Confused About Game And Design Idea

programming flash
1

I have to create this DNA and forensics website for a school project. I want to create a exciting web animation showing DNA copying itself but am having major trouble. Any ideas? Also… I want to create a game where you have a square that says “Adenine” and then you must catch the “T” that matches with it and connect them together. I think I might be in over my head. Any hrelp at all is welcome.

2

If you’re on a deadline, might want to research SWISH. It’s for making simple flash movies without having to know flash, as it’ll take at least a few weeks to get familiar enough with the program to do something that involved.

The game itself requires moderate level actionscripting.

–EP

3

I do have some experience with Flash and a tiny bit of copy paste actionscripting but I must be going wrong somewhere. I have been working and working with the program but usually my animations and other ideas do not work.

4

I don’t understand: have you done anything yet or not? :h:

5

well only navigation

6

I have experience doing other things but so far I have only made the navigation for the site and come up with ideas. Usually I have trouble making these realities.

7

Well, you could put somewhere the good ol DNA thing:

function createDNABranch () {
	if (c++ < 50) {
		var cl = this.createEmptyMovieClip ("b" + c, c) ;
		cl._y = c * 10 ;
		cl.lineStyle (10, 0, 100) ;
		cl.moveTo (-15, -15) ;
		cl.lineTo (-15.45, -15.15) ;
		cl.lineStyle (2, 0, 100) ;
		cl.lineTo (15, 15) ;
		cl.lineStyle (10, 0, 100) ;
		cl.lineTo (15.45, 15.15) ;
		cl.onEnterFrame = function () {
			this._rotation += 10 ;
		}
	}
}
this.onEnterFrame = createDNABranch ;

And concerning that game of yours, there are 1000s of ways of doing that. You could use droptarget for instance. There’s a tutorial on this site.

pom :slight_smile:

8

Eh, i was bored.
Something like this?

[swf=“http://www.cotmdesigns.com/dna.swf height=100 width=300”][/swf]

download zip file of fla/swf

Just go over the code and promise to learn from it. You can customize the clips to your liking, etc.

–EP

P.S. Pom, that code is the bomb. Great way of grabbing movie clips dynamically; didn’t think that was possible.