[As3] Game Structure

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Hi,

I’m developing a game in AS3 and I don’t know the best way to create the game structure. By structure I mean the states that the game will have, like:

  • Intro screen
  • Menu screen
  • In-game screen
  • End game screen
    …

In As2 I used to put each state in one frame and call a gotoAndPlay to each one. This way, it was easy to apply transition effects like fades between states. But what about As3?

I’ve tried to create a complete class that I called ‘Main.as’, this class contais every function like: startGame, goToMenu, saveGame, etc. I’ve set this class as the Document Class and tried to call its methods from the frames like I used to do in As2. Well, it doesn’t work.

What is the best way to do this? I guess I have two option:

  1. Use the Main class to handle the states and put it on stage. This is a good solution but how do I do the transition effects? And what about the company animation? In As2 when the animation is finished, it automatically jumps to the next frame, how is it done in As3?

  2. Create an object from the Main class on the Timeline and call this object funtion in each state frame. This is like the As2 way of doing (that I was doing) but I’ll have to pass to the Main object the stage reference in order to addChild.

Well, how do you guys do that?

Thanks very much