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Side-Scroller Tutorial
September 26, 2003 –July 7, 2011
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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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In my Opinion it is a realy good Tutorial.
It help me a lot so i give you 10/10.
Geets
xxheadcrab
really good, simple and easy to understand, i liked the examples.
It would have been good to see an example of everything, particularly at the end, maybe including all the code used throughout the tutorial.
there's too much to read, outweighing visuals, and also, in your code for the movement of the rainbow platform is wrong (forgive me if this has been mentioned already), but the code wont wok, unless all the words "key" have a capital K.
An in detail tutorial however it seems to be too wordy and bits of it like code couldn't be clicked on or highlighted which comes off as a disappointment. Nice tutorial overall however, some music would have been good though.
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- 2.98 / 5.00