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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

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 bit like painting all of your [...]

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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? 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 easier to follow this if you’ve [...]

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