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The Making of Advanced Combat

by Kevin Neal on June 10, 2011 · 3 comments

[MJW: About two years ago, Kevin contacted me to ask a question about my Avoider Game tutorial. Since then we’ve been communicating frequently, and I’ve had the great pleasure of seeing his game develop, and of seeing Kevin himself develop as a game creator. The code, graphics, sound, and music in the game were all […]

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Blit and Cache Movie Clips

by Michael James Williams on February 28, 2010 · 15 comments

in Tutorial

[flash http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/structure/BlittingMovieClips/SWFs/Blitting.swf w=550 h=400 preview={http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/structure/BlittingMovieClips/Images/BlittingPreview.png} mode=3] On the left: a regular movie clip. On the right: three blitted clones. “Blitting is a higher-performance alternative to using the built-in display list in Adobe Flash for drawing objects on the Stage. This technique involves copying the individual pixels of an existing image directly on to the screen—a […]

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Move with the Keyboard, Aim with the Mouse

by Michael James Williams on June 25, 2009 · 34 comments

in Avoider Game Extras,Tutorial

Would you rather have more freedom of movement or shooting? [flash http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/structure/AgtShooting3/SWFs/demo9.swf w=400 h=300 preview={http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/structure/AgtShooting3/Images/Snapshot_O09.png} mode=3] Click to play. Arrows to move, mouse to aim/shoot. This is the complement to Move with the Mouse, Aim with the Keyboard, not surprisingly, which in turn is part of my mini-series on creating a shoot-’em-up. It’ll probably be […]

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