Score: 8
"Good tutorial, one small issue I had"
date: April 28, 2008
Great tutorial.
I had some major issues... basically nothing worked except the stop action.
My problem turned out to be I was set to use ActionScript3(default for CS3), while all the code in this is ActionScript2. I would recommend a note(in the author's comments on the site, or a mention on the opening screen fo the tutorial) such as "All code is in ActionScript2, if using Flash CS3, make sure to change the default". A note like that would have gotten this a 9 from me, possibly a 10.
Alternately, updating it to be in ActionScript 3 would work as well, but thats a job probably more suited to a new tutorial rather than a revision of this one.
A bit about using Sprites would be nice too, rather than just the passing mention they got, though that may be worth it's own tutorial. I managed to dig something up on youtube that got me through that though so it's not a huge deal.
Overall though, great tutorial, once I sorted out the ActionScript version issue I found it to be perfectly targeted to a complete flash noob, though other programming experience I've had I'm sure helped.
April 28, 2008
Author's Response:
Sorry dude, CS3 is kinda different. You should be able to tell what I'm talking about, but a lot have stuff changed like _root and variables and movie clips.