Side scroller tutorial

[Skulsta]

I wanna make a side scroller game. With health bars, enemies, different guns and melee. I can't find a tutorial so can someone give me a link to a tutorial(s) that will help me or can someone tutor me plez thanx.

[Wolfears2]

No. Try starting with something simpler if you only joined NG 2 months ago. You can't make game like that without experience.

[Skulsta]

I've been using flash for over a year and already made a FPS and a basic side scroller but its just a random guy running around. no enemies or health

[Vengeance]

Then you should know all about how to use variables to store health, and would just need some guidelines to writing AI.

[Skulsta]

Yeah pretty much but I need to know AS for enemies and weapons

[Vengeance]

At 6/1/08 09:01 AM, Skulsta wrote: Yeah pretty much but I need to know AS for enemies and weapons

Weapons means more variables, possibly an array and I already gave you a link for enemies.
We're not going to be there holding your hand and giving you all the code you want. You need to learn these things yourself.

[rmbrstrongbad18]

At 6/1/08 09:05 AM, Vengeance wrote:

At 6/1/08 09:01 AM, Skulsta wrote: Yeah pretty much but I need to know AS for enemies and weapons

Weapons means more variables, possibly an array and I already gave you a link for enemies.
We're not going to be there holding your hand and giving you all the code you want. You need to learn these things yourself.

He asked for a tutorial! How could he be doing it anymore by himself? Do you seriously expect him to use trial and error in flash for him to write random things until something works?

[Skulsta]

Exactly! also can someone please tell me an AS so that when you push a key it plays the next frame or a specific frame eg "onbuttondown(left_arrow)GoToAndPlay17" or something

[Skulsta]

anyone?

[Omition]

I have to agree with everybody else on the fact that you should be doing something simpler first, but as you obviously want to do this, I'll ask, are you using AS2 or AS3, because I can help you with AS2 but not 3

[Skulsta]

I dunno. I have flash 8 professioal

[Omition]

okay so you have AS2. Haven't you thought of going onto tutorialized or flashkit and looked for a tutorial. They have multiple tutorials on this kind of stuff. (don't ask me for a link, because I don't know the exact URL)

[Skulsta]

I know about those, can you please just tell me the AS for the button thing

[littlemaster]

 onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){ 
gotoAndStop(frame);}
if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)){
gotoAndStop(frame);}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){; 
gotoAndStop(frame);} 
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)){ 
gotoAndStop(frame);}
}

Don't make a sidescroller when you don't even know this thing. This code will not make you player move. Make something simpler.

[littlemaster]

There hasn't been a tutorial that perfectly works because its not your code at all. You just learn and make your own code.

[MichaelHurst]

At 6/1/08 10:30 AM, Skulsta wrote: Exactly! also can someone please tell me an AS so that when you push a key it plays the next frame or a specific frame eg "onbuttondown(left_arrow)GoToAndPlay17" or something

I'm sorry, but if you don't even know this, then I highly doubt you've been using flash for a year. This is probably one of the most simple things you will ever write.

Now seeing as you don't know how to do this...try doing something simpler. Your first game doesn't have to make front page, get an amazing score, get sponsored, etc. We all have to start somewhere and don't just jump into a giant project the second you get flash.

I think everyone wanted to do that, but we can all tell you its not going to work out.

[Skulsta]

For gods sake this isn't my first game! I have made a couple of side scrollers but I need AS for enemies and guns

[Wurmy]

At 6/1/08 01:56 PM, Skulsta wrote: For gods sake this isn't my first game! I have made a couple of side scrollers but I need AS for enemies and guns

Ok, so you made the games. But did you actually understand HOW you made the games?
It sounds to me like you just copied and pasted code from some shitty tutorials :|

If you really did make the platformers all by yourself you would understand the basics of coding and perhaps that could get you started on the simple concept of guns and enemies.

And even if you didn't quite understand the code you could probably head on over to Google or the little search bar at the bottom and search for tutorials yourself because there are at least 10,000 tutorials on exactly what you are looking for.

[mariomaster123]

Ah, AI, my mortal enemy...

If your making a simple platformer game, the enemies will go back and forth... More complicated, the enemies my follow you...

which is it?

Also with the guns, you can visit this video on making an inventory, this guy helped me out A LOT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMuap_kRg fA&feature=related

[Skulsta]

I guess moving back and forth

[Skulsta]

Sorry for the bump but I'm not using guns now. I need AS for my character so pressing A makes him punch and S makes him kick and both makes him do a special

[Oobar]

If you want a tile based game check this out:
http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/tbw/start.html
or
http://oos.moxiecode.com/

[Skulsta]

Hey thanx the second one is helping me out.

[GuyWithHisComp]

At 6/1/08 01:29 PM, NG-Unit wrote: I'm sorry, but if you don't even know this, then I highly doubt you've been using flash for a year.

Personally, I didn't start even looking at ActionScript for about a year or more after getting Flash.

At 6/1/08 10:10 AM, rmbrstrongbad18 wrote: Do you seriously expect him to use trial and error in flash for him to write random things until something works?

But that's how you learn...

That's how I learned. Not by copy/pasting from tutorials.

[steyene]

Tutorialized- Has a great variety of tutorials.

Anyway, follow the advice of the older members. I tried to do what you are doing, and failed. It put me of AS'ing for ages.

No offense but if you don't know how to access and play another movie clip, which is really the most basic piece of script that you are going to come across, I really doubt that you have made a couple of side scrollers. Sure you may of "made" them by copypaste, but not by actually piecing code together.

Break everything down into little bite sized chunks. I.e. work on arrays/variable, then may be movie clip controls, then a mix of the two. Followed by some mathematical scripting, then again mixing it. YOU WILL FAIL IF YOU TRY TO DO IT ALL AT ONCE.

[CaptainPoncho]

You made an FPS in flash? A sidescroller should be nothing, then.

[ickydime]

Besides the TonyPa and OOS, you should also check out Strille's tutorial:

http://www.strille.net/tutorials/part1_s crolling.php