Flash games tutorial

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## Contents

* 1 Overview
* 2 Example
* 3 Links
* 3.1 Technical
* 3.2 Other games tutorials
* 3.3 Sites with Flash games

## Overview[edit | edit source]

This is part of the flash tutorials.

Learning goals

Learn some more action script
Learn about time-based animation

Prerequisites

Flash CS3 desktop tutorial
Flash drawing tutorial
Flash button tutorial
Flash components tutorial
ActionScript 3 interactive objects tutorial (important !)

Other recommended prior tutorials (not necessary, but can help)
Flash video component tutorial
Flash sound tutorial
Flash drag and drop tutorial
ActionScript 3 event handling tutorial
Flash ActionScript 3 overview

Moving on
Flash games tutorial
The Flash article has a list of other tutorials.

Quality
not done yet, therefore very low

Level
It aims at Flash design beginners, not beginning ActionScript 3 programmers, although programmers can read this to get a quick overview before digging into a real documentation like Adobe's Flash 9 reference manual

Learning materials

Grab the various *.fla files from here:

http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/flash/ex/game-intro/

## Example[edit | edit source]

So far, there is only an example of a very simple shooting game ...

http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/flash/ex/game-intro/

## Links[edit | edit source]

### Technical[edit | edit source]

* http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2098269#post2098269 Key.isDown (problem is that focus can be lost outside Flash)

### Other games tutorials[edit | edit source]

* Examining the Puzzle Game sample application, by Valerio Virgillito, Adobe (see also entry page with downloads.

### Sites with Flash games[edit | edit source]

(not source code, just to play)

* NewGrounds (NewGrounds Wikipedia article)