Philip Peralov

Philip is a Flash guru and a ActionScript freak. He has done a couple of projects, featuring games, programs, websites & cartoons. He's only 15 years old, but he well knows programing in Java & ActionScript and is a professional in Animating. In his free time he goes to the local High School :) in Bitola, Macedonia, Europe, where he lives.

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So, in this tutorial you'll learn how to create a simple car movement game, something like this one:

First you need to do is to find some little car picture with view from top like this:



Insert that car in Flash and make it a MovieClip. Type car at the Instance Name of the symbol.



So that's it with the graphics. Now comes the ActionScript. We'll mainly learn the usage of the following things:
  • if staitments
  • Key.isDown
  • Math.sin & Mat.cos
  • Drawing API
  • Other (createEmptyMovieClip, swapDepths, _rotation...)
Now, let's start ActionScripting...