Hi there! This is my first post in this forum, so nice to meet you all!
I’d like to show you a tutorial I wrote in these days. It’s about developing a SHMUP using Adobe Flash and Actionscript 3.
It’s an entry-level tutorial, and I did my best to be as descriptive as possible, explaining everything. There are a lot of tutorials out here which only paste the scripts, without explaining how they work.
My objective was to show the basics of flash and its scripting language, Actionscript 3.0, not how object pooling and blitting can boost your game performance. And, sometime, I preferred a clearer way, instead of a better but more complicated way. A big project will have a different structure, with a main loop instead of several update methods, classes divided in packages, a Game class and so on. But that was not my point. I wanted to show how easy is to make a game using Flash.
Maybe I will add other parts later, but, even at this point, I think it’s a great starting point to learn how to make flash games.
I would like to collect some feedback on my work, so, if you think I can improve it, just post it.
I hope you’ll like it. If you have any comments, or if you find something wrong, please let me know.
http://www.attiliocarotenuto.com/flash/121-flash-shmup-tutorial
