Comments on: Flash game creation tutorial – part 5.1

By: Ike

Ike — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:33:41 +0000

Hey, Emanuele (or anyone with flash game experience)!
In your example, the character is fixed in the center of the screen, but I would like him to be in the down left corner of the screen (it’s a platform game). What do I do in this case?

Thanks in advance

By: I NEED HELP!

I NEED HELP! — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:38:13 +0000

BTW, for anyone that is trying to help me (the guy with the problem of making the speed a minimum,

EMAIL ME AT LEGOBANG@GMAIL.COM

By: I NEED HELP!

I NEED HELP! — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:18:58 +0000

Okay, I am making a racing game, and I need to know how to make sure that the car doesn’t go too fast. I’ve put in this code:

if (_root.yspeed>10){
_root.yspeed = 10;

As you can see, I tried to copy the score thingy.
Also, what is Emanuele’s email!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

HELP ME

By: saul

saul — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:20:59 +0000

hi i was wondering if it is possible to add enemies and possibly shooting in the scrolling game like the one in the tutorial. I have been trying to
add these things but do not seem to work or show up. any help would be appreciated

By: chris

chris — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:50:42 +0000

cant i just have the camera on the ball ? or is there a way?

By: cameron

cameron — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:42:35 +0000

argh this is frustrating me and a few others are making a game and we need the screen to move in sed of the character and it is givinge me all types of hell i evan used the part of the action script that makes the scrren move plz
HeLP
ME

By: John Mooring

John Mooring — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:06:10 +0000

You have two options with hitTests. Bounding box vs. bounding box, or pixel vs. actual shape. In the tutorial, he was testing a single point on the player against the terrain. You’re testing a box drawn around the player vs. a box drawn around the terrain. The player is inside the terrain. You’re dead as soon as you enter the frame.

By: John Mooring

John Mooring — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:35:50 +0000

@wobalisk: yes.

Nice tutorial, but I notice you move the terrain. This makes having multiple “stationary” objects on screen at a time very difficult. Unless you always keep them orientated with the terrain, you will have problems. And if you need them to move, you will encounter even more problems. Solve this by moving the _root. Because the root is moving, you will also need to move the character in the opposite direction; this solves the multiple object problem, and, depending on the complexity of the map, can save you many lines of code.

Replace

_root.wall._y -=yspeed;
_root.wall._x -=xspeed;

With

_root._x-=xspeed;
_root._y-=yspeed;
_x+=xspeed;
_y+=yspeed;

Two extra lines of code here saves you dozens elsewhere.

By: e200

e200 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:59:46 +0000

I tried to change one line of code as follows:
if (_root.wall.hitTest(this.hero_hit)) {

then it stopped working. Anyone has any ideas why?

By: wobalisk

wobalisk — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:19:04 +0000

ok I have my first on sorted out (see last post), however I have been trying to add some of your techniques together and have managed a scrolling, death counting with invulnerability game and can add moving blocks.

The problem I am having is that I want multiple moving blocks at once without having to add a line in the player code saying :

MovingBlock1._x -= xspeed;
MovingBlock2._x -= xspeed;
etc…

Is there anyway to move an entire layer with all the objects that should move relative to the player in it or something?