Learn how to create Flash games AND learn Actionscript 2.0 or 3.0 in the most ways possible. CartoonSmart's gaming tutorials are broken into various styles of games. The
Basic Gaming
tutorial is a simple one-view perspective where the player blasts falling missles before they hit the ground. The player can navigate their tank from side to side. A more intermediate Flash tutorial is the
Classic Gaming
lesson. It tackles a more Mario-esque style of player. The game scrolls with the players movements from left to right. The player explores a wider gameboard that whats currently in view. Via the keyboard, the player can run or jump onto bricks (or levels), break down bricks and collect coins for other tokens during player. Multiple levels of player are setup. Lots of Actionscript will be learned. Another intermediate CartoonSmart gaming tutorial titled
Mastering More Gaming
focuses more on top-down play, based off the mouse. For example a ship in space, follows the mouse to navigate. Obsticles are added to the game to create a kind of challenge room to navigate out of. Variations of other games are created using similar code. Like a breakthrough-style Flash game with ping-pong style play. Or a Flash variation on a snake game. And as always plenty of Actionscript is taught throughout. CartoonSmart.com also teaches a Flash Gaming tutorial on Role-playing style games based in an isometric grid world. Titled
Isometric Role-Playing Games
The player explores the gameboard picking up items and storing an inventory. The game create can setup players to navigate the game board like a maze, or just have them battle other characters. CartoonSmart also teaches Flash by having students setup traditional board-game style Flash files. Similar to the public domain game known as Battleship, the tutorial teaches how to setup a game grid, and assign ships to certain hidden pieces on the board. The computer picks spots to hide ships, then the player and computer take turns attacking one another. Key things to note, the computer is Actionscripted to play strategically. So once it uncovers a hidden ship, it will attack around it until the ship is fully destroyed. That tutorial and final game can be played here,
Ship Guessing Game.
And as always EVERY CartoonSmart.com tutorial is recorded in high definition Quicktime video. Students will never have to squint their eyes to read the actionscript taught. The video is always at real-working size.