Comments on: Flash game creation tutorial – part 1 (with AS3 classes)

By: jose

jose — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:10:52 +0000

if it wasn’ for your tutorials i would have never started to make asc3 flash games less gettin good at it. thx a lot

By: Prandini

Prandini — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:27:36 +0000

Great example!

By: Meh_c00kie

Meh_c00kie — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:49:59 +0000

Hi I tried this but it dosent work with animated MCs how do you fix this?

By: tomdeaap

tomdeaap — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:26:46 +0000

Can you please explain the keys class, I don’t really undestand what the is_? functions do… What’s the return for ….

By: Monkeyfetus

Monkeyfetus — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:54:24 +0000

Nevermind. I think I found out what I’ve been doing wrong. I didn’t realize that line 12 of as3circle.as calls the function defined on line 9 of keys.as

I named my “keys” function something different than my “Keys” class, which caused the function to never be called, leaving me with no listeners on the stage.

Aside from that, though. You really should comment your code better. As tedious as it is, it is also very helpful for anybody looking at your code, or if you yourself are trying to improve it. I’m really in no place to lecture you, though.

By: Monkeyfetus

Monkeyfetus — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:01:09 +0000

I need the commented code. Specifically, I need help understanding lines 9-12 on keys.as

I understand it’s purpose: to allow access to the stage, but I’m not sure exactly how it works. When and what is the movieclip variable passed to the function?

Explaining lines 5 and 10-12 of as3circle.as would help too.

I could just copy-paste your code into my game and get on with it, but I’m trying to learn something by recreating it, and I’m stuck. My “key_down” function isn’t being called.

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My first adventure into Actionscript 3.0 at — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:43:58 +0000

[...] here’s my little game-esque thingamajig created with Actionscript 3.0 by following this tutorial by Emanuele Feronato (Yes, it’s a translation of an older AS2 [...]

By: AS3 Flash game creation tutorial - part 2: coins : Emanuele Feronato

AS3 Flash game creation tutorial - part 2: coins : Emanuele Feronato — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:15:52 +0000

[...] the previous step I showed you how to create a simple “move-the-ball” game using AS3 [...]

By: Mini Chris

Mini Chris — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:43:03 +0000

and also im using AS2 but will learn AS3 if i have to, to make it possible.

By: Mini Chris

Mini Chris — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:42:06 +0000

Hey Emanuele is it just me or does AS3 things seem to run slower. I thought they were meant to be faster =(

And also im trying to learn how to hitTest using colors so if my character falls and lands on a black(#000000)bitmap it hitTest’s and sets yspeed to 0 to stop him from falling, but i cant understand how to do that.

Also im trying to figure out how to make destructible environment but im not getting anywhere with that.

Have you got any points or another place that has something easy to understand on these things? I cant manage to find any.