The Little Guy Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Anyone have a good site to learn Flash Game Programming? Preferably using ActionScript 2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I think I've been to kirupa.com more than any other place when it came to flash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Why would you learn it using ActionScript 2 when 3 is the latest version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted July 23, 2008 Author Share Posted July 23, 2008 Why would you learn it using ActionScript 2 when 3 is the latest version? I have "Macromedia Flash 8"... 3.0 would work if Flash 8 Supports it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted July 23, 2008 Author Share Posted July 23, 2008 I think I've been to kirupa.com more than any other place when it came to flash I don't really like Kirupa, there is only 7 game development tutorials... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Well there are a ton of regular tutorials for flash and actionscript in general, how to achieve effects, etc... I mean if you're looking for tutorials in actual game design...well that's not really flash dependent; I'd be looking in other places besides a flash site... I mean, that's kind of like wanting to make a game in php so you go to php sites looking for how to make a game. Well php is just a language. That's not really the important part. It's just the medium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted July 25, 2008 Author Share Posted July 25, 2008 Any ideas of how to do online multi-player games? I know that there is two ways of doing it, HTTP, and Socket Layer. I would really like to do Socket Layer over HTTP, because the game I want to make is a 4 player fast paced Tetris game, with a lot going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 For game design, you may want to look here: http://www.gamedev.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibberous Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 1) Use AS3. The time you spend learning AS2's "quirks" could be spent learning a real, solid language. 2) If your doing a multiplier game with sockets, a good starting point might be to figure out how your going to setup the server. Generally, you want to write a game server that is capable of running multiple games concurrently in different states while still listening for new connections - you can try to run them all in a single thread or have a 'waiting room' type thing that then spawns separate game threads. I can't think of any reason to specifically look for game programming - figure out how to create and move squares in flash, figure out to fie key events, write Tetris, learn sockets in C/C++/PHP, learn sockets in Flash, pass data between the two, ect. Games are just made by combining different technologies, and while there are some largely game specific topics you might need to know, I would worry more about know how to program than I would knowing how to 'game program'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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