Flash ActionScript 3.0 game programs & tutorials

• Coin Toss
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for basic coin toss (if statement,button, random, text fields) with comments on changes from ActionScript 2.0
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for rock, paper, scissors.
  Source (fla) file for partial implementation of Rock, Paper, Scissors in ActionScript 3.0 (cel animation, buttons, game logic)
• Spoof: a guessing game played in pubs, ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial for Spoof: radiobuttons, random, Flash source for spoof game.
• Bouncing Ball
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for simulation of a bouncing ball (Timer, hitTestPoint for collisions, input text field)
  Bouncing Ball: balls created by mouse events, random colors
  Bouncing things: balls, rectangles, stars created; random colors and rotation; objects stop & can be swept away
  Tutorial (Timer events, classes, inheritance, linkage, colorTransform, hitTestObject, removeChild)
  
• Cannon ball (ballistics)
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for cannonball (Timer, hitTestPoint for collisions, Math class methods, cel animation and computed animation
  
• Simple examples (commented Flash source) for mouse events
  Flash source: slide show.. NOTE: see also Templates in Flash.
  Flash source: simple drag and drop: addEventListener, MOUSE_DOWN, MOUSE_UP
  Flash source: drag and drop area: move remote object: addEventListener, MOUSE_DOWN, MOUSE_OUT, MOUSE_UP
  Flash source: set of buttons, moving remote object: addEventListener, MOUSE_DOWN, MOUSE_OUT, CLICK, MOUSE_UP
  Flash source: set of buttons, moving remote object only horizontally (x): addEventListener: MOUSE_OVER, CLICK, MOUSE_MOVE
  
• Lizard Jigsaw with build, mixup and check buttons
  Lizard Jigsaw with automatic checking
  Lizard Jigsaw with idler/attractor
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for jigsaw (class, static class methods, pieces as objects of the Piece class, external .as file, KeyBoard, Mouse and Timer events, composition of objects).
• Menu program: loading external Flash movies. Tutorial/Notes on how to load another Flash movie.
• Presidential preference survey
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 to php for survey (radio buttons, URLRequest, URLLoader, php, flat file)
  Show vote totals
• Shooter, base shooting game, arrow keys, can build on to make your own
  Improved Shooter: automatic focus, health bar
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for shooter (multiple classes, keyboard, multiple timer events, collisions, hitTestObject, arrays, dynamic creation of text, text formatting, focus)
• Memory / Concentration game
  Tutorial for ActionScript 3.0 for memory / concentration game (class, class variables and object variables, linkage, simple shuffle, using addChild to display created objects and associate objects)
• Play single video, Play choice of two videos, Tutorial for simple playback
• Interfaces for playing video clips based on information in a database:
  • Use of MySql, php, and dynamic creation of ComboBoxes, FLVPlayback
  • Use of MySql (2 tables), php, creation of a field of tags, FLVPlayback
  • Tutorial for Flash connecting with php to MySql database, for ComboBoxes, tag field, playing video
• Using a calculation based on camera input to determine which video to play
  • Live video and re-play recorded video
  • Tutorial/notes on using color calculation to choose among videos, following a setup procedure

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