Podcast
Game Inventory System
Submitted by rosenz on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 17:28.Gary Rosenzweig, author of ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University, shows you how to create a very simple particle system using a class and by adding and removing movie clips from the display list.
Simple Particle System
Submitted by rosenz on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 17:48.Gary Rosenzweig, author of ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University, shows you how to create a very simple particle system using a class and by adding and removing movie clips from the display list.
Continuous Animation
Submitted by rosenz on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 18:53.Gary Rosenzweig, author of ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University, answers a question in this podcast of how to maintain continuous animation while receiving user input. The character on the screen continues to follow a walk animation even while the player triggers the animation over and over.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: External Constants From an XML File
Submitted by rosenz on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 22:52.Gary Rosenzweig, author of ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University, shows you how to read in a small XML file containing some constant variable values.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Countdown Clock
Submitted by rosenz on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 18:39.Gary Rosenzweig from FlashGameU.com shows you how to build a simple clock to count down time until the end of a game.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Mouse Fade and Base Classes
Submitted by rosenz on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 20:51.Gary Rosenzweig from FlashGameU.com shows you how to make a movie clip fade away according to the distance to the cursor location. He uses a Base Class to assign this same script to two different movie clips.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Creating a Snake Game, Part 2
Submitted by rosenz on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 17:30.In this mini-chapter two-part episode, Gary Rosenzweig completes a snake game in ActionScript 3.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Creating a Snake Game, Part 1
Submitted by rosenz on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 00:19.In this mini-chapter two-part episode, Gary Rosenzweig starts building a snake game in ActionScript 3.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Playing Multiple Flash Movies Inside a Single Flash Application
Submitted by rosenz on Sat, 12/08/2007 - 02:00.Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at how to put two Flash games together, inside of a single Flash movie. The trick is to use the Loader object.
FlashGameU.com Video Tutorial: Playing a Song With a Toggle Button
Submitted by rosenz on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 21:45.Steve wrote in about the Toggle Button episode.
I'd followed your AS3 toggle button tutorial to Play/Pause a song.
1. What can I do to allow the song to be played again by clicking the toggle button?
2. What is needed to make the toggle button to take on the "play" state when the song has finished on its own?
Expanding on the earlier tutorial about creating a Toggle Button, here's how to link the toggle button to a piece of music in the library and to have the toggle button react properly when the song is done.
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