Flash Tutorials — Game Development

A detailed tutorial series that shows you how to make a game using Flex and Actionscript

This tutorial will show you how to create a sniper game in flash, where you have a view like you are looking down a scope.

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.

Learn how to create a tile map that can be used in a Flixel game

Once you play Sky Force or any other overhead shooter games (as I like to call them) you will find the most noticeable is the scrolling background it has. In this part of the tutorial I’ll be adding a continuous scrolling background that has two elements in it.

The fifth part of a Flash tutorial on making a Flash game similar to the old BreakOut game for Atari. In previous parts, we created the movement for the paddle and the ball, set up the bricks and the script for collisions, added scores to our Flash game, and in our last tutorial, we set it up to go to a “You Win” screen. In this tutorial, we will set up a players “lives”, as well as what will happen when the player runs out of lives.

The purpose of this tutorial is to identify the issues in creating a simple escape the room game and explain ways I’ve found to solve them. The game we will create is very simple and not remotely challenging to play. However it will encompass nearly all of the basic needs of an escape game and by using these techniques you should be able to expand upon them until you have created a game of great complexity.

The tower defense genre is one that has become extremely popular over the years. Although they can become quite complicated to develop, they are almost always very fun to play. I am here to walk you through the creation of one of these games.

In this tutorial, we are going to make a rhythm game in ActionScript 3.0

This tutorial will show you how to create a Flash program that will load and display a 3D model in a web page using Papervision 3D and Flex.