Comments on: Designing the structure of a Flash game – AS3 version

By: e

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:41:27 +0000

“The other classes work in the same way as splash, so they do not need comments.” If they work in the same way, you should be using a base class and inheritance, not this sort of copy-and-paste hackery. This article doesn’t show much knowledge of programming or of structure.

By: chire

chire — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:04:26 +0000

I made an example of this, but with fresh files.

im having a problem.

when i play my project, i just see blank screen.
how does the main flash file know that there has to be an instance of “the_game” main class?

By: sebastian

sebastian — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:33:21 +0000

This tutorial is helpful but i was wondering how do you add sound to this?

By: Cesar The Brave

Cesar The Brave — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:12:44 +0000

Hi Emanuele,

in the source code box above, the source for game_over.as is the same as the source for the_game_itself.as!

Thanks for this tutorial

By: Yu-Chung Chen

Yu-Chung Chen — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:04:40 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I have one question.

Does unsetting the variable (i.e. splash_screen = null) remove the listeners inside that movieclip?

By: samuvagyok

samuvagyok — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:44:11 +0000

The game_over.as code in the article is same as the_game_itself.as code. I think it’s a mistake..
Helpful one, thanks!
S

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:53:36 +0000

i keep getting errors saying the following because the word this keeps causing problems:

1136: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected 0.

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By: Arc

Arc — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:49:07 +0000

Thanks for this diagram.

at Pippo: :)

I actually use Emanuele’s naming convention, in my opinion, I find it far more readable than that “oop naming convention” you pointed out.

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:52:16 +0000

To make the keyboard class work from stage events, the game_itself class should most likely be a document class.

When you use addChild() on the objects, they will be a part of the document class, and thus should receive keyboard events from the stage. It should work properly and you can use keyboard as well as mouse commands then.

Simply modify your Flash document class, when you click the empty stage, it’ll be in the properties window (usually at the bottom). Type in your the name of your main class there.