TUTORIAL: Building games in Flash 5
Part 1: Player movement and fire.
Author:
David Doull
Date: 23/02/01
Download source files: tut1.zip
Thanks:
to Olorin and MadSci from flashkit for their assistance.
Aim:
This is the first part of a series of tutorials that cover
the techniques involved in building games in Flash 5. This
tutorial covers controlling the movement of the player with
the keyboard and firing weapons.
Assumed Knowledge:
It is assumed that you have a basic understanding of Flash
and Actionscript. You should understand variables, properties,
if statements and the basics of the flash 5 'dot syntax'.
By the end:
at the end of this tutorial you will have built a keyboard
controlled spaceship that can fly and shoot around the screen,
as shown below. You will also have learnt about 'Clip Events',
'keyboard control', 'array style referencing' and 'duplicating
movie clips'.
Click anywhere on the black to ensure
that the flash file has the 'focus'
Use the arrow keys to move, Ctrl to fire.
OK, lets get going.
Open up Flash 5, set the background colour
of the movie to black and on Layer one draw a spaceship. Select
the spaceship, a choose Insert and Convert to Symbol (or F8)
and make your spaceship a movie clip.
Select
this spaceship movie clip and in the Instance panel set the
movie clips name to spaceship.
If you don't want to draw a spaceship
you can download this fla; tutorial1_part.fla,
with this first step already done for you.
Select
this spaceship movie clip and in the Instance panel set the
movie clips name to