Lynda – ActionScript 3.0 Projects: Game Development

Adobe Certified Instructor Todd Perkins makes ActionScript fun in ActionScript 3.0 Projects: Game Development . He explains the principles of game design and development, then shows how to overcome game-making challenges to create all kinds of games. Todd teaches developers how to deal with case sensitivity, create dynamically moving enemies, add event listeners, determine a win or loss in a game, and add additional features and artificial intelligence. Each set of tutorials covers how to build a game from scratch. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics include:

• Understanding game development
• Building a shooting game
• Making a Ping-Pong game
• Developing the enemy’s artificial intelligence
• Creating a word-guessing game
• Placing tiles in a slider puzzle game
• Creating a tank battle game
• Winning and losing a game

 Table of content

• Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • Game development
• Creating a Shooter Game
  • Overview of the game
  • Creating a custom cursor
  • Copying motion from the timeline
  • Creating dynamically moving enemies
  • Shooting enemies
  • Destroying enemies
  • Winning the game
  • Creating a Win screen
  • Troubleshooting your game
• Creating a Ping Pong Game
  • Overview of the game
  • Making the ball bounce
  • Creating and moving a paddle
  • Bouncing the ball off the paddle
  • Using math to calculate the angle of a bounce
  • Developing the enemy’s artificial intelligence
  • Keeping track of points
  • Determining a win
  • Adding sound
• Creating a Word Guessing Game
  • Overview of the game
  • Loading words from an external file
  • Creating an array of words
  • Choosing a random word
  • Placing letters in individual textfields
  • Styling text
  • Creating underlines to show where letters are
  • Making guesses
  • Creating a list of incorrect guesses
  • Dealing with case sensitivity
  • Winning the game
  • Losing the game
• Creating a Blackjack Game
  • Understanding the game
  • Building the CardDeck class
  • Creating the cards
  • Shuffling the deck
  • Drawing a card
  • Exploring the FLA file
  • Creating the game variables
  • Initializing the game
  • Dealing cards
  • Drawing or not drawing additional cards
  • Calculating the score
  • Determining the winner
  • Playing again
• Creating a Slider Puzzle Game
  • Overview of the game
  • Creating 2D arrays
  • Creating tile arrays
  • Placing tiles
  • Adding event listeners to tiles 3m 31s
  • Moving tiles
  • Animating tile movement
  • Choosing a random blank tile
  • Randomizing tile placement
  • Setting target positions
  • Determining a win
• Creating a Tank Battle Game
  • Overview of the game
  • Capturing key presses
  • Moving the tank
  • Limiting tank movement
  • Aiming the tank’s gun
  • Creating the Bullet class
  • Connecting the Bullet class to the main timeline
  • Firing bullets
  • Animating the bullet with trigonometry
  • Creating gravity
  • Detecting collisions with walls
  • Detecting collisions with the enemy
  • Making the enemy move
  • Making the enemy aim
  • Making the enemy shoot
  • Controlling the energy bars
  • Winning and losing the game
  • Playing the game again
  • Adding additional features
• Conclusion
  • Goodbye

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