How to Make A Platform Game In Flash
December 24, 2009 in Actionscript 2 Tutorials
Summary
Hello everyone and welcome to Funtut. Here is a great lesson to those who love exploring a program that Adobe has created called Adobe Flash. They made several versions of Adobe Flash and so far they made it to the CS5 suite. Adobe Flash is used for making Flash videos, advertisements, and Flash is mostly popular for making Flash games. You know, those little / short games that you play online. But of course there are some Flash games made from a program called Adobe Shockwave which is used for making 3D games or 2D games. So if you are one of those people who love messing around with Flash, then I know you’ll like this tutorial. The lesson will be learning how to make a platform game in Flash.
Resources
Free online sprites (Mario sprites, Zelda sprites, Sonic sprites and more.)
Step by Step Lesson
Okay the first thing that you would want to do is open up your program Adobe Flash and open up a new document selecting Actionscript 2.0 version. Actionscript 2.0 is the second Actionscript version that Adobe created for Flash. The easiest version to learn is 1.0 of course because it has less coding.
After creating a new document with the version of Actionscript 2.0, make your character with his running sprite, jumping sprite, and dunking sprite. What is a sprite? A sprite is animation of movement. For example: a character walking repeatedly is a sprite. The sprite has to be compressed in a movieclip such as: The walking sprite is one movieclip and the jumping sprite is another movieclip. To create a movieclip, press F8 on your keyboard -> name your movieclip -> select movieclip -> select middle registration -> and click OK.
You have successfully created your sprite made movieclips. After your done creating them, please make a new movieclip that contains all of the movieclip sprites. We’ll be naming this main movieclip “Character.” Now edit the movieclip by double-clicking the name of the main movieclip (Character) located in the library. The library is found on the right sidebar of the Adobe Flash program. The library contains all the graphic symbols, movieclip symbols, and button symbols. Now you should be in the “Character” edit mode. Drag the standing sprite in the first keyframe, drag the walking sprite in the second keyframe, and then you drag the ducking sprite in the third keyframe.
