How did you guys get into it? I have messed around with flash but no real action scripts. Any recommendation on a good place to start or a place to go to see some good examples?



> If you have any questions just ask. I've been making Flash games for a while
> now, although I had zero time to dedicate to it recently.
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> First a bit of constructive criticism:
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> - Framerate is horrible. First thing you should do is change the default 12fps
> to something else.
> 30 or 40 is good, I sometimes set 60 if it can handle it.
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> - Collision detection on the squares needs to be better.
> I know this is hard, I've done a game like this myself a while back.
> You can for example check what side of the box is hit and then bounce the ball
> in that direction.
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> - Make it bigger, screen is too small!
> I usually make games at 640x480 (SVGA) for old time's sake.
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> Then some tips to improve:
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> - Which version of Actionscript are you using?
> Don't even bother with AS1. AS2.0 is much better (can do classes), but I
> recommend using AS3 to be future proof (but is a bit harder, more like
> Java/C++).
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> - Put all the tiles into a single movieclip, then collision detect against it
> before doing any check for a specific tile.
> This improves performance significantly.
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> - Even better (but more work), you could do the tiles a single MovieClip with
> BitmapData.
> Then you remove the overhead of having multiple MC instances (this is less of an
> issue with AS3 and Flash9+, but should still be faster).
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> - I personally always use OOP when doing Flash games, but that's a matter of
> preference. So I have a "Ball" class, a "Paddle class", etc.
> In my game, the Paddle was a child of Wall because the collision detection was
> the same, but Paddle was extended to be controlled by the mouse.
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> Well that's all I can think of for now... hope it helps.
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