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Flixel-Tutorial #1

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Jun 9, 2013 | 4:34 PM EDT
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A background! 5 Points Add graphics and the background!
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First steps... 5 Points Setup flixel!
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Louis Armstrong is singing! 10 Points Setup the tilemap!
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Oblivion 10 Points Add the player!
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Retro vibes 10 Points Add some sweet tunes and sounds!
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Rigour 10 Points Add collisions!
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Animator 25 Points Add animations to the player!
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Tutorial finished! 25 Points Finish the tutorial!
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We created life! 25 Points Make player move!

Author Comments

Hello!
Ever dreamed of making your own game? Well, now you can and it is really easy! It doesn't matter if you have experience on coding or not you will certainly master this tutorial and learn how to use flixel and to create a classic platformer. :)
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Controls:
'X' - Action!
Mouse - Well...
'A' & 'D' or 'LEFT' & 'RIGHT' - Turn the page!
'S' - Open skill-levelselection
'C' - Open chapterselection
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UPDATE: Thanks a lot for the frontpage and all the nice reviews! :)

As I checked the Tutorial-genre on Newgrounds for flixel tutorials I noticed there aren't any and only a few on developing ActionScript 3 games. Since I have already developed a few games with flixel and know about its benefits and how great it is to start making games I thought I could try making one myself for the Newgrounds community.

The game shouldn't be too complicated, easy enough so that even someone without any experience on ActionScript could understand it...

The tutorial isn't just boring text, but it's made in an interesting and entertaining way, using cool effects and a tune made by RealFaction, who also helped me with the development aswell as the nice beta-testers. The tutorial is available in 4 versions. One for people with none experience on coding, one for people with experience on other languages than AS3, one for AS3-developers and one for people who have already used flixel. So that everyone gets the information he/she needs. Not more and not less.

Here's the table of content:
*CHAPTER I - Setting up flixel with FlashDevelop
*CHAPTER II - Importing and adding graphics
*CHAPTER III - Creating and adding a tilemap
*CHAPTER IV - Creating and adding a player
*CHAPTER V - Collisions
*CHAPTER VI - Input and movement
*CHAPTER VII - Creating and playing animations
*CHAPTER VIII - Importing and playing sounds and music
*CHAPTER IX - Using the Newgrounds API to create medals and ads
*CHAPTER X - Conclusion and where to go from here

Not only will it show how to use flixel but also the benefits of the Newgrounds API and how to use it with FlashDevelop and how to add medals and ads. The tutorial will be completely free and will lay the fundament for 8bit-gamedevelopment with flixel. People will be able to go anywhere from here and make their retro dreams come true. If it catches enough people's attention there will also be a second part on creating enemies, guns, more levels and other cool stuff or whatever THE PEOPLE DEMAND! ;)

Cheers!

Reviews


entropyentropy

Rated 5 / 5 stars 2 days ago

Thank you so much! My friend and I are getting into game development, and I'm going to be showing this to him. We've been working with stencyl, and I think you're opening us up to a whole new library with this tutorial. You're awesome, that's all I really have to say. You're awesome, and I would absolutely love a second tutorial! It would be a huge help to him, myself, and anybody else developing in flash.


Schulles responds:

Woooah! :) Thanks a lot!


MintPawMintPaw

Rated 3 / 5 stars 2 days ago

I'm a pretty experienced programmer and have been using Flixel for about 2 years, and I have to say Flixel is a very bad place to start learning AS3 and OOP. It's over simplifying and insane overuse of static methods will really mislead new programmers.



Omega395Omega395

Rated 5 / 5 stars 2 days ago

Very nice!



Spriggan666Spriggan666

Rated 5 / 5 stars 2 days ago

i got a problem, when i press f5 ti shows me a message saying : This project doesn't have a valid SDK definec. Please check the SDK tab in the project properties. How i solve this?



AresousAresous

Rated 4.5 / 5 stars 2 days ago

Well, I flew by it and it looks nice. I myself don't use Flixel but I can tell these are accurate and I might take an interest into it if you make a part 2. I am fairly familiar with the C# language and I must say this looks quite easy, nice for beginner programmers wanting to make flash games.