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Side-Scroller Tutorial

September 26, 2003 –
July 7, 2011
This entry was deleted.

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Well...this tutorial is pretty old. The methods I use to make side-scrolling games work in this tutorial certainly aren't the most efficient, and I've gotten much much better at making games since I wrote this. But just as a reference for 100% n00bs to making Flash games, I'll leave this here.

This tutorial provides a good overview of how to program a side-scrolling, or platform games in Flash. It covers the basics of game programming, how to program gravity, walls, movable characters, scrolling backgrounds, and health bars.

This tutorial assumes you have a basic knowledge of Flash. If you don't, you probably won't understand this.

I hope this really helps a lot of people get started with making Flash platformers.

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Umn i typed in all the action script and it dident work it said it had errors

What you said really could help in making Flash movies more presentable and wonderful. Thanks.

But , yes , you do lack screenshots , and though interactivity was present , it even was a lot , you really should give more screenshots and express to us better. No offense, but that really helped , only that ...

it needs more graphics and more content. This was from my experiences. Possessing all content will get you blammed. Possessing all graphics is good. Very good. Your rating isn't so high because of the good content present. People like games that don't use the mind. They want FPSs , or anything that doesn't bother with their thinking abilities. Unfortunately for you , you concentrated on this good content ... I admire good content but others don't. They still have too immature minds to like this piece of art, a masterpiece in its own way.


Anyway , an ode to your Sebba series. They were wonderful , but not as wonderful as this movie. This helps me , and perhaps helps others improve their movies as well as their games.

Congratulations! You deserve a five in my vote.

Hey, this helps a lot, especially to people who don't know how to do anything with actionscript.
My only suggestion would be maybe more screenshots and if you could make the actionscript dynamic or whatever you have to do to allow copying and pasting by the viewers of the tutorial. This way makes them better acquainted with the commands and typing it in helps them remember to do it in the future, but if they just want to do it fast and without having to worry about wasting time, I think more people would want to C+P. Also, less room for errors that way.

Thanks a lot.

Wow, I've looked at a lot of tutorials about how to make a side scroller, but I couldn't get it to work. After watching this, I actuelly knew what I was suppost to be learning. Thanks a ton.

It was a pretty good tutorial but I honestly don't think they should belong on newgrounds since your flash's are supposed to lie under the category of Game or Movie.

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