Flash ActionScript 3.0 game programs & tutorials

• Coin Toss
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for basic coin toss (if statement,button, random, text fields) with comments on changes from ActionScript 2.0
  Notes/Tutorial on Creating a Document Class .as file
  
  
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for rock, paper, scissors.
  Source (fla) file for partial implementation of Rock, Paper, Scissors in ActionScript 3.0 (cel animation, buttons, game logic)
  
  
• Going to a URL (such as a HTML page) from Flash
  Going to relative and absolute addresses
  Going to relative and absolute addresses, new window and other options>
  Notes/Tutorial on use of navigateToURL, URLRequest object
  • Flash source: navigatetoURL one fixed place, same window
  • Flash source: navigatetoURL two places based on random test, new window
  • Flash source: navigatetoURL two places based on which button clicked, same window
    
    
• Run, Bo, Run , Run, Bo, Run (source .fla file)
  Chasing Bo (Mouse Over event causes Bo to change direction, CLICK stops Bo), Chasing Bo source
  Catching Bo and sending email (Mouse_Over event, Date(), email), Catching Bo source.
  Brief notes on combining cel and computed animation and sending email from a Flash application (using php).
  See also below under Sound.
  
  
• James Marr, who owns a bar in Spain, asked for my help in developing the Spoof game. His version is much cuter than mine: Themonkeynuts.com Spoof game.
  My game:
  Spoof: a guessing game played in pubs, ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial for Spoof: radiobuttons, random, Flash source for spoof game.
  
  
• Bouncing Ball
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for simulation of a bouncing ball (Timer, hitTestPoint for collisions, input text field)
  Bouncing Ball: balls created by mouse events, random colors
  Bouncing things: balls, rectangles, stars created; random colors and rotation; objects stop & can be swept away
  Tutorial (Timer events, classes, inheritance, linkage, colorTransform, hitTestObject, removeChild)
  
  
• Cannon ball (ballistics)
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for cannonball (Timer, hitTestPoint for collisions, Math class methods, cel animation and computed animation
  
  
• Simple examples (commented Flash source) for mouse events
  Flash source: slide show.. NOTE: see also Templates in Flash.
  Flash source: simple drag and drop: addEventListener, MOUSE_DOWN, MOUSE_UP
  Flash source: drag and drop area: move remote object: addEventListener, MOUSE_DOWN, MOUSE_OUT, MOUSE_UP
  Flash source: set of buttons, moving remote object: addEventListener, MOUSE_DOWN, MOUSE_OUT, CLICK, MOUSE_UP
  Flash source: set of buttons, moving remote object only horizontally (x): addEventListener: MOUSE_OVER, CLICK, MOUSE_MOVE
  
  
• Using Slider and Button components; one function to handle multiple events
  • Sliders and Button
  • Tutorial: Using Slider and Button components
    
    
• Capturing keyboard key presses
  • Simple application detected keystrokes
  • Tutorial: Capturing key presses; issue of focus
    
    
• Skiing down a slope: Timer, keyboard key presses, dynamic creation of gates, hitTestObject, addChild, display list
  • Skier program
  • Tutorial: skiing game, key presses, dynamic creation of gates: use of addChild, detecting missed gate versus detecting passing through a gate.
  • Source code showing phases of implementation: skier1, skier2, skier3, skier4
    
    
• General notes on locating the .as files on PCs and MACs (used in the jigsaw, shooter, and other applications)
  
  
• Lizard Jigsaw with build, mixup and check buttons
  Lizard Jigsaw with automatic checking
  Lizard Jigsaw with idler/attractor
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for jigsaw (class, static class methods, pieces as objects of the Piece class, external .as file, KeyBoard, Mouse and Timer events, composition of objects).
  
  
• Menu program: loading external Flash movies. Tutorial/Notes on how to load another Flash movie.
  
  
• Presidential preference survey
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 to php for survey (radio buttons, URLRequest, URLLoader, php, flat file)
  Show vote totals
  
  
• Coffee store order: radio button, radio button group, combo box, text field, sharedObject
  Source code: creating radio buttons, combo box, sharedObject
  Tutorial on Flash cookies (aka SharedObjects), radio buttons, combo, text field.
  
  
• Presidential ballot: results stored on client computer
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0. radio buttons, SharedObject (cookie), text field
  
  
• Shooter, base shooting game, arrow keys, can build on to make your own
  Improved Shooter: automatic focus, health bar
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for shooter (multiple classes, keyboard, multiple timer events, collisions, hitTestObject, arrays, dynamic creation of text, text formatting, focus)
  
  
• Memory / Concentration game
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for memory / concentration game (class, class variables and object variables, linkage, simple shuffle, using addChild to display created objects and associate objects)
  
  
• Sound
  • Sound in a frame (Bo barks), Flash source
  • Simple playing of external sound file using ActionScript: Sound, URLRequest
  • Play and pause external sound files (at random) using Sound, URLRequest and SoundChannel
  • Tutorial / notes on sound in a frame and Sound, URLRequest, Sound Channel
    
    
• Set game
  • Set game implementation in ActionScript 3.0.
  • Notes / Tutorial for set game, using ActionScript 3.0.: .fla file plus class definitions for Board, Pattern and Okbutton
    
    
• Video
  • Play single video, Play choice of two videos, Tutorial for simple playback
  • Play video with skin (controls), radio buttons, Tutorial for video playback, skin, radio buttons
  • Play video in a bouncing ball. Tutorial for video playback in movie symbol instance, mask.
  • Solve jigsaw and see video. , Jigsaw Kisco River , Tutorial for completed jigsaw turning into video clip: rewritten by Maria Griffo.
    
    
• Interfaces for playing video clips based on information in a database:
  • Use of MySql, php, and dynamic creation of ComboBoxes, FLVPlayback
  • Use of MySql (2 tables), php, creation of a field of tags, FLVPlayback
  • Tutorial for Flash connecting with php to MySql database, for ComboBoxes, tag field, playing video
    
    
• Using a calculation based on camera input to determine which video to play
  • Live video and re-play recorded video
  • Tutorial/notes on using color calculation to choose among videos, following a setup procedure
    
    
• Loading at runtime: image jpg files and xml files
  • Demonstration reading in file
  • Tutorial/notes on Loader, URLRequest, error handling
    
    
• Loading at runtime: XML file, parsing XML, and loading other files, ComboBox, RadioButton, RadioButton Group
  • Demonstration using simple XML files
  • Tutorial/notes on URLLoading, URLRequest, error handling, Radio buttons
  • Demonstration using XML files with attributes, child nodes not all the same. Available xml files are albumplus.xml, obamapicsplus.xml, obamapicserror.xml. For this last one, you will need to view the source, since by design, it is not well-formed xml.
  • Tutorial/notes on TextInput, attribute and hasOwnProperty methods, TextFormat
    
    
• State (country) capital game
  • US States and capitals
  • Tutorial on state capitals, radio buttons, dynamic construction of interface, xml, language localization
    
    
• Pattern / logic game
  • Mastermind type pattern guessing: facility to retry same pattern or get a new pattern
  • Tutorial: Linkage, ActionScript creation of Sprites (circle), clips, text format, text field, draggins, hitTestPoint, removeChild
    
    
• Simulation of infectious disease (similar to old game of Life)
  • Commented Flash (.fla) file: arrays of arrays for 2D grid, properties, Linkage of movie clip symbols for dynamic creation by ActionScript, probabilities
  • Infectious disease simulation
    
    
• Find places (geography, map) game
  • Virtual pilot, timed, rounds, point and region checking
  • Tutorial: find places game
    
    
• Adding instances to the Stage using ActionScript; printing (start of a game involving player drawing)
  • Placing walls on a board; printing part of the screen
  • Tutorial: Export for ActionScript; Point; PrintJob
    
    
• Demonstration of 3D motion: 2 moons (ellipses) revolving around a hub (rectangle)
  • 3D demonstration
  • 3D demonstration (source)
    
    
• Very simple kinematics (not using Flash bone feature)
  • Upper / lower jointed arm demonstration
  • Upper / lower jointed arm (source)

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