth and not all jerky. It's like you can really trick the browser into working properly.

When I try this with a PC, doing this stream trick just makes the game seam really jerky and bad, but I can just use some code to determine the users platform and then run a streaming sound if the user is using a mac. right?

What I'm wondering is, does anybody know of any reasons why this could be a problem? It seems way too good to be true.

If there are no problems, this truly is a miracle. I'm just surprised I've never heard of it. I've actually only bought PCs all these years because of the slowness of the flash games I build on MACs. This could change everything.

PLEASE COMMENT!

Does Anyone Know A Good Book About Actionscript Or Making Games And Cartoons
Ive looked at a lot of books about flash and i want a book about actionscript or flash 5 cartooning and making games. i was thinking about getting Flash 5 games and cartooning, can anyone tell me a good book. Thanks
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Making MC Start At 0,0
I am using forms (fla type) and on slide one have 2 movie clips (mc). I have one on top and one on bottom to see them when im working on them, but in the actionscript I want them to both have a start position of 0,0 (I am going to hide one or the other depending on how its started)

but when I run it and give it a position it always starts where it is in the IDE. any ideas.. sorry if im not being descriptive enough, please ask questions if you need more info im very new to all this.

here is the basic stuff ive put in and from the help files, seems like it shoudl work, but it does nothing

_root.appComplete_mc._x = 0;
_root.appComplete_mc._y = 0;
_root.disclosureText_mc._x = 0;
_root.disclosureText_mc._y = 0;

point = new Object();
point.x = 0;
point.y = 0;
appComplete_mc.localToGlobal(point);
disclosureText_mc.localToGlobal(point);

Making Movie Start From Frame 50
Hi all,

Heres the situation. I have a ebsite which does not consist of frames. The first page on the website is a flash animation where I basically bring the menu bar in from the side. Now when you click on one of the menu links you are taken to another page reloaded over the current. On this next page, I want the menu to be present but not play any of the animation. I.e the movie is loaded into cache I want the html to tell the movie to start at frame 50, thus not playing the animation. Can I do this?

Many thanks in advance

Steve

How Do I Start Off Making A Header In Flash...?

I am making the green side appear frm the left
the red appear from the top and the blue from the right

the blue is the Navigation bar actually but how do u make each of those blue navigation bar when click on each links to a the desired frame ?

and yeah, about the preloader, should i place the preloader frame just before all the animations starts ? and what actionscript code should i place and where so that the preloading works ?

tks..

Making Button Start Movie Clip
This is a pretty straightforward question: I have a button to which I'd like to assign an action which starts a movie clip. I can get as far as moving the playhead to the frame which contains the movie clip...what next?

Thanks,

Making Movie Clips Start And Stop In Certain Frames
I have a movie, I have six movie clips I want to start and stop in certain frames.
like...
mc_1 start frame 1 stop frame 15
mc_2 start frame 15 stop frame 45
mc_3 start frame 45 stop frame 60
etc...
can I do this in the movie and if so, how exactly do I do it....

Making Movie Clip Start When Timeline Gets To Frame
Hello,

I have a movie clip call t-home, it is on the stage with an instance name of home...

When i get to a certain frame in my intro i want the movie clip to start playing, (also when they click a button later on, bur dont worry about this)

its not playing though... this is my script on the timeline

telltarget ("_root.home"){
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

and ideas

[MX04] Penner Tween Help. Making Some Start Later/earlier Than Others?
I'm using penner tweens more often, but am confused as to how to use them in relation to different start/end times.

For instance....i have this script in the first frame of my actions. However I want the last line of code to actually START a little later than the previous lines of code. Is there anyway to place a time action here?

var easeType = mx.transitions.easing.Regular.easeOut;
myTween = new mx.transitions.Tween(mask, "_width", easeType, 0, 364,38);
myTween = new mx.transitions.Tween(mask, "_height", easeType, 0, 364,38);
myTween = new mx.transitions.Tween(bg, "_alpha", easeType, 0, 100,13);

Making Audio Tracks Running In Background On Start
flash mx 2004 newbie here.
how can i add a background streaming mp3 (eg i have made a song.swf with the song on the first frame running on stream mode)
to my flash movie?

I would just need it to run once my flash movie starts and maybe also add a image button on the flash movie itself to stop n start the music on toggle.

Please help.

What Is A Good Tutorial Book For A Newbie To Start Making A Really Cool Site
I was just wondering what is a good book on flash 5 that would give a newbie without a lot of time the ability to make some really cool sites? Emphasis on without a lot of time. Need something that I can go through and learn in like 20 hours or something.
[Edited by setishfetish on 03-02-2002 at 04:43 PM]

Rewind, Pause, And Start Start Buttons For Base Movie And External Mov

I'm lost...

I have a base movie that contains three buttons (Rewind, Pause, and Start)

The code for the rewind button that sends the base movie to frame 2 which is set to play and then reloads the external movie (images/4_24.swf). works perfectly and is shown below.

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on (release){
    function test(){
    _root.createEmptyMovieClip("container",25);
    loadMovie("images/4_24.swf", "container");
    container._x=15;
    container._y = 95;
}
test();}

My question is does any one know how to now pause both the base and external movie with the pause button and then start both movies again with the start button????  Some how I need to control both movies with these three buttons.

Code for play button is ---
on (release) {
play();
}

Code for pause button is ---
on (release) {
stop();
}

Thank you MJR

Start And Stop Streaming Sounds (start Stopping Currently Playing)
Hi there

I am novice user of flash and have no real AS experience.

What I want to do is..

I have 18 songs from an album and have taken 30 sec from each and down sampled them ready for flash.

I want to be able preview them all from one flash file.
I will be streaming the songs in, so the initial download time is minimal.

With 18 start stop buttons for each one, but because customers are lazy, they are likely just going to click the next play button for the next preview, so I need the play buttons to stop 'this' preview before playing the next with stop control also being a stop control for those who have had enough or are well behaved browsers : )

I hope this makes sense and look forward to hearing from someone.

Cheers

Ian Hill

How To Delay The Start Of External Swf(start From Say 10th Frame)
I am using the following code to load an external swf.Now I need to start the playing of the swf movie not from frame 1 but from say 10th frame.
Please help

Code:
var myMcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();

myListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, loadedBytes, totalBytes) {
//swfToLoad._visible = false;
loadedPercent = Math.floor((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100);
_root.bar_mc._xscale = loadedPercent;
//trace(bar_mc._xscale);
c.text = loadedPercent+"%";
//trace(loadAnim.percLoaded.text);
spacer.loadMovie("images/loadingss.jpg");

};

myListener.onLoadComplete = function(targetMC:MovieClip) {

swfToLoad._visible = true;
loadAnim._visible = false;
//swfToLoad._width=367;
//swfToLoad._height=255;
}

myMcl.addListener(myListener);
myMcl.loadClip("Jason_500.swf",swfToLoad);

How Can I Start An External Program And/or Start A File
I've tryed:

on (release) {
fscommand("Exec", "program.exe");
stop();
}

Also I've tryed:

on (release) {
fscommand("Exec", "start.bat");
stop();
}

And in the .bat file I've put this:

@echo off
start file.doc
exit

But this does not seem to work, what Am I doing wrong???

Thanx alot!

FLV Start Time? Can I Start It Playing 2 Secs In?
Is there a way with actionscript to tell an FLV to start playing 2 seconds into the video. What I have is an FLV that has 2 seconds of black at the beginning, but I don't want that to play.

Or if anyone knows a way to re-encode an flv so that I can get rid of the 1st 2 seconds. I've tried re-encoding it with Riva Encoder but it just gets all screwed up. And the Flash encoder won't even let me add it to the que. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Lady

Sound Start Doesn't Start
I've been experiencing this problem. Sound.start() doesn't always start. A lot of times, it does, sometimes, it doesn't start for me. Sometimes it happens even after sound load has just finished. Has anyone experienced the same? any suggestions?

Edited: 08/24/2007 at 01:26:57 AM by nehcdet

To Start Again, Or Not To Start Again, That Is The Question
help!

I know I'm a dumbass, no need to rub it in. Guess who just learned what a smart clip is. now here's the issue:

http://www.7inone.info/test4/

everything on this site that SHOULD be a smart clip, ISN'T. Every single button and movie clip and movie clip holder has been scripted individually. And now, this far along, I realize that the smarter thing to do would have been to use smart clips. So do you think I should start over, and do it right? or should I just leave it, and learn from my mistake for future work. I would love to start again and get it perfect, but the reality of the matter is that the boss want's the site ready to go - and SOON.

any additional comments on over all design, etc. would be appricated.

thanks guys

sid.

Immediate Start Instead Of Clic Start
I have a fla-file which almost is just perfect for my needs. The only thing I need to change is :
on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
gotoAndPlay ("start");
}

I would like the movie to start immediately instead of after the visitor clicking a key. No need for saying that I am totally new to flash, is there.

Roger

Flash Wont Start, Quicktime Wont Start And Wont Uninstall
Quicktime will not run.
I have tried to uninstall quicktime v 7.1.5 and recieve the msg fatal error during installation.
When I try to run flash 8 it crashes with no error message.

I think it is a problem with Itunes and quicktime conflicting with flash. I require flash and use it frequently am not so keen on itunes yet i'd like to use my ipod.

If anyone can help, I'd be verry appreciative.

Games
does anyone know a good tutorial to creat a first person shooter? i looked on flash kit and all i could find was space ship games....

Games
Can anyone tell me the basics of making a game with collision detection?

Games
does anyone know of a site where i can get demo fla games for flash 4

Games
Hey who knows where i can get a basic tutorial on
RPG flash game making? (snes type buttons)

Looking For Games
We are looking for Flash Games of all kinds for a commercial Flash Fun Portal.
The aim is to make branded games for our clients.

Game submitters should be willing to make game adaptions for $$$ and must be
prepared to grant the rights to redistribute the games (not the source code).

Any contributions are welcome, even non-finished games. If interested please contact me at mndn@mirnichtsdirnichts.de

metrix

I Would Like To Start Making Games?

What scripting techniques should I be learning in order for me to make simple games.Also, does anyone have links of good tutorials online, that's well explained.Thanks

What scripting techniques should I be learning in order for me to make simple games.

Also, does anyone have links of good tutorials online, that's well explained.

Thanks