rapid prototyping of games using flash
Hello there. This is the sixth part of the Making Games in ActionScript 3 using FlashDevelop
By now we’ve got almost all the basic building blocks to make a simple game. All that is missing is how to get some input. Last time we touched on it a little bit using the mouseX and mouseY properties.
Those are the most straightforward to get at, but other inputs aren’t very complicated either. Let’s start with the mouse button.
I really should let this whole 4k game thing go. But as I was sitting on the train today, idly hacking away at a completely different game I remembered a curious thing that I didn’t have time to investigate then. The mysterious bytes.
Welcome to the fifth part of Making Games in ActionScript 3 using FlashDevelop.
Wow, when I got started on this whole tutorial thing I never expected it’d take four parts just to get to the enter-frame part. But here we are.
This post will be about making stuff move. But before that we’ll need a quick primer on Events. They is one of the mainstays of actionscript, especially version 3.
