Comments on: Add Collectibles to Your AS3 Avoider Game

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:06:05 +0000

Ah, I think my spam detection is a little overzealous; it assumes that if you're writing loads of code you must be trying to h4ck t3h internetz or something.

Hey, great work finding and fixing that bug!

By: DudexD

DudexD — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:42:32 +0000

the deleting is inside codes. It just changes after i sumbit the comment, like i wrote this on first try

var j:int = collectibles.length - 1; // The Error is located here

But instead i ended up with this

var j:int = collectibles.length - 1; -1

its kind of wird..

And to the error; I found the Var. it was the var j:int

it was both on

var j:int = bullets.length - 1;

and:

var j:int = collectibles.length - 1;

so i just changed the J in the bullet var to k instead and the warning was gone :P

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:10:19 +0000

It’s deleting half your comment? Dang. I’ve never seen that before. Uh, which half?

Warnings often don’t matter very much, but I understand wanting to have everything clean

The warning you’re getting just means that somewhere in your code, you have written var someVariable twice for the same variable inside the same function. Any idea where?

By: DudexD

DudexD — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:47:45 +0000

i’m getting an Error:

Warning: 3596: Duplicate variable definition.

The game is working and stuff but, i don’t want my game to be filled with errors

            var j:int = collectibles.length - 1; // The Error is located here
            var collectible:GoldenSkull;
        while ( j > -1 )
            {
                collectible = collectibles[j];
                if ( PixelPerfectCollisionDetection.isColliding( avatar, collectible, this, true ) ) 
                {
                    removeChild( collectible );
                    collectibles.splice( j, 1 );
                    gameScore.addToValue( 25 );
                }
                i = army.length - 1;
                while ( i > -1 )
                {
                    enemy = army[i];
                    if ( PixelPerfectCollisionDetection.isColliding( collectible, enemy, this, true ) ) 
                    {
                        removeChild( collectible );
                        collectibles.splice( j, 1 );
                        gameScore.addToValue( -25 );
                    }
                    i = i - 1;
                }
                j = j - 1;
            }

Is it just me or Is the comment thing here kind of… Anoying?? since it keep on deleting half of my comment:?!

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:55:45 +0000

I don’t know of any other programs that let you create FLA files (though there might be some) but there are other ways of making Flash games without actually having Flash.

I don’t know much about these methods, but check out these links:

http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/11010.aspx http://www.scriptedfun.com/make-a-flash-game-for-free/ http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic92205.htm

I hope they’re helpful.

If you can wait a little longer, the PushButton Engine will be released soon: http://pushbuttonengine.com/ — take a look

By: richard

richard — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:04:50 +0000

Is there any free program like cs4? i tried flash develop that you mentioned but i cannot seem edit and create .flas in there. Is it only i that have missed it or doesn’t it work? Sorry for my bad english.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:06:02 +0000

Good good

By: richard

richard — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:19:06 +0000

That code worked great! So stupid i am for not thinking that one out myself. I had to decrease the spawning rate a little bit but it’s wotking fine.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:30:55 +0000

Hey Richard. Should be possible to use almost exactly the same code, like this:

collectibleSpawnRate = 0.3 - ( 1 / ( levelNumber * 2 ) );
maxCollectiblesOnScreen = levelNumber;

I haven’t tested that, so please let me know if there are any bugs

By: richard

richard — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:26:00 +0000

Hi. I wonder how you make so the collectible spawnrate continue to increase? Like we do with thw enemies and level :

pointsToReachNextLevel = levelNumber * 200;
enemySpawnRate = 0.5 - ( 2 / levelNumber );