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Cakeman
05-21-2007, 02:13 AM
First off I'd like to say I love this site. So far it's been really useful and seems to be run by some pretty good people.

At school we have been assigned a major project in flash (like a short flash movie or game, etc) and I have decided to make an adventure game, and how complex it is will depend on how much time I have.

To keep it simple, It will be point-and-click most of the time (Like click on a door and the player moves there, rather than using arrow keys to move to the door. clicking on empty space will not make the character move there. Just unecessary coding as far as I'm concerned)
I have started writing the code for moving between rooms and interacting with objects.

Anyway, I would like to put in a few little mini games. Really simple stuff just for learning purposes, like alternating left and right arrow keys to climb down a rope.

I haven't had *much* luck when looking through the tutorials on this website for things that could be useful, so if anybody knows of any tutorials that might help or have any tips, etc. please let me know.
Areas that might be useful:
- Inevntory
- Moving between rooms
- Using actionscript to animate
- remembering object states (ie. if the player smashes a window, it stays smashed, etc)
- etc.

Thanks in advance,
Cakeman.

PreCoder
05-21-2007, 08:17 AM
Hi there,
www.cartoonsmart.com (http://www.cartoonsmart.com) has some tutorials on making basic games through to some slightly more advanced ones, also has tutorials on actionscript which could help you out. Mind you his stuff isn't free but it is very cheap. I personally don't find he explains things very well, but other people have told me they love his work so I'll post it anyway :)

Have fun.

Cakeman
05-24-2007, 05:48 AM
I have access to a selection of the cartoon smart tutorials through school, and the only relevant tutorial (The isometric RPG one) isn't really the right sort of thing.

Do you know of anything else? Any tutorials that can go through general actionscript stuff so I could do most of it myself?

Thanks